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Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley
BBC
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Do you struggle with multi-tasking, filtering out distractions, and prioritising your to-do list? Believe it or not, video gaming might help. In this episode, Michael Mosley enters the world of gaming to find out how it can benefit our brains! He enlists the help of cognitive neuroscientist Professor Daphné Bavelier to find out how, to Michael’s surprise, video games could actually help improve our vision and what types of features we should look out for when we play...
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds. |
| 0:02.0 | Hello everyone, it's Michelle Vassage, and welcome to my podcast Rule Breakers. |
| 0:06.0 | But you sit down and be bright. |
| 0:08.0 | Celebrating women's voices. |
| 0:10.0 | You're very welcome to now you're asking with me, Marion Keys Keys and me Tara Flynn. |
| 0:14.8 | This is juicy. No limits, no limits. |
| 0:17.2 | Celebrating women. |
| 0:18.8 | Where to be a woman is the podcast celebrating the best of women's well-being. We're on a quest to find out |
| 0:24.4 | where in the world women are living their best lives. Celebrate yourself. |
| 0:28.8 | Lesson on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:33.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:36.0 | Ready to Fight, |
| 0:38.0 | to Rumble. |
| 0:40.0 | We would all like some quick and simple ways to improve our health, |
| 0:44.0 | but we're bombarded with often conflicting advice. |
| 0:48.0 | So if you were going to do just one thing |
| 0:51.0 | to improve your mental and physical well-being, what should it be? |
| 0:54.8 | Maybe a few minutes of sunshine each day to strengthen your immune system, or some dark chocolate |
| 1:00.6 | to help your heart, or even playing video games to boost your brain power. |
| 1:05.6 | I'm Dr Michael Mosley and this is just one thing where each episode will |
| 1:11.0 | explore one thing you can start doing today to improve your |
| 1:14.8 | health or life in ways you might not expect. Okay so what do we do? Okay you just |
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