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The Little White Pill That Rewrote Memory and Modern Medicine
The Little White Pill That Rewrote Memory and Modern Medicine
Fear and fascination meet in a single molecule: a cardiac drug introduced in 1964 that reaches concentrations up to 33 times higher in the brain than in blood and was prescribed nine million times in the U.S. in 2023 - but what happens when a medicine meant for failing hearts begins to soften human memory and show up in concert halls and Olympic urine samples?
In this episode, we trace the path of propranolol from its origins in a Scottish lab and an English pharmaceutical patent to its routine use by performers and patients, and…
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