Chemistry For Your Life
Hosted by Melissa and Jam · Melissa and Jam, Bleav
4.6from 618 ratings
- 370
- Episodes
- 119
- Transcribed
- 618
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
- 17M
- YouTube views
About Chemistry For Your Life
A podcast that helps you understand the fascinating chemistry hidden in your everyday life. Have you ever wondered why onions make you cry? Or how soap gets your hands clean? What really is margarine, or why do trees change colors in the fall? Melissa is a chemist, and to answer these questions she started a podcast, called Chemistry for your life! In each episode Melissa explains the chemistry behind one of life’s mysteries to Jam, who is definitely not a chemist, but she explains it in a way that is easy to understand, and totally fascinating. If you’re someone who loves learning new things, or who wonders about the way the world works, then give us a listen.
- Publisher
- Melissa and Jam, Bleav
- Category
- science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 9 Jul 2019
- Latest episode
- 1 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
119 of 370 episodes have a transcript.
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Can leftovers be healthier than freshly cooked food?
24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ask a Chemist: What is "natural gas?" (and other questions)
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Is red light therapy real or a scam?
Inside a recent episode
Can leftovers be healthier than freshly cooked food?
Published 1 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And there's a whole form of crystal... There's like a whole field of chemistry called crystallography. Being able to grow crystals out of a pure substance can be really difficult. But what it seems like here is happening with our starches is we disrupt the original structure, which seems to be sometimes a crystalline structure. we essentially allow the polymers then to be dissolved, soften, move around in this often moisture, you know, wet area. And as it cools back down, they are able to reform into new and stronger substances. Okay. And those substances... when they reform and their new structure are strong enough to resist the quick digestion that occurs in our intestines and they could make it past the initial small intestine to the colon. […]
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- Claire
- Leyte Winfield
- Matt Mayo
- Joanne Stewart
- Vicente Talanquer
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- YouTube views
- 16,930,603
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 304 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 314 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 84 / 100
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- Quality
- 72
- Social presence
- 94
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 99
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Melissa and Jam host the show. Published by Melissa and Jam, Bleav.
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