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Speaker 1: Oh hello, thank you for joining us today on this

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Speaker 1: Body and Soul podcast. Hope you are having a healthysh day. Yes,

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Speaker 1: of course, this is the name of the podcast. I

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Speaker 1: am Felicity Hallie and joining me in the hot seat

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Speaker 1: is our digital editor Holly Berkleman. Straight off the plane

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Speaker 1: from Europe and we are talking about the three hottest

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Speaker 1: topics in the healthy Honess world this week. Holly, welcome back.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me for this.

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Speaker 1: Who are you from your big European jawnt?

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. It was good. Guys take holidays. Don't

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Speaker 2: know if you're doing that. I wasn't really good idea

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Speaker 2: to take holidays.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, love important.

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Speaker 2: Still great everyone, if you can get over there and

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Speaker 2: do it.

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Speaker 1: He's always great.

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Speaker 2: It's beautiful and colder than I expected, though I went

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Speaker 2: in thinking I was having Eurosummer. I was like, it's

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Speaker 2: actually September.

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Speaker 1: Yeah it does. Actually I have done Europe in well October,

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Speaker 1: and you are in jumpers and jeans.

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Speaker 2: Yes, but yeah, god, it was so beautiful. I loved it.

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Speaker 2: And congratulations on your half marathon.

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Speaker 1: I did it, Thank you. I finished. It was amazing, momentous.

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Speaker 2: How did it feel running into the MCG.

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Speaker 1: Did you. I was tearing up. I was tearing up

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Speaker 1: because it was the MCG and my family were there

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Speaker 1: and I did it and I was just so overwhelmed.

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Speaker 2: And it was your thing. Yeah, it's amazing congression.

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Speaker 1: Anyone can do it. Anyone can run half a marathon.

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Speaker 1: I'm definitely not doing a marathon.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I just think the things that marathons do

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Speaker 2: to a person's body.

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Speaker 1: It scares me. Yeah, yeah, I know. And Ned Brockman,

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Speaker 1: Oh my finishing man, he's momentous. Run.

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Speaker 2: I hope he's got a six month like rolling subscription

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Speaker 2: to a physio and a doctor or something.

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Speaker 1: Because he needs a lifelong one. Yeah he will, but amazing,

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Speaker 1: what a guy.

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Speaker 2: It's incredible.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, share with us what's happening in the body and

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Speaker 1: soul world this week.

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Speaker 2: So my favorite story of the week was Could Your

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Speaker 2: Name Determine how You look and behave? It's a hilarious piece.

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Speaker 2: It was written by Ebanie Lee, and she's looked at

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Speaker 2: it through the lens of the people she dates and

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Speaker 2: why she keeps dating people called Oh that's fantasy, Jake, Jack,

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Speaker 2: Jordan and the j names and whether their names have

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Speaker 2: an impact on how they look, so whether she's attracted

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Speaker 2: to them and how they behave.

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Speaker 1: It's a hilarious with a name.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I have an ex boyfriend with a j name,

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Speaker 2: so look out for your son. So the story was

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Speaker 2: based on this study out of Princeton which looked at

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Speaker 2: whether your name can shape your facial appearance, and long

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Speaker 2: story short, the answer is yes, and it's called the

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Speaker 2: face name effect, and it's the idea that a person's

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Speaker 2: face gradually changes as they age to reflect their given name.

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Speaker 1: Crazy.

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Speaker 2: Do you think you look like a Felicity? I think

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Speaker 2: you do.

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Speaker 1: I do. And you know my name actually means happiness,

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Speaker 1: so it's nice I feel with the dimples you So

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Speaker 1: those of you haven't actually seen my face. I have dimples,

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Speaker 1: gorgeous dimples. I have dogs too, like happy line ring

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Speaker 1: calls as I call them.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I have a happy face for sure.

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Speaker 1: What about you?

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Speaker 2: I think I look like a Holly?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I think so.

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Speaker 1: Actually love the name Holly.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. My mom was desperate to have a daughter

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Speaker 2: called Holly, and so I was born and she was not.

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Speaker 2: There was no negotiations. She said to my dad. She

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Speaker 2: was like, no, this girl's called Holly like you don't

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Speaker 2: get to say here, okay anyway, carry on, We digress.

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Speaker 2: So their study suggests that stereotypes carrying social meetings and

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Speaker 2: expectations can influence how a person behaves, which eventually enables

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Speaker 2: a shared representation regarding what the right name most likely

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Speaker 2: is for a specific face, which sounds a bit convoluted.

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Speaker 2: So the author said that as years go by, people

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Speaker 2: internalize the characteristics and expectations associated with their name and

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Speaker 2: embrace them consciously or subconsciously in their identity and choices,

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Speaker 2: which is crazy, I think. I think it's mental anyway.

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Speaker 2: So facial experience expperience may be affected by this process directly,

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Speaker 2: so when a person chooses specific features according to these expectations,

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Speaker 2: so hair styles, glasses, make up, or indirectly through other

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Speaker 2: behaviors like facial appearance and expressions. And the scientists asked

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Speaker 2: their respondence in the study to match people's faces with

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Speaker 2: their names, and they were right twenty eight percent of

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Speaker 2: the time, which is significantly above chance. So it is

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Speaker 2: it is proven.

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Speaker 1: So back to the J name. What did she find?

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Speaker 1: What was her conclusion?

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Speaker 2: Well, her conclusion is that there's got to be something

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Speaker 2: about these J names. It's impacting how they look and

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Speaker 2: why she's attracted to interesting. It's crazy. So when you're

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Speaker 2: naming your kid, please know that your choice will actually

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Speaker 2: impact their appearance. And with great power comes great responsibility.

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Speaker 1: So now I'm questioning the names of my kids. Well,

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Speaker 1: I will wait and watch yours when you Yeah, hopefully,

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Speaker 1: let's see. Yeah, it's crazy. I like that one. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for sharing that one. Now I wanted to share another study.

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Speaker 1: It was a bit different and I found it really interesting.

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Speaker 1: It popped into my inbox this week. The study was

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Speaker 1: only done on one person, and I know, Shoko, everyone

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Speaker 1: who is perhaps is a scientist or a researcher knows

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Speaker 1: that a one person study not reliable, reliable, but the

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Speaker 1: depth of this one is quite extraordinary. So researchers from

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Speaker 1: two Finnish universities tracked one person's brain and behavioral activity

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Speaker 1: for five months using brain scans and data from wearable

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Speaker 1: devices and smartphones. So normally you get ten thousand people

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Speaker 1: to track a certain something over a certain period of time,

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Speaker 1: but for five months, this one subject had very detailed

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Speaker 1: monitoring of their habits and the brain activity. So basically

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Speaker 1: they tracked brain changes in real time. Now, crazy, it's crazy,

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Speaker 1: so it's really really detailed. Now. There are a number

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Speaker 1: of findings, but I just share the one that I

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Speaker 1: found most interesting. That the everyday effects of sleep, exercise,

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Speaker 1: heart rate, and mood, both good and bad, can linger

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Speaker 1: in our brains for over two weeks.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: Initially we thought maybe forty eight hours for exercise in

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Speaker 1: doorphin height, which is also true. But this found that

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Speaker 1: no how you sleep tonight, whether it's bad or good,

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Speaker 1: can still show up two weeks later.

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Speaker 2: Wow. This makes sense for why I'm still kind of

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Speaker 2: feeling the hangover that I have from London from weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: Potentially poor sleep, poor nutrition choices exactly.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they looked at the brains over arrestless nights,

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Speaker 1: sleep how can affect brain activity. They looked at heart

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Speaker 1: rate variability over five months, and how this can be

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Speaker 1: a measure of how well you bounce back from stress,

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Speaker 1: how you deal with stress, like all sorts of things anyway,

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Speaker 1: very interesting study only on one person. I'd like to

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Speaker 1: see more people. Yeah, but more of this, please, more

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Speaker 1: of I like what I'm hearing now. Just quickly before

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Speaker 1: we go, give us a quick rundown of the most

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Speaker 1: click story of the.

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Speaker 2: Week top sorry for the week was these eight simple

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Speaker 2: habits are essential to slow aging study fines. So we've

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Speaker 2: spoken about what a hot topic longevity is these days,

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Speaker 2: so it's not surprising that this one is clocking up

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Speaker 2: some serious clicks. And according to new research, the pathway

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Speaker 2: towards better health and a longer life can be summed

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Speaker 2: up by just eight very simple habits. This was based

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Speaker 2: on cardiovascular scores determined by physical activity, dietary intake, sleep

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Speaker 2: quality per night, and smoking status. So just four of

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Speaker 2: those habits are eating healthy diet, prioritizing physical activity, quitting smoking,

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Speaker 2: and prioritizing sleep. And there are four more which you

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Speaker 2: can find in the full story.

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Speaker 1: Oh I like it.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, not surprising, not surprising at all. I think

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Speaker 2: it's just like reiterating what we already know is that

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Speaker 2: you can try all these crazy different things, but at

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Speaker 2: the end of the day, it comes back to what

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Speaker 2: we know it contributes.

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Speaker 1: To a healthy life. We always need a good reminder. Holly,

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Speaker 1: good luck with the jet lag.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, bye, And.

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Speaker 1: Of course I will leave a link to all those

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Speaker 1: studies and stories in the show notes. And if you

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Speaker 1: have any ideas for things that we can talk about

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Speaker 1: on our Friday air. Please dm me at Felicity Howley

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Speaker 1: Sunday paper. Thanks again for joining us, and of course

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Speaker 1: stay healthy ish