Exercise: Your Favorite Wellness Episode!

Science Vs

Spotify Studios

Education, Science, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 12.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Here’s the episode you voted as our best wellness episode: Exercise! Lots of people hit the gym to shed unwanted pounds, but they don’t always see results on the scale. We tackle the power of exercise and why you should bother. We speak with obesity expert Dr. Yoni Freedhoff, psychiatrist Dr. Gary Cooney, neuroscientist Prof. Wendy Suzuki and urologist Dr. Stacey Kenfield. Find our transcript here: https://bit.ly/SVFavWellnessEp This episode was produced by Wendy Zukerman, with help from Meryl Horn, Rose Rimler and Lexi Krupp. Our senior producer is Kaitlyn Sawrey. We’re edited by Caitlin Kenney and Blythe Terrell. Fact checking by Diane Kelly. Mix and sound design of this episode was by Bobby Lord. Mix and sound design of our original episode was by Peter Leonard. Music by Peter Leonard, Emma Munger and Bobby Lord. Recording assistance from Joel Cox, Andrea Rangecroft, Natalie Jones, and Mark Totti. A huge thanks to all the scientists we got in touch with for this episode, including Professor Virginia Berridge, Professor James Blumenthal, Professor Kirk Erickson, Dr Tara Walker, Dr Shannon Halloway, Professor Steven Petruzzello, Dr Kristine Beaulieu, Dr Aric Sudicky and many others! A special thanks to the Emmanuel Dzotsi, the Zukerman family, and Joseph Lavelle Wilson. Science Vs is a Spotify Studios Original. Listen for free on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us and tap the bell for episode notifications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Wendy Zuckerman and you're listening to Science Verses.
0:04.7	So we have been running down your favorite Science Verses episodes, yeah?
0:09.9	A couple of months ago we did this survey to find out what episodes you liked best and so
0:15.1	now we are playing our greatest hits.
0:18.0	This is while we are busily working on new episodes for next season, which I'm very excited
0:23.8	about.
0:24.8	But until then, this is what we've got for you.
0:28.4	So last week, we played Magic Mushrooms that won the very coveted Drugs category.
0:34.4	Today, the highly competitive wellness and diet category, yeah.
0:41.3	These are some of our most popular episodes overall, and you could see this in the voting
0:47.8	because we had an actual honest to God tie.
0:52.6	Yes.
0:53.6	The winners were, we're taking this competition very seriously, you could see probiotics,
1:01.2	scam or superfood, and exercise, fat buster or belly flop.
1:08.3	We did the only thing that could possibly be done to separate these two fine episodes
1:15.6	and work out which one to play for you today.
1:19.9	We flipped a coin and exercise one.
1:22.1	That's a fun episode, I hope you enjoy it.
1:26.7	Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman and you're listening to Science Versus from Gimlet.
1:32.4	And on today's show, we're pitting facts against getting physical.
1:38.7	As we look at exercise, is it like a block buster drug or a ball-busting drag?
1:48.0	So it is a beautiful Sunday in Brooklyn, New York City.
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