ParentData by Emily Oster Podcast
1) What's the deal with cold plunges and saunas?
This week, Emily and Perry plunge, as it were, into the temperature extremes: cold plunges and saunas. Is there any actual value to shocking your body with ice water or sweating out an ocean? Or are w...Show More
2) What's the deal with peptides?
This week, Emily and Perry tackle peptides, the purported panacea for all health ailments. Can an injection of these tiny bits of protein actually boost your metabolism, plump up your skin, heal your ...Show More
3) What's the deal with declining sperm counts?
In our inaugural episode, Emily and Perry talk all things sperm: if it's on the decline, how to juice its quality, the perils of tight underwear, and what a high sperm count says about your manliness ...Show More
4) Official Trailer: Wellness, Actually with Emily Oster & Perry Wilson, MD
GLP-1s. Colostrum. Microplastics. Red light therapy. Vaccines. There’s a staggering amount of health and wellness news and information, and it’s bombarding us everywhere we look. Who&rsquo...Show More
5) Goodbye, for now
An announcement from Emily about the podcast.
6) An Expert Roundtable on Trying to Conceive
For many people, when we start thinking about a family, we assume it'll just happen nine months from the moment we start trying. But that isn't the way it happens for all of us. And fertility can ofte...Show More
7) How to Baby-Proof Your Relationship: Navigating a new marital landscape
When you look at the data, it is true that after people have kids, marital satisfaction declines. Having a baby drastically changes everything in your partnership that was familiar, that was predictab...Show More
8) All About Vaccines: Why they’re important, and how to make them more tolerable for your child
Shots are never a fun experience. Even if you are enthusiastic about vaccines, holding your kids as they get them is not usually a high point of parenting. And right now, the conversation about vaccin...Show More
9) Understanding Risk, Living With Uncertainty
In the last month, we've aired podcast conversations with Dr. Nathan Fox and Dr. Bapu Jena, and though the content is different, there’s an underlying thread that connects them both: what it means to ...Show More
10) It’s Never Too Late for Pelvic Floor Therapy: Why it’s about more than Kegels
For many of us, our first exposure to our pelvic floors is through the Kegel exercises we learned about in Cosmo, promising us great sex. The reality of our pelvic floors comes roaring back in pregnan...Show More
It’s Never Too Late for Pelvic Floor Therapy: Why it’s about more than Kegels
44:16 | Jan 30th, 2025