Tanner, Jade, and Dr. Miles are back with Peptides and the craze surrounding them.

Peptides:

• Learn what a Peptide is and how they are everywhere.
• Are you willing to inject an experimental product that had a study of only 2 people?
• Peptides can be good,
• The same Peptides can be bad.
• All Peptides have multiple biologically active effects. They don't just do one thing.

Food Poisoning and Washing Dishes

• Are you cleaning your dishes or just spreading germs around?
• Is your dish scrubber actually growing the germs?
• A sponge is the worst commonly used way to clean. You can't just sterilize the sponge.
• Learn the best way to clean and prevent food poisoning.

We hope you join us as we dive deep into medicine so you don't have to. You stay safe (and informed) swimming in the shallows. We present the best studies and research in easy to understand and entertaining ways . We are telling our personal findings and stories and not giving medical advice . We are not a substitute for your doctor .

We gladly accept show topics and ideas from our listeners: questions@healthfilesradio.com

Some of the resources used in this episode:

Trial of Lixisenatide in Early Parkinson's Disease https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2312323

Systematic Review: The Safety and Efficacy of Growth Hormone in the Healthy Elderly https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/0003-4819-146-2-200701160-00005

Safety of Intravenous Infusion of BPC157 in Humans: A Pilot Study https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40131143/

International Journal of Food Microbiology: Dishwashing sponges and brushes: Consumer practices and bacterial growth and survival https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168160520304220?via%3Dihub

Journal of Applied Microbiology: Bacterial levels and diversity in kitchen sponges and dishwashing brushes used by consumers https://academic.oup.com/jambio/article/133/3/1378/6989342

Tanner, Jade, and Dr. Miles bring you news of a brand-new cancer treatment. It looks so promising that the stock price of the company that makes it has gone up 10x over the past year.

mRNA Vaccine to Treat Cancer:

• Adding mRNA vaccine to a proven cancer treatment reduced bad outcomes by 45% in deadly melanoma.
• Learn how the same COVID vaccine technology is harnassed to fight cancer.
• Side effects are generally less than traditional chemotherapy.
• Phase 3 trials are complete with likely FDA approval sought next.

We hope you join us as we dive deep into medicine so you don't have to. You stay safe (and informed) swimming in the shallows. We present the best studies and research in easy to understand and entertaining ways . We are telling our personal findings and stories and not giving medical advice . We are not a substitute for your doctor .

We gladly accept show topics and ideas from our listeners: questions@healthfilesradio.com

Some of the resources used in this episode:

mRNA Vaccines in Melanoma Immunotherapy—A Narrative Review https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4409/15/3/298

Merck and Moderna Announce Phase 3 INTerpath-001 Trial of Intismeran Autogene Plus KEYTRUDA® Met Endpoints of Recurrence-Free Survival (RFS) and Distant Metastasis-Free Survival (DMFS) in Patients With Completely Resected Stage IIB-IV Melanoma https://news.modernatx.com/merck-and-moderna-announce-phase-3-interpath-001-trial-of-intismeran-plus-keytruda-met-endpoints-of-rfs-and-dmfs-in-melanoma

Tanner, Alyssa, and Dr. Miles bring the serious topic of Major Depressive Disorder to the forefront with an effective, affordable, easy, and essentially side effect-free treatment.

Bright Light Therapy for Depression:

• Adding a simple 10,000-lux white light device to standard treatment can double the odds of remission.
• Learn how easy it is to use (and how it can be completely free.)
• Light has a surprising impact on dementia risk.

Hyperhidrosis (Excessive Sweating)

• New research shows the root cause lies deep within the nervous system's sodium channels rather than the skin.
• A medicine that already exists might treat it.

We hope you join us as we dive deep into medicine so you don't have to. You stay safe (and informed) swimming in the shallows. We present the best studies and research in easy to understand and entertaining ways . We are telling our personal findings and stories and not giving medical advice . We are not a substitute for your doctor .

We gladly accept show topics and ideas from our listeners: questions@healthfilesradio.com

Some of the resources used in this episode.

Bright Light Therapy for Nonseasonal Depressive Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2824482

Associations between wearable-device-measured daytime and nighttime light exposures and dementia risk: A prospective cohort study https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/gps3.70039

Excessive Sweating May Start in Nervous System https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/2026/07/excessive-sweating-may-start-in-nervous-system-new-study-finds