Sheridan Nygaard
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181 appearances
13 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2023
last heard Apr 2025
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Yeah. That's a pretty big question. I think it depends on, I think being in public health, we, we see a lot of different ways people can die, get sick, get ill, accidents, illnesses, cancer, heart attacks. We look at these statistics all the time. So I have a growing sense of Fear, not necessarily of dying, but being one of the statistics that we work with. But that's a super specific feeling.
I also think it's a cultural based thing because a lot of cultures do embrace death and see it as a relief. It kind of depends on your religious, cultural, a lot of things. And I actually am still in that journey myself. But I do feel that fear towards some of the statistics that we work with all day. Go ahead, DeAndra.
Yeah, to continue your point, Stan, I even feel it's easier than ever to immortalize people now with the internet, with these health chatter podcasts are going to live longer than we are. Not to mention also, my dad does YouTube for, he makes these videos for
People, kids that maybe grew up without a dad or a figure in their life that would teach them how to change their oil in their car or how to do these basic things like put windshield wiper fluid in their car, how to fix brake pads, like really simple things that maybe they didn't have a figure in their life that would be able to show them how to do that.
So it's just this Midwestern dad showing people, here's how you do this. And this is his he feels that this is one of his gifts to people and also that it's a way for him to kind of be immortalized. He will always be immortalized as a Midwest dad that likes to help people fix their cars and boats. And I think that that's kind of lovely. So I think it's easier now more than ever.
I actually feel like this brings me to something from D'Andra's research. Some things I think are the same, but just a little different. Like, for example, commonly throughout history, blood was seen as a popular anti-aging remedy. And today there is a big push for anti-aging like immortality. I believe the guy's name is Brian Johnson.
He's a tech entrepreneur and he takes the blood of his younger son and infuses it with his own. And so it seems like even some of these things that we used to do to be immortal, make their rounds again, they come back. And I think that even that, And Amazon's got their teeth into some anti-aging like cell rejuvenation thing. Google has their teeth in it, too.
It seems like it's a pretty hot topic right now. And it seems like it's kind of always been. And some of the some of the tactics or techniques that people think that they can achieve immortality have not changed, which I find quite amusing.
Yeah, I actually, I think I want to tie everything. Everybody had such great points and I kind of want to tie in a few themes from this episode. What Clarence said earlier on our tombstones, we have The day we were born, a dash, and the day we die. And I think I want to ask readers, what do you want to do with your dash? What do you want to do? Your time is now.
And as much as we don't want to think about death, that dash is happening now. And you get to decide what that looks like. You get to decide who is in your life. If someone is making your life a living hell, get them out of it. There is no need. Why waste any of your precious time on people that do not make your dash feel like a good time? So just think about that.
Even if you're even if you're my age, you know, you feel like you have all this time left, but you only have so much time in the body that you're in with the mind that you have. So you might as well use it to the fullest of your extent of what you think is best.
A little more accurate representation of that time. Of life.
Yeah.
Yeah. So, Patty, you know, what's super interesting about that is growing. I was born in 1998 and growing up. One of my best friends lived very close to me and we would bike to and from each other's houses. It's just a little bit faster. And I do remember when we first started venturing out a little bit further, our parents sat us down and actually talked about this case and said, well,
There are things that you need to be aware of and things that you need to be vigilant about. And I think it was a really good segue for my parents to both of our parents actually, to sit down with us and just have a general talk about safety. And I think that you and Jacob's story really sparks a lot of necessary conversation for families.
I also want to point out that it sounds like community was crucial for your healing process here. Sounds like community members and just the effort of community coming together. And that's something that's really, I'm passionate about. I study community health promotion. And so it's honestly, it's just really touching to hear that
the community could come together and help you individually, help your family, help other kids feel safe, and figure out how to tackle these problems as a community. I just wanted to note that. I think that's beautiful.
I guess I have more of a question for you guys to chew on. What do we do when someone is experiencing these negative outcomes like diabetes or heart disease, but they are not motivated to make a change?
Even having a physical ailment that sends you to the hospital, like that doesn't necessarily scare them or someone that's maybe been chronically affected by not doing physical activity enough, like sedentary lifestyles. How do we motivate those people that,
That's a really good question. So it kind of depends on what aspect of health we're talking about. For physical activity, that's something very important to me. I'm also very motivated to cook my own meals every night with my fiance. We spend every night cooking a meal together. It's really good quality time.
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