Best Microbe Minded Podcasts (2025)

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From Microphone to Movement: The Psychedelic Podcast Masterclass 1:31:49

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Support the show: https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_US 🚨🚨Curious about the future of psychedelics? Imagine if Alan Watts started a secret society with Ram Dass and Hunter S. Thompson… now open the door. District216 Marquee Event: District216 "Death & Psychedelics" Marquee Event Podcast Mastery: From Idea to Impact The world is flood…

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Calm Is Power: The Secret Science Founders Don’t Know 1:06:54

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Support the show: https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_US 🚨🚨Curious about the future of psychedelics? Imagine if Alan Watts started a secret society with Ram Dass and Hunter S. Thompson… now open the door. District216 Marquee Event: District216 "Death & Psychedelics" Marquee Event Vladislav Andreev In this conversation, you’ll discover…

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Why Hasn’t Wave Energy Gotten Its Sea Legs Yet? 18:39

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We've figured out how to harness renewable energy from many natural systems, like solar, wind, and geothermal power. But what about the ocean’s waves? It might seem like converting wave power into electricity on a large scale would’ve been figured out by now, but the tech is actually just getting its sea legs. Why has it been so hard to develop? An…

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Poisonous Plants With Author Rebecca Hirsch + Bringing Plants Indoors + Overwintering Garlic 33:51

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Subscribe to our Patreon to listen to the full-length episode https://www.patreon.com/thegrowguide Find full episode show notes with links and images to everything we discussed over on our website https://www.thegrowguidepodcast.com/By The Grow Guide

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A Halloween Monster Mashup, And A Spooky Lakes Tour 30:30

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For Halloween, we bring you an ode to three quintessentially creepy creatures: bats, arachnids, and snakes. First, bat researcher Elena Tena joins Host Flora Lichtman to describe tracking the greater noctule bat in flight and learning that it can feed on migratory birds. Then, arachnologist Paula Cushing describes the camel spider, which is neither…

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What Happens To Your Digital Presence After You Die? 18:45

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There’s an established playbook for getting one’s affairs in order before death—create a will, name legal guardians, and so on. But there’s also a newer consideration: what will happen to our digital presences, like social media accounts, files, photos, videos, and more. So how do we manage them, and make sure we’re not turned into AI chatbots with…

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The DMT Code: Danny Goler on Proving We Live in a Simulation 1:36:51

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Support the show: https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_US 🚨🚨Curious about the future of psychedelics? Imagine if Alan Watts started a secret society with Ram Dass and Hunter S. Thompson… now open the door. District216 Marquee Event: District216 "Death & Psychedelics" Marquee Event Title: The DMT Code: Danny Goler on Proving We Live in …

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Episode 24: Breaking the Binge-Restrict Cycle Through Healing With Stefanie Michele 58:14

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If you’ve ever felt out of control around food, stuck in the binge–restrict cycle, or burdened by body shame — you're not alone. And you’re not broken. Today’s guest is Stefanie Michele, a Binge Eating Recovery Coach who combines lived experience with an impressive toolkit of professional training. As an Intuitive Eating Counselor, Integrative Nutr…

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Why Morbid Curiosity Is So Common—And So Fun 17:55

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At first blush, the plots of many horror movies don’t seem particularly appealing. Take “The Shining”: A murderous psychopath tries to kill his family in a haunted, secluded hotel. But horror movies have had devoted fans for as long as they’ve been around, and lately, scary movies and television shows like “Sinners” or “The Walking Dead” have made …

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Peanut Allergies In Kids Are Finally On The Decline 12:24

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For decades, peanut allergies were on the rise in the US. But a study released on October 20 found that peanut allergies in babies and young children are now decreasing. This drop correlates with a change in guidance from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. In 2017, the agency started recommending exposing children to peanuts…

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How Do Bacteria Talk To Each Other? 23:28

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Bacteria have been around for billions of years. Could they have come up with complex behaviors that we just don’t understand yet? Could they have their own language? Their own culture? Their own complex societies playing out right under, and in, our noses? Microbiologist Bonnie Bassler has been studying these questions for more than 30 years. She …

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A Lab-Grown Salmon Taste Test And More Foodie Innovations 30:19

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After years of development, lab-grown fish is taste-test ready for the public. Four restaurants in the US are serving up cultivated salmon made by the company Wildtype. Producer Kathleen Davis gives Host Flora Lichtman a rundown on how Wildtype tastes, initial public perception, and the upstream battle to take cultivated meat mainstream. Plus, SciF…

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Noah Healy: Algorithmist with a Conscience Redesigning Global Markets, Ethical Finance, and the Future of Commodity Trading 2:11:15

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Support the show: https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_US 🚨🚨Curious about the future of psychedelics? Imagine if Alan Watts started a secret society with Ram Dass and Hunter S. Thompson… now open the door. District216 Marquee Event: District216 "Death & Psychedelics" Marquee Event Welcome to the mind of Noah Healy—a mathematician, nucl…

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Itamar Marani: How to Turn Setbacks into Secret Weapons 1:10:24

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When everything is on the line, ever wonder why some otherwise incredible athletes choke spectacularly? Why did Michael Jordan consistently sink game-winning jump shots at the buzzer when everyone else was throwing up bricks? Today we’re here with a veteran coach who’s cracked the code on peak performance. Itamar Marani has lived through the kind o…

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What Did It Feel Like To Be An Early Human? 18:47

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Do science documentaries need a refresh? What if the goal wasn’t just teaching you something, but making you feel something? A new series from the BBC, airing on PBS, called “Human” tries to do just that. It tells the tale of our ancient family tree, embracing the complex and dramatic sides of the story. It asks: Who were the different species of h…

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TikTok Is Shaping How We Think About ADHD 18:27

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TikTok and other social media sites are full of mental health content—often short, grabby, first-person videos detailing symptoms for conditions like ADHD and autism. But what does this mean for teens and young adults who spend hours a day scrolling? A new study published in PLOS One analyzes the 100 most viewed TikTok videos about ADHD to assess b…

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Footage Shows How Narwhals Use Tusks To Hunt And Play 12:55

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We’re taking a polar plunge into the science of sea unicorns, also known as narwhals! Narwhals are mysterious arctic whales with long, twirly tusks protruding from their foreheads, like a creature out of a fairy tale. And it turns out that we don’t know too much about them, partly because they live so far north in the remote Arctic. An internationa…

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S2E10: Every Day is Head Day-Training the Mind with Better Defense 20:47

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Your mind never stops taking shots — so how do you defend your peace? In this episode I explore how to train your mind like an athlete, treating life as a continuous mental game where playing good defense is critical. We cover some of the following: Using an athletic framework to counter our conditioned self (aka ego) Learning to play great defense…

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Have Astrophysicists Spotted Evidence For ‘Dark Stars’? 13:04

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Astrophysicists may have spotted evidence for “dark stars,” an unusual type of star that could possibly have existed in the earliest days of the universe, in data from the James Webb Space Telescope. Instead of being powered by nuclear fusion as current stars are, the controversial theory says that these ancient dark stars would have formed by mixi…

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AI Was Supposed To Discover New Drugs. Where Are They? 17:59

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AI is everywhere these days, and though there’s debate about how useful it is, one area where experts think it could be game-changing is scientific research. It promised to be particularly useful for speeding up drug discovery, an expensive and time-consuming process that can take decades. But so far, it hasn’t panned out. The few AI-designed drugs…

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How Math Helps Us Map The World 18:11

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It’s easy to take maps for granted. After all, most of us have a pretty good map in our pockets at all times, ready to show us how to get anywhere on the globe. But to make a map useful, you have to decide what to keep in and what to leave out—and, most importantly, which mathematical equations to use. Beyond navigating from point A to point B, mat…

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Memory Is Rebellion: Chris Claussen on Brain Health, Cognitive Performance & Functional Mushrooms 1:41:25

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Support the show: https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_US 🚨🚨Curious about the future of psychedelics? Imagine if Alan Watts started a secret society with Ram Dass and Hunter S. Thompson… now open the door. District216 Marquee Event: District216 "Death & Psychedelics" Marquee Event Episode Description: What if the mind itself is the las…

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Episode 23: The Infant Microbiome: Milk, Microbes & More with Dawn Whitten 55:14

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The first 1000 days of life — from conception to around age two — are now recognised as one of the most critical windows for shaping long-term health. And at the heart of that conversation? The infant microbiome. Today’s guest, Dawn Whitten, is a naturopath, herbalist, and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant with over 20 years of cli…

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The Science Of Replacing Body Parts, From Hair To Hearts 18:38

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It seems like every week, there’s a new headline about some kind of sci-fi-esque organ transplant. Think eyeballs, 3D-printed kidneys, pig hearts. In her new book, Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy, science writer Mary Roach chronicles the effort to fabricate human body parts—and where that effort sometimes breaks down. Host Flora Lichtm…

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It’s Not Just You—Bad Food Habits Are Hard To Shake 18:36

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Remember “The Biggest Loser”—the show where people tried to lose as much weight as quickly as possible for a big cash prize? The premise of the show was that weight loss was about willpower: With enough discipline, anyone can have the body they want. The show’s approach was problematic, but how does its attitude toward weight loss match our current…

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100 Years Later, Quantum Science Is Still Weird 18:39

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In July 1925, physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter to Wolfgang Pauli sharing his new ideas about what would eventually become known as quantum theory. A hundred years later, that theory has been expanded into a field of science that explains aspects of chemical behavior, has become the basis of a new type of computing, and more. But it’s stil…

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Hamilton Souther: When the Algorithm Dreams in Chlorophyll – Shamanic Intelligence in the Age of AI 1:06:54

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Support the show: https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_US 🚨🚨Curious about the future of psychedelics? Imagine if Alan Watts started a secret society with Ram Dass and Hunter S. Thompson… now open the door. District216 Marquee Event: District216 "Death & Psychedelics" Marquee Event The Algorithm Dreams in Chlorophyll Aloha, wanderers of…

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An Off-The-Grid Nobel Win, And Antibiotics In Ancient Microbes 18:31

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This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to three people whose combined discoveries outlined the role of the peripheral immune system—how the immune system knows to attack just foreign invaders and not its own tissues and organs. But when the phone rang for Shimone Sakaguchi, Mary E. Brunkow, and Fred Ramsdell, only two of them picked…

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True & Necessary: A Manifesto Against the Manufactured Mind 1:14:28

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Support the show: https://www.paypal.me/Truelifepodcast?locale.x=en_US 🚨🚨Curious about the future of psychedelics? Imagine if Alan Watts started a secret society with Ram Dass and Hunter S. Thompson… now open the door. District216 Marquee Event: District216 "Death & Psychedelics" Marquee Event Rev. Dr. Jessica Rochester is the Madrinha of Céu do Mo…