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barriers to taking action and provide you with evidence-based diet and exercise information

in a fun and interesting way.

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Without further ado, because I hate long introductions, here is

this episode. Hello, I hope everyone is having wonderful days while they listen to this.

I've wanted to do this one for a while, and it is broadly on ageing and our negative perceptions of aging, which is generally what we think when we talk about aging, like, oh, this is a negative thing that is happening to us.

And there are so many positives to aging. And I think, well, well actually I know it's not me that's come up

with this epiphany myself, but appreciating the positives of aging will not only make you feel

better about something that is inevitable, like you are going to chronologically age. Is that the right

word? I think it is. But it will also

make you more likely to experience those positives if you highlight them to yourself.

In fact, there is some incredible research on people's expectations of aging showing that expectations indicate

how successfully somebody ages. So their expectations of how they're going to age impacts

the reality of how they actually age. And this is why it's so important to talk positively about aging, because your expectations become reality.

And if we all think on a societal level that aging is inherently a negative thing, then it will become one.

And we've kind of seen that come into fruition.

And we also often set these unnecessary

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