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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Gib, hello and welcome to another episode of the podcast. I'm Gib Gerard. Today we have one of my favorite things that we do here on the show, and that is our intelligence to go. That's where we take some stories from this week's radio show, intelligence for your life, and we hand picked them for you for the podcast. So exciting stuff about movie therapy and why your headphones are too loud, all kinds of stuff that you can use. Put it in your pocket, take it with you to make your life a whole lot better. So without further ado, here's me and John Tesh. John tesher, Gib Gerard and researchers from the University of Colorado are now finding that the like we didn't know this already, the volume of teens earbuds and headphones are getting dangerously loud. Oh yeah. The study also found that boys listen louder than girls. Okay, and those who know the risks loud music has on hearing loss actually play their music louder. Wow, I know. Overall, 24% of teenagers listen to audio at levels that put them at risk of permanent hearing loss. You know, back in the day, we would just sort of lay on the floor in front of the speaker, yeah? But it would only get sold out, only be so close to your ears before disturbing the rest of the house. I mean, is every guy buddy gonna be in? There's no cure for hearing loss, hearing aid, right? I mean, people are gonna get hearing aids. I will say there's two things that are that are kind of good. One is, if you wear, if you use, like, I use Apple products, if I have the the air, the air pod in my ear, and I go to the gym, and I am in this group, I like loud music to motivate me at the gym, right? But it'll tell me at a certain point, like, hey, you've exceeded, or you are at the allowable amount of volume in that you've been exposed to. You should? You should turn your your your music down. And I do. I do because I don't want to lose my hearing but, but they warn you, which I like we may want to talk to movie theaters too. I can't go to a movie theater. It's too much. I mean, it's unbelievable. It's too much. It rips your head off. It does. And I think if I'm older and I listened to loud music growing up and my hearings gone, what's happening to the young kids? Yeah, be careful out there, and just make sure you monitor how loud your earbuds are, especially just to show that we report on everything. Gib the people are getting emotionally connected to their Roomba vacuums. A new study from Georgia Tech finds robotic vacuums. Some Roomba owners are forming deep attachments to them, giving them nicknames, talking to them, even treating them like pets. Some owners even dress up their Roombas and rearrange, really, yeah, rearrange their homes to accommodate the robots, cleaning paths. More than half of people refer to the robot as he or she. So, okay, I mean, look, we can't help but people do that with our cars. We do that with all kinds. We personify everything. We add all sorts of layers of human emotion. We do it to our we do it to our goldfish, which, you know, don't even have a prefrontal cortex. So like we do it to all of these animals, we do it to machines all the time, because we don't fully understand them. So we assume there's a certain amount of life to them, and the Roomba app makes you name it so you already give it a name, and then maybe you want to decorate a little bit because you don't want just the little gray thing moving around your house. And the next thing you know, you know, it's kind of personality. So there is a point to the study. Apparently, the researchers think if people can become attached to a robot vacuum, it paves the way for greater public acceptance of domestic robots. Remember Rosie robot? The Jetsons, yeah, Mr. Jetson, look, we are headed there. We just, you just accept it. We're headed there. We just got to figure out how we interact with with our new AI, you know, companions. It's gonna get weird, yeah. All right. Gib, this just in for my health and wellness files. If you have aches and pains, experts say, watch an old movie you love could be anything from When Harry Met Sally et or usually it should be a positive movie, although gladiator solved by angst and pain, it really does, but it's the same concept. A study in the Journal of Neuroscience found that nostalgic entertainment reduces brain activity in the areas that perceive pain, so you get powerful, drug free pain relief. By the time the movie is done, we saw this during COVID. So many people watching friends and Seinfeld. Friends Seinfeld the office, right? Watching old shows. You know where they go. There's a reason why we call it comfort viewing, right? Because we find it comforting. And by the way, if you're emotionally comforted, you are going to be more physically comfortable. And if you are emotionally in disarray, you're gonna have more physical inflammation. It's just the way that our bodies work. So of course, comfort yourself emotionally with the shows and movies that we're comforting in your youth. And guess what? You will have fewer aches and pains again. If you have aches and pains, watch an old movie or TV show that you love. All right. Gib this just in the Tiktok is, no, I didn't mean to say the tick tock, tick tock, tick tock is no longer the most downloaded app of the year. The new favorite is chat, G, P, T, course, the artificial intelligence it's the most downloaded app right now. I mean, yeah, I think people have kind of gotten sour on on social media, and they are way more into talking. To AI. Now you don't need to to get 100 likes on your photo to feel validation. You can just ask AI to validate how you're feeling. People are using it for all kinds of stuff. Now, for better or for worse, that's what's happening. So of course, chat GBT is the most downloaded. People use it to email their boss. In fact, there's a whole subreddit of people who forget to remove the the other parts of the conversation with AI, and they copy and paste the whole conversation into their email like, you know, sorry about your loss of your grandfather. And they like, they it's the they take the body that they got AI to write, but then they put all of the back and forth with the AI to get there into the email because they weren't paying attention. Are you happy with my response? It's all in there. Oh my gosh. All right, once and for all again, from our health and wellness files, one wellness files, what ages us the most well a study we know because we're always talking about it on our coaching calls on Tuesdays and Thursdays, a study tracked nearly 5000 adults for 20 years and found these four common habits combined will age you by 12 years. I saw this happen to my dad, smoking, check drinking, check too much inactivity and a poor diet. Check all four of those. I mean, look, what you're talking about is inflammation, inflammation, inflammation and inflammation. Exercise is Medicine. You got to be exercising. You've got to be eating healthy, whole foods. And obviously, we've known for, you know, decades now, that smoking and drinking is bad for you, that there are all kinds of issues with not only with the oxidative stress of the smoke itself, but also with just the addiction and what that does to your neurons. So obviously those are, those are the four horsemen of your metabolic apocalypse. Yeah, and Peter Attia, who we have all the time on our shows, talks about how vo two Max is definitely a predictor, which basically means cardiovascular health. Good luck with that. If you've been smoking a pack a day, yeah, thanks. Gib, you're welcome. Gib, this is not true for me, but in North America, one out of four dads say they are better at handling birds and the bees talk than the than the moms. I am really bad at this. I mean, look, it's uncomfortable, but the reality is, we need to be the ones that teach our kids about it, right? Like you, they can't hear it's all over the internet. It's all over their peers are going to get it. Everybody now has the older brother, brother that tells too much information to the younger kid. And it's called the Internet, and it's in everybody's home. So whether you are the the dad or the mom, you got to start having the conversation. And look, I I think, I think both parents should be having the conversation from both, from both perspectives, with all of the kids. Maybe, you know, maybe mom does the initial one with the girls, dad does the initial one 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 of development, and the more we hide it away and shied away, the more predators are able to leverage that. Yeah. I remember the deep conversation I had with Prima when she was when she was younger. I just why. I said, Hey, preem, come here. I got to talk to you. She goes, yeah, yeah, that what is I said, Are you good with the birds and bee stuff? Do we need anything? Didn't need to do anything that is so old school. This is an old school way of doing it. You get it right. All right. Go back to my bar. So Gib Gerard, when you think of somebody falling in their home and injuring themselves, you probably think of me. No, you probably envisioned a senior citizen. Yeah, well, younger adults are now as likely to be trip and fall victims. And I'll give you one guess. Why? Yes, smartphones, of course, we're also busy looking down on our phones that we're falling down the stairs, tripping over the cat and slipping on throw rugs. In fact, over half of all walking and talking smartphone accidents happen at home. This is from the University of Maryland study in one out of every five of the at home cell phone related falls, a person ends up with a concussion. All kinds of data from emergency rooms. Kids are more likely to fall at the playground because their parents are on the phone. People are more likely to walk into traffic and get hit by a car because they're on their phone. If you want to have fun, you can go and find videos of people falling into mall fountains because they're staring at their phone or running into into signs. The reality is, our brain can't handle multitasking. You cannot walk and be aware of your surroundings and look at your phone at the same time. What ends up happening is your brain goes back and forth between looking up and looking at your phone, and it is fully engaged in both of those tasks for microseconds, back and forth. You're actually not multitasking, and because of that, you do neither thing well, and you end up running into something. If you have an emergency 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 the pool, do not look at your phone. Oh yeah. This happens all the time. 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 dehydration has been shown to trigger twice as many mistakes behind the wheel, like drifting out of your lane or breaking late. Is about the same number of mistakes made by people over the legal limit for alcohol dehydration. Yeah, sports and exercise researchers at the UK Loughborough University found that being dehydrated impairs mental function, reduces concentration, alertness and your short term memory. You and I are both Eagle Scouts, and one of the things that they. Drill into you when you were a boy scout on and you're camping, is to monitor your hydration. It's like it's one of the most fundamental things, because your cognitive ability drops off so quickly that you can, you can you wander around and you get basically the equivalent of being drunk because you are low on on water. Absolutely all of your body's molecular functions require water, and it begins to prioritize certain things. When the water levels are low, you've got to stay hydrated. And it is, I mean, there's a reason why everybody has those Stanley mugs on their on their desk. Now you need it all the time. I was so surprised to read that that by the time you experience the feeling of thirst, you're already dehydrated, already Exactly, yeah, so you got to get ahead of it. Gib, you know, I love doing this. If you need to de stress, you just look at water, oh, yeah, or look at a photo of your favorite watery location. It could be a lake, a stream, the ocean or a waterfall. And we've had Dr Wallace on the show before. Cognitive scientist, Dr Wallace Nichols, wrote blue mind, great book about how water impacts our psychological well being. He says, when we look at water, the reward centers of our brain light up and release feel good chemicals, especially if you feel an emotional connection to the location, like the bay where you swam every summer as a kid, or your favorite fishing spot, again, that book is blue minds. I mean, there's a reason for that, right? We need water to live. We need it. And if you look at 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 the water. So more likely than not, you live near water right now, and most of the world's population lives on some sort of body of water. For this reason, we need it. It It relaxes us. It's calming. Use this to your advantage. It even works when I talk to Dr Nichols for one of our interviews. It works in the bathtub. If you have no other place to go, if you're in Tucson and there's no pool, just get in the bathtub. You can have some of the same relaxation effects of 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 event, on the first date or at a party, if you're not sure how to connect with someone you've just met, networking expert Robbie Samuel suggests you pay them a compliment about any accessories they may be wearing. Oh, yeah, you gotta be a little careful with this Gib it could be a jacket, some sunglasses, jewelry or anything you could consider peripheral gear. Yes. Samuel says this kind of compliment acknowledges a choice that they made or something they can control, right? It was a conscious decision 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 a watch or a piece of jewelry or, you know, like a hat or even shoes, those kinds of things that that cannot be perceived as being inappropriate. So it's on the periphery of the body, but also are associated with an active choice. People love to hear the good things about themselves. You will never, you will never not make a good impression. You always make a good impression if you are positive about the other person that we just that. We just love it. We can't get enough of it. If you hear our name repeated over and over again and hear all the good things about us, gonna be like, I like that guy. Of course you like that guy. He told you had nice bangles, bangles, bangles and bobbles. I got it now. That's it for the show today. Thank you guys so much for listening. If you like the show, please rate, comment and subscribe on Apple podcast. Spotify, wherever you get your podcast. It helps us out a lot. When you do that, we also try to respond to every mention the show, every DM about the show. You can tell us what you think about it, because ultimately, we do the show for you guys. So thank you so much for listening. You.