Are We Related? | How Exercise Boosts Memory.
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
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🗓️ 23 November 2017
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Good Life Riff: Ahhhhh, family! With many people heading into that time of year when gathering with family becomes a "thing," we figured it was a great time to invite our old friend, everyone's cousin and New York Times bestselling author, A.J. Jacobs, to share a very special guest riff about what family really is...and isn't. He's spent the last few years deep-diving into the topic and has come up with some fascinating and fun discoveries, which he shares in his new book, It's All Relative.
Good Life Science: Ever notice that the older we get, the more we tend to forget stuff? Turns out, the hippocampus - a part of our brain heavily involved in memory - starts to shrink in our middle years, taking memories with it. In our Good Life Science segment today, we're diving into some fascinating new research on how one very specific type of exercise affects can not only stop the shrinkage, but even reverse this process. And, as always, for those want to go to the source, here's a link to the full study.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, and today's good life update. |
| 0:06.0 | We've got a couple of fun segments for you. |
| 0:08.2 | I'm starting off, kicking off with a special guest riff from my friend and cousin and |
| 0:14.5 | neighbor, Neurotan's best-selling author of Many Books, his latest is called It's All |
| 0:20.6 | Relative, which is a pretty cool exploration of family and what that really means and how |
| 0:25.5 | we define it. |
| 0:26.5 | My day Jacobs is in the house and I asked him to really share some thoughts on this idea |
| 0:33.4 | of family, how we define it, how the way we define it can profoundly connect us to people |
| 0:40.0 | around the world or even isolated from people, either next door on the other side of the |
| 0:44.4 | planet and offer some ideas that might help us kind of live more comfortably and see |
| 0:49.0 | the humanity and others. |
| 0:51.0 | So I'm going to turn it over to AJ in just a few short seconds for a fun and informative |
| 0:58.1 | guest riff and our science update. |
| 1:01.4 | Also, some breaking research, you guys know that I geek out on research and especially |
| 1:06.9 | on the way that sort of vitality practices can affect us. |
| 1:11.4 | That's some really cool new research on how exercise affects one particular part of the |
| 1:16.5 | brain as we age, so make sure you stay tuned for that as well. |
| 1:21.3 | And really excited to share this as always, I'm Jonathan Fields and this is Good Life |
| 1:26.2 | Project. |
| 1:28.0 | Hello, I'm AJ Jacobs. |
| 1:33.4 | I'm a writer. |
| 1:34.6 | I just wrote a book about family called It's All Relative and that's what I wanted to |
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