How to mend a broken heart

TED Radio Hour

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Social Sciences, Science, Society & Culture, Technology

4.3 • 21.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

When stress, fear or sadness weigh on us, our hearts can suffer — even break. But there are ways to mend our broken hearts. This hour, TED speakers share stories and ideas about soothing heartache.

Guests include cardiologist Sandeep Jauhar, law professor Jeannie Suk Gersen, pediatric nurse Hui-wen Sato, and social worker Knut Ivar Bjørlykhaug.

This episode originally aired October 1, 2021.

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0:00.0	This is the TED Radio Hour.
0:04.4	Each week, groundbreaking TED Talks.
0:06.8	Our job now is to dream big.
0:08.2	Delivered at TED conferences.
0:09.9	To bring about the future we want to see.
0:12.0	Around the world.
0:12.9	To understand who we are.
0:14.8	From those talks, we bring you speakers and ideas that will surprise you.
0:20.0	You just don't know what you're going to find.
0:21.9	Challenge you.
0:22.8	We truly have to ask ourselves, like, why is it noteworthy?
0:25.1	And even change you.
0:26.3	I literally feel like I'm a different person.
0:28.4	Yes.
0:29.4	Do you feel that way?
0:31.1	Ideas worth spreading.
0:33.5	From Ted and NPR.
0:37.5	I'm Manushe Zamoroti, and today we are starting the show with a case of heartbreak.
0:45.7	A patient of mine was admitted to the hospital, and weeks prior, her husband had died.
0:54.9	And a couple of weeks after the funeral, she took a look at his picture,
0:59.0	and all these emotions came back, flooded back, the sadness, the grief over their life together.
1:07.0	This is cardiologist Sandeep Jahar.
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