Show 1025: Get SuperBetter: How Games Can Improve Your Health and Your Life
The People's Pharmacy
Joe and Terry Graedon
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2016
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
When computer game expert Jane McGonigal suffered a concussion, she had a hard time recovering from the constant headaches, fatigue, confusion and depression. To give herself achievable goals and make her recovery more attainable, she invented a game she calls SuperBetter.
The Benefits of a Gameful Mindset:
You can use the gameful approach she describes to transform your own life. Find out how to adopt a challenge mindset and how activating power-ups can translate into real-life benefits.
You’ll also learn about particular computer games that have been developed specifically to help people meet serious health challenges, such as the game Re-Mission, for kids with cancer. Do you need a more playful approach in your life?
This Week’s Guest:
Jane McGonigal, PhD, is a senior researcher at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, CA. Her first book, Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World, was a best seller. Her work has been featured in The Economist, Wired, and The New York Times. Her TED talks on games have been viewed more than ten million times.
Her latest book is SuperBetter, A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient-Powered by the Science of Games.
Her website is: http://janemcgonigal.com/
The photo of Dr. McGonigal is by Kiyash Monsef.
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| 0:31.5 | Many people think of video games as a waste of time. |
| 0:35.6 | Could they instead help us develop skills that will make our lives better? |
| 0:39.9 | This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon. |
| 0:48.7 | Dr. Jane McGonagall is a senior researcher at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California. |
| 0:57.4 | When she suffered a severe concussion, her world was turned upside down. |
| 1:02.0 | Creating a game called Jane, the Concussion Slayer, |
| 1:05.3 | helped her overcome the depression, fatigue, and headaches that immobilized her. |
| 1:09.6 | Can playing games help you learn to control your attention, mobilize support, and motivate |
| 1:15.5 | yourself to overcome health challenges? |
| 1:17.9 | Coming up on the people's pharmacy, find out how you could use a gameful mindset to become |
| 1:23.0 | super better. |
| 1:25.8 | First, the news. |
| 1:36.3 | In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, a German study has revealed another potential risk of taking certain popular heartburn drugs over the long term. |
| 1:40.3 | The study published this week in Gemma Neurology, found that PPI users were 44% more likely to develop dementia over the seven years of the study. The researchers reviewed medical records from more than 73,000 older people. Nearly 3,000 of them filled prescriptions for drugs such as omeprosol, lanceoprozov or |
| 2:02.4 | esomeprazol, on a regular basis. These medicines are better known by their brand names, |
| 2:07.8 | Prilosec, Prevacid, and Nexium. The analysis showed an association between such proton pump |
| 2:14.2 | inhibitors and the risk of dementia. It did not show that the drugs caused |
| 2:18.5 | dementia. Nonetheless, an accompanying editorial points out that PPIs may impact brain enzymes |
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