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The Heart Pill That Calmed Hands, Minds - And Rewrote Medicine
The Heart Pill That Calmed Hands, Minds - And Rewrote Medicine
A drug invented to stop a racing heart quietly crossed into the mind: by 2023 propranolol was prescribed over nine million times in the U.S., and its brain concentration can be 15-to-1 or even 33-to-1 compared with blood plasma - so how did a cardiac pill end up costing an Olympic shooter his medals and changing how musicians, memory researchers, and doctors think about treatment and enhancement?
In this episode, we trace the path of propranolol from James W. Black's lab at Imperial Chemical Industries to the 2008 Beijing…
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