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Mayim Bialik's Breakdown

Positive News Recap #2: Syncing Brains, Ayahuasca Clarity, & God as a Drug

Mayim Bialik's Breakdown

Mayim Bialik

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Wellness, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Thebigbangtheory, Spirituality, Selfimprovement, Mentalhealth

4.75.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Mayim and Jonathan sit down for another positive news stories recap! They cover a study suggesting our brains sync as we interact with one another, breaking down how mirror neurons wire us to fit in and the positive and negative impacts of emotionally connecting with others. They also share the findings of a brain scan study showing ayahuasca’s profound impact, including its effects on the imagination, how hallucinatory drugs dampen some senses while heightening others, and even the cultural connotations of ayahuasca use. Mayim and Jonathan discuss how belief in God can trigger the same parts of the brain as drug use and explain group thinking, ties between the civil rights movement and religion, and why connection to music can be spiritual.

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0:00.0

I just saw an explanation of why dogs always want to be with you when you go to the bathroom.

0:10.8

If you haven't had a dog, you may not know this.

0:12.8

They're often like scratching at the door or like post it up outside the bathroom door and

0:17.3

it turns out that wild dogs and wolves, that's a vulnerable time when you're going to

0:23.4

the bathroom so they protect one another.

0:26.2

They're looking out for one another.

0:28.6

Exactly, that's the right reaction.

0:31.9

That's really special and interesting.

0:35.2

I've never heard it describe that way.

0:37.0

I mean, you know, for men, you know,

0:41.2

peeing is something they can do standing up, which means that they also can run real fast.

0:46.3

You know, for those of us who cannot pee standing up and have to like,

0:50.4

squat and pull down the thing and get the thing, it's like, it's,

0:54.0

it is a more vulnerable thing if you're hiking or, you know, I mean, that's just like

0:58.0

a fact of life.

0:59.2

You want to be able to run as a human.

1:01.4

You could be eaten by a male lion.

1:03.6

I'm always afraid that's something will happen if I'm being in the woods.

1:07.3

I don't think the people who stand and pee have the same kind of fears,

1:10.9

but Jonathan, do you know the most common time

1:15.1

for women to naturally go into labor at night?

1:19.3

That's right. At night, under kind of like cover of darkness, which sounds scary,

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