Should You Exercise on an Empty Stomach?
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 964 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Bestselling author and CBS news correspondent David Pogue explains why climate change is leading to more kidney stones and bar fights. Then, learn about the “doorway effect” when you forget why you walked into a room; and whether you should exercise on an empty stomach.
Additional resources from David Pogue:
- Pick up "How to Prepare for Climate Change: A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos" on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3fq65UY
- David Pogue's website: https://davidpogue.com
- David Pogue on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Pogue
- David Pogue on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThePogueman
A new study dives into the 'doorway effect,' or the tendency to forget things when you walk in a room by Cameron Duke
- McFadyen, J., Nolan, C., Pinocy, E., Buteri, D., & Baumann, O. (2021). Doorways do not always cause forgetting: a multimodal investigation. BMC Psychology, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-021-00536-3
- Nield, D. (2021). What Did I Come in Here For? New Study Explains The Weird “Doorway Effect.” ScienceAlert. https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-find-the-doorway-effect-could-be-real-but-only-in-overloaded-brains
Should You Exercise on an Empty Stomach? originally aired November 29, 2018 https://omny.fm/shows/curiosity-daily/exercising-on-an-empty-stomach-how-to-measure-curi
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com. |
| 0:06.3 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:07.3 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:08.3 | Today you'll hear some good news and some weird news about climate change, with best-selling author and CBS news |
| 0:13.9 | correspondent David Pogue. Then you learn about why you walk into a room and |
| 0:18.2 | forget why you did and whether you should exercise on an empty stomach. |
| 0:22.4 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. and whether you should exercise on an empty stomach. |
| 0:22.8 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:25.4 | Yesterday David Pogue told this why preparing for climate change |
| 0:29.1 | can actually make us feel better about the future. |
| 0:32.3 | And today he's back to tell us about a couple of truly |
| 0:35.1 | weird effects of climate change, along with some very good news about our |
| 0:40.6 | planet's efforts to turn this crisis around. |
| 0:44.0 | David Polk is a best-selling author, |
| 0:46.0 | CBS Sunday Morning Science and Technology Correspondent, |
| 0:50.0 | and the author of the new book, |
| 0:51.0 | How to Prepare for Climate Change, a practical guide to surviving the chaos. |
| 0:56.3 | When we spoke with him, he briefly mentioned that climate change increases the incidence of kidney stones and bar fights and we were like what |
| 1:06.3 | kidney stones these are the absolute worst it's the worst pain your body can do to |
| 1:12.1 | itself yes it's worse than childbirth according to people It's the worst pain your body can do to itself. |
| 1:12.8 | Yes, it's worse than childbirth, according to people who've had both. |
| 1:16.2 | And the numbers of kidney stones go up because of dehydration. |
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