Mosquitoes, Grilled Meat & Brain Freeze: Everyday Myths Put to the Test | Myth or Science (1/6)

Can science really help us become fitter, younger, smarter and maybe even more perfect? In this episode of Myth or Science, Dr Jennifer Gardy puts some of the biggest health and human-performance claims to the test. Can exercise reverse aging? Is a few minutes of high-intensity training really as good as a long workout? Can you be fat and fit? Is willpower something you can train like a muscle? And could coffee, cooked food, music, or even sleep change the way our bodies and brains work? From intense lab tests and skin biopsies to MRI scans, DNA analysis, brain challenges, and music therapy after stroke, Jenn dives into the science behind the myths we hear every day. Along the way, she discovers that some “too good to be true” claims are surprisingly real, while others need a little more nuance. ------- Chapters ▷ 00:00 - Intro: Can Science Make Us Better? ▷ 01:27 - Can Exercise Reverse Aging? ▷ 03:47 - The Mice Experiment: Exercise vs. Aging ▷ 05:35 - Skin Biopsy Results: From 70 to 40? ▷ 07:44

Consciousness, the thought realm and the hero's journey — Spirit Science asks what your thoughts actually do once they leave your mind. We have mapped the body and the brain, but never the soul. This is the missing third: measurable thoughts, Emoto's water crystals, the monomyth, and our ruined soil. 📑 CHAPTERS 👉 KEY MOMENTS 👉 1:12 "We have scientifically mapped the mind and the body." 👉 5:39 "Emotions are much more powerful than thoughts. Emotions pull on you." 👉 6:58 "it's through the feeling of being vulnerable that you become vulnerable in the physical" 👉 8:09 "you can literally change everything in your life by willing it so" 👉 9:04 "If thoughts can do that to water, just imagine what thoughts can do to us." 👉 11:30 "It's a style as old as time and no one knows quite where it came from." 👉 22:34 "The best heroes have character, not gender." 👉 25:53 "How can anyone recommend a proper way of eating when 90 plus percent of the food that's available is trash?" 🌀 Welcome to Spirit Science

Heart disease, ADHD, mental health: When it comes to medicine, men and women often need different treatments. Yet general medicine is based on the male body. The risk of dying after a heart attack is twice as high for women as for men. ADHD often goes undiagnosed in girls. For men, mental health issues are still often considered a taboo subject: The suicide rate among men is nearly three times higher than it is among women. Yet in medical education, drug research, and everyday clinical practice, the standard patient is still imagined as male. In Frankfurt am Main, doctors want to change that. Germany’s first university-affiliated Women’s Heart Center was established there. Research and teaching on cardiovascular diseases are focused on women, and personalized therapies and preventive screenings are offered specifically for them. ADHD, on the other hand, often goes undetected in girls—and thus untreated. Author and influencer Angelina Boerger experienced this firsthand. She wasn’t diagnosed until she was 29. More than 150,000 people now follow her accounts of her daily life on her Instagram channel. Through her social media

After years of severe depression, Thomas reaches a breaking point. Following two suicide attempts, he makes a life-changing decision: to take part in an experimental clinical study in which electrodes are implanted deep inside his brain to help regulate his emotions. This episode follows Thomas as he places his hope in one of modern medicine’s most radical frontiers: deep brain stimulation. Originally developed through neurological research, including experiments in mice, this technology offers the possibility of treating mental illness from inside the brain itself. But as scientists learn to influence mood, behaviour, and emotional responses, a disturbing question emerges: where does treatment end and control begin? ------- Chapters ▷ 00:00 - Intro: The Search for Happiness ▷ 00:29 - Treating the Brain With Electricity ▷ 01:18 - Living With Severe Depression ▷ 02:49 - Preparing for Experimental Brain Surgery ▷ 03:18 - How Deep Brain Stimulation Works ▷ 05:38 - Medicine at the Edge of Understanding ▷ 06:29 - Why We Study the Human Brain ▷ 07:52 - Depression and the Loss of Love ▷ 11:22 - Inside the Operating

Burzynski: The Cancer Cure Cover-up is the story of a pioneering medical doctor and PhD biochemist who has discovered a unique and proprietary method of treating most cancers. This documentary takes the audience through the treacherous, yet victorious, near 50-year journey both Dr. Burzynski and his patients have had to endure in order to obtain FDA-approved clinical trials of Antineoplastons. Defying the face of skepticism, legal attacks from state and federal agencies, and a powerful propaganda campaign to stop Burzynski - this doctor and his patients are still going strong. ------- Chapters ▷ 00:00 - Introduction ▷ 03:30 - Polish-born Stanislaw Burzynski finds a cure for cancer ▷ 07:20 - The Texas Medical Board takes Burzynski to court to no avail ▷ 13:34 - The FDA's attempts to stop Burzynski included raiding his clinic, taking him before six grand juries and dissemination of false information ▷ 21:35 - Despite a subcommittee created to intervene in the FDA's harrassment and emotional testimonies of patients, Buryzki was indicted ▷ 28:16 - The FDA conducts clinical trials of antineoplastons and continued with Burzynski's

After several family members developed Alzheimer's disease, Julia Ravey decided to become a neuroscientist and find the cure. Following recent research that suggests a link between the stomach, the brain and mental health, she meets the scientists harnessing the power of what is called "The Microbiome". Julia travels to Australia, where she meets Dr. Barry Marshall, a Nobel-prize winner who infected himself with H. pylori to prove that bacteria could cause ulcers, leading to a breakthrough in the stomach cancer treatment. However, bacteria are not all bad – in the Netherlands, she visits the Micropia Museum, learning that microbes can also be essential to our way of life. Understanding the microbiome as a kind of ecosystem that is part of the human body, scientists are attempting to increase the presence of microbes across the body by intentionally infecting people with more infectious agents. As microbiologists from Rutgers University explain to Julia, increasing microbial diversity in the body boosts its immunity, and helps people fight disease from the inside out. The next stop is UC San Diego, home to The American