Season 1

Episodes • 2020

Essential Oils

1. Essential Oils

55 min

Once fringe but now at the center of billion-dollar multilevel marketing companies, plant extracts can help us cope with anxiety. Are they a remedy?

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Tantric Sex

2. Tantric Sex

48 min

Sexual healing releases energy and improves intimacy, advocates say. But accusations of abuse and cultural appropriation have dogged the practice.

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Bulking Up with Breast Milk

3. Bulking Up with Breast Milk

52 min

Bodybuilding is just one reason why some adults are pumped to drink so-called "liquid gold." Yet is breast milk sharing considered safe — or ethical?

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Fasting

4. Fasting

55 min

Fasting has vaulted beyond weight loss as biohackers have used it to optimize body and mind and enhance healing. But the practice holds real dangers.

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Ayahuasca

5. Ayahuasca

58 min

Once reserved for Indigenous shamans, this powerful hallucinogen draws those hoping to unlock trauma and quell addiction. Can it also cause psychosis?

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Bee Sting Therapy

6. Bee Sting Therapy

56 min

Expensive and labor-intensive bee venom promises to soften wrinkles and treat chronic Lyme disease. But do the risks outweigh the rewards?

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