Show 1410: Why Practicing Kindness Could Prolong Your Life

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

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

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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This week, we talk with an expert on cancer epidemiology. Surprisingly, though, our discussion centers on the health aspects of practicing kindness and compassion. In our polarized world, anger and hostility are rampant. But kindness is not only good for the person who receives a kind gesture. It also has a biological impact on the […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Graydon.
0:01.5	And I'm Terry Graydon.
0:02.9	Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.0	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at
0:11.5	People's Pharmacy.com.
0:14.2	Is political polarization affecting your relationships?
0:19.0	Practicing kindness might make interactions better.
0:23.0	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:31.6	There's surprisingly strong research supporting the benefits of kindness for all parties.
0:39.3	Can compassionate behavior prolong your life?
0:42.4	Our guest is a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
0:46.5	She will teach us how some behavioral changes could improve our health and happiness.
0:52.3	A bonus could be longevity.
0:56.3	We'll find out how compassion and forgiveness can overcome tribalism and polarization. It can also protect your telomeres, a marker
1:03.0	of aging. Coming up on the people's pharmacy, why practicing kindness could prolong your life.
1:13.7	In the people's pharmacy health headlines, bird flu, otherwise known as influenza A, H5, N1,
1:21.5	has been spreading around the globe for years. Initially, it only seemed to affect birds,
1:26.4	but this highly pathogenic avian influenza has now
1:30.3	found a way to infect dairy cattle, dolphins, seals, skunks, foxes, cats, dogs, and pigs.
1:38.8	Farm workers have also been infected with H5N1. Scientists have been asking how this virus managed to spread from birds to cows to cats and now to humans.
1:51.1	A new study published in Nature Microbiology reveals that the virus has mutated so that it can be transmitted through the air.
1:58.9	The Dutch researchers studied virus shedding by infecting ferrets.
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