Funny Medicine Podcast · Julia Brunet and Yvette Gonzalez, D.O.

2025 Medical Awards, Biggest Breakthroughs, Biggest Fails, and the Health Stories That Took Over Your Feed

·1 hr 1 min·4 clips

A paralyzed man used brain implants to walk, stand, and climb stairs by thinking about movement.

1. Funny Medicine Podcast turns 2025 medical news into awards for acetaminophen panic, berberine hype, measles resurgence, CRISPR, and brain implants. 2. The hosts are speaking as medical commentators and satirists, and they repeatedly frame each award around a specific 2025 study, case, or trend. 3. The episode asks which health stories created the most confusion, the strongest evidence, or the biggest public impact in 2025. 4. Mount Sinai researchers reviewed data from 46 studies on acetaminophen in August 2025. 5. The FDA announced in September that it would begin updating acetaminophen labeling for pregnancy. 6. A November BMJ umbrella review combined nine systematic reviews covering 40 studies. 7. The BMJ authors said the current evidence does not show acetaminophen causes autism or ADHD. 8. The hosts say berberine went viral on TikTok as "nature's Ozempic" during the summer. 9. They explain that berberine works indirectly through AMPK, while semaglutide works through GLP-1 receptors. 10. They also say high doses of berberine can cause side effects and that supplements are not regulated like drugs. 11. The measles segment says the virus was eliminated in the U.S. in 2000 but reached 338 confirmed cases after vaccination rates dropped. 12. The hosts say measles can linger in the air for up to two hours and infect about nine out of ten unvaccinated people exposed. 13. The bone-smashing trend is described as people hitting their own faces with hammers, dumbbells, or other blunt objects for jawline changes. 14. The hosts say doctors warned that facial trauma can cause fractures, bleeding, airway blockage, nerve damage, blindness, and disfigurement. 15. The brain-worm case follows a 64-year-old woman in Australia whose MRI led surgeons to remove an eight-centimeter live roundworm from her brain. 16. The parasite is identified as Ophidascaris robertsi, a python-associated roundworm, and the hosts say it was the first human case in the world. 17. The CRISPR segment centers on Casgevy, the first FDA-approved gene-editing therapy for sickle cell disease. 18. The brain-implant segment describes a Swiss brain-spine interface that let Gert-Jan think about walking and then move with the help of implants and a backpack computer. 19. The episode has an award-show structure, fast comedic back-and-forth, and frequent sponsor breaks from Progressive, Chumba Casino, and Talkspace. 20. Listeners who want a 2025 medical-news recap with evidence and jokes will like this episode, while people avoiding sponsor-heavy award recaps may skip it.

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