Strange Health, a video podcast produced by The Conversation UK, has won the best health and wellbeing award at the Publisher Podcast Awards 2026.
The judges said it was “an entertaining podcast with a winning combination of host discussion and academic specialists”.
Hosted by Katie Edwards, a health and medicine editor at The Conversation, and Dan Baumgardt, a practising GP and lecturer in health and life sciences at the University of Bristol, each episode of Strange Health explores a health trend going viral on social media, and features an interview with an expert actively researching the issue.
Episodes included discussions of the vagus nerve and whether it could really be reset, period scooping and whether flashing light can alter your mind.
All episodes are available to watch on YouTube and Spotify, or you can listen wherever you get your podcasts.
We’re working on season two to air in the autumn. If you’ve got a question about a viral health trend or video you’ve seen and you’d like us to delve into the science behind it in a future episode, please email us at [email protected].
Listen to Strange Health via any of the apps listed above, watch it on YouTube, or download it directly via our RSS feed or find out how else to listen here.
Gemma Ware, Head of Audio, The Conversation UK, The Conversation
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
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