Aug 17, 2026 · 33 min · 13 segments
When you think about living a longer, healthier, happier life, you probably think about exercise, nutrition, sleep, or genetics. But decades of research point to something else entirely. In this…
Lindsay CavanaghHost
I'm not talking about like what people say on Facebook or Google or what AI says, but like actual scientific studies, research that are put through very rigorous tests and checks and balances, the kind that uses statistics and formulas and all this fancy stuff that lets you know that something is real and not just an opinion.
But when it comes to actually applying things to my own life and the lives of my clients, I want the things to be real.
And this might be a bit of a tangent, but I know it's really hard to get good information out there.
In some ways, it's never been easier because now we can just like, again, go to our phones, go to Google.
But every day I go online and I see something that I know to be false or I do see something interesting that I can't find information like, is this real or not? And to be honest, I find that things really depend on like circumstances.
I'll just say aside, like when I was trying to figure out like what we were going to do to help our kids learn how to sleep, like you can find information for or against any type of method out there, right? Like that's what makes it so hard.
It's like here's a thousand methods and all of them have, you know, stuff that say, yes, they work and are great for you and others that say, no, they don't, they ruin your life.
So needless to say, in the days of the wild, wild west online, it can be hard to know like what to believe.
And it's packed by maybe like 40, probably even 50 years of research at this point to support every single thing that they're saying about it.
These days, you can watch a video on TikTok about how to do something, but that might only work for that person or a small group of people.
Again, this is my like totally nerdy side of how I spend my very limited free time as a parent.
I'm not talking about like what people say on Facebook or Google or what AI says, but like actual scientific studies, research that are put through very rigorous tests and checks and balances, the kind that uses statistics and formulas and all this fancy stuff that lets you know that something is real and not just an opinion.
But when it comes to actually applying things to my own life and the lives of my clients, I want the things to be real.
And this might be a bit of a tangent, but I know it's really hard to get good information out there.
In some ways, it's never been easier because now we can just like, again, go to our phones, go to Google.
But every day I go online and I see something that I know to be false or I do see something interesting that I can't find information like, is this real or not? And to be honest, I find that things really depend on like circumstances.
I'll just say aside, like when I was trying to figure out like what we were going to do to help our kids learn how to sleep, like you can find information for or against any type of method out there, right? Like that's what makes it so hard.
It's like here's a thousand methods and all of them have, you know, stuff that say, yes, they work and are great for you and others that say, no, they don't, they ruin your life.
So needless to say, in the days of the wild, wild west online, it can be hard to know like what to believe.
And it's packed by maybe like 40, probably even 50 years of research at this point to support every single thing that they're saying about it.
These days, you can watch a video on TikTok about how to do something, but that might only work for that person or a small group of people.
Again, this is my like totally nerdy side of how I spend my very limited free time as a parent.
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