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Podcast Resources

• Takotsubo cardiomyopathy update-2024
• Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy-NCBI Bookshelf-May 2023
• Takotsubo Syndrome Review-2022
• Takotsubo Syndrome-Clinical implications-2022
• Takotsubo syndrome pathophysiology-2021

Reference Paper: Laughter Helps Blood Vessels Function Better | ScienceDaily

• Laughter and functional disability -2021
• Benefits of laughter-2018
• Gelototherapy

Reference Papers:

• Increased sedentary behavior is associated with neurodegeneration-Mar 2025
• Sitting damages muscles-2025
• Sitting increases breast cancer-2025
• Systematic review of sedentary behaviour and dementia-2025
• Varicose veins and dementia-2025
• Sedentary time and intense PA-2024
• Sedentary behaviour and incident dementia-2023
• Standing desks and CVD-2021
• Breaking up prolonged sitting-2021
• Sitting increases BP-June 2020
• Sitting reduces temporal lobe-2018
• Two different sitting break scenarios-2016

• Sugar increases AD-2024
• Sugary beverages increase dementia-2023
• Impact of fructose on brain function-2021
• SSBs cause fatty liver-2019
• Soft drinks cause hyperuricaemia-2018
• SSBs and cancer-2018
• Sugary beverages and preclinical AD-2017
• Soft drinks and erectile dysfunction-2011
• SSBs and CVD in women-2009
• High glycemic diet is associated with amyloid

• Vascular and blood-brain barrier-related changes underlie stress responses-2022
• Social regulation of pain-2018
• Loneliness predicts cold symptoms-2017
• Social stress induces neurovascular pathology-2017
• Social relationships and mortality risk-2010
• Social support and the perception of geographical slant-2008

Reference Papers:

• Emotion suppression and stress-2024
• Training positive rumination-2020
• Expressive writing health benefits
• Expressive writing tips and resources
• Expressive writing, emotional upheavals and health
• Five-Day Expressive Writing Blueprint
• Therapeutic journaling
• Writing therapy-A new tool for GPs

References Papers:

• Air purifiers reduce BP-2025
• Bioaccumulation of microplastics in the brain-Dec 2024
• HEPA Air filter reduces BP-2024
• MNPs and human health-2024
• Water filters-2023
• MNPs and Human Health-2022
• Microplastics contribute to antibiotic resistance-2021
• Air filters improve respiratory diseases

Reference Papers:

• Gratitude and mortality-2024
• Gratitude in coping with uncertainty-2024
• Gratitude and back pain-2023
• Gratitude interventions systemic review-2023
• Sleep onset is a creative sweet spot-2021
• Effects of gratitude after coronary events-2016
• Gratitude journaling and HRV-2016
• Gratitude in heart failure-2015
• The Gratitude Questionnaire

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Reference Papers:

• Saunas extend lifespan-2024
• Finnish Saunas Mayo Clinic Review-2023
• Combining exercise with sauna-2022
• Heat Shock Proteins-May 2022
• Heat therapy mechanisms-2021
• Do saunas protect against dementia-2020
• Cardiovascular benefits of saunas-2018
• Heat shock proteins and Alzheimer’s-2018
• Effects of heat and cold-2017
• Association between saunas and all cause mortality-2015
• Saunas-Investigating Health Benefits

Reference Paper: Hypertension misdiagnosed due to position of patient-Nov 2023

Reference Papers:

Recent advances in prebiotics-2025
Gut microbiome and mental health-2022
Akkermansia supplement-2019
Prebiotics-2019
Probiotics and antibiotics-2018
Prenatal stress is bad for boys-2008

Reference Papers:

Birdwatching boosts brain function-2026
Benefits of strength training post menopause-1994
High-Intensity Strength Training in Nonagenarians-1990

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Reference Papers:

Exercise and appetite-2023
Counterclockwise study-2019
Effects of attitude to ageing-2017
Association Between Positive Age Stereotypes and Recovery-2012
Age Stereotypes predict CVD-2009
Aging Free from Negative Stereotypes in Chinese and Deaf-1994

Reference Papers:

Components of the placebo effect in IBS-2008
Practitioner influences on the placebo effect in IBS-2009
Placebos without deception in IBS-2010
Nocebo effects of finasteride-2011
Analgesia with open label placebo-2015
Placebo in surgical research-2016
PNEI basis of placebos-2022
Role of expectations in DBS for Parkinson’s