From Revisionist History: The Starvation Experiment

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  Pushkin.

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  Hi, Happiness Lab listeners.

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  Dr.

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  Laurie Santos here.

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  Today I'm sharing with you an episode from another Pushkin podcast, Revisionist History.

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  You might be familiar with Revisionist History.

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  It's bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell's podcast that reexamines something from the past and asks whether we got it right the first time.

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  This season, Malcolm's obsessed with something that's close to my heart as a scientist, experiments.

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  In this episode,

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  Malcolm dives into a particularly fascinating human challenge trial known as the Minnesota Starvation Experiment.

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  It took place near the end of World War II.

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  In the trial,

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  36 volunteers participated in a study designed to investigate the physical and psychological effects of starvation,

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  along with the best way to refeed people after they've been malnourished for many months.

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  The goal was to help inform relief efforts during and after the war.

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  But the study itself was really hard on the volunteers, as you can probably imagine.

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  For an entire year,

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  they lived on the campus at the University of Minnesota and ate only what the scientists allowed them to eat.

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  The men lost a lot of weight, of course,

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  but suffered many other effects, both physical and psychological.

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