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EP 823 Your Top Health Questions, Answered

Do cell phones cause cancer? Does caffeine make you live longer? How much sleep do you actually need?

These are the health questions that we never seem to stop asking. Doctor-turned-journalist James Hamblin explores the answers to these questions and more with an illuminating and funny take in his book, If Our Bodies Could Talk.

Hamblin draws knowledge from his own medical training as well from hundreds of interviews with scientists and medical professionals.

Taking potentially boring health information and turning it into accessible help, Hamblin offers clarity to confusing health issues and helps you worry less about things that might not matter.
EP 823 Your Top Health Questions, Answered
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James Hamblin, MD
James-HamblinJames Hamblin, MD, is a writer and senior editor at The Atlantic magazine. He hosts the video series If Our Bodies Could Talk, for which he was a finalist in the Webby awards for Best Web Personality.


He is a past Yale University Poynter Fellow in journalism, and he has lectured at Harvard Medical School, Wharton Business School, Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, and SXSW, among others.

His writing and videos have been featured in/on The New York Times, Politico magazine, Bon Appétit, Comedy Central, NPR, BBC, MSNBC, New York, and The Awl, and The Colbert Report. Time named him among the 140 people to follow on Twitter, 2014.

He's based in Brooklyn.