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Hello, dear listener and welcome back to owning it the anxiety podcast with me, Caroline Foran.substack.com. Thank you. Hello, dear listener, and welcome back to owning it the

anxiety podcast with me, Caroline Forin. This week, my guest is another returning guest, David Robert

Grimes. He's a chartered statistician, and he is just a professional myth buster, really. Our focus is

kind of on health anxiety and the various things and

rabbit holes that we fall down that we get very anxious about that fuel health anxiety in the news,

things that we see headlines, fear mongering, whether it's carcinogens or microplastics or

vaccines. I wanted to go through a lot of the big hitters that people worry about

and get his take on them, see what the research says. And if we actually can put down some of those

worries. I hope you find this episode helpful. It was really super informative for me. And as always,

if you like this podcast or you want to support, the best thing you could do is share it with a friend or subscribe via my substack which listeners get a 20% forever discount off I'll put all the details in my show notes and I will be back next week

David thank you so much for coming back to be a guest on owning it the anxiety podcast it took us us a while to get here, but we're here and I'm so happy to have you back.

Wandering paths and, you know, are always nice to have.

It's a pleasure to be here, Caroline.

Well, I really enjoyed our last conversation, but this time we're going to try and reassure some people who,

particularly with health anxiety, are struggling with different headlines that they

come across and things that we hear in passing and then it grows arms and legs and

becomes, you know, it feeds our anxiety. So I suppose just to start to recap, do you want to just

give my listeners a little insight into what you do and why you're in this position where you can

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