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got caught. According to the New York Post, gun ownership has soared among Republican women but it's declined among Democrat men. So there are fewer Democrat men with guns, and there are more Republican women with guns than there were recently. I'm surprised by that. I actually thought everybody would have more guns, but apparently the men have decided they don't need them, but the Republican wome…
← Previous segment →ent. I think everybody would agree with that. But if you're distracted, and maybe I'm just speaking for myself, it's because there's something you're looking for that you need that you don't have. Now that's my take. This is not agreeing with any scientists or anything. I have no idea what the scientists say. But my take, whenever I'm distracted, is not so much that there's just too much in my head. It's that I'm aware that there's something I need that I don't have, and I'm looking for it, but I don't know what it is. So I don't know if I have it yet, so I'm just sort of looking all the time.
But what I've discovered is, and I told you this before, that if I get a good exercise and it fulfills my, I don't know, my body's chemical needs, then my brain is fine. Then my brain calms down. So are you surprised that a massage, which would have similar benefits to getting some good exercise, would also calm the brain? It should. But I would also add this second thing. In my own experience, that when I've got a good dose of oxytocin, which you can only get from physical contact with other humans, that I don't need much else. So if you give me oxytocin, I'm not immediately thinking about working harder or exercising or solving a problem. I actually have everything I want. I just sit there thinking, oh, it's a good day. I've got everything I want. Glass of water. It's all I need.
So what I'm wondering is, did the massage therapy give the youngsters so
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me oxytocin, that feel-good "I've got everything I need" chemistry? And that's all it was. So that's my hypothesis, is that it wasn't the physical manipulation or the relaxing, although that should have helped because it pretty much helps with everything. So if it didn't help, I'd be surprised. But maybe the bigger thing is that people don't have enough oxytocin. So here's what I would study to f…
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