This is episode 55 of books and ideas and I'm your host Dr. Ginger Campbell.

This episode is also appearing in the feed for the Brain Science Podcast

because it is an interview with Dr. John Radie who appeared on that show a couple of times back in 2008.

Many of you may be familiar with Dr. Radie's last book, Spark, The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain.

But today we'll be talking about his brand new book, Go Wild, Free Your Body and Mind from

the afflictions of civilization.

One thing that sets Go Wild apart from similar sounding titles

is its focus on scientific evidence.

So I encourage you to give this interview an open-minded listen.

You will find the complete show notes and a free episode transcript of today's podcast

at books and ideas.com.

Feel free to send me feedback at doc Artemis at gmail.com.

I will be back after the interview to review the key ideas and to share a few announcements. John it's so great to talk to you again and have you on my books and ideas

podcast how are you today? Oh, I'm fine. It's been a wonderful few days of talking to people and

promoting our new book and looking forward to getting the message out there to get people to rewild their lives and go wild.

Well, before we talk about that, I want to tell you some news that I have which is that starting in July I'm going to be doing a

fellowship in palliative care really so that means I'm starting a fellowship exactly 30 years from when I graduated from medical school.

Going to return to the repressed, we call it, you know, going back to the beginning.

Well, congratulations. that's pretty exciting to start

something new yep and it sort of comes from all this work with brain science and realizing

staying active and doing new things is the best thing I could possibly do.

I'm getting to that age where I want to get out of the ER and I was thinking about quitting medicine completely and I decided to do this instead.

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