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Inside Your Biology
Inside Your Biology is a deep-dive health and science podcast about what is actually happening inside the human body.
Why does inflammation help us heal but also contribute to disease? What does cholesterol really do? Why does blood pressure rise? How does insulin control energy? What changes when we sleep, exercise, age, gain muscle, lose fat, or get sick?
Each episode starts with one familiar health question and follows it down into the biology.
We explore physiology, medicine, metabolism…
Episodes
- Inside Your Biology
Muscle: Why Your Body Fights to Keep It
Muscle looks like a system for movement. But biologically, it does far more than move your skeleton. Skeletal muscle stores fuel, helps regulate blood glucose…
- Inside Your Biology
Sleep: What Is Your Body Doing While You’re Unconscious?
Every night, consciousness disappears but the body does not simply shut down. Your brain reorganizes activity. Hormones change. Body temperature falls…
- Inside Your Biology
Blood Pressure: What Do Those Two Numbers Actually Mean?
Inside the Force That Keeps Blood Moving and Damages Arteries When It Stays Too High Every time your heart beats, it pushes blood through thousands of miles of…
- Inside Your Biology
Blood Sugar: What Actually Happens After You Eat?
In Episode 3 of Inside Your Biology, we follow a meal through the body to understand how blood sugar is regulated and what changes when that system begins to…
- Inside Your Biology
Cholesterol: The Molecule Everyone Loves to Blame
Why Your Body Needs It and When It Becomes Dangerous Cholesterol has spent decades being treated like a villain. But your body makes it on purpose. You need…
- Inside Your Biology
Inflammation: The Body’s Fire Alarm
You cut your finger and it becomes red, warm, swollen, and painful. That reaction may be uncomfortable but it is also part of the system helping keep you…