Turn Anxiety into Productivity and Grapefruit Juice vs. Meds
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Wendy Suzuki explains how to use anxiety to your advantage. Plus: why grapefruit juice and some medicines don’t mix.
More from Dr. Wendy Suzuki:
- Pick up “Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Good-Anxiety/Wendy-Suzuki/9781982170738
- Dr. Suzuki’s official website: https://www.wendysuzuki.com/
- Follow @wasuzuki on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wasuzuki
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Why can’t I drink grapefruit juice when I take certain medicines? by Cameron Duke
- Bailey, D. G., Dresser, G., & Arnold, J. M. O. (2012). Grapefruit–medication interactions: Forbidden fruit or avoidable consequences? Canadian Medical Association Journal, 185(4), 309–316. https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.120951
- Drug Metabolism - The Importance of Cytochrome P450 3A4. (2014). Govt.nz. https://www.medsafe.govt.nz/profs/puarticles/march2014drugmetabolismcytochromep4503a4.htm
- Office of the Commissioner. (2021). Grapefruit juice can affect how well some medicines work. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/grapefruit-juice-and-some-drugs-dont-mix
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine you in a nice comfy seat with your hands behind your head taking in the views instead of taking on the road, maybe even a nap. |
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| 0:25.0 | Feel good travel. Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:40.0 | And it's just me today. No Ashley Hamer on this episode, but don't worry, she'll be back next time. |
| 0:47.0 | As for today, you'll learn about how you can use anxiety to your advantage, withheld from neuroscientist Dr. Wendy Suzuki, and why you can't drink |
| 0:55.4 | grapefruit juice when you take certain medicines. |
| 0:58.2 | Ready? |
| 0:59.2 | Me too. |
| 1:00.2 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. What if I told you that you can make your anxiety work for you? |
| 1:07.0 | Well, you can make your anxiety work for you. |
| 1:11.0 | And that's according to a world-renowned neuroscientist who just wrote a book about it. |
| 1:16.0 | Dr. Wendy Suzuki is a professor of neuroscience and psychology in the Center for |
| 1:21.4 | neuroscience at New York University. |
| 1:24.0 | And today she's going to share a couple tips to help you harness the power of what she says is a misunderstood emotion. |
| 1:30.0 | But first, here's Dr. Suzuki on what she means by anxiety. |
| 1:35.0 | So my simple definition of anxiety is that feeling of fear or worry typically associated with an uncertain situation. |
| 1:44.8 | So not surprising that in the times that we live today, |
| 1:47.6 | there's high levels of anxiety. |
| 1:50.6 | But the other key question is, what do I mean by good anxiety? Can anxiety be good? |
| 1:56.3 | And the answer is yes it can be good because at its heart evolutionarily speaking anxiety and that underlying |
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