IFYL2GO: Doodle Brain; Sleep and Pain

In this episode we discuss:

Childhood Cell Phone Dangers.

REAL Butterflies in the stomach.

REAL Customer Service.

And many more topics.

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Gib. Hello and welcome to another episode of the podcast. I'm Gib Gerard here with another special. If y l to go episode of the show. That's where we take clips of me and John on the radio this week. We chop them up. We pull them out of the show. There's no music, there's no there's no, you know, station identification. It's just, it's just intelligence for your life. We package it up so you can put it in your pocket and take it with you wherever you need to go. Folks, it's IFO to go. Ladies and gentlemen, here's me and John Tesh. John Tesh with Gib. Gerard and Gib, a study from the University of Plymouth in the UK finds it doodling while you're stuck in a boring meeting will actually help you retain key facts. Amazing is so this is that thing where, if you would like to activate systems and know this, if you're taking a if you have a test, you got to study for if you're in school, or even if you know to this point, if you have a meeting where you have to pull a lot of information that you have to retain later, these are the kind of tricks that help you retain that information. And we've talked about smells before. How, if you have, if you study with a certain smell and then bring that smell in with you to the test, that you will, that it'll, it'll help you remember the facts. All of this comes down to the more of your brain you activate while studying and while regurgitating information, the better you are at studying and regurgitating information. So use this if you're doodling. It means you're activating different parts of your brain's core, different cortexes in your brain. You are then able to recall that information more easily in the future. I have a daughter who does this. You see this in schools now a lot they have little doodle pads and these fidget spinners and things to keep kids activated, active listening. It's way more popular now, and the studies show it actually works. You retain information better. Yeah, back in the 1960s we just got smacked. You would have had a ruler across the knuckles. What is a fidget spinner? Get out of here. Tesh always, let's talk for a moment about daily prayer and medicine. Daily prayer can be medicine. It makes you nearly 50% more likely to still be alive six years from now. This is from the University of Miami study published in 2023 they followed nearly 2000 people with chronic illness. What makes this wild is that researchers controlled for exercise, smoking, depression, even social support. The prayer effect held on its own. Look, there are a lot of reasons why this works, but this is there's a reason why prayer and meditation are one of our five key habits that we talk about on the on the coaching call all the time. It's for reasons like this that you are all cause mortality. You are better off if you pray now one thing, it means that you are taking time to be quiet every day. And we know that that works. We know that being quiet and that not being stimulated constantly is actually really good for you, and it's really good for your brain to have those moments. But if you are praying, it probably means you're a part of a faith group, and being a part of any kind of group are centered around faith and regular meetings is actually proven to show, proven that to help you live longer, right? That gives you a sense of purpose, it gives you a sense of community, that makes you live longer. So prayer correlates on both of those things, you're getting quiet and you're probably part of a community, Yeah, beautiful. All right, we are going to connect sleep with pain. We now know that one bad night of sleep cranks up your pain by 120% this is from UC Berkeley. Researchers scanned the brains of healthy adults after eight hours of sleep, and then again, after one sleepless night the somatosensory cortex, the part of your brain that interprets pain, it lit up 120% more. Crazy. Look we when I was growing up, it was, it was a badge of honor to say that you skipped a night's sleep or how late you went to bed because you were studying. And, you know, whatever college program you were in was so competitive that you had to stay up all night, yada yada yada. More and more we learn. We know that sleep is fundamental to your ability to retain information, to handle stress, and now we know it's associated, according to this study, with feelings of inflammation and pain in your body, so you got to get your sleep. And by the way, the older I am, the more even just one hour off from my normal sleep schedule, affects my whole day. It takes me a long time to recover from one bad night's sleep. Now and I am, I am. I don't know that I would consciously tell you I was in pain, but I am in discomfort consistently when I'm really tired. Yeah, sleep deprivation connected to pain. All right, our big mission and purpose in life is to move you forward in your life, but also to keep you alive. And so we now know this is a scary statistic. One in four adults over 65 falls every year. Oh my God. And the right balance moves cut that risk by nearly 25% so Okay, so here are some tips. Number one, and we've tried this on the coaching call. We've done it you stand on one foot near a counter for 30 seconds. It rebuilds the anchor and inner ear signals that fade with age. The key thing there is make sure you're holding on to or you have. The counter to grab right and then the toe to heel walking is really big. Yeah. So look, there's a reason why, why the field sobriety test has both of these exercises in it, right, heel to toe walking. And then, of course, the balancing on one foot, touching your nose. It's just a neurological function test, and what they're looking for is to see if your neurological function has been inhibited by a substance, because that's what matters when you're driving. But guess what? It also happens as we get older. Yeah, exactly. It also happens if we have size 15 feet. So many of your falls, by the way, are not because you can't balance. It's because you have no tendons left in your ankles, and your feet are so huge that if there's something to trip on, you will find it okay. I'm just saying, So practice this stuff. Work on your balance. Make sure that you were stimulating your brain in a way that keeps those, those balance, the balance part of your cortex, about your brain going, because if you, if you don't use it, you lose it, and you got to get after it. I don't need alcohol to inhibit me. Gib, I just want to say that grandma and I are very proud of you and your wife, because it has been more than 14 years that you've held out until you're giving your daughter a cell phone, and that is so far below the average you're not even believe what I'm about to tell you the average age a child asks for, and many times, gets their own cell phone, is around the age of four and a half. That's crazy. It's that is really young. And look, I absolutely understand the temptation of putting screens in front of a kid. It makes so much about adult life easier when you have young children that you know when you have young children on screens, because they don't ask for as much because they're stimulated by the screen. It has been so hard, but I have noticed that the kids in my the other kids in my kid's life who have phones early on, versus the kids that have waited until at least eighth grade or even ninth grade, there is a palpable difference in their eye contact, in their social skills, their ability to hold a conversation. All of that is better. And obviously we, we've reported on this show how the data backs that up. It's because of this show that we've waited so long to give, to give our kids, to give our kids screens, and, I mean, really nervous, but it's, you know, she's, she's earned it. It's time, right? Get this just in I Gosh, I wish you know, I knew a little bit of Swedish when I was an exchange student for like, eight months, but it didn't stick. Now, the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages research has found that those who know a second language are fully 50% more employable. Yeah. I mean, just every business that has to do business between two countries, needs somebody who can speak quickly between the two languages. You can't hire a translator for every interaction across borders. So knowing multiple languages is very, very useful. And nowadays, you know, look, you all, I know that you know how to say in Swedish is, don't lean out the window. That's actually German. Okay, I got that on a train. Who's on the window? The story I know nine Swedish curse words, and that's it. The stories I've heard about your year as an exchange student involve the only language I learned from you was Don't lean out the window in German. I guess point being, we don't have an excuse anymore. You don't need a semester abroad, because, for all of its good or evils, the internet now makes communicating in multiple languages way, way easier. There are online courses you can take all of these online videos you can watch in multiple languages, but then beyond that, you can now find people who speak another language and converse with them for an hour or two hours a day online in that native language, we have the tools now for us to be able to learn other languages. So do yourself that favor. Invest in yourself. It was amazing watching your daughter, when we were in Italy with her use Google Translate to communicate with people. Is crazy. It's very funny. So Gib, I think this is a sign of the times, because we know that a lot of folks are being fired right now. A lot of it has to do with with AI and just the economy in general. So 25% of Uber and Lyft drivers in the United States are now over 50 years old. Yeah. I mean, I think, look, I think you have two things going on there. One is, to your point, you have people who have worked a job, don't really, haven't looked for new jobs in a long time, who are finding themselves unemployed or underemployed, so they have this extra time, and they want to monetize it, and it is a great way to do that. But I also think you're going to get people who are towards the end of their career, they don't have to invest as much time, and they just want a social outlet, a place where they can connect with other people, and Uber and Lyft gets them into touch with with younger people on a consistent basis. So there's a good side to it, as well as probably a sad side. Yeah, so Gib, before we got into studio together, I did a couple of searches, and I now know that the number one most searched health medical question on. Google right this minute is, why does my stomach hurt? Yeah, not a great sign. No. Researchers at University of Pennsylvania discovered a psychological stress alone will trigger real inflammation in your guts, not imaginary pain, actual physical inflammation from stress. Researchers map the exact pathway. It's your vagus nerve, the longest nerve in your body acting like a phone line between your brain and your stomach. And so the researchers found that belly breathing, the kind of breathing you do, actually when you're playing a wind instrument, yep, is the way to calm yourself down. You can also put pressure right underneath your belly button with a knuckle on one of your like a fist, and push the knuckle of your thumb into the into that part to stimulate just pull the belly button to stimulate the vagus nerve. This is why, you know, people literally vomit when they're nervous, right? It's in that Eminem song, you know, you when you're nervous, you start to throw up. It's the same reaction, throw up Mom's spaghetti. Vomit on a sweater, already, Mom's spaghetti. But, yeah, there's a reason why we do that. And this is it. It is. It is not imagined. You actually get nauseous. You get sick when you are stressed out. So if you if you have butterflies in the stomach, is one thing, but then when those butterflies turn into like swimming eels and snakes and all of a sudden, you're really nauseated that now, you know, that's why stimulate the vagus nerve. You get out of it. This. I have my baseball players do this on my little league team. This is what Matthew McConaughey is doing when he's hitting himself in the chest. It's waking up that system and getting you out of your stomach and into your whole body. Boy, Gib, this is so me. We now know from Pew Research that 88% of people say they are more likely to be loyal to a company when it's customer service is staffed by real people, automated chat box. That's what's so wonderful about about a couple of the credit card companies that don't use the bots, like American Express, for example, you're taught you can get through the phone tree. You're talking to a real person. It makes such a huge difference, because, again, you're not thinking about keywords, you're thinking about a person who can actually help you understand and navigate the situation. When you're dealing with a chat bot, you're still navigating their computer system in a way I don't need. I don't know what your ins and outs are. I don't know what the what the error code means. I just want to, I got you sent me the wrong size hat, and I want a new hat. That's it. I just, that's all I want to deal with. And I if you have a real person that will talk to me and get me the right size hat, you got a customer for life. You know, it's really funny is that Amazon and some of these other big companies, you know, if you call them and say and you say, hey, this doesn't, this doesn't fit, or there's a string that pulled out of my shirt, they're just like, I'm gonna return. And they go, they go, no, just keep it. Yeah, because it costs them too much money to retake the item, put it back into their system is more expensive than it is to just send you another item. I guarantee you there are people that into a business. Please don't, I bet you they are. I'm sure, I'm sure free shirts. So Gib, I'm gonna, I'm gonna give you a statistic. I don't have a reason for it, but I bet you do a recent survey of online daters found that men fall in love exactly four times faster than women. I think just more careful. I think women are more careful. I think, I think men are less guarded about falling into love. Women are more guarded about what, how they spend their time and their attention. But men are more guarded about, or are less guarded about, about their hearts when, because we don't expect it. And so when it happens, it is so overwhelming that, you know, think about, I think about your marriage like you can't you knew way sooner than she did, and then you spent a lot of time trying to convince her. I think about the about in mind, it's the same thing, you know, and then it's like, oh gosh, what do I do with this information? And then you got to figure out the rest of your life. It's that great line, When Harry Met Sally, I came here tonight, not because you're consolation prize, because when I realized I want to spend the rest of my life with someone, of my life with someone, I wanted the rest of my life to start as soon as possible. That is how men experience love. 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. 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