Dr. Daisy Fancourt

speaker

445 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 3 Aug

Dr. Daisy Fancourt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz · Why Creativity Belongs in Your Health Routine with Dr. Daisy Fancourt · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

And they've said, well, if people get really anxious and like before operations, before surgeries is a really key example of this.

So they randomize people to getting benzodiazepines to reduce anxiety, so anti-anxiety medications, or they gave them relaxing music.

And they actually found that the relaxing music group was more relaxed, had greater reductions in anxiety than the medication group.

So really, I think we need to think about...

arts as being even this thing you can micro dose on that will help you in that moment of anxiety to come back to a nice state of calm.

Well, I think the first thing I'd say is think about babies.

Again, always look back to babies and children.

When babies are stressed and they're crying, mothers singing to them relaxes them and stops crying so quickly.

And we're the same as adults.

Music does that to us.

We see the reductions in cortisol after kind of half an hour, but that's because there's a lag time on cortisol production.

But actually, if we look at things like heart rate and blood pressure, which are much more instantaneous, we see that within seconds of people listening to music.

One of the types of music that can really help is music that's got a beat at the beat you want your heart rate to be at.

So if we were to pick something like 60 beats a minute, so kind of nice, slow, regular beats, what we actually see is that that slow, regular beat is something that our brain starts to anticipate.

Our bodies and brains love rhythm, right?

We are rhythm.

We're constantly the beat of our heart and the beat and rhythm of our breathing and the brainwaves.

And so we see this rhythm coming back and back.

And as soon as our brains notice that beat in music, it starts to predict it and then starts to synchronize with it.

It's a process known as entrainment.

Showing 61–80 of 445 · page 4 of 23