If you can believe it, watching people walk around was once a spectator sport. It was the Gilded Age and there weren't many options for sport entertainment. We'll investigate how the participants in this early sport-ish activity helped inform the more modern practices of performance enhancing substance use as we know them today. We'll touch on cycling and the physiology and medicine behind some of these ways to enhance one's sporting prowess.

Sources:

1. Pedestrianism: When Watching People Walk was America’s Favorite Sport, Matthew Algeo, https://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/pedestrianism-products-9781613743973.php
2. The Conversation article on Doping in Victorian Times, ​​https://theconversation.com/in-victorian-britain-the-crowds-approved-of-sports-doping-with-cocaine-82225
3. Frank Hart Wikipedia page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Hart_(athlete)
4. Ada Anderson Wikipedia page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Anderson
5. Wikipedia article on Sports Doping, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_in_sport#History
6. Guardian article on strychnine, https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2016/jul/21/the-cocktail-of-poison-and-brandy-that-led-to-olympic-gold-strychnine

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We said that episode one of this TV series was bad, medically and critically speaking. Maybe that's not fair. It was a pilot, after all.

We went ahead and checked out episode 2.

It was worse.

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When a mysterious gastrointestinal illness starts turning into a dangerous neurologic disease accompanied by green tongues in post WWII Japan, researches scramble to find out why people are becoming sick. We'll do a deep dive on this one to figure out the cause.

Sources:

-https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/when-cure-is-cause-180967666/

-https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15152488/

-https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC478909/?page=1

-https://newint.org/features/1981/01/01/devils

-https://www.medchemexpress.com/biology-dictionary/subacute-myelo-optico-neuropathy-smon.html?locale=ja-JP (How Clioquinol causes green tongue and urine)

-https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6571072/ (Clioquinol deep dive)

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Meade (Dr Who Wrote the 1970’s paper)

-https://www.byuradio.org/ea2808e3-db19-4656-878c-f4804984ffc2/constant-wonder-dirty-hands--green-tongues?playhead=1844&autoplay=true (Radio interview with author)

-https://www.nature.com/articles/sc201068 (Imaging findings in SMON)

-https://molmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1007/BF03401927 (Possible Clioquinol Toxicity Mechanism)

-https://shizuka.com.au/the-health-benefits-of-a-japanese-diet/ (Japanese diet and Zinc)

-https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/yoken1952/24/4/24_4_195/_pdf/-char/en (Kono paper)

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