Episode 8: One minute of laughter vs. one minute of anger

This is probably the shortest episode I’ve done so far, but it has some really interesting nuggets in it. The guest is Dr. Gordon Pedersen. You’ll hear this story in the first couple of minutes, but around age 38, he went to Indonesia, got sick, came back to the US and went to the hospital, and someone in the OR dropped him on the floor, breaking his back and immobilizing him. Never fear, though -- by 43 he had won a Bronze Medal at the Utah Games. Believe he was the oldest medalist that year.

This is a good conversation about health and how health is all you really have at some level as you age. It’s kind of ironic because I taped this on a Friday a few weeks ago, and on the day before I think I had ended up having something like 9-10 beers across hanging out with different people. So, it was a nice level-set for me to focus on health as well. Plus: there’s some stuff at the very end about the difference between one minute of being angry and one minute of laughing on your immune system. Hope you enjoy the episode.