{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Double Win","title":"JOHN LA PUMA: Why Your Brain Needs the Outdoors","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3462,"description":"Most of us treat time outside as something to squeeze in once the real work is done. But what if the 3:00 crash, the restless nights, and the short fuse over an irritating email have less to do with your workload than with where you spend your day?\n\nIn this episode, Michael and Megan sit down with Dr. John La Puma, a board-certified internist, professionally trained chef, and two-time New York Times bestselling author, to explore what he calls captivity biology. You'll learn why morning light sets the clock for that night's sleep, how trees and moving water calm a stressed nervous system, and why where you work deserves as much attention as when. If you've assumed better health requires an hour you don't have, this conversation offers a plan that fits inside the minutes you already spend outside.\n\nMemorable Quotes\n“We wanna make our time outdoors biologically active so it's restorative to our brain… [we can] repurpose those incidental minutes that we're spending outdoors into medicine so that they can help our brain and reduce our burnout, feeling more like ourselves again.”\n“There's an idea here that performing at work is inevitably difficult because we're at it all the time, and actually that's made it more difficult that we are indoors all the time bombarded by pixels… We're not getting the biological signals to our brain that allow our brains to reset.”\n“Our biology, again, reads our time indoors as confinement, and when we go outdoors, we use a different part of our brains that allow us to pay full attention when we do cognitive work.”\n“I talked to another man who had not been outside of his apartment for over 24 hours and thought it was normal. He'd just been in front of his screen working remotely. It's not normal. It's not only not normal, it's biologically injurious. It hurts you. It hurts your performance. It hurts your productivity. It hurts your presenteeism. It causes absenteeism.”\n“When we move outdoors in the company of trees or plants, our brain...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/9FBQdo2WFnbBnqZuspz05VmWLofSDFutJhXEYYXsei8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jMDE1/OTBiM2M4NDJmYmE3/NzI3ZDlmMWQ2YWJi/ZjAyYy5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}