Back to episode — Episode 2930 CWSA 08/17/25
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eous sip. And it happens right now. Go. Oh yeah. Oh, that was good. That was real good. Well, I wonder if there are any scientific studies about coffee being good for you. Oh, here's another one. Fast Company is reporting that researchers at Tufts University found out that drinking black coffee is really good for your health. But if you add sugar—and well, mostly sugar probably—but sugar and mi…
← Previous segment →eople who go to Starbucks are there for the sugar? Doesn't it seem like that? I don't feel like they sell a lot of black coffee. No, that's all I get there. You know, the only kind of beverage I get there is black coffee for the health benefits.
Did you know, according to the University of Texas at Austin, they found out that if you're a senior citizen and you're helping other people, your cognitive decline is slower? In other words, the act of helping others and being useful and donating your time to somebody else's benefit makes your brain operate better.
Now, I have a theory of evolution—sort of evolution, I guess—that I've always had, and I have no scientific backing for it whatsoever. So feel free to mock me for my terrible idea. But the idea is this: that your body will respond to what your brain thinks it needs. Let me say that again. I believe that in your individual life—you know, not just evolution over time, but in your immediate life—that your body will conform to what your brain believes you need most.
So if I thought you were in a dangerous place where you needed muscles, I believe that you would grow muscles faster. You'd still have to exercise, obviously, but then you would grow muscles faster if you had in your
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mind some objective like being in a contest. Even if you did the same amount of exercise, if somebody else was imagining nothing particular about their health but the other one was imagining themselves in a contest and it really mattered to their life, that the fact that it really mattered would cause their body to just sort of chemically adapt and do it kind of quickly. So this part about helpin…
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