PLAY PODCASTS
Recode Decode: Dr. Jen Gunter, OB/GYN
Episode 257

Recode Decode: Dr. Jen Gunter, OB/GYN

Decoder with Nilay Patel · The Verge

August 13, 201854m 42s

Audio is streamed directly from the publisher (podtrac.com) as published in their RSS feed. Play Podcasts does not host this file. Rights-holders can request removal through the copyright & takedown page.

Show Notes

Jen Gunter, an OB/GYN and pain medicine physician, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about how celebrity wellness brands have been overtaken by "medical conspiracy theories" and dangerous recommendations — for example, that bras cause breast cancer. After Gunter disputed that claim, made by a writer for Gwyneth Paltrow's company, Goop, it accused her of "being in the pocket of big lingerie." She also talks about the larger problems with finding reliable health information online and how regular people without medical degrees can be smarter skeptics of what their doctors say.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices