Show 1087: Change Your Perspective from Half-Empty to Half-Full

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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If you’ve ever found yourself ruminating over mistakes you made during the day and wishing for a do-over, you might want to change your perspective. In traditional psychiatry, you might focus on problems in your relationship and learn how to fight fair. Positive psychology, a science supporting health and wellness, would teach you how to […]

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Joe Graydon.
0:02.3	I'm Terry Graydon.
0:03.8	Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy, where we bring you the stories behind the health headlines.
0:10.2	This podcast is brought to you by Redux Industries, makers of utterly smooth body cream.
0:16.0	800-345-7339 on the web at utter cream.com.
0:21.6	Do you find yourself in bed at bed at night replaying the day and wishing for a do-over?
0:36.4	Do you ever ruminate over mistakes you made?
0:39.4	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:50.1	It's easy to get caught up worrying about your fears and your own shortcomings.
0:54.8	Dr. Samantha Bordman says positive psychology offers a better approach.
0:59.9	This is not self-help, and there are no rainbows or unicorns in positive psychology.
1:05.3	It's all science-backed.
1:06.8	And, you know, as a psychiatrist and somebody coming from the medical field, it was really important for me that this be validated, that there be data behind everything we're talking about today.
1:17.2	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, learn how positive psychology might help you gain more resilience.
1:25.2	First, this news.
1:30.3	In the People's pharmacy health headlines, the Mediterranean diet is in the news again because of its benefits for the brain. Most people think of a diet rich in fruits, vegetables, nuts, beans, olive oil, and fish as being good for the heart.
1:46.5	New data, presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference this week,
1:51.8	suggests that the same diet may reduce cognitive impairment as people age.
1:56.4	Roughly 6,000 older Americans participating in the health and retirement study were tested for
2:02.2	cognitive function. Their diets had also been recorded and analyzed. Those who stuck closely to a
2:08.5	Mediterranean-type diet or a mind diet were 35% more likely to do well on the mental tests. The
2:15.8	mind diet combines features of the Mediterranean diet with
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