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Interview: Good Anxiety, Exercise, and Connection on the Brain with Wendy Suzuki
Neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki hopes you have good anxiety. She joins Hakeem to explore how anxiety evolved to help us, exercise’s brain benefits, and what oxytocin, prairie voles, and a century of Harvard research reveal about why our friends may be the most powerful force shaping longevity.
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