How to find health information you can trust (with Dr. Jen Gunter)

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  Ted audio collective.

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  You'Re listening to how to be a better human.

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  I'm your host, Chris Duffy.

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  Here's something that I'm pretty sure we all have done before.

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  You feel a little bit sick, and you go online and google the symptoms.

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  Now, there is a ton of excellent, reliable medical information on the Internet.

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  The problem is that there is also a ton of wildly inaccurate, sensational, panic inducing information out there, too.

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  And look, here's a true story for me.

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  I recently had a small cut inside of my lip that I got from accidentally biting it.

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  And so I thought, oh, maybe there's some way that I can make this heal more quickly.

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  So I went online, and next thing you know, I am convinced that I have an incurable viral infection.

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  And then because I somehow clicked an unrelated article on this website, now I also think that I have some sort of rare kidney disease and maybe I need to send tissue samples to a doctor.

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  It was like, deep down this rabbit hole before I stopped myself and realized, hold on, Chris, you have a small cut inside of your lip.

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  You know how you got it?

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  You need to chill out.

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  And on today's episode, our guest is a doctor who spends a huge amount of her time debunking misinformation online and telling people like me to put down the laptop and just walk away.

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  I have been following her work for years, and I'm a big fan of what she does and how she does it.

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  Here's Doctor Jen Gunter.

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  Hi, I'm doctor Jen Gunter, host of the Ted audio collective podcast body stuff and author of the Menopause Manifesto and the Vagina Bible.

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  I'm sometimes known as Twitter's resident gynecologist.

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