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Local Honey Won’t Cure Your Allergies

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Science

4.6 • 964 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Learn about why changing out of your pajamas while you work could improve your mental health; why local honey doesn’t stop seasonal allergies; and shisa kanko, a surprisingly simple Japanese ritual that greatly improves accuracy.

Working from home in your pajamas is linked to poorer mental health by Kelsey Donk

Local Honey Won't Fix Your Seasonal Allergies originally aired May 23, 2018 https://omny.fm/shows/curiosity-daily/local-honey-myths-nasa-to-the-moon-and-a-bisexual

Shisa Kanko May Look Odd To Outsiders, But It Keeps Train Passengers Safe by Ashley Hamer

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0:00.0

Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com.

0:05.8

I'm Cody Goff. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn about why you might want to change out of your pajamas

0:10.8

while you're working from home, why local honey doesn't stop allergies,

0:15.2

and how a surprisingly simple Japanese ritual keeps train passengers safe.

0:19.8

Let's satisfy some curiosity.

0:25.0

Lots of us have been working from home during the pandemic

0:30.0

and all too often working from home can mean working in pajamas. If that's you, first, I'm not judging.

0:33.0

But second, you may want to think about changing your style.

0:36.0

Scientists have found that working from home in your pajamas is linked to poorer mental health.

0:43.0

And while they can't say that one causes the other,

0:46.0

there's plenty of research to suggest that what you wear really does affect how you feel.

0:52.0

This study comes from a group of researchers in Australia

0:55.3

who wanted to find out how work-from-home setups affected productivity and

0:59.4

mental health. So they studied 169 staff members and students of Australian Medical Research Institutes during the pandemic.

1:07.0

And despite our newfound love of working from the bedroom, they uncovered some unfortunate news.

1:14.6

More than a third of the study's participants said their mental health had gotten worse since

1:19.2

starting to work from home.

1:21.2

And what the participants wore mattered.

1:24.2

About 60% of the people who wore pajamas while working said their mental health got worse

1:29.4

at least once a week.

1:31.4

On the other hand, those who changed out of their pajamas, about a quarter of the participants,

1:35.9

didn't experience a dip in their mental health.

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