Dangerous Dishwashers, PTSD Prevention, Game Brain

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Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Today we discuss how the rinse cycle in some commercial dishwashers might be negatively affecting your gut, how a groundbreaking new study might have found a solution to PTSD, and how video games have been proven to improve our executive functioning skills.

Dangerous Dishwashers

“Commercial dishwashers destroy protective layer in gut” by University of Zurich
- https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/973024
“Industrial dishwashers may harm your gut’s protective inner lining” by Tibi Puiu
- https://www.zmescience.com/medicine/industrial-dishwashers-may-harm-your-guts-protective-inner-lining/

PTSD Prevention

“Taking hydrocortisone immediately after a traumatic event may help prevent PTSD” by Vladimir Hedrih
- https://www.psypost.org/2022/11/taking-hydrocortisone-immediately-after-a-traumatic-event-may-help-prevent-ptsd-64410
“Accelerated forgetting of a trauma-like event in healthy men and women after a single dose of hydrocortisone” by Vanessa E. Hennessy, Luzia Troebinger, Georges Iskandar, Ravi K. Das & Sunjeev K. Kamboj
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-022-02126-2

Game Brain

“For young adults, more time gaming may mean better executive functioning” by Laura Staloch
- https://www.psypost.org/2023/01/for-young-adults-more-time-gaming-may-mean-better-executive-functioning-64641
“Videogaming Frequency and Executive Skills in Young Adults” by Sara Peracchia, Giulia D’Aurizio, and Giuseppe Curcio
- https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/19/19/12081
“Young Adults Who Frequently Play Video Games Have Improved Executive Functioning Compared to Casual Gamers, Research Suggests” by Margaret Davis
- https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/41718/20230105/young-adults-who-frequently-play-video-games-improved-executive-functioning.htm

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0:51.6	Today you'll learn about how the rinse cycle in some commercial dishwashers might be negatively
0:56.3	affecting our gut, how a groundbreaking new study might have found a solution to PTSD, and how
1:02.2	video games have been proven to improve our executive
1:05.2	functioning skills. Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.
1:09.2	When we go out to eat somewhere we expect our our plates to be nice and squeaky clean to avoid germs and other grossness.
1:18.0	But it turns out that the dishwashers used to make those plates clean come with a rather unfortunate side effect, the possible
1:25.4	destruction of our gastrointestinal tracts.
1:28.0	Okay, I think you actually got that backwards because you just said that a clean plate is responsible for the destruction of our
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