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Callie today you'll learn about the surprising prevalence of heart abnormalities in

elite athletes how an oxytocin nasal spray might help with chronic loneliness

and a discovery that could help doctors diagnose

a disease just by looking at your fingernails.

Ooh, interesting.

All right, let's satisfy some curiosity.

You would be hard-pressed to find a study that suggests exercise is actually bad for you.

Time and time again, the benefits of an active lifestyle have been proven enormous.

In fact, it's possible that the more research is done on exercise, the more important it proves to be.

Oh, yeah, totally. We've covered this a ton, and it's not only exercise that's good for you,

the opposite is also true. Not getting any exercise is actually really, really bad

for you. If you work at a desk, like so many of us do, moving for as little as five minutes

every half hour can have enormous impacts on your health.

Yep, if we went over every way that exercise improves your health and well being,

this would probably be the longest podcast segment in history.

So then it's no wonder that sports doctors have been puzzling over the fact that elite

athletes have a significantly higher risk of atrial fibrillation as she's a it's a type of

heart rhythmia. Wait a second you're saying that not only are these people

that get exercise, but they are elite athletes?

What does that signify exactly?

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