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With all the headlines about psychedelics and medicine or all your friends talking about

micro dosing, we wanted to learn more about where the science is actually at.

So this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Israt Hussein, a psychiatrist at the University of Toronto

and senior scientist at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health.

He specializes in psychedelics research and is going to help us get past all the headlines.

Then, we'll pivot to a fascinating topic.

Helmets!

Oh, you think I'm kidding?

There's so much more than just foam and hard shells.

They've evolved dramatically in the last 15 years, and we'll break down the science behind today's helmet,

particularly when it comes to contact sports.

Meditation might not just calm our minds.

It could also activate the brain's cleaning system.

That's right, that same system that rejuvenates us during sleep could be triggered by simply sitting in stillness.

When we sleep, the cerebral spinal fluid bathing our brain and spinal cord helps flesh out toxic proteins and metabolic

byproducts that build up during the day. That cleaning is most active during deep sleep.

But given all the similarities between sleep and meditation, like slow breathing, low heart rate, researchers at Vanderbilt

University Medical Center and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, wondered if meditation

could run the system during the day. So they recruited 23 experienced meditators. Those are people

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