Tegan Taylor

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14,397 appearances 403 recordings 12 series first heard Mar 2020 last heard 4d ago

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

It's a very private thing.

It's sort of like a cat that needs to vomit.

I want to crawl away to another room and have my cry in private.

I don't want to be observed during

Yeah.

Can we talk a bit about the physiology of crying?

We've sort of gestured at it a couple of times, this idea that there are probably hormones involved if you're gonna feel better or worse afterwards.

Uh it's a physical act.

What's actually the physiology of crying?

Where do our tears actually come from?

Are they kind of juiced up all the time?

I sometimes I wonder w how I could possibly have

enough tears to cry out, but they keep on coming.

So we got a lot of questions in Ian's email.

We've talked about the emotions involved in crying.

We've talked about why we've maybe evolved to do it, what parts of the body are employed.

One of the questions though he said was what physiological purpose does it serve?

I don't know if we've given him a clear answer yet, Norman.

And so for Ian's final question, if we cry to excess, does it do us any medical harm?

Well, Ian, thank you so much for your email.

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