Norman Swan

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307 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 11 Aug

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What's That Rash? · Why do we cry? · 11 Aug 2026 podcast

But you know, this idea that you might actually feel a bit better a while after you cry, but it also may mean that you find that when you

cry, you get a response from others which is positive.

Now that's not necessarily true in in the modern world where

crying in public may be seen as weakness wrongly.

So the evolutionary benefits as you're older become harder to explain.

Well, interestingly people have thought, well, maybe the process of crying gets rid of toxic stuff f from your body because all these tears coming out.

Well, firstly, yeah, your tears do contain a lot more than just salt, but you'd have to really cry buckets to make a difference to the hormones in your body.

So I think it's unlikely that you're going to do yourself any harm apart from dehydrating yourself after watching Jean Kelly.

And what's in the mailbox?

Oh gosh.

Now we have done an episode on butter versus margarine and we'll put a link in our show notes if you can if you can smoke it.

If you can smoke it.

used to go off and have a cry about that.

And one theory behind this is that it's the

We do have an episode on protein, protein powders, and we'll have this in our show notes, the link to that episode.

So protein powders are ultra-processed foods.

You can't get away from that, and not a natural way of taking in protein.

And there are certain requirements of protein which rise as you get older.

And also if you're trying to build muscle.

Preferably taking your protein as natural food would be much better for you.

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