171: Psychologist's Tips for Beating Anxiety & Worry

Two mice are genetically identical, but one ends up obese and yellow and the other ends up mousy brown and healthy as expected. What's the difference? The mutated mouse's mother was undernourished dur...

23 Jan 202044min

I have a challenge for you. Take a pencil to paper and map out your past five years on a line graph with peaks being the great experiences and valleys being the lows. I'd be willing to guess you have ...

16 Jan 202033min

Steve Jobs had genius-level intelligence and built one of the largest and most influential companies in the world. This is impressive, but at the same time that Apple was achieving success, Jobs denie...

9 Jan 202043min

I started moonlighting as a yoga teacher and nutritional coach in my 20s while I still kept my day job. I didn't know if I could turn my passion into a career, so I dipped my toe into the water to see...

2 Jan 202041min

Loneliness, living alone and poor social connections are as bad for your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. It's worse for you than obesity. And you're much more likely to suffer from dementia, he...

25 Dec 201942min

You could still smoke indoors when I moved to Spain in 2009. Thankfully, it was banned in 2010 as part of an on-going anti-tobacco campaign that has since failed miserably. Fifteen years ago, 32% of p...

19 Dec 201949min

I've set a personal goal to live to be 122, and I specifically chose this number because it seems like a stretch but also totally within the realm of reasonable given my age and the advances in scienc...

12 Dec 201937min

When you're fasting, your body undergoes rapid healing that is very well-documented and exciting, but it's also extremely impractical. When you spend a few days without eating, you're weak, tired, han...

5 Dec 201941min