TEDMED Conversations

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TEDMED Conversations is a health podcast hosted by TEDMED, with 14 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Episode #5

  The Biology of Awe: Why Wonder Might Be Essential to Health

  May 12, 202631 minS2

  <p>What if awe is more than a feeling?</p><p>Psychologist Jennifer Stellar joins Jon Ellenthal to explore how awe, compassion, and wonder may shape the body, influence stress and inflammation, and expand what we consider essential to health. Together, they examine whether awe can be intentionally cultivated, and why wonder may be one of health’s most overlooked ingredients.</p><p><br></p><p>Episode: The Biology of Awe: Why Wonder Might Be Essential to Health<br>Featuring: Jennifer Stellar, PhD + Jon Ellenthal<br>More from TEDMED: TEDMED.com</p>

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  Episode #5

  Truth, Trust, and the Fragility of Scientific Institutions - Part 2

  Apr 21, 202626 minS2

  <p>This is Part 2 of a two-part TEDMED Conversation with investigative journalist Katherine Eban. In this companion episode, host Jay Walker and Eban move from foundational questions about trust into the real-world consequences of its erosion.</p><p>Building on the themes introduced in Part 1, the conversation examines how breakdowns in oversight, transparency, and accountability manifest in practice—shaping everything from global clinical trials to the everyday safety of medicines. Eban draws on her reporting to reveal how systems intended to protect can fail under pressure, and what those failures mean for patients, practitioners, and the future of scientific credibility.</p>...

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  Episode #4

  Trust, Truth, and the Fragility of Scientific Institutions (Part 1 of 2)

  Apr 14, 202626 minS2

  <p>This is Part 1 of a two-part TEDMED Conversation with investigative journalist Katherine Eban. </p><p>Across these companion episodes, host Jay Walker and Eban explore what happens when the institutions we rely on to define truth, safety, and scientific credibility begin to falter.</p><p>In this first installment, the conversation opens with a wide-angle lens: how trust in scientific and medical institutions is built, how it erodes, and why that erosion carries consequences far beyond any single failure. Together, they examine the delicate balance between necessary scrutiny and systemic collapse, and the role individuals play when institutions drift...

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  Episode #3

  What Resilience Really Requires

  Mar 10, 202631 minS2

  <p>After declaring at TEDMED in 2011 that she would one day complete the Cuba-to-Florida swim, Diana Nyad returned in 2014 having done just that — at age 64.</p><p>In this Conversation, hosted by TEDMED’s Kelly Thomas, Diana reflects on what resilience truly requires: preparation over bravado, the courage to fail publicly, and the team that makes “five more strokes” possible when the will begins to falter.</p><p><br></p><p>Guests</p><p>Diana Nyad, Open Water Swimming Champion</p><p>Kelly Thomas, PhD, Biomedical Science Translator</p><p><br></p><p>Key Discussion Points</p><p>The Resilience Study (0...

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  Episode #2

  Designing Pediatric Care for Access, Trust, and Time

  Feb 10, 202626 minS2

  <p>What if pediatric care were built around relationships instead of billing codes? In this episode of TEDMED Conversations, host Theresa Santoro speaks with Dr. Lauren Hughes, founder of Bloom Pediatrics, about direct primary care and why she chose to step outside the insurance system to better serve families. Dr. Hughes shares how this model allows for deeper access, lower costs, and more proactive care—while restoring autonomy and purpose to clinical practice. Together, they explore what this approach reveals about the future of pediatric healthcare.</p><p><br></p><p>Key Discussion Points & Timestamps</p><p>From Kitchen-Table Medicine to...

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