No Cortisol, No Chill: Navigating Addison’s, ADHD & C-PTSD
What happens when your body suddenly decides to stop making the exact hormone that keeps you alive? Meet Sarah, a badass who trains in Muay...
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20 of 914 episodesReclaiming the Breast: Healing Body Trauma with Prosthetic Nips
How do you convince the CRA that bulk silicone nipples are a legitimate business expense? This week, the fellas sit down with Miranda, affec...
Cockblocking Mosquitoes: The Genetic Fight Against Malaria
What happens when a deep-seated thirst for childhood revenge turns into a career in genetic engineering? You get an absolute badass who is p...
Placebos, Psychosis, and Why We Need Human Flesh (Not Like That)
What happens when the doctor treating you is a cold, calculating AI trained on the deepest, darkest, most biased corners of the internet? Th...
My Brain Turned Into the Devil at Age 12 | Severe ADHD & Alcoholism
What happens when your internal monologue switches from a storybook narrator to a demonic bully at age 12? Live from downtown Halifax, the g...
Surviving Cancer Only to Get Decapitated by Wyoming
What would you do if you moved out to LA at 18 to chase your dreams, but got handed a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma diagnosis and a 5-year expirati...
Breathless: The Impossible Milestones | Cystic Fibrosis
This week on Sickboy we bring you the first episode of the latest season of Breathless. We're proud as heck with how this panned out and fee...
The Truth About Hypnobirthing (And Why It Might Be Gaslighting You)
What if you could turn off the most agonizing pain imaginable just by thinking about a waterfall? Or better yet, what if a guy in a purple s...
One Black Man’s experience in Battling Cystic Fibrosis
What do you do when a life-saving medical breakthrough saves almost everyone in your chronic illness community—except you? If you’re new to...
Arguing With "Dr. Dickhead" At The Transplant Clinic | 8 Autoimmune Diseases
What do you do when your own immune system decides to treat your organs like an all-you-can-eat buffet and drops eight separate medical diag...
"Has She Seen You Naked?" & Other Caregiver Confessions
What happens when the person keeping you alive is also the person roasting your life choices the hardest? If you’re new to the show, Brock i...
My Brain Exploded (Twice) | Sunken Bone Flap Syndrome
What happens when your brain is a literal ticking time bomb and nobody tells you until it goes off? Meet Martin. At 16, he was just a normal...
When Running Breaks Your Vagina | Osteitis Pubis
What happens when you think you have a stubborn UTI, but you’ve actually fractured your pubic bone from running too many damn marathons? Thi...
Why Is a Super Bowl Champ Talking About HPV?
What does a Super Bowl champion know about a virus most men think is "just a women's problem"? Laurent Duvernay-Tardif has spent his life pr...
Dating a Psychologist with Cerebral Palsy (It’s a Mindf*ck)
What do you do when you’re born with a brain-body communication glitch?. If you’re Dr. Dan, you don't just "manage". You go out and collect...
Flying High & Pooping Low: A Flight Surgeon’s Guide to Colon Cancer
What do high-performance fighter jets and a stage four cancer diagnosis have in common? More than you think. This week, we’re joined by Dr....
15 Weeks Early & 8 Days Apart: The Trauma of a Micro-Preemie Birth
What happens when your body decides to Marie Kondo your entire large intestine, but the healthcare system treats your "vestibule" like an op...
"My Brain is Draining Into My Stomach" | Spina Bifida
What do you do when your spine decides to "leak" before you're even born, leaving you with a "jizzy back rat" and a tube running from your b...
“I Was Sh*tting Blood and Still Playing” | Ulcerative Colitis Athlete
What happens when you go from a senior spring break in Jamaica to poopin "gallons of blood" in the ER? Meet Taryn: 20 years old, a D1 volley...
Born Without an Eye | Unilateral Anaphthalmia & The Disability Spectrum
What happens when you’re born with a medical anomaly so rare that doctors treat you like a "cluster of defects," but you grow up feeling com...