Nasal Rinsing Safely | How Your Brain Constructs Your Mental Health

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🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

A recent study looked into life-threatening Acanthamoeba infections, and a few deaths, linked to the use of tap water with devices like neti pots. And, in ‘The Balanced Brain,’ Dr. Camilla Nord explores the neuroscience behind mental health, and how our brains deal with life’s challenges.

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0:00.0	What can being angry, you know that feeling of being angry, because you're a little hungry,
0:09.3	teach us about the relationship between our physical and mental health.
0:13.0	The way that our brain codes for internal bodily states like hunger is very much overlapping
0:22.2	anatomically with the way that it codes for emotions.
0:26.0	It's Friday March 15th and today is Science Friday. We made it. Congrats.
0:32.0	I'm Cyphrai producer Shoshana Bucksbaum. A little later I'll talk with a
0:36.7	neuroscientist about the biology of mental health, how mental and physical health are related, and ways to improve mental health treatments
0:44.9	using the latest neuroscience. But first, Ira Plato talks with science journalist Rachel
0:50.4	Feltman about some alarming new research into the microplastics found in our bodies,
0:56.5	plus other top science news of the week.
1:00.0	In space news, reports of the death of Voyager 1 may be premature,
1:05.0	NASA sent a signal to the faraway probe and was able to decipher meaningful information from it,
1:12.0	keeping our fingers crossed as NASA Wizards.
1:15.0	Figure this one out and hoping this is nothing more than the aging spacecraft forgetting where it left the car keys.
1:21.0	There is concerning news this week though about
1:23.7	microplastics being found in our bodies and now in our arteries. Last week
1:28.9	scientists in the New England Journal of Medicine published a study that linked microplastic presence
1:35.2	in arteries to higher risk of heart disease.
1:38.9	Ooh, here to explain that study and other science news from the week is Rachel
1:43.7	Feltman host of the podcast the weirdest thing I learned this week Rachel is
1:47.8	based in Joysy City, New Jersey. Hi welcome back Rachel.
1:51.4	Hi, thanks for having me, Ira.
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