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Episode #381: How a Supplement Sent a Soldier to the Hospital- A Medical Mystery
In this medical mystery, a healthy young soldier is hospitalized with severe hypertension and acute kidney injury after taking a seemingly harmless supplement. We break down how vitamin D toxicity develops, how to interpret the lab findings, and why more supplementation is not always better.
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Episode #392: Overtraining Syndrome: Causes, Diagnosis, and What’s Actually Going On
What is overtraining syndrome — and does it actually exist the way people think? In this episode, the hosts review the evidence on overtraining, including its definitions, proposed mechanisms, and why it’s rarely demonstrated in controlled research. They also discuss how to evaluate fatigue and declining performance, the limitations of biomarkers and wearables, and what’s more likely going on when training stops progressing.
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Episode #393: Medical Mystery: The Man Who Got Weaker When He Started Training
A 43-year-old man starts training — and instead of getting stronger, he gets weaker and ends up in the ER with severely elevated creatine kinase levels. In this episode, the hosts work through this medical mystery, exploring the role of medications like statins, how to distinguish normal training effects from true muscle injury, and what the evidence says about managing muscle symptoms and cardiovascular risk.
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Episode #354: Man Collapses 50-Meters From The Finish Line (Medical Mystery)
A man collapses 50 meters from the finish line of a race — what happened? In this episode, we work through the clinical reasoning around an exertional collapse, exploring possible causes from heat illness and dehydration to cardiac events and electrolyte imbalance, and highlighting how clinicians think through complex cases in real-time.
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Episode #384: The Paralyzed Personal Trainer (Mystery Case)
This episode presents a detailed clinical mystery involving a personal trainer with sudden paralysis, walking through diagnostic reasoning, neurological evaluation, and evidence-based insights into causes and recovery strategies.
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Episode #359: Fever, Rapid Heart Rate, and Difficulty Swallowing in 22-Year-Old Bodybuilder (Medical Mystery)
In this medical mystery episode, a 22-year-old bodybuilder presents with fever, rapid heart rate, and difficulty swallowing; the hosts walk through diagnostic reasoning, key clinical clues, and evidence-based evaluation strategies to narrow down the cause.
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Episode #344: Man Has A Seizure While Lifting (Mystery Case)
A man has a seizure while lifting — what’s going on? In this episode, the hosts work through this exercise-related mystery case, discussing potential causes, clinical evaluation strategies, and how to think systematically through complex events that occur during training.
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Episode #389: Your Liver Enzymes Are Elevated — But It Might Not Be Your Liver
A healthy 39-year-old athlete is nearly sent for a liver biopsy after repeated blood tests show elevated liver enzymes. In this episode, the hosts break down how clinicians interpret liver panels, why exercise can temporarily elevate enzymes like ALT and AST, and how missing training history can send patients down unnecessary and expensive diagnostic pathways.
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