Making Sense of Science
81 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsMaking Sense of Science features interviews with leading medical and scientific experts about the latest developments in health innovation and the big ethical and social questions they raise. The podcast is hosted by science journalist Matt Fuchs
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How to Measure Your Stress with Dr. Rosalind Picard
February 21, 2024 17:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MBToday’s podcast guest is Rosalind Picard, a researcher, inventor named on over 100 patents, entrepreneur, author, professor and engineer. When it comes to the science related to endowing computer software with emotional intelligence, she wrote the book. It’s published by MIT Press and called Affective Computing. Dr. Picard is founder and director of the MIT Media Lab’s Affective Computing Research Group. Her research and engineering contributions have been recognized internationally, for ex...
How to Use the Immune System Against Cancer and Alzheimer's, with Dr. Paul Song
January 29, 2024 16:00 - 58 minutes - 40.1 MBOn today’s episode of Making Sense of Science, I’m honored to be joined by Dr. Paul Song, a physician, oncologist, progressive activist and biotech chief medical officer. Through his company, NKGen Biotech, Dr. Song is leveraging the power of patients’ own immune systems by supercharging the body’s natural killer cells to make new treatments for Alzheimer’s and cancer. Whereas other treatments for Alzheimer’s focus directly on reducing the build-up of proteins in the brain such as amyloid ...
Leading XPRIZE Healthspan and Beating Negativity, with Dr. Peter Diamandis
December 06, 2023 16:00 - 1 hour - 41.8 MBA new competition by the XPRIZE Foundation is offering $101 million to researchers if they discover therapies that allow seniors to perform like when they were 10 to 20 years younger. For today’s episode, I talked with Dr. Peter Diamandis, XPRIZE’s founder and executive chairman. Under Peter’s leadership, XPRIZE has launched 27 previous competitions with over $300 million in prize purses. The lastest contest aims to enhance healthspan, or the period of life when older people can play wit...
New psychedelics that rewire the brain for more well-being, with Doug Drysdale
November 29, 2023 17:00 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MBA promising development in science in recent years has been the advance of technologies that take something natural and use technology to optimize it. This episode features a fascinating example: using tech to optimize psychedelic mushrooms. These mushrooms have been used for religious, spiritual and medicinal purposes for thousands of years but only in the past several decades have scientists brought psychedelics into the lab to enhance them and maximize their therapeutic value. Today’s p...
Fast for Longevity, with Less Hunger, with Dr. Valter Longo
October 27, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour - 48.5 MBYou’ve probably heard about intermittent fasting, where you don’t eat for about 16 hours each day and limit the window where you’re taking in food to the remaining 8 hours. But there’s another type of fasting, called fasting-mimicking diet, with studies pointing to important benefits for health and longevity. For today’s episode, I chatted with Dr. Valter Longo, a biogerontologist at the University of Southern California about all kinds of fasting, and particularly the fasting-mimicking die...
A New Clue in Fighting Alzheimer's, with Dr. Michael Glickman
October 17, 2023 16:00 - 12 minutes - 8.8 MBIn recent years, researchers of Alzheimer’s have made progress in figuring out the complex factors that lead to the disease. Yet, the root cause, or causes, of Alzheimer’s are still pretty much a mystery. In fact, many people get Alzheimer’s even though they lack the gene variant we know can play a role in the disease. This is a critical knowledge gap for research to address because the vast majority of Alzheimer’s patients don’t have this gene variant. A new study provides key insights in...
How to Use Thoughts to Control Computers with Dr. Tom Oxley
September 13, 2023 23:00 - 39 minutes - 27 MBTom Oxley is building what he calls a “natural highway into the brain” that lets people use their minds to control their phones and their computers. The device, called the Stentrode, could improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of people living with spinal cord paralysis, ALS and other neuro degenerative diseases. Leaps.org talked with Dr. Oxley for today’s podcast. A fascinating thing about the Stentrode is that it works very differently from other “brain computer interfaces” you may b...
Will Eating Insects Go Mainstream by 2030?
August 18, 2023 16:00 - 49 minutes - 34 MBIn today’s podcast episode, Leaps.org Deputy Editor Lina Zeldovich speaks about the health and ecological benefits of farming crickets for human consumption with Bicky Nguyen, who joins Lina from Vietnam. Bicky and her business partner Nam Dang operate an insect farm named CricketOne. Motivated by the idea of sustainable and healthy protein production, they started their unconventional endeavor a few years ago, despite numerous naysayers who didn’t believe that humans would ever consider mun...
We Can Age Later, with Dr. Nir Barzilai
June 29, 2023 14:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MBIn today’s podcast episode, I talk with Nir Barzilai, a geroscientist, which means he studies the biology of aging. Barzilai directs the Institute for Aging Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. My first question for Dr. Barzilai was: why do we age? And do we have to age? His answers were encouraging. We can’t live forever, but there are a few things we can do to age later, as he argues in the book. He explained that centenarians differ from the rest of us because they have ...
Meet Dr. Renee Wegrzyn, the First Director of President Biden's New Health Agency, ARPA-H
May 31, 2023 19:00 - 45 minutes - 31 MBIn today’s podcast episode, I talk with Renee Wegrzyn, appointed by President Biden as the first director of a federal agency created last year called the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H. It’s inspired by DARPA, the agency that develops innovations for the Defense department and has been credited with hatching world changing technologies such as ARPANET, which became the internet. Time will tell if ARPA-H will lead to similar achievements in the realm of health. Tha...
Friday Five: New Eye Scans Could Show How Fast You're Aging
April 07, 2023 15:00 - 9 minutes - 6.8 MBThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on new scientific theories and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend. Here are the stories covered this week: - The eyes are the windows to the soul - and biological aging? - What bean genes mean for health an...
Friday Five: Go to This Type of Event to Improve Well-Being, Research Suggests
March 24, 2023 16:00 - 13 minutes - 8.97 MBThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on new scientific theories and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend. Go the web page for in this week's Friday Five, here. This episode includes an interview with Dr. Helen Keyes, Head of the School of Psycho...
Are You Having a Healthy Change of Heart? An HRV Sensor Can Tell You
March 22, 2023 23:00 - 19 minutes - 13.5 MBThis episode is about a health metric you may not have heard of before: heart rate variability, or HRV. This refers to the small changes in the length of time between each of your heart beats. Scientists have known about and studied HRV for a long time. In recent years, though, new monitors have come to market that can measure HRV accurately whenever you want. Five months ago, I got interested in HRV as a more scientific approach to finding the lifestyle changes that work best for me as an...
Friday Five: A Pill, Sold Online, Could Help Prevent Alzheimer's - But More Research is Needed
March 10, 2023 17:00 - 17 minutes - 12.2 MBThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend. Go the web page for in this week's Friday Five, here. It features interviews with Dr. Christopher Martens, director of the Delaware Center f...
Friday Five: Money Can Buy You Happiness If You're This Type of Person
March 10, 2023 17:00 - 17 minutes - 12.2 MBThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend. Go the web page for in this week's Friday Five, here. It features interviews with Dr. Christopher Martens, director of the Delaware Center f...
Friday Five: A Pill, Sold Online, Could Protect Against Alzheimer's, but More Research is Needed
March 10, 2023 17:00 - 17 minutes - 12.2 MBThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend. Go the web page for in this week's Friday Five, here. It features interviews with Dr. Christopher Martens, director of the Delaware Center f...
Friday Five: This Pill, Sold Online, Could Stop Alzheimer's - But More Research is Needed
March 10, 2023 17:00 - 17 minutes - 12.2 MBThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend. Here are the promising studies covered in this week's Friday Five, featuring interviews with Dr. Christopher Martens, director of the Delaware...
Friday Five: Breathe This Way to Increase Well-being, Stanford Study Suggests
March 03, 2023 17:00 - 11 minutes - 8.23 MBThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend. Here are the promising studies covered in this week's Friday Five, featuring interviews with Dr. David Spiegel, associate chair of psychiatry ...
What Causes Aging - and What Could Reverse It - with Dr. David Sinclair
February 28, 2023 17:00 - 11 minutes - 8.24 MBWhat causes aging? In a paper published last month, Dr. David Sinclair, Professor in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, reports that he and his co-authors have found the answer. Harnessing this knowledge, Dr. Sinclair was able to reverse this process, making mice younger, according to the study published in the journal Cell. I talked with Dr. Sinclair about his new study for the latest episode of Making Sense of Science. He said that turning back the clock on mouse age th...
The Real Solution to Freeing Our Kids - and Ourselves - from Tech Addiction, with Gaia Bernstein
February 23, 2023 14:00 - 51 minutes - 35.3 MBEach afternoon, kids walk through my neighborhood, on their way home from school, and almost all of them are walking alone, staring down at their phones. It's a troubling site. This daily parade of the zombie children just can’t bode well for the future. That’s one reason I felt like Gaia Bernstein’s new book was talking directly to me. A law professor at Seton Hall, Gaia makes a strong argument that people are so addicted to tech at this point, we need some big, system level changes to soc...
This Lifestyle Change Could Slow Down Aging, According to New Research
February 17, 2023 13:00 - 10 minutes - 7.41 MBLast Thursday, scientists at Columbia University published a new study finding that cutting down on calories could lead to longer lives. In the phase 2 trial, 220 healthy people without obesity dropped their calories significantly, and a test of their biological age showed that their rate of aging slowed by 2 to 3 percent in over a couple of years. Small though that may seem, it amounts to a decline of about 10 percent in the risk of death as people get older, according to the researchers' e...
The Friday Five: Artificial DNA Could Give Cancer the Hook
February 03, 2023 16:00 - 8 minutes - 5.67 MBThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend. Here are the promising studies covered in this week's Friday Five: - Artificial DNA gives cancer the hook - This daily practice could improve...
The Friday Five: A Surprising Health Benefit for People Who Have Kids
January 27, 2023 16:00 - 9 minutes - 6.25 MBThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend. Here are the promising studies covered in this week's Friday Five: - Kids stressing you out? They could be protecting your health. - A new de...
The Friday Five: You've Never Heard of the Best Sport for Mental Health
January 20, 2023 17:00 - 8 minutes - 6.2 MBThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend. Here are the promising studies covered in this week's Friday Five: - Reprogram cells to a younger state - Pick up this sport for brain health...
The World's Longest Running Study on Happiness, with Dr. Bob Waldinger
January 10, 2023 13:00 - 56 minutes - 39.2 MBWhat makes for a good life? Such a simple question, yet we don't have great answers. Most of us try to figure it out as we go along, and many end up feeling like they never got to the bottom of it. Shouldn't something so important be approached with more scientific rigor? In 1938, Harvard researchers began a study to fill this gap. Since then, they’ve followed hundreds of people over the course of their lives, hoping to identify which factors are key to long-term satisfaction. Eighty-five ...
The Friday Five: A New Blood Test to Detect Alzheimer's
January 06, 2023 16:00 - 9 minutes - 6.65 MBThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend. Here are the promising studies covered in this week's Friday Five: - A blood test to detect Alzheimer's - Vets take their psychologist anywhe...
Repairing Cells and Longevity Myths with Dr. Charles Brenner
December 22, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour - 44.4 MBMeet Charles Brenner, the Longevity Skeptic. Brenner, a leading biochemist at City of Hope National Medical Center in L.A., has been attending the largest longevity conferences with one main purpose: to point out that some of the other speakers are full of it. Brenner is "throwing cold water" on several scientists in the field of aging, accusing them of hyping various fountains of youth, despite limited evidence for these therapies. In this podcast episode, Brenner sat down with Leaps.org ...
The Friday Five: An mRNA Vaccine Works Against Cancer
December 16, 2022 17:00 - 8 minutes - 5.99 MBThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend. Here are the promising studies covered in this week's Friday Five: - An mRNA vaccine that works against cancer - These cameras inside the bo...
The Friday Five: Sugar Could Help Catch Cancer Early
December 09, 2022 17:00 - 8 minutes - 5.65 MBThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend. Here are the promising studies covered in this week's Friday Five: - Catching cancer early could depend on sugar - How to boost memory in ...
The Friday Five: Soon Band-Aids Could Be AIs
December 02, 2022 17:00 - 8 minutes - 5.92 MBThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend. Here are the promising studies covered in this week's Friday Five: - Research on a "smart" bandage for wounds - A breakthrough in fighting...
The Friday Five: The Plain Solution to Holiday Stress?
November 25, 2022 17:00 - 9 minutes - 6.36 MBThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend. Here are the promising studies covered in this week's Friday Five: - How to improve your working memory - The plain old solution to stress...
The Friday Five: How to Exercise for Cancer Prevention
November 18, 2022 16:00 - 7 minutes - 5.19 MBThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend. Here are the promising studies covered in this week's Friday Five: - How to exercise for cancer prevention - A device that brings relief to b...
The Friday Five: Electric Shocks Help People Walk Again
November 11, 2022 17:00 - 7 minutes - 5 MBThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend. Here are the promising studies covered in this week's Friday Five: - Kids treated for diseases before they're born - How to lift weights in h...
Friday Five: Boots for Running Faster with Less Effort
November 04, 2022 16:00 - 8 minutes - 6.16 MBThe Friday Five covers important stories in health and science research that you may have missed - usually over the previous week but, today, we're doing a lookback on breakthrough research over the month of October. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend. This Frid...
Friday Five Lookback on Health Research in October
November 04, 2022 16:00 - 8 minutes - 6.16 MBThe Friday Five covers important stories in health and science research that you may have missed - usually over the previous week but, today, we're doing a lookback on breakthrough research over the month of October. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend. This Frid...
The Friday Five Weekly Roundup in Health Research
October 28, 2022 16:00 - 8 minutes - 5.78 MBThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend. Here are the promising studies covered in this week's Friday Five: - The right facial expression for your mental health - Can virtual reality...
The Friday Five: Lab Made Blood Vessels
October 28, 2022 16:00 - 8 minutes - 5.78 MBThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend. Here are the promising studies covered in this week's Friday Five: - The right facial expression for your mental health - Can virtual reality...
The Friday Five: How to Make Cities of the Future Less Noisy
October 21, 2022 15:00 - 10 minutes - 7.14 MBThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend. Here are the promising studies covered in this week's Friday Five: - A diabetes drug finds a new purpose - No pain - or mucus - no gain - How...
The Friday Five: How Young Athletes Can Avoid Lifelong Joint Problems
October 14, 2022 15:00 - 10 minutes - 7.13 MBThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend. Here are the promising studies covered in this week's Friday Five: - A new target for drugs to treat dementia - Using math to stay a step ahe...
Can Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Boost Health? An Interview with Shai Efrati
October 13, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 44.9 MBOn today’s podcast episode, I had a chance to speak with Shai Efrati, a physician and professor in the schools of medicine and neuroscience at Tel Aviv University. Efrati also directs the Sagol Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Research, and our conversation in this episode focuses on the potential health benefits of hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Efrati's studies point to a connection between the use of hyperbaric chambers and improvements for a range of health problems such as Long Covid, st...
The Friday Five: Armoring our Livers Against Cancer
October 07, 2022 16:00 - 9 minutes - 6.79 MBThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend. Here are the promising studies covered in this week's Friday Five: - The problem with bedtime munching - Scientists use AI to predict how sta...
Friday Five Lookback on Health Research in September
September 29, 2022 18:00 - 8 minutes - 5.88 MBThe Friday Five covers important stories in health and science research that you may have missed - usually over the previous week but, today, we're doing a lookback on breakthrough research over the month of September. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend. This F...
The Friday Five: A Mask that Could Detect Covid
September 23, 2022 17:00 - 9 minutes - 6.86 MBThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend. Here are the promising studies covered in this week's Friday Five: - A new mask can detect Covid and send an alert to your phone - More prom...
The Friday Five: A Pill to Prevent Lung Cancer?
September 16, 2022 16:00 - 8 minutes - 5.76 MBThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend. Here are the promising studies covered in this week's Friday Five: - A pill to prevent lung cancer? - Ancient wisdom about Neti pots could p...
The Friday Five: The Need for (Walking) Speed to Reduce Dementia Risk
September 09, 2022 16:00 - 8 minutes - 6.03 MBThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend. Here are the promising studies covered in this week's Friday Five: - The new stars of brain cancer research - Scans inside the body can predi...
The Friday Five: The Best Plants to Suck Toxins from the Air
September 02, 2022 16:00 - 9 minutes - 6.24 MBThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend. Here are the promising studies covered in this week's Friday Five: - A new "polypill" regimen for prevent second heart attacks - The best kin...
The Inner Lives of Human Breasts with Camila dos Santos
August 29, 2022 14:00 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MBMy guest today for the Making Sense of Science podcast is Camila dos Santos, associate professor at Cold Spring Harbor Lab, who is a leading researcher of the inner lives of human mammary glands, more commonly known as breasts. These organs are unlike any other because throughout life they undergo numerous changes, first in puberty, then during pregnancies and lactation periods, and finally at the end of the cycle, when babies are weaned. A complex interplay of hormones governs these process...
The Friday Five: How to Get the Benefits of Near-Death Experiences
August 26, 2022 15:00 - 8 minutes - 5.64 MBThe Friday Five covers five stories in research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend. Here are the promising studies covered in this week's Friday Five: - Not a fan of breathing in micro plastics? New robot noses could help - Y...
The Friday Five: A Saliva Test for PTSD
August 19, 2022 10:00 - 7 minutes - 5.28 MBThe Friday Five covers five stories in health research that you may have missed this week. There are plenty of controversies and troubling ethical issues in science – and we get into many of them in our online magazine – but this news roundup focuses on scientific creativity and progress to give you a therapeutic dose of inspiration headed into the weekend. Here are the promising studies covered in this week's Friday Five: - Using graphene to repair shoulders - Testing for PTSD with saliva...
The Science of Recharging Your Energy with Sara Mednick
August 17, 2022 13:00 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBIf you’re like me, you may have a case of email apnea, where you stop taking restful breaths when you open a work email. Or maybe you’re in the habit of shining blue light into your eyes long after sunset through your phone. Many of us are doing all kinds of things throughout the day that put us in a constant state of fight or flight arousal, with long-term impacts on health, productivity and happiness. My guest for today’s episode is Sara Mednick, author of The Power of the Downstate, a bo...