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Outside Podcast


Latest Episodes

Dispatches: Will Drinking a Gallon of Water a Day Make You Healthier?
August 13, 2019

Drinking more water is supposed to do all kinds of good things for us. But how much is too much?

Dispatches: This Is What a Runner Looks Like
August 07, 2019

When Mirna Valerio first began running ultramarathons, she immediately got a lot of attention—but not for the reasons you might expect.

Dispatches: Is Sunscreen the New Margarine?
July 30, 2019

Looking at controversial new research that challenges established guidelines for sun exposure, Outside contributing editor Rowan Jacobsen suggests that more direct sunlight on our unprotected skin might actually be good for our health.

What Awe in Nature Does for Us
July 23, 2019

For this final episode in our Nature Cure series, we talk to the scientist who showed feeling awe during a nature experience has a singular ability to lower stress and improve our overall well-being, as well as a man who says awe saved his life.

Dispatches: Bundyville, The Remnant
July 16, 2019

Journalist Leah Sottile reporting on the question of who owns public lands in the West continues with an investigation of two bombings that rocked the tiny town of Panaca, Nevada

The Doctors Prescribing Nature
July 02, 2019

Can a grassroots movement of physicians convince big health care that free medicine is the way of the future?

Sweat Science: The Mysterious Syndrome Destroying Top Athletes
June 25, 2019

A mysterious syndrome is leaving elite athletes lethargic, depressed, and unable to get out of bed.

Why a Walk in the Woods Cures the Blues
June 18, 2019

Ecologist Chris Morgan always sensed that nature had healing power. But it wasn’t until he investigated the science behind forest bathing that he really understood why.

Science of Survival: Snakebit, Part 2
June 11, 2019

For the last 19 years, Tim Friede, a truck mechanic from Wisconsin, has endured more than 200 snakebites and 700 injections of lethal snake venom—all part of a masochistic quest to immunize his body and offer his blood to scientists seeking a universal an

The Radically Simple Digital Diet We All Need
June 04, 2019

Cal Newport, author of Digital Minimalism, explains how we need to reimagine our relationship with technology