Hello everyone and welcome to Talk Nurdy. Today is Monday, May 16th, 2022 and I'm the

host of the show Kara Santa Maria and before we dive into this week's episode, I do want to thank

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All right, let's talk about this week's episode. It's a good one you guys.

It's always a good one, but this is a good one yeah I had the opportunity to

sit down once again with Emily Willingham and if you remember Emily

Willingham was on the show several years ago when we were talking about her new book at the time,

fallacy, life lessons from the animal penis.

She's an awesome and just like so talented and well respected science journalist.

She writes for a bunch of different outlets but she's a regular contributor to

Scientific American you can you can find a lot of her work there and she has a new

book this book is a different book it's we're talking about a totally different topic this week which is really excited and one that's near and dear to my heart.

The book is called The Tailored Brain from Ketamine to Kito to Compan to companionship a user's guide to feeling better and thinking

smarter. So yeah we're going to talk about all things the brain, all things what you can do and what you can't do, sort of really

understanding some of the myths, some of the, you know, being skeptical with a lot of this

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