Parental Humor & Molecular Changes

Does humor help you be a better parent? Dangerous Dave talks about how approaching your kids issues with humor can make it better and improve your relationship with them. Plus, changing molecules in our body happen in two phases, at 44 and 60.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is uber in the den with dangerous deed. Well,
parenting isn't easy, especially at the age of the Internet
and social media. There's a lot of pressure to change
your approach and make sure you're not letting them become
little monsters. So this is kind of refreshing. There's a
new study that suggests the key to good parenting is humor.
Good I'm good with dad jokes, so being playful and

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silly laughing at a crazy, stressful situation is beneficial. Seventy
two percent of parents believe humor can be an effective
parenting toolm most parents say they use or plan to
use humor in parenting for their own children, mostly because
there's potential benefit. Not everyone is naturally funny, but this
isn't performing a Netflix stand up special. Seventy percent of

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parents said they would be interested in the course and
how to utilize humor in parenting. Grown adults said their
parents used humor, and they're far more likely to say
they have a good relationship with their folks and they
feel like their parents did a good job raising them.
Research shows parental humor can be a secret and greedy
into fostering cognitive flexibility, relieving stress, and promoting creative problem

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solving and resilience in both parents and children. So it's
not just my knock knock jokes. Deeper in the two well,
you know, it seems like Gen X is becoming the
forgotten generation because they weren't brought up during the mudslinging
between the boomers' millennials and Gen zs, and apparently they're
preoccupied with getting old. According to a study, people around

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two ages forty four and sixty experience rapidly changing age
related molecules. In other words, feeling over the hill is
now a one two punch. Scientists at Stanford University tracked
age related changes over one hundred and thirty five thousand
types of molecules and microbes over one hundred adults, and
they found shifts in their numbers increasing or decreasing, occur

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gradually over time, but are clustered around two ages forty
four and sixty. The focus on molecular change could offer
researchers a clue to what drivers of age related diseases,
but for now they don't know what causes it. So
what did these rapid molecular shifts do at age forty four?
Changes include molecules related to metabolism of alcohol and lipids

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or fats. For the age of sixty, un notable changes
were observed in molecules in immune regulation, kidney function, and
metabulism of carbohydrates. At each age, there were changes related
to cardiovascular disease, metabulism of caffeine, plus skin and muscle.
Over the hill, not once, but twice. It's all downhill
from here to me again. For another episode of Deeper

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