Show 1437: Why Modern Life Breaks Our Brains and What We Can Do About It

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

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

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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In this episode, we acknowledge the many reasons that people may be feeling anxious or depressed. It often seems that current conditions are designed to break our brains. Perhaps that’s why 60 million Americans suffer from depression or anxiety. Not everyone who might be feeling nervous or down in the dumps deserves a diagnosis. However, […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Graydon.
0:01.5	And I'm Terry Graydon.
0:03.0	Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at
0:11.5	People's Pharmacy.com.
0:15.0	Scary headlines offer plenty of reasons to be anxious or depressed, but that's not a healthy way to function.
0:22.9	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:33.7	Dr. Drew Ramsey offers us several basic principles for reclaiming our mental fitness.
0:39.3	One is staying connected with friends.
0:42.3	When we look at what happens, especially as people age, having connections and these types of connections, a variety of connections, is incredibly protective for your mental health.
0:52.3	How do you maintain connections to those you care about?
0:56.5	What else do you need to know about building mental fitness?
0:59.7	Why modern life breaks our brains.
1:03.3	And what we can do about it?
1:18.7	In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced on July 7 that bird flu is no longer a public health emergency.
1:24.9	H5N1 avian influenza is widespread in birds and other wildlife around the world.
1:30.9	It caused multiple outbreaks in dairy cattle and chickens over the past year, and some agricultural
1:37.1	workers became ill. According to the CDC, 70 human cases resulted in one death over the past year, and the current public health risk
1:47.4	is low. Bird flu will be tracked along with ordinary seasonal influenza. The different agency,
1:54.3	the USDA, will continue to follow infections in dairy herds and poultry flocks.
2:00.3	Public health authorities report that the number of measles cases in the U.S. this year is
2:06.4	higher than it's been in more than 30 years.
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