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In Episode 1 of Myth or Science, microbiologist Dr Jennifer Gardy takes on some of the most common health and science claims we hear every day. Using her own body as part of the experiment, she travels from Florida’s mosquito labs to freezing cold research chambers, New York food tests, and a classroom ice cream challenge to separate fact from fiction. Can mosquitoes really prefer women over men? Does grilled meat increase cancer risk? Does alcohol actually warm you up in cold weather? Do we lose most of our body heat through our head? Can eating too fast make you gain weight? And can brain freeze happen even on a cold day? With humor, curiosity, and unorthodox experiments, Gardy puts each claim under the microscope, revealing the surprising science behind the myths that shape our everyday choices. ------- Chapters ▷ 00:00 - Intro: Are Common Health Claims True? ▷ 00:40 - Can You Spread a Cold Before Symptoms? ▷ 01:51 - Are Mosquitoes More Attracted to Women? ▷ 08:00 - Can Grilled Meat Increase Cancer Risk? ▷ 11:52 - Can

After several family members developed Alzheimer's disease, Julia Ravey decided to become a neuroscientist and find the cure. Following recent research that suggests a link between the stomach, the brain and mental health, she meets the scientists harnessing the power of what is called "The Microbiome". Julia travels to Australia, where she meets Dr. Barry Marshall, a Nobel-prize winner who infected himself with H. pylori to prove that bacteria could cause ulcers, leading to a breakthrough in the stomach cancer treatment. However, bacteria are not all bad – in the Netherlands, she visits the Micropia Museum, learning that microbes can also be essential to our way of life. Understanding the microbiome as a kind of ecosystem that is part of the human body, scientists are attempting to increase the presence of microbes across the body by intentionally infecting people with more infectious agents. As microbiologists from Rutgers University explain to Julia, increasing microbial diversity in the body boosts its immunity, and helps people fight disease from the inside out. The next stop is UC San Diego, home to The American

Consciousness, the thought realm and the hero's journey — Spirit Science asks what your thoughts actually do once they leave your mind. We have mapped the body and the brain, but never the soul. This is the missing third: measurable thoughts, Emoto's water crystals, the monomyth, and our ruined soil. 📑 CHAPTERS 👉 KEY MOMENTS 👉 1:12 "We have scientifically mapped the mind and the body." 👉 5:39 "Emotions are much more powerful than thoughts. Emotions pull on you." 👉 6:58 "it's through the feeling of being vulnerable that you become vulnerable in the physical" 👉 8:09 "you can literally change everything in your life by willing it so" 👉 9:04 "If thoughts can do that to water, just imagine what thoughts can do to us." 👉 11:30 "It's a style as old as time and no one knows quite where it came from." 👉 22:34 "The best heroes have character, not gender." 👉 25:53 "How can anyone recommend a proper way of eating when 90 plus percent of the food that's available is trash?" 🌀 Welcome to Spirit Science

The United States spends more on healthcare than any other developed nation, yet millions of Americans still face medical debt, denied claims, lost coverage, and unaffordable treatment. This documentary follows the money to reveal how insurers, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, middlemen, and lobbyists built a system that is extraordinarily profitable but increasingly unable to protect the people who depend on it. The Healthcare Trap (2026) Producer: Moconomy Script: Paula Miralles Voice Over: Adam Underhill Footage: Higgsfield Synopsis: The United States is home to some of the world’s finest doctors, hospitals, and biomedical research centers. It also operates the most expensive healthcare system ever built. Yet Americans live shorter lives than people in many comparable countries, millions carry unpaid medical debt, and a serious illness can quickly become a financial catastrophe. This documentary investigates how that contradiction became possible. From premiums, deductibles, and out-of-network bills to claim denials, prior authorization, and automated decision-making, it follows the flow of money through insurers, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, Pharmacy Benefit Managers, and vast administrative departments. The investigation also moves beyond America’s borders. It compares the US

When Bill Babbitt finds out what his brother has done he agonizes over his decision - should he call the police? This award winning documentary is a richly animated personal narritive that tells the story of Bill’s choice to stand by his brother Manny, a troubled and misunderstood man who found himself on the nexus of some of the most pressing social issues of our day - veterans’ care, mental health access and criminal justice "Last Day of Freedom" recently won the IDA Award for Best Short Documentary. The doducmentary was Oscar nominated in 2016 and for the Academy Award® for "Best Short Documentary" Dee Hibbert-Jones and Nomi Talisman have taken a rather different and special approach with this film, which was created from over 32,000 hand-drawn images and has garned international film attention. It has been awarded numerous times since its premiere at Fill Frame Film Festival in April 2015 where it won Best Short Documentary. Don’t miss the "Making of" starting at 31:48 with an interview of the filmmakers © 2015, Licensed by SND Films

Jim Al-Khalili goes on a journey through 600 million years of evolution to uncover how the human brain, the most complex structure known in the universe, came to exist.