Anthropomorphic Health

Here We Are

Shane Mauss

Science

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2021

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

B. N. Horowitz, M.D., turns to the natural world for insights into health and development. She has faculty appointments at Harvard Medical School, Harvard University’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, and is Professor of Medicine in the UCLA Division of Cardiology. She co-directs the UCLA Evolutionary Medicine Program. In her work she studies a diverse range of animals in their natural settings to uncover evolved adaptations with potential relevance to human health challenges. She has used this approach to better understand heart failure and sudden cardiac death, neurological conditions including seizures, dementia and movement disorders, infertility and psychiatric conditions including anxiety, compulsive and eating disorders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, terrific episode today, all about what we can learn from non-human animals
0:09.5	about human health. Super cool guests.
0:14.0	So smart, so interesting.
0:16.6	Such a unique area of research and that was stumbled on in a
0:25.4	serendipitous way. That's uh, I love
0:31.8	these kind of serendipitous discoveries in science where someone gets paired with someone else or just there's just this right combination of things that come together in some way that yields these incredible results that
0:50.4	who knows how long it would have been before we discovered some of these things?
0:55.0	So, very excited for the show, very excited because I just did the first Patreon board game night just last Saturday it was terrific put a message
1:08.4	out there for eight people eight a patreon supporters to meet up to some board games.
1:15.0	A couple people had played the game code names before,
1:18.0	some hadn't.
1:19.0	It's a game it takes five minutes to learn.
1:21.0	Probably going to explore some other things in the future as well and it was
1:26.7	You know I have to tell you I get I get nervous meeting any group of strangers ever and I was I'm always nervous about how it's going
1:42.3	to go you might do live shows, meeting people after shows and stuff like that.
1:47.0	I'm just not, I've never been good at meeting strangers and it was a lot of fun so it was
1:57.9	board games is one of my favorite things to do it was fun to get to share it with
2:01.5	fans it was super fun that all of all the people
2:06.0	I showed up are really awesome and cool to get to know a little bit and have some laughs
2:12.4	and a good time.
2:14.0	And so I'm doing it on a regular basis.
2:17.0	Basically weekly.
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