Welcome to another episode of the talk. Also, I just want to say that Eddie is sitting down for this episode exposed.

Oh my gosh. Yes. Yes. It's because the heat is so crazy here guys. It's like 90 something degrees out.

Also, the booth that we're in doesn't have an excessive amount of ventilation.

So that you know here are the fan going and therefore maybe I'm burning up a little.

I'm sure the heat for the for the audio quality.

Okay, Eddie. What are we talking about today?

So I thought that it would be nice to kind of revisit our last episode with Professor Jennifer

Heiss. She said some stuff that really struck me and personally and then also is already affecting

the way I talk to my patients. Okay. So I wanted to do a little dive there and kind of the first

thing that struck me is that we're so often pushing the idea of like, oh, you got exercise,

it's going to help you live longer, your muscles get better, you know, your heart disease.

And what of course her research is about and her body of work is about its direct effect on the

brain but also on our psychology and in the midst of the episode we I asked her to distinguish

the two and she gently deferred and said that's a mistake. You know, we talk about our brain

and all of the neurotransmitters and what's going on that's we can get deep into that

and then sort of how much better you feel and we need not distinguish

exactly what's going on is it is it the psychology of like, oh, I just finished my 10 minute walk

or are you actually feeling better and the answer is yes.

It's funny because this entire year we haven't tried to plan this out but for some reason

we've had this theme of like the lifestyle changes you make affecting your mental health

and it wasn't like we planned it. I wish we had planned it out because I would have been better

but it's just so happen that we've covered a lot of times not just food and exercise but like all

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