Latest / Stuff Mom Never Told You / Happy Hour #203: SMNTY Wants to Dance With Somebody
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- 0:05Speaker 1: Hey, this Sinny and Samantha. Welcome you stuff I've never
- 0:07Speaker 1: told you production.
- 0:08Speaker 2: I heartradio, and welcome to a happy hour where I
- 0:20Speaker 2: talk about happy things, happy hoppy things. I think this
- 0:24Speaker 2: could have been a Monday many because I do talk
- 0:26Speaker 2: a little bit about research, and you know, we don't.
- 0:28Speaker 3: Do that typically, especially me for happy hours.
- 0:31Speaker 2: But I thought I would bring this over here because
- 0:34Speaker 2: we need some happy topics along with that in our
- 0:38Speaker 2: happy hour tradition. If we are talking about a brand
- 0:42Speaker 2: or something very specific, it is not necessarily a sponsor.
- 0:47Speaker 2: Maybe one day, I don't know. I don't know what
- 0:48Speaker 2: that would look like. But hey, beautiful. Also, if you're
- 0:51Speaker 2: doing happy hourish things, do so responsibly. We love you
- 0:56Speaker 2: and we need you to take care of yourself, especially
- 0:59Speaker 2: right now.
- 1:00Speaker 3: Annie. Are you doing happy hourish things?
- 1:03Speaker 1: Yes?
- 1:04Speaker 2: What is it?
- 1:05Speaker 4: I'm still working on my mom's all the wine She's
- 1:09Speaker 4: got me from our hometown of Delanaga.
- 1:13Speaker 2: Uh, which has been featured in the Netflix show Did
- 1:16Speaker 2: you see this? No? What?
- 1:18Speaker 3: Literally they's tossed it's uh Punisher, the dude who played Punisher.
- 1:24Speaker 2: He is in it. Uh and he comes in. Oh
- 1:28Speaker 2: and Tessa Thompson, Hello, but he starts. The scene starts
- 1:32Speaker 2: off with being Lumpkin County. Yeah, it's like they got
- 1:36Speaker 2: it right, and being in a Dealanaga National Force, which
- 1:39Speaker 2: I don't know if that's true. I don't think there's
- 1:40Speaker 2: a national force in Delannaga.
- 1:42Speaker 1: I don't think so.
- 1:43Speaker 2: But but but they say Delanaga and it isn't Lumpkin
- 1:46Speaker 2: County and I was like, oh, okay, yeah.
- 1:49Speaker 1: Shout some stuff there.
- 1:52Speaker 3: And they have a lot of woods. Delonaga has a
- 1:55Speaker 3: lot of woods.
- 1:56Speaker 1: That is true.
- 1:57Speaker 4: That's one of the reasons I liked it.
- 2:00Speaker 3: But anyway, keep going.
- 2:01Speaker 2: So you got your wine from your local wineries?
- 2:05Speaker 4: Yes, there are a lot of local wineries in Delanaga,
- 2:08Speaker 4: which is very funny because I found out through friends
- 2:11Speaker 4: who never who were from like Tennessee. Yeah, you've never
- 2:17Speaker 4: been to the winer reason Delanaga, And it's like wineries
- 2:19Speaker 4: in Blowaga.
- 2:20Speaker 1: This was a long time I was in college.
- 2:22Speaker 4: But yes, every Christmas, every like holiday, my mom gets
- 2:25Speaker 4: me these wines. And uh, the one I'm trying today
- 2:30Speaker 4: is Synthiana slash Morton, which is one of my favorites.
- 2:34Speaker 4: I know it's kind of a divisive one. A lot
- 2:36Speaker 4: of people don't like it, but I really like it.
- 2:38Speaker 4: It's very like earthy, mushroomy kind of.
- 2:40Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, I don't know if I know about those bars.
- 2:42Speaker 2: I'm my knowledge stays in Lake Europe or California.
- 2:48Speaker 3: So yeah, this is Washington.
- 2:52Speaker 1: North Georgia and Monsieur. There's another Michigan. I think this
- 2:58Speaker 1: is m State.
- 3:00Speaker 3: It also has it, yeah, very specific grapes.
- 3:04Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I like that.
- 3:06Speaker 3: I am. It is cold here, it is like freezing cold.
- 3:10Speaker 2: So I'm keeping up with coffee because I do uppers
- 3:17Speaker 2: around there in that level. But all with all of that,
- 3:21Speaker 2: I thought I would talk about dancing. Like a lot
- 3:24Speaker 2: of things have been coming up on my FYP about
- 3:26Speaker 2: the fact that there have been research, and there's been
- 3:29Speaker 2: a lot of research, but they're talking about it more again,
- 3:33Speaker 2: you know how it kind of fluctuates about how dance
- 3:35Speaker 2: can actually combat dementia, and so I was like, yeah,
- 3:39Speaker 2: dance does a lot for me, specifically when I have
- 3:42Speaker 2: a good dance class, when I have a great like
- 3:45Speaker 2: hip hop or zumba class, it just fills energetic.
- 3:49Speaker 3: I come home with extra pep.
- 3:50Speaker 2: I feel like I've been revived and I just want
- 3:54Speaker 2: to keep going.
- 3:54Speaker 3: I just love dance.
- 3:55Speaker 2: It gets to the point that when I have music on,
- 3:58Speaker 2: good music on a dancing and sweat immediately rolls and
- 4:02Speaker 2: then I'm like twenty minutes late because I have to
- 4:06Speaker 2: stop sweating and then get ready again. But I love
- 4:09Speaker 2: it so much, so I thought I would talk about
- 4:11Speaker 2: some of the studies that have been done recently. And
- 4:14Speaker 2: I will say they have started talking more about it
- 4:16Speaker 2: because a twenty twenty five study came out recently about
- 4:19Speaker 2: how it combats perimenopause, menopause and postmenopausal women and how
- 4:24Speaker 2: it really not combats but helps them. So there's a
- 4:27Speaker 2: lot of good information happening. I thought I would take
- 4:29Speaker 2: some time to talk about those benefits. So from a
- 4:32Speaker 2: Psychology Today article they actually this was written in twenty
- 4:36Speaker 2: twenty four, they talk about why we dance and how
- 4:40Speaker 2: it was dance has always been a thing.
- 4:42Speaker 3: They say.
- 4:43Speaker 2: They that if it's if evolution is your thing, understand
- 4:47Speaker 2: that primates we're dancing. Even before I see birds dance,
- 4:52Speaker 2: I think that's what they're doing. In my head anyway,
- 4:54Speaker 2: I feel like dogs dance sometimes, or just my dog
- 4:58Speaker 2: attacks me while I dance. I account that as dancing. Okay,
- 5:01Speaker 2: we're gonna go with that. But this is what the
- 5:03Speaker 2: Psychology Today article says. What is it about dance that
- 5:06Speaker 2: makes us want to move in response to the beat
- 5:09Speaker 2: and what happens in our brains when we do so.
- 5:12Speaker 2: Music stimulates the brain's reward centers, while dance activates its
- 5:15Speaker 2: sensory and motor circuits. Concurrently, the olympic system, which is
- 5:19Speaker 2: involved in emotion processing, triggers the release of feel good
- 5:23Speaker 2: hormones such as endorphins, oxytocin, and dopamine, while the cerebellum
- 5:27Speaker 2: integrates input from the brain and spinal cord and helps
- 5:31Speaker 2: in the planning of fine and complex motor actions. Mirror
- 5:35Speaker 2: neurons also play a role in our enjoyment of dance.
- 5:39Speaker 2: As their name implies, mirror neurons are brain cells that
- 5:42Speaker 2: are activated when we see other people doing something. We
- 5:45Speaker 2: automatically yawn if the persons sitting opposite to us yawns,
- 5:49Speaker 2: Watching people dance makes us want to join them and dance.
- 5:52Speaker 2: When we do so, we are no longer alone but
- 5:55Speaker 2: feel part of the group. I think that's such a
- 5:59Speaker 2: great conversation in so many aspects, because yes, when I dance,
- 6:04Speaker 2: it feels good. It feels like I've caught onto something
- 6:06Speaker 2: learning a new line dance, which has been a big
- 6:10Speaker 2: thing right now, and I will say it's a challenge.
- 6:14Speaker 3: Some of these dances. It is, and I have so
- 6:17Speaker 3: much fun with it because.
- 6:18Speaker 2: When you grasp it, being in sync with someone and
- 6:21Speaker 2: realizing you're doing the standing dance moves, there.
- 6:23Speaker 3: Is joy to that.
- 6:25Speaker 2: Choreography is a gift that I am trying to learn.
- 6:30Speaker 3: I will say that, but it's so fun.
- 6:33Speaker 2: And in that same article they talk about how it
- 6:35Speaker 2: can help trauma and dementia. They write, one of the
- 6:38Speaker 2: remarkable things about dancing is the effect that has on
- 6:40Speaker 2: people with trauma and dementia. Kayla Koonik is a board
- 6:43Speaker 2: certified music therapist in Pensalcola, Florida. She spoke to the
- 6:46Speaker 2: Person recently about use of dancing movement with survivors of
- 6:50Speaker 2: trauma and people suffering from dementia. Referring to people living
- 6:54Speaker 2: in long term care settings, she remarked, many of these
- 6:57Speaker 2: people receive no visitors and spend their days with drawn
- 7:00Speaker 2: and silent, But when I come and play music from
- 7:02Speaker 2: the fifties or sixties, music that was popular when they
- 7:05Speaker 2: were young, they light up, start to tap their feet
- 7:08Speaker 2: or clap their hands. Some will stand up and begin dancing.
- 7:11Speaker 2: Others will even remember the lyrics for the rest of
- 7:14Speaker 2: the day. The participants as well as the staff are
- 7:16Speaker 2: happier and more present.
- 7:18Speaker 3: There is we know.
- 7:19Speaker 2: We've talked about our own connections with different types of
- 7:22Speaker 2: music and what that can bring out, what that some
- 7:26Speaker 2: of those memories, Some music helped people who have depression
- 7:31Speaker 2: and suicidal ideation. Stuff like that really can move you,
- 7:34Speaker 2: and you feel like you're connected to these lyrics and
- 7:37Speaker 2: these songs, and just like the emotions I have cried
- 7:42Speaker 2: at songs for like just feeling the depth of it.
- 7:45Speaker 2: I've also fallen in love with songs and came back
- 7:47Speaker 2: later thinking, man, that was really corny because I will
- 7:52Speaker 2: act these things out. Did you ever do like when
- 7:55Speaker 2: you would see a music video, like you would participate somehow,
- 7:59Speaker 2: like you are part of that music video?
- 8:01Speaker 3: Is that just me?
- 8:02Speaker 4: Oh?
- 8:03Speaker 1: I did? I think I did it?
- 8:05Speaker 4: I mean, oh gosh, younger listeners, you won't remember this,
- 8:10Speaker 4: but there used to be like a music video. It
- 8:12Speaker 4: was just music video channel where I was. It was
- 8:14Speaker 4: called the Box. It was channeled thirty four, and we
- 8:19Speaker 4: my friends and I would try to learn the moves
- 8:21Speaker 4: and you had to like get ready for your song.
- 8:23Speaker 4: You never knew what it was gonna come on. But we
- 8:26Speaker 4: also would do like my mom once walked in on
- 8:31Speaker 4: me and my good friend Katie, who's been on the show, uh,
- 8:35Speaker 4: trying to sing and dance to Annie the musical. Yeah,
- 8:42Speaker 4: because we were going to we were going to audition.
- 8:45Speaker 4: We never did, but so did. I think I did
- 8:48Speaker 4: think similar to that. I'm not sure if I did
- 8:51Speaker 4: exactly what you're talking about.
- 8:53Speaker 2: Okay, okay, see, I would like envision myself in these
- 8:57Speaker 2: music videos as if I was a part of it.
- 8:59Speaker 2: I would learn learn these dances like Paula Abdul. Yeah,
- 9:03Speaker 2: I was in there. I was doing it. Performed that
- 9:06Speaker 2: at a high school in a middle school musical. Straight
- 9:09Speaker 2: up was my song. I even had backup dancers. I've
- 9:11Speaker 2: talked about this before. I loved every bit of that.
- 9:15Speaker 2: There are some things to being able to do choreography.
- 9:18Speaker 2: We would make up numbers footloose number. I think I've
- 9:22Speaker 2: told you I remember a few.
- 9:24Speaker 3: Bits of that.
- 9:25Speaker 2: Uh, Mortal Kombat the soundtrack we use that for chair.
- 9:29Speaker 2: Don't worry about me, I got things under control. We
- 9:42Speaker 2: just mentioned earlier that the recent study where it says
- 9:46Speaker 2: it can help with perimenopause, menopause in postmenopause. It says
- 9:51Speaker 2: the study is called the Effectiveness of Dance Interventions on
- 9:54Speaker 2: Health related Outcome in perimenopausal, menopausal and postmenopausal Women. So
- 9:59Speaker 2: they write, in recent years, dance intervention has increasingly been
- 10:02Speaker 2: applied to paimenopausal, menopausal and postmenopausal women, with studies suggesting
- 10:07Speaker 2: its potential benefit for alleviating menopause related symptoms. For instance,
- 10:13Speaker 2: when study evaluated the effects of zooma dance intervention in
- 10:16Speaker 2: postmenopausal women, finding significant improvements in quality of life and
- 10:21Speaker 2: reduction in men apastal symptoms. Of course, they're talking about
- 10:24Speaker 2: how this study needs to go a little further because,
- 10:27Speaker 2: as we know, when it comes to women's health, not
- 10:30Speaker 2: a lot of research cording to that, and when we
- 10:31Speaker 2: talk about perimenopausal oh my.
- 10:33Speaker 3: God, even less.
- 10:35Speaker 2: So hopefully it's not a buzzword and trend and people
- 10:38Speaker 2: are actually going to study it. But they did go
- 10:40Speaker 2: into a bit more saying they observed similar stuff with
- 10:44Speaker 2: line dancing, saying significantly alleviated depression, anxiety, paranoia, and sleep
- 10:50Speaker 2: disturbances in menopausal women, enhancing psychological well being and overall
- 10:56Speaker 2: quality of life. So Today's Show did a segment in
- 10:59Speaker 2: twenty twenty one one in that same conversation, So of
- 11:01Speaker 2: course it sounds like they have gone on advancing in
- 11:05Speaker 2: their studies, and in that Today Show article they talk
- 11:08Speaker 2: about they do see benefits. Of course, they go back
- 11:11Speaker 2: and forth about there still needs to be more research
- 11:13Speaker 2: because we don't have a loss, but we do see improvement.
- 11:17Speaker 2: Exercise in general, we know can give a lot of help,
- 11:21Speaker 2: especially when it comes to alleviating depression and mental health things,
- 11:25Speaker 2: as well as giving you a good cardio.
- 11:28Speaker 3: Y'all, I sweat a lot.
- 11:29Speaker 2: According to my watch, it tells me I burnt about
- 11:32Speaker 2: five hundred and twenty calories. I know that's not accurate,
- 11:35Speaker 2: but I'm gonna.
- 11:35Speaker 1: Go with it.
- 11:36Speaker 3: I sweat a lot, though, so I'm gonna count that
- 11:38Speaker 3: as a win.
- 11:40Speaker 2: So their conclusion was the study included nine trials and
- 11:43Speaker 2: found that dance interventions had significant positive effects on health
- 11:47Speaker 2: related outcomes in perimenopausal, menopausal and postmenopausal women except for
- 11:53Speaker 2: psychotic symptoms. So I'm gonna leave that there because obviously
- 11:56Speaker 2: there's some lapsing and there's a lot of more conversation
- 11:59Speaker 2: we need to have about that whole community of women
- 12:02Speaker 2: that are going through the things.
- 12:03Speaker 3: I believe my hand is raised probably to.
- 12:05Speaker 2: That, but it is good to see that we are
- 12:09Speaker 2: talking about ways to do so that's not necessarily hormonal related,
- 12:13Speaker 2: although that is also a benefit that we need to
- 12:16Speaker 2: be talking about as well. Another time, another time. And
- 12:21Speaker 2: according to other studies, it helps with cortisol levels.
- 12:24Speaker 3: And that has.
- 12:24Speaker 2: Been a buzzword that drives me crazy, but apparently it helps.
- 12:28Speaker 3: And this is from jazzersides dot com. Don't hate it,
- 12:32Speaker 3: they done some research. We love it. We love it
- 12:34Speaker 3: over here.
- 12:35Speaker 2: So they talk about dance cardio, which they say balances
- 12:38Speaker 2: hormones and reduces stress. So I think, when I think
- 12:42Speaker 2: you all understand when I talk about zumba dance cardio,
- 12:45Speaker 2: it's kind of all related. It's just the styles are
- 12:47Speaker 2: a little bit different. They say this, Let's talk cortisol,
- 12:51Speaker 2: the stress hormone that tends to spike with overly intense workout,
- 12:54Speaker 2: especially as we age. For women thirty five plus, high
- 12:57Speaker 2: stress exercise can sometimes do more harm than good, increasing inflammation,
- 13:01Speaker 2: disrupting sleep, and making hormone imbalances worse. Dance cardio offers
- 13:06Speaker 2: a powerful solution. The moderate intensity combined with joyful movement,
- 13:09Speaker 2: helps reduce cortisol while boosting feel good hormones like endorphins, dopamine,
- 13:15Speaker 2: and serotonin. This creates a hormonal environment that supports better sleep,
- 13:19Speaker 2: reduced anxiety, and even improved metabolism. And they also talk
- 13:23Speaker 2: about the fact that it helps with muscle preservation and strength.
- 13:27Speaker 2: But it is a low impact class unless you do
- 13:30Speaker 2: real big moves, which I do sometimes. So wat Yeah, okay,
- 13:36Speaker 2: just forewarning everyone, find your find your moderet And this
- 13:41Speaker 2: is from upbeat dot com. They talk about several other
- 13:44Speaker 2: ways that it helps, including it helps build self confidence,
- 13:47Speaker 2: it builds social connections, which it really does. This is
- 13:50Speaker 2: my this is my outgoing, outgoing these like I actually
- 13:55Speaker 2: made friends. We had a class last night and I
- 13:58Speaker 2: was able to be with people I hadn't been with
- 14:00Speaker 2: because you know, things change because people get different schedules.
- 14:03Speaker 3: And it was such a delight.
- 14:05Speaker 2: It was like my old dance world plus my new
- 14:08Speaker 2: dance world came together. It was so fun that I
- 14:10Speaker 2: got text messages from people last night, like we went
- 14:12Speaker 2: out partying.
- 14:15Speaker 3: I know, I'm so old, don't start with me anyway.
- 14:19Speaker 2: That article talks about some of these things, including again
- 14:23Speaker 2: it can help with trauma. They say, this movement creates
- 14:27Speaker 2: a space where participants can release pent up emotions healthily
- 14:31Speaker 2: and constructively. The physical exertion strengthens the body and allows
- 14:35Speaker 2: for letting go of emotional burdens. Besides the obvious benefits
- 14:39Speaker 2: of exercise, dance provides an avenue for self expression, which
- 14:43Speaker 2: is crucial for mental health recovery. Every movement becomes a
- 14:47Speaker 2: means of communicating feelings that may be too difficult to
- 14:50Speaker 2: put into words. This form of expression allows women to
- 14:52Speaker 2: explore their emotions without fear of judgment, fostering emotional healing.
- 14:56Speaker 2: Dance fitness encourages participants to connect deeply with their giving
- 15:01Speaker 2: them an outlet to process past experiences in a safe
- 15:04Speaker 2: and supportive environment. In short, it creates an opportunity to
- 15:08Speaker 2: rebuild emotional strength while promoting overall mental well being. I
- 15:13Speaker 2: love that because there are moments where like, you just
- 15:16Speaker 2: really want to get into it and you just really
- 15:18Speaker 2: want to have at it, and there are moments that
- 15:20Speaker 2: you just need to learn to breathe and sit, and
- 15:23Speaker 2: it gives you both of those moments, and you can
- 15:26Speaker 2: put what you need into it as you need it,
- 15:29Speaker 2: hopefully if you're in a safe environment, which I've always
- 15:32Speaker 2: been in a good safe environment, And they conclude this way,
- 15:35Speaker 2: they say in conclusion, dance fitness transforms women's mental health
- 15:38Speaker 2: by offering a powerful blend of physical movement, emotional expression,
- 15:42Speaker 2: and mental resilience. Through dance, women can experience reduce stress,
- 15:45Speaker 2: improve self confidence, and stronger social connection. It provides a
- 15:49Speaker 2: therapeutic outlet for healing emotional wounds and encourages mindfulness, helping
- 15:54Speaker 2: participants stay present and grounded.
- 15:57Speaker 3: Or build a supportive community.
- 15:59Speaker 2: Dance fitness is an active way to achieve emotional balance
- 16:02Speaker 2: and well being. And I agree with all of those statements.
- 16:05Speaker 2: So being able to connect with people in a safe
- 16:08Speaker 2: environment where you're not hopefully not judged and you feel
- 16:11Speaker 2: welcomed is so important in doing all these things. Because
- 16:16Speaker 2: they also talk about again learning a choreography, a learning
- 16:19Speaker 2: a routine really helps you cognitively relearn things you know.
- 16:24Speaker 2: How you have to use your muscles in your brain
- 16:26Speaker 2: is one of those things that you have to use
- 16:28Speaker 2: and constantly use. And being able to learn routines it
- 16:31Speaker 2: really does help with your mindfulness and in combating dementia,
- 16:35Speaker 2: and they really encourage as you age.
- 16:39Speaker 3: And start forgetting things.
- 16:41Speaker 2: This could be one of those cognitive exercises that is
- 16:43Speaker 2: really good for you. I laugh it myself.
- 16:48Speaker 4: Yeah, that makes total sense to me. And it's not
- 16:51Speaker 4: quite the same. But we have talked about that before
- 16:53Speaker 4: with hiking, right, which can be a communal activity that
- 16:58Speaker 4: can be solo. But that's a lot of times when
- 17:00Speaker 4: I hike. That's what I get out of It is
- 17:02Speaker 4: sort of both a mindfulness and a connection and kind
- 17:07Speaker 4: of like a disconnect from where my brain is freaking
- 17:10Speaker 4: about freaking out about like whatever is going on, because
- 17:13Speaker 4: I just have to focus on the next step and
- 17:15Speaker 4: make sure I fall off the sprain my ankle and
- 17:18Speaker 4: fall and dancing yet like with the music going and
- 17:22Speaker 4: having those moves.
- 17:24Speaker 1: And now that I think this makes complete.
- 17:28Speaker 2: Sense, all right and by let's dance twenty twenty six,
- 17:31Speaker 2: we're all dancing.
- 17:34Speaker 4: No Ah, sure, sure sure. Back when I was still
- 17:44Speaker 4: on Twitter, when it was Twitter, I posted I had
- 17:49Speaker 4: I was dancing like no one was watching, and someone
- 17:52Speaker 4: was watching because I looked out my window and there
- 17:55Speaker 4: was this group of people that were just looking at
- 17:57Speaker 4: me apporting. I'm like, oh, like duct duction down embarrassing
- 18:06Speaker 4: quick embarrassingly quickly.
- 18:10Speaker 3: They were just impressed with your movements.
- 18:11Speaker 1: I'm sure, I'm sure that's what it was.
- 18:13Speaker 3: Exactly what that was.
- 18:15Speaker 1: It was fun.
- 18:16Speaker 4: I was having an adult That's all that matters. Well, listeners,
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