Sing For Your Lung Health; Swing Your Arms For Energy; Watch Comfort TV to Fix Your Mood

In this episode we discuss:

The peak snacking time everyday.

Changing your mind, a growth mindset and intelligence.

Workplace happiness and gratitude.

AI and laundry labels.

...and more.

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Gib Gerard: Instagram: @GibGerard facebook.com/GibGerard X: @GibGerard

Transcript

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Gib, hello and welcome to another episode of the podcast. I'm Gib Gerard today on the show, we've got, we've got some quick little bits of intelligence that you guys can you can put your pocket and take with you, just fun little bits that you can take to go wherever you might be going, little bits of information that will hopefully make your life a whole lot better. So without further ado, here's me and John Tesh with intelligence for your life. So Gib, it turns out looking in the mirror can affect our diet in a surprising way. Latest research is finding that thinking about outward appearances can often make us feel badly, and that can lead us to eating more, to feel better, whether you're hungry or not. So I, if I, if I'm looking in the mirror, especially if I have my shirt off, I'm not looking for a hamburger. Well, that's why, that's why they say eat naked, right in front of the air. They do. They say, yeah, there's one the guys from Cornell said this is the number one way to lose weight. Yes. Well, here's the deal. Look, I am you're not like this, but I am like this, where once I feel bad about myself, I say, oh well. And then I just double, triple, quadruple down. It's too late now. Yeah, it might as well order that Taco Bell and have a cheeseburger while it's on its way. And then just, you know, one foot in front of the other, I have an additional 2500 calories because I already feel bad about myself. So avoiding the feeling bad about yourself while also being aware that the food you're going to eat is going to be on your body and in your body, that if you can find that right combination, then maybe there's a sliver of hope for you to, you know, not have to have your a 1c check next week. Yeah, I but just the other day, my wife said to me, she goes, you know, you know, pop, pop, you make this face when you walk by a mirror, and she made this silly face. I'm like, I do not. She had, she videotaped me, and I looked like one of the Kardashians walking. I don't know what it was was like. So for some reason, I guess my brain want to say, Okay, if you make this booty bag, no, not that far. If you make if you make your if you make this face, you'll look slimmer. But I'm not making that face, making the pouty the pouty lips, plus, I have removed all the mirrors in the house, so I'm not eating anything that's intelligence for your life. Alrighty, heads up. We now know the time of day when we're most likely to snack all day. And let's play a song. It's 2:41pm Alright, a survey of 2000 people, they must have just lined them up. A survey of 2000 people found that this is the specific time of day when our willpower is tested, and craving strike the hardest folks at home. What do you think? Oh, here's why. Here's why it's the case. Look, it's far enough after lunch that you are kind of a little bit hungry. It's far enough before the work day is over that you're like, Ah, I don't have anything to look forward to. It is an entirely emotional decision. Plus your energy starts to wane. And we've talked about this before. When your energy is low and your mental energy is low, we tend to reach for high glycemic foods, foods that increase our blood sugar, because we're trying to our brains trying to get some energy. So we'll reach for cookies and cakes and those like high sugar snacks. It is 241 is sort of the nexus of all of those different things, and that's why we're going for it makes total sense. Because of your kids, my wife, also known as grandma, always stocks us up with the Milano cookies. I have an idea. I'm gonna write

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41pm on every one of those boxes. So when I go for it, it'll be like, No, this is why you're coming in here. Or just like, have a clock right over the Milano. So when you look at it, so it's always 241 so Gib, I had heard this before. Now there's a new study from Northwestern University about juice cleanses. Listen to this. The juice cleanse business is an$18 billion industry, and now the research is saying that a lot of people go on juice cleanse to detox and improve their health, but it could make you less healthy. The problem is that juicing fruits and veggies, it removes, removes most of the fiber. That's the key look. It seems really popular because you're not, you're not adding you're not eating all of the high fat foods that you normally eat. It's usually, it's mostly fruits and vegetables. But you have to realize you're just getting the sugar from the fruits, which is fine, but if you get the sugar and none of the fiber, you are getting some good vitamins. You are you're just spiking your blood sugar, and you're having to deal with that with that spike in blood sugar the same way you would if you drank a high sugar soda. We're always talking about this on our on our transformation Tuesday call and stuff like that, where, where we are, where the juicing is not ideal, but smoothies are great because it allows you to drink all the fruit with the fiber. Yeah. And the fiber is essential for healthy gut bacteria, healthy brain, right? Oh yeah. And healthy also. So they're saying blend yeah juice. That's exactly right. That's why smoothie, not juice. If you just get the if you just get the juice, you're just getting the sugar and some of the vitamins. If you blend, you get it all. Just remember Gib. Gib is you blendy, not juicy, right? Please don't say that. Put on your sweatpants. Blend. Not juicy, and here we go, from the latest from the Harvard Business School, Gib it's a sign that you're smarter than average, you're willing to change your mind. They found that a willingness to change your mind is a hallmark of a growth mindset, which is a key to success. I have to tell you that any success that I've had, I think the I think it's because I'm willing to say, You know what, this is not working. Or, or I'm no good at this, or, or I need to find somebody who is better at this than I am. Yeah, well, this is, this is this is why a growth mindset is so important. It's why, if you're a parent, you need to be in you need to be inducing this in your kids. Sometimes the B that you got and had to turn into an A is more valuable for that kid than the Easy A, the C or D that you had to bring up to A, B is more valuable than the Easy A, because it's that ability to grow, adapt, adapt to adversity, and then, of course, change your mind and your course of action based on new information. This is what the most successful people in the world do. They are constantly changing and adapting. I mean, you know, not that this is the example you want for everything. But just look at Madonna. You know, she's changed her whole personality like seven times, and she maintains her success. Madonna, there we go. Pulled that out. A growth mindset helps you see setbacks as temporary. That's awesome. Great point. Gib, boy, I believe, I believe in this wholeheartedly. Gib, according to one poll data, now we should be forgetting comfort food and dial in on comfort TV. It's really what we need to calm our stress and anxiety. Wow. So when people are turning on for comfort these days, the most popular genre is drama, including historical movies or shows and crime and medical dramas, and you're watching this new thing, pit, right? Yes, which is, everybody is talking about this. It's so it's like, er, plus, right? It's like, er, but they show you the, like, graphic wound shots. You know what? I mean? It's because there's because it's on cable, it's not on network TV, so they can show whatever they want, right? So it's much more raw and in your face, but people are now they're binge watching Grey's Anatomy, old episodes and law and order, SVU. So here's why those old procedurals are so popular. They are always wrapped up within the context of the episode, right? So old law and order, old Grey's Anatomy, those episodes are going to be resolved by the end of the episode. This is like they were designed for the pre DVR, pre streaming age. So each episode is standalone, and that is incredibly calming and soothing. When you see plot tension get resolved within the course of a single episode, that is going to relax you, believe it or not, no matter how high energy the whole show is, as long as it gets resolved, your brain will be able to settle down. How interesting is it that that will cure stress and anxiety? Exactly. Okay, imagine all of your stress and anxiety being resolved in 40 minutes with a with a nice little quip at the end. Amen. Well, now we know it's the we have the secret to workplace happiness. Listen to this. You just remember what you love about your job. According to a study by the University of Alberta, they found that encouraging employees to simply rethink their jobs was enough to drop absenteeism by 60% and turnover by 75% it really, it's gratefulness, isn't it? It's, it's gratefulness. And by the way, this applies to every aspect of your life. If you are frustrated in your relationship, and everything that your partner is doing is bothering you, if you're if you're not feeling good about yourself, go through all of the things that you like about yourself, all of the things that you like about your partner that make you the happiest, all of the things about your day that make you feel the best, that that gratefulness mindset. You apply it to your job too, but you can apply it everywhere. When you embrace what makes you happy and you remind yourself that there are things in your life that are good, you will start to see more good in your life, and you will gravitate towards the things that make you the happiest. Amen, the secret to workplace happiness, and that's whether you're in a building or in your own home. Exactly remember, focus on what you love about your job. Gib, I was watching a piece on YouTube from Dr Peter, Peter Attia, the longevity expert, talking about, like the number one thing that predicts longevity is as your VO, two Max, the healthiness of your of your lungs. And now there are several studies saying that the best way to beef up the health of your lungs, according to the Framingham study, a seven year, 70 year study, is simply to sing like, belt it out, like it can be a choir, or just singing in your car or the shower. Singing really improves your lung function. For most of us, I think we should just be singing in our car or the shower, singing in a place where we're alone, nobody can hear us, and the reverb and the acoustics are fantastic, beautiful. I like that. But this is look. We've talked about all kinds of stuff about, if you have congestion and allergies, you should spend some time humming. If you have a hard time focusing, you should spend some time humming. If you are have to deal with asthma, you should train yourself to sing because it increases your lung capacity. It also increases your breath control. You have to breathe more deeply and then exhale more slowly, which, by the way, is all that breathing and meditation exercises do and. Singing, just sets it to music. So if you are continuously Breathing, relaxing your soft palate, relaxing your throat, all of that is going to boost the oxygen your blood and all kinds of health indicators are going to go up. I love it, all right, folks, here we go with how not to destroy your laundry. I just destroyed one of my favorite shirts. So you know how the you know how the laundry tags and clothing have all those hieroglyphics? Yes, historians are still trying to figure out what they mean. The symbols that have no idea we have no idea what they mean. What you do is you take a picture of the tag with the symbols. Then, if you have an iPhone, you tap the little I for information. The words laundry care will come up and give you a breakdown of what all those symbols mean, and you never have to tumble dry something that should be aligned right again, or your pants won't be up to your knees. If you have an Android, you download the laundry lens app from the Google Play Store, laundry lens, and it gives you a rundown of the simplest too. Wow. I wish I known this before I shrunk everything. Look this is, this is the best possible use of AI. I don't need to see, I don't need to see all kinds of crazy images of politicians and what they would look like if they were an animal, and which celebrities would look like if they were actually babies. But while also on the show The Office, I don't need that stuff. What this you should it's on the internet. Don't, don't look it anyway. The point is, this is a great use for AI. You use the camera. It reads the hieroglyphics for you and it interprets them. I need this. I need this. And I need because I never learned this, and I didn't learn what the little glyphs mean when you're in the dictionary for each of the pronunciations. Oh, wow. So I want the upside down E. I want my iPhone to tell me that, and I want the iPhone to tell me about what the no ironing symbol means. I need to know all of it, okay, if you missed this, if you missed the laundry thing, just email me. John at Tech comm is John at touch com? Alrighty. We're going to talk about the the windmill effect. The University of Miami. Scientists say just making like a windmill. Start by swinging your arms from side to side. Gib doing it now and then windmill them in large circles and try not to hit the microphone. The scientists say doing this for just 15 to 20 seconds can increase your energy for an hour. It's the windmill exercise contracting and relaxing shoulder muscles releases the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, which reduces fatigue. So go windmill. Okay. First of all, Al, I just hit my hand. Second of all, make sure you have enough space to do this, as I just discovered, I do not. And thirdly, this is basically my warm up before I do a shoulder my shoulder workout is just whip my arms around for 10 to 15 seconds. But it's great. It's I like this. You're generating energy. Swing your arms from side to side. Go ahead and then, when? Then windmill them in large circles. Yeah, the scientists say doing that for 15 or 20 seconds every day, will increase your energy for a full hour. Do this. Do this in private. Do this in private. Don't do just standing up at your desk, hitting your co workers. You know, if you're if you're a server, you knocking stuff over on tables. If you have one of those standard poodles, watch out, because those things run really high. I don't know. I just think about it. Knock the poodle out. Big Dog. Sorry, Leroy, you're bull mastiff in the head. Boy, I know this to be true. Gib scent is is such a powerful motivator. And now there's more more intel about fragrance. So you know, you of course, you know everybody knows the stores pipe in pleasing aromas. But now we know latest research says that the right scent can increase sales by as much as 50% I mean, I can think of two stores that this worked on this worked on me, right? One was Abercrombie and Fitch in the 90s, It just smelled like, it smelled like a house party, right? And I was like, Oh, I gotta have all the cool clothes smell like a bunch of 19 year olds together. Yeah? I was like 15 when I was into it, but, yeah, it just it smelled fantastic. So I got into that. And then Cinnabon, yeah, by the way. Now tell, tell the folks about, about that smell. So not only does it, are they baking cinnamon rolls so that they smell fantastic, but they also have artificial cinnamon roll scent, so that even when they're not fully ready, you're getting the smell, and it sucks you in. And you know where it gets us the most when we're traveling on the road, doing shows, and we're at an airport, and you walk past the cinema, Cinnabon place, and the next thing you know, you spent $700 on an airport cinnamon roll. They have a machine too. Oh yeah, the aroma machine. Yeah, yeah. It pumps it out. It's artificial, but you can use this to your advantage, right? So vanilla, chocolate and cinnamon are the most powerful aromas, and they will put you in a positive mood, but unfortunately, it's a positive mood that's conducive to spending just so you know, okay, so turn off the online shopping and light the cinnamon vanilla candle. There it is. That's it for the show today. Guys, thank you so much for listening. If you like the show, please rate comment and subscribe on Apple podcast. Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts. It helps us out a lot when you do that. 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