Back to episode — Episode 2525 CWSA 07/03/24
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ight have fudged it a little bit to make it sound a little better to the public. What do you think? I don't know. I'm just saying I'd bet against it. I'd bet against it being real. Well, let's play could have asked Scott and saved a bunch of money in science. Turns out there's a new study. Amazingly, you won't believe this, but less than two minutes of looking at water outdoors, such as a lake or…
← Previous segment →s, I feel like we're in the age of Biden's brain where science can tell us things that we all knew forever and then we're supposed to act surprised. No, we knew Biden was gone, okay? We knew going to the beach is relaxing and we knew that relaxing is good for all those things like high blood pressure and such. Yeah, we knew that. Could have asked me. Save a little money.
The University of Cambridge has a hypothesis that has some data behind it that oxytocin could be a possible treatment for obesity and postnatal depression. So let me see if I understand this right. So the drug or the, let's say the chemical, the chemical that you have in your body that sometimes you don't have enough of is the thing that makes you feel like you've got what you need and you don't need anything else. That if you don't have enough of that, you're going to need like something else to make you happy. Well, okay.
You may have heard me talk about this for the last 20 years. I call it my pleasure unit hypothesis, that a human needs a certain minimum amount of pleasure. And if they don't get it, oh, they're going to do something to get it. They'll break a law. They'll do illegal drugs. They'll do risky behavior. They'll have sex without protection. Because humans absolutely need some minimum amount of pleasure or else they'll just end their lives. It's like, what's the point of being here?
So oxytocin certainly seems like it would be an obvious treatment for obesity and postnatal depression because depression is because you don't have enough of the right drugs. So if you give you the right chemicals, it seems like a goo
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d guess that that would make you feel better. And obesity, if you have the drug that makes you feel like you're connected and good and everything is fine, do you need to eat as much? Well, you might love to eat, but you're not going to do it for emotional reasons because your emotional reasons will be solved by a chemical. So I would say that's in the should have asked Scott category. Yes, if oxy…
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