That Can't Be True with Chelsea Clinton
Things are getting weird in the world of public health. Childhood vaccines are suddenly up for debate, fluoride is being described as industrial waste, and it feels like everyone is talking about raw milk! Navigate this chaotic time with public health expert Dr. Chelsea Clinton, who every week talks to doctors, dietitians, parenting experts and more to expose pseudoscience and help us sort fact from fiction. Fact check your news feed to avoid nonsense wellness trends, pay attention to the ones with real science behind them, and help debunk misinformation over coffee, cocktails or wherever it might come up.
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June 25, 2026 • 38 mins
Today we are covering a lot in the world of public health — from the Ebola outbreak, to a flesh-eating parasite making an unwelcome comeback in livestock, to ticks causing Alpha-Gal syndrome. Chelsea gets the lowdown from infectious disease epidemiologist Laurel Bristow, who’s based at Emory University in Atlanta and one of the most trusted and entertaining public health communicators online. They take a look at t...
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June 18, 2026 • 47 mins
Puberty – everyone goes through it, but few want to talk about it. Except Dr. Cara Natterson. She’s a pediatrician, speaker, educator, and leading voice in tween and teen health. And she’s built a career creating informative, empowering, and engaging ways to discuss hygiene, periods, body image, and yes, eventually, at the appropriate age – sex. Is puberty starting earlier? Is it lasting longer? How do you d...
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June 11, 2026 • 51 mins
We’ve all heard time and time again how important sleep is to our health. But no one really tells us how to become better sleepers, what to do if and when our sleep changes, and which supplements and hacks are worth trying. Chelsea gets all the answers to our sleeping questions from Dr. Michael Breus, who has been bringing science-backed sleep expertise to the public for nearly three decades. He’s a double board-certifi...
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June 4, 2026 • 50 mins
Breast cancer rates are rising among young women, raising urgent questions about prevention, screening, fertility, and treatment. Chelsea is joined by survivor Miranda McKeon, who was diagnosed with stage three hormone positive breast cancer at 19, and Dr. Monique Gary, a surgeon and researcher who specializes in early detection and breast cancer care. Together, they debunk myths about mammograms, discuss egg freezing and other imp...
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May 28, 2026 • 41 mins
Longer, warmer days often means more time outside, more time in the sun, and, for a lot of us, more questions about how to best protect our skin. But the conversation around sunscreen has gotten a lot more complicated than just remembering to reapply. There’s a growing anti-sunscreen movement online, tanning is having an alarming comeback, and skincare trends are promising everything from flawless skin to anti-aging miracles....
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May 21, 2026 • 44 mins
While flavored vapes can help adults quit smoking, they can also draw in young users. Pulmonologist, critical care doctor, and internal medicine physician Dr. Cedric “Jamie” Rutland joins Chelsea to weigh in on the FDA’s controversial decision to authorize certain fruit-flavored e-cigarettes for adults. They clear up confusion about the risks of vaping versus smoking, discuss what we know (and don’t know) ab...
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May 14, 2026 • 47 mins
Headlines about a hantavirus cluster aboard the MV Hondius have sparked confusion and fear — but how worried should we actually be? Here to set the record straight is infectious disease epidemiologist Jessica Malaty Rivera, who clearly lays out the facts (how does it spread?), the risks (should I cancel my cruise?), and answers why her concerns lie elsewhere. Plus, the norovirus, measles, ivermectin, and why we should maybe s...
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May 7, 2026 • 50 mins
Labor and delivery nurse Jen Hamilton is here to chat about what she sees on the front lines of childbirth, things to look out for during pregnancy, and what it means to make informed and empowered decisions. She and Chelsea discuss the facts and myths surrounding wild births, preeclampsia, Vitamin K, inductions, epidurals, c-sections, and gestational diabetes. Plus, she shares hilarious stories about nipple stimulation, placenta s...
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April 30, 2026 • 53 mins
Exercise misinformation runs rampant online. Every fitness influencer has a different opinion on what workouts to do, when to eat, and how hard to push – often while trying to sell you something. It’s a lot to navigate, and can exacerbate unrealistic, unhealthy beauty standards. Hot off the Boston Marathon, Chelsea gets the facts on exercise from physiologist and sports nutritionist Dr. Stacy Sims, who has directed rese...
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April 23, 2026 • 43 mins
From gas stoves polluting our air to microplastics sneaking into our food, we are surrounded by reminders that the way we treat our planet impacts our health. And in order to keep our families safe, we need to prioritize keeping our earth safe. Few people know that better than Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson. She started her career as a marine biologist – but has expanded her reach well beyond the oceans to become known as the go...
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April 16, 2026 • 54 mins
There’s so much information online about fertility — and a lot of it is confusing, contradictory, or simply wrong. As anxiety around reproductive health grows, how can we help patients feel informed, empowered, and better equipped to make the choices that are right for them? This week, Chelsea is joined by OB-GYN and Reproductive Endocrinologist Dr. Natalie Crawford. They discuss delayed childbearing, sperm counts, ovar...
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April 9, 2026 • 100 mins
We have something really special dropping in your feed today — a never-before-published episode from one of Chelsea’s favorite health podcasts, The Checkup with Doctor Mike. In this episode, Dr. Mike Varshavski sits down with emergency medicine physician Dr. Jeremy Faust, who is also a public health researcher and the author of the Substack column, Inside Medicine. Together, they talk about the current state of healthca...
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April 2, 2026 • 46 mins
Immunologist and microbiologist Dr. Andrea Love is on today’s show to debunk all the pseudoscience surrounding bacteria, viruses, chemicals, pathogens, and more. She and Chelsea giggle through SNL’s MAHAspital sketch, discuss the fallacies behind the word “organic,” and run down the long list of reasons why Casey Means should not become our next Surgeon General. Plus, fact or fiction questions on lyme diseas...
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March 26, 2026 • 42 mins
This week, we decided to revisit one of our most popular episodes with Dr. Jessica Knurick. This conversation first aired back in October of last year, and yet somehow we’re still talking about seed oils and raw milk! As a registered dietician with a PhD in nutrition science, Dr. Knurick first noticed heightened amounts of fear-mongering around health and nutrition on her social media feeds when she was postpartum with her se...
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March 19, 2026 • 36 mins
Chelsea sits down with Dr. Temple Grandin, a professor of animal science, bestselling author, and one of the most influential voices in autism advocacy. Diagnosed with autism in the 1950s, Dr. Grandin turned what many saw as a limitation into a remarkable strength and transformed how the world understands both animal behavior and human neurodiversity. In this conversation, she and Chelsea explore whether or not we should be treatin...
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March 12, 2026 • 48 mins
Most people can't go 90 minutes without checking our phones. What does that mean for our kids? Chelsea talks with social psychologist, NYU professor and bestselling author Jonathan Haidt, whose groundbreaking books, The Coddling of the American Mind, The Anxious Generation, and the new graphic novel, The Amazing Generation, have sparked a national conversation about childhood, screens, social media, and mental health. They dig into...
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March 5, 2026 • 45 mins
Note: This episode mentions suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling with thoughts of suicide, please reach out to a trusted person or contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988 for confidential support 💛📞.
Tech journalist Kara Swisher has spent decades helping us understand the people and companies shaping our ever increasing digital world. And right now, as artificial intelligence rapidly ...
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February 26, 2026 • 45 mins
The MAHA ad that ran during the Superbowl starring boxer Mike Tyson labeling people with obesity as “fat” and “fudgy” angered a lot of people, including obesity medicine physician Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford. She joins Chelsea to set the record straight about what the disease of obesity really is (and yes, it is a disease), why it’s rising, and why diet and exercise alone don’t always work for every...
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February 19, 2026 • 37 mins
The Oscar-nominated Netflix documentary, All the Empty Rooms, follows CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp as they visit families who have preserved the bedrooms of their children killed in school shootings. From unmade beds to uncapped toothpaste, these rooms have been left exactly as they were. This is a very hard conversation to have but such an important one because we must bear witness to the permanen...
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February 12, 2026 • 50 mins
Maintaining a healthy blood pressure is the best way to boost your likelihood of living a long and healthy life. That’s according to Dr. Tom Frieden, a physician with deep public health and epidemiology training who led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ran New York City's Health Department, and now heads up Resolve to Save Lives, an organization that focuses on epidemic preparedness, cardiovascular health, and ...
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