No need to be blue, we’re back with an all-new Sawbones about silver! See, that’s a very good joke, because ingesting silver can turn you blue, but you wouldn’t know that because you haven’t listened yet. Sorry.

The American health insurance system is unlike any other in the world, and not in the good way. It’s probably about to get worse. This is the story of how we got here.

America has welcomed millions of immigrants in its time. This week, we explore the medical hoops they’ve had to jump through to get in and explore how those have changed over the years.

Is 2017 the year that everybody gets to go to space? Well, no, probably not. But the groundwork is there for us to do it thanks to the doctors and astronauts that pioneered space medicine.

This is a story about Tarrare. Tarrare was always hungry. Here is a list of some of the things Tarrare ate: A cat. A puppy. A snake. An eel. Offal. Poultices. And maybe people.

Hey, but what ARE sinuses. It’s OK if you don’t know, Justin didn’t either. Join him in a brief education from doctor Sydnee and hear about DaVinci’s near miss with sinus history.

Before you start your next juice cleanse or coffee enema, we beg of you: Let Dr. Sydnee and Justin reassure you of the amazing detoxification powers of the human body.

Last week, we took you through detox. This week, we’re going WAY deeper with a single treatment: The Purification Rundown. Strap in, folks, this one GOES PLACES.

Live from the Crow’s Nest of the ms Westerdam, it’s Sawbones all about norovirus! (Hey, we’re on a cruise ship, what else are we gonna talk about?

Were you aware that history’s coolest doctor was a guy named James Barry who began their life as a woman? Sit down. For this super-sized #MaxFunDrive episode, we’ve got the whole story.

We’re continuing our celebration of MaxFunDrive by giving back to you, our lovely listeners and even lovelier donors with an all Q&A episode of Sawbones. Why do runners poop? Can you skip a day of antibiotics? Enquire within!

This week, Justin and Dr. Sydnee bring you the thrilling story of how a former department store clerk from Greece saved countless lives with the invention of a single test.

This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee and Justin explore some of the reasons people eat things they really shouldn’t. Like dirt. And cigarette butts. And clay. And mattresses.

Just how long has the first-year doctor checking you out been awake? The answer may surprise you. The biggest surprise, however, is why a sleepy doctor may be better than the alternative.

This week, Dr. Sydnee and Justin explore a medical mystery: Why, for a town in Colorado, was having brown teeth a sign of great tooth health?

This week on Sawbones, Justin and Dr. Sydnee explore the Salisbury diet, and meet the incredible woman who turned into a poop detective to prove it right.

Thanks to Jimmy Kimmel’s heartfelt plea for healthcare on behalf of his infant son, Tetralogy of Fallot has been in the headlines. This week on Sawbones, join us for the inspiring story of how we fought back against the debilitating ailment.

We mentioned him in our last episode, but Vivien Thomas deserves his own episode. Join Dr. Sydnee and Just as they explore the life of the high-school educated grandson of slaves that changed the face of surgery.

Live from Austin, Texas, it’s … well, it’s one of the grossest episodes Justin and Dr. Sydnee have ever recorded. So, sorry about that. Anyway, let’s talk about The Clap!

Tattoos (usually) look cool, but did you know they’ve also been used throughout history to treat illness? It’s true! This week, Dr. Sydnee and Justin explore the history of medicinal tattoos.

This week, we’re honoring Pride Month and the LGBTQ community with an exploration of the disturbing history of conversion therapy. Trigger Warning: The treatments used in these “therapies” were upsetting, and those sensitive to hearing about them may wish to avoid this episode.

This week, we conclude our series on “conversion therapy” by exploring the religious aspect of this horrific “treatment.” Trigger Warning: The treatments used in these “therapies” were upsetting, and those sensitive to hearing about them may wish to avoid this episode.

Why is there iodine in salt? What takes the place of a removed organ? Can you … actually, that one is too gross to put here. Join Dr. Sydnee and Justin as they take on your weird medical questions even … that last one.

This week, special guest Laura Kate Dale joins Dr. Sydnee and Justin for a (very) incomplete history of gender confirmation. We hope you’ll join us too!

If you’ve got a few decades on you, you’ve certainly started to notice a few of the telltale signs of aging. Well, not YOU, of course. YOU look great, but like, your friends and stuff. This week, Justin and Dr. Sydnee explore the incredible array of bizarre treatments for wrinkles.

The man who (maybe) inspired Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein didn’t just try to breathe life into corpses. He also invented a medicine so toxic it was used in chemical warfare. Also, a kind of blue! This is all real. We swear.

Philadelphia is home not only to the most recent Sawbones live show, but also one of the world’s most unusual museums — The Mütter Museum — a collection of medical oddities and anatomical specimens. But this is no freak show, this is an unflinching, educational look at the disturbingly beautiful and beautifully disturbing side of medicine. This is the Sawbones promised land.

This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee and Justin rub a baby alligator’s heart on every penis we can find as we explore the history of treating erectile dysfunction.

This week on Sawbones, join Justin and Dr. Sydnee for a sobering look at America’s opioid crisis. The bad news: We’re all still living in a Sawbones episode.

This week on Sawbones, join Justin and Dr. Sydnee for a timely, tragic history of eugenics.

Sawbones tries to lighten things up this week and Dr. Sydnee and Justin explore the chuckle-worthy history of tickling.

Dr. Sydnee and Justin mark the 200th episode of Sawbones with a topic that’s a real snooze: The history of snoring! (Get it?)

How many pull ups can you do? How fast can you run? How far can you jump? Most importantly: Why does the President of the United States care so much? These questions and more answered this week!

This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee and Justin delve into the strange story of the king who thought he was made of glass, and the many he may have convinced that they were too.

Join Dr. Sydnee as she shocks Justin with the revelation that aspirin isn’t for headaches anymore, along with plenty of other revelations about this wonder pill.

Take a thrilling journey through time with Dr. Sydnee and Justin as they travel to the 1800s and peer inside a doctor’s bag.

The moon is more than just a big hunk of cheese. Actually, it’s not even really cheese. Did you think it was cheese? Wow, you know less about the moon that we thought. Dr. Sydnee and Justin’s history of all the things we blame the moon for is going to be extra super educational for you, huh?

This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee and Justin visit the home of Coca-Cola to recount the history of medicinal soda pop and try to finally solve the age-old dispute of Coke vs. Brad’s Drink.

This week on Sawbones, we’re examining all the health benefits of the red hot chili peppers. Flea is good for you, believe it or … wait, it’s not those chili peppers?

Grilling season is over in our part of the U.S. and Dr. Sydnee and Justin want to know what they’re gonna do with all this left over charcoal. The answer, according to medical history? EVERYTHING.

This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee and Justin visit Disneyland and the only souvenir they bring back is an investigation into the history of Legionnaires’ Disease.

This week, Dr. Sydnee and Justin introduce you to Martin Couney, the (maybe) doctor who put babies into a carnival side show and saved a generation of preemies.

This week on Sawbones, Justin and Dr. Sydnee explore all the weird, terrible ways we’ve tried to fix one of the human body’s most basic problem. It’s a history of wound care!

This week on Sawbones, we join you live from Seattle. Seeing as this town took place in the home of Starbucks, we took the opportunity to extoll the many medicinal virtues of coffee.

The CDC was recently asked by the Trump administration to stop using seven terms like “fetus” and “transgender” in budget requests. But certainly there’s precedent for this right? Certainly this happens all the time, right? RIGHT? This week join Dr. Sydnee and Justin for a history of the CDC and medical censorship.