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Curiosity Weekly

Elite Athlete Hearts, Oxytocin & Loneliness, Nail Diagnosis

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Self-improvement, Science, Astronomy, Education

4.6935 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

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.  

 

Elite Athlete Hearts   

 

 

Oxytocin & Loneliness  

 

 

Nail Diagnosis 

 

  • “Benign nail condition linked to rare syndrome that greatly increases cancer risk.” NIH. 2024.  
  • “Long Term Follow-up of Mesothelioma Patients and Their Family Members With Germline Mutations in BAP1 and Other Genes.” Study. 2024.  


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0:00.0

Hi guys my name is Nate and you are listening to Curiosity Daily from Discovery the best place to get smarter in just a few minutes.

0:10.0

Oh my gosh you guys we are so excited to have you here with us today my name is

0:13.2

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

0:17.2

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

0:22.4

and a discovery that could help doctors diagnose

0:25.1

a disease just by looking at your fingernails.

0:27.7

Ooh, interesting.

0:28.8

All right, let's satisfy some curiosity.

0:31.3

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

0:36.0

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

0:40.0

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

0:45.0

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

0:50.0

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

0:54.8

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

0:59.8

every half hour can have enormous impacts on your health.

1:02.1

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

1:06.8

this would probably be the longest podcast segment in history.

1:10.8

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

1:14.9

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

1:20.6

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

1:25.2

that get exercise, but they are elite athletes?

1:28.6

What does that signify exactly?

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