The 4 Habits That Age You; Put Down Your Smartphone; Drink (water) and Drive

In this episode we discuss:

The most downloaded App in the App Store.

The healing power of water.

Our emotional attachment to robots.

And many more topics.

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Episode Transcript

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Gib, hello and welcome to another episode of the
podcast. I'm Gib Gerard. Todaywe have one of my favorite
things that we do here on theshow, and that is our
intelligence to go. That's wherewe take some stories from this
week's radio show, intelligencefor your life, and we hand
picked them for you for thepodcast. So exciting stuff about
movie therapy and why yourheadphones are too loud, all

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kinds of stuff that you can use.
Put it in your pocket, take itwith you to make your life a
whole lot better. So withoutfurther ado, here's me and John
Tesh. John tesher,Gib Gerard and researchers from
the University of Colorado arenow finding that the like we
didn't know this already, thevolume of teens earbuds and
headphones are gettingdangerously loud. Oh yeah. The
study also found that boyslisten louder than girls. Okay,

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and those who know the risksloud music has on hearing loss
actually play their musiclouder. Wow, I know. Overall,
24% of teenagers listen to audioat levels that put them at risk
of permanent hearing loss. Youknow, back in the day, we would
just sort of lay on the floor infront of the speaker, yeah? But
it would only get sold out, onlybe so close to your ears before

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disturbing the rest of thehouse. I mean, is every guy
buddy gonna be in? There's nocure for hearing loss, hearing
aid,right? I mean, people are gonna
get hearing aids. I will saythere's two things that are that
are kind of good. One is, if youwear, if you use, like, I use
Apple products, if I have thethe air, the air pod in my ear,
and I go to the gym, and I am inthis group, I like loud music to

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motivate me at the gym, right?
But it'll tell me at a certainpoint, like, hey, you've
exceeded, or you are at theallowable amount of volume in
that you've been exposed to. Youshould? You should turn your
your your music down. And I do.
I do because I don't want tolose my hearing but, but they
warnyou, which I like we may want to
talk to movie theaters too. Ican't go to a movie theater.

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It's too much. I mean, it'sunbelievable. It's too much. It
rips yourhead off. It does. And I think
if I'm older and I listened toloud music growing up and my
hearings gone, what's happeningto the young kids?
Yeah, be careful out there, andjust make sure you monitor how
loud your earbuds are,especially just to show that we
report on everything. Gib thepeople are getting emotionally

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connected to their Roombavacuums. A new study from
Georgia Tech finds roboticvacuums. Some Roomba owners are
forming deep attachments tothem, giving them nicknames,
talking to them, even treatingthem like pets. Some owners even
dress up their Roombas andrearrange, really, yeah,
rearrange their homes toaccommodate the robots, cleaning
paths. More than half of peoplerefer to the robot as he or she.

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So, okay,I mean, look, we can't help but
people do that with our cars. Wedo that with all kinds. We
personify everything. We add allsorts of layers of human
emotion. We do it to our we doit to our goldfish, which, you
know, don't even have aprefrontal cortex. So like we do
it to all of these animals, wedo it to machines all the time,
because we don't fullyunderstand them. So we assume
there's a certain amount of lifeto them, and the Roomba app
makes you name it so you alreadygive it a name, and then maybe

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you want to decorate a littlebit because you don't want just
the little gray thing movingaround your house. And the next
thing you know, you know, it'skind of personality.
So there is a point to thestudy. Apparently, the
researchers think if people canbecome attached to a robot
vacuum, it paves the way forgreater public acceptance of
domestic robots. Remember Rosierobot? The Jetsons, yeah,

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Mr. Jetson, look, we are headedthere. We just, you just accept
it. We're headed there. We justgot to figure out how we
interact with with our new AI,you know, companions.
It's gonna get weird, yeah. Allright. Gib, this just in for my
health and wellness files. Ifyou have aches and pains,
experts say, watch an old movieyou love could be anything from

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When Harry Met Sally et orusually it should be a positive
movie, although gladiator solvedby angst and pain, it really
does, but it's the same concept.
A study in the Journal ofNeuroscience found that
nostalgic entertainment reducesbrain activity in the areas that
perceive pain, so you getpowerful, drug free pain relief.
By the time the movie is done,we saw this during COVID. So
many people watching friends andSeinfeld.

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Friends Seinfeld the office,right? Watching old shows. You
know where they go. There's areason why we call it comfort
viewing, right? Because we findit comforting. And by the way,
if you're emotionally comforted,you are going to be more
physically comfortable. And ifyou are emotionally in disarray,
you're gonna have more physicalinflammation. It's just the way
that our bodies work. So ofcourse, comfort yourself
emotionally with the shows andmovies that we're comforting in

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your youth. And guess what? Youwill have fewer aches and
pains again. If you have achesand pains, watch an old movie or
TV show that you love. Allright. Gib this just in the
Tiktok is, no, I didn't mean tosay the tick tock, tick tock,
tick tock is no longer the mostdownloaded app of the year. The
new favorite is chat, G, P, T,course, the artificial

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intelligence it's the mostdownloaded app right now.
I mean, yeah, I think peoplehave kind of gotten sour on on
social media, and they are waymore into talking. To AI. Now
you don't need to to get 100likes on your photo to feel
validation. You can just ask AIto validate how you're feeling.
People are using it for allkinds of stuff. Now, for better
or for worse, that's what'shappening. So of course, chat

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GBT is the most downloaded.
People use it to email theirboss. In fact, there's a whole
subreddit of people who forgetto remove the the other parts of
the conversation with AI, andthey copy and paste the whole
conversation into their emaillike, you know, sorry about your
loss of your grandfather. Andthey like, they it's the they
take the body that they got AIto write, but then they put all
of the back and forth with theAI to get there into the email

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because they weren'tpaying attention. Are you happy
with my response?
It's all inthere. Oh my gosh. All right,
once and for all again, from ourhealth and wellness files, one
wellness files, what ages us themost well a study we know
because we're always talkingabout it on our coaching calls
on Tuesdays and Thursdays, astudy tracked nearly 5000 adults
for 20 years and found thesefour common habits combined will

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age you by 12 years. I saw thishappen to my dad, smoking, check
drinking, check too muchinactivity and a poor diet.
Check all fourof those. I mean, look, what
you're talking about isinflammation, inflammation,
inflammation and inflammation.
Exercise is Medicine. You got tobe exercising. You've got to be

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eating healthy, whole foods. Andobviously, we've known for, you
know, decades now, that smokingand drinking is bad for you,
that there are all kinds ofissues with not only with the
oxidative stress of the smokeitself, but also with just the
addiction and what that does toyour neurons. So obviously those
are, those are the four horsemenof your metabolic apocalypse.
Yeah, and Peter Attia, who wehave all the time on our shows,

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talks about how vo two Max isdefinitely a predictor, which
basically means cardiovascularhealth. Good luck with that. If
you've been smoking a pack aday, yeah, thanks. Gib, you're
welcome. Gib, this is not truefor me, but in North America,
one out of four dads say theyare better at handling birds and
the bees talk than the than themoms. I am really bad at this.

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I mean, look, it'suncomfortable, but the reality
is, we need to be the ones thatteach our kids about it, right?
Like you, they can't hear it'sall over the internet. It's all
over their peers are going toget it. Everybody now has the
older brother, brother thattells too much information to
the younger kid. And it's calledthe Internet, and it's in
everybody's home. So whether youare the the dad or the mom, you
got to start having theconversation. And look, I I

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think, I think both parentsshould be having the
conversation from both, fromboth perspectives, with all of
the kids. Maybe, you know, maybemom does the initial one with
the girls, dad does the initialone with the boys. I don't know
that's that's for you to decide,but I think it should be an it's
an important part ofdevelopment, and the more we
hide it away and shied away, themore predators are able to
leverage that.
Yeah. I remember the deepconversation I had with Prima

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when she was when she wasyounger. I just why. I said,
Hey, preem, come here. I got totalk to you. She goes, yeah,
yeah, that what is I said, Areyou good with the birds and bee
stuff? Do we need anything?
Didn't need to doanything that is so old school.
This isan old school way of doing it.
You get it right. All right. Goback to my bar. So
Gib Gerard, when you think ofsomebody falling in their home
and injuring themselves, youprobably think of me. No, you

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probably envisioned a seniorcitizen. Yeah, well, younger
adults are now as likely to betrip and fall victims. And I'll
give you one guess. Why? Yes,smartphones, of course, we're
also busy looking down on ourphones that we're falling down
the stairs, tripping over thecat and slipping on throw rugs.
In fact, over half of allwalking and talking smartphone
accidents happen at home. Thisis from the University of

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Maryland study in one out ofevery five of the at home cell
phone related falls, a personends up with a concussion. All
kinds of data from emergencyrooms. Kids
are more likely to fall at theplayground because their parents
are on the phone. People aremore likely to walk into traffic
and get hit by a car becausethey're on their phone. If you
want to have fun, you can go andfind videos of people falling
into mall fountains becausethey're staring at their phone

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or running into into signs. Thereality is, our brain can't
handle multitasking. You cannotwalk and be aware of your
surroundings and look at yourphone at the same time. What
ends up happening is your braingoes back and forth between
looking up and looking at yourphone, and it is fully engaged
in both of those tasks formicroseconds, back and forth.
You're actually notmultitasking, and because of

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that, you do neither thing well,and you end up running into
something. If you have anemergency and you need to look
at your phone, step to the side,write what you need to write on
the phone, and then move on.
Also, if your kids are at thepool, do not look at your phone.
Oh yeah. This happens all thetime. Kids drowning. Well, I
didn't see this one coming. Gib,but drinking more water can make
you a better driver. Why?
Because even mild dehydrationhas been shown to trigger twice

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as many mistakes behind thewheel, like drifting out of your
lane or breaking late. Is aboutthe same number of mistakes made
by people over the legal limitfor alcohol dehydration. Yeah,
sports and exercise researchersat the UK Loughborough
University found that beingdehydrated impairs mental
function, reduces concentration,alertness and your short term

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memory. Youand I are both Eagle Scouts, and
one of the things that they.
Drill into you when you were aboy scout on and you're camping,
is to monitor your hydration.
It's like it's one of the mostfundamental things, because your
cognitive ability drops off soquickly that you can, you can
you wander around and you getbasically the equivalent of
being drunk because you are lowon on water. Absolutely all of

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your body's molecular functionsrequire water, and it begins to
prioritize certain things. Whenthe water levels are low, you've
got to stay hydrated. And it is,I mean, there's a reason why
everybody has those Stanley mugson their on their desk. Now you
need it all the time.
I was so surprised to read thatthat by the time you experience
the feeling of thirst, you'realready dehydrated, already

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Exactly, yeah, so you got to getahead of it. Gib, you know, I
love doing this. If you need tode stress, you just look at
water, oh, yeah, or look at aphoto of your favorite watery
location. It could be a lake, astream, the ocean or a
waterfall. And we've had DrWallace on the show before.
Cognitive scientist, Dr WallaceNichols, wrote blue mind, great

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book about how water impacts ourpsychological well being. He
says, when we look at water, thereward centers of our brain
light up and release feel goodchemicals, especially if you
feel an emotional connection tothe location, like the bay where
you swam every summer as a kid,or your favorite fishing spot,
again, that book is blue minds.
Imean, there's a reason for that,
right? We need water to live. Weneed it. And if you look at

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every civilization in history,they're usually at the mouth of
a river. For this exact reason,we are programmed to want to be
near water because we need thewater. So more likely than not,
you live near water right now,and most of the world's
population lives on some sort ofbody of water. For this reason,
we need it. It It relaxes us.

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It's calming. Use this to youradvantage. It even works when I
talk to Dr Nichols for one ofour interviews. It works in the
bathtub. If you have no otherplace to go, if you're in Tucson
and there's no pool, just get inthe bathtub. You can have some
of the same relaxation effectsof water by just being in the in
submerged in the bath. Love it.
Here's a power tip for you,whether you're at a business

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event, on the first date or at aparty, if you're not sure how to
connect with someone you've justmet, networking expert Robbie
Samuel suggests you pay them acompliment about any accessories
they may be wearing. Oh, yeah,you gotta be a little careful
with this Gib it could be ajacket, some sunglasses, jewelry
or anything you could considerperipheral gear. Yes. Samuel
says this kind of complimentacknowledges a choice that they

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made or something they cancontrol,
right? It was a consciousdecision for that day. It's
something that is, you know,that they added to their outfit.
You The reason love the toupee,definitely not that. So you
want, you wanted it to be like awatch or a piece of jewelry or,
you know, like a hat or evenshoes, those kinds of things
that that cannot be perceived asbeing inappropriate. So it's on

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the periphery of the body, butalso are associated with an
active choice. People love tohear the good things about
themselves. You will never, youwill never not make a good
impression. You always make agood impression if you are
positive about the other personthat we just that. We just love
it. We can't get enough of it.
If you hear our name repeatedover and over again and hear all
the good things about us, gonnabe like, I like that guy. Of

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course you like that guy.
He told you had nice bangles,bangles, bangles and bobbles. I
got it now.
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