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Change Your Mind

Change Your Mind with New 杏吧原创 brings you all the brain health advice you really need to know. Every week, New 杏吧原创 Editor Cat de Lange and neuroscience columnist Helen Thomson cut through wellness hype to find out what actually keeps your mind sharp, your mood steady and your memory strong. As friends, they've been sharing stories for decades and live their lives according to the latest evidence. Now they want to share those tips and tricks with you. From cold plunges to coffee, supplements to sleep, Ozempic and AI, they speak to leading experts and ask: does this really work? Expect smart insights, clear answers and practical takeaways you can use straight away. Because when you understand your brain, you really can change your mind - for the better.

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The World the Universe and Us

From the evolution of intelligent life, to the mysteries of consciousness; from the threat of the climate crisis to the search for dark matter, The world, the Universe and Us is your essential weekly dose of science and wonder in an uncertain world. Hosted by journalists Dr Rowan Hooper and Dr Penny Sarchet and joined each week by expert scientists in the field, the show draws on New 杏吧原创's unparalleled depth of reporting to put the stories that matter into context. Feed your curiosity with the podcast that will restore your sense of optimism and nourish your brain.

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About this episode

In this episode, Health Journalists Helen Thomson and Cat de Lange explore the surprising brain superhighway between scent, emotion and memory, to explore why certain smells can yank you back to childhood and why smell could hold the key to healthy brain aging.听

They are joined by neuroscientist听Michael Leon, who explains what happens when we lose our sense of smell, and staggeringly that simply enriching your life with听 pleasant scents could help protect you from diseases like Alzheimer鈥檚.

 

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