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  • Wednesday 21st October 2026
    9:30 am - 10:00 am

    Dr Karl joins Sarah Cumming on ABC Gold Coast

  • Wednesday 21st October 2026
    10:30 am - 11:00 am

    Dr Karl joins Susan Graham-Ryan on ABC Townsville

  • Wednesday 21st October 2026
    7:00 pm - 7:30 pm

    Dr Karl joins Kelly Higgins-Devine on ABC Brisbane/Queensland

  • Thursday 22nd October 2026
    9:30 am - 10:00 am

    Dr Karl joins Rory McClaren on ABC Adelaide


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Swallowing chewing gum, taste buds and drinking milk

What happens if you swallow chewing gum? Plus: can a woman’s tastebuds change during and after pregnancy?; and can drinking milk cause osteoporosis?

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Popular sunscreen chemical can kill baby corals

Consider wearing zinc or covering up next time you’re snorkeling, says Dr Karl โ€“ one popular sunscreen chemical can be toxic for baby corals. ON A TRIP TO the Galapagos Islands, our guide asked us not to use sunscreen at one reef. He told us it was very fragile, and quite small, and that the […]


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Corn in poo, Keto diets and cancer causing meats

Why do some farts smell and some don’t? What are so many people developing gluten intolerance? Can you ever be 100% healthy with food? In this food and nutrition special, Dr Karl answers these questions and more with special guests dietitian Dr Kyra Sim and USA nutrition expert Yvette d’Entremont.

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Chewing gum, tank water tea and plastic in fish

Have any frozen people been brought back to life? If we eat fish that has eaten plastic, how will that effect us? Why do my eyes keep changing colours?