Redefining Health (trigger warning in description)

Radio Headspace

Headspace Studios

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Dr. Neeru Bakshi challenges the one-size-fits-all health narrative. Explore how culture, genetics, and lifestyle influence what 'being healthy' means in today's episode of Radio Headspace. (Please note that this podcast episode contains discussion about difficult topics, like body dysmorphia and eating disorders, that may bring up strong emotions for some listeners. If you feel that hearing this content could potentially impact your mental wellbeing, please skip this particular episode. Headspace provides mindfulness and well-being content, not clinical treatment. This content is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment and is not intended to replace care provided by a mental or physical health professional.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.8	Let's Space Studio.
0:40.0	Hey everyone, I'm Dr. Niro Bakshi, your guest host for the week.
0:44.4	Welcome to Radio Headspace and to Tuesday.
0:47.6	If you listened yesterday, then you know this week is all about how to feel at home in your own body. And today I'm going to try
0:56.6	something very ambitious for a five minute episode. I want to help you change your
1:02.1	perception of health, or what it means to be healthy.
1:07.3	Because the truth is, our society has a very one-size-fits-all approach to what constitutes a healthy body and spoiler
1:14.4	alert it doesn't work it ignores things like culture genetics lifestyle and it can
1:21.3	set unreasonable expectations for us.
1:24.0	So let's re-examine what we've been taught about our health so you can start to find out
1:29.2	what truly works for you.
1:32.1	The way that we think about health has a really narrow focus.
1:36.5	Oftentimes we think that if someone is in a smaller body that could be smaller by weight, because they are leaner. We view that as being a body that is healthy.
1:50.5	And when I was in my training in medical school we were often thought to look
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