Happy Lunar new year! This episode we're taking turns to try and debunk or verify the science behind health myths as told by our Chinese parents. Join us as we learn about sighs, cold uteri, wet hair, bad knees, and how Jack, our resident ABC, broke all the rules growing up Chinese.
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Sighing/Aerophagia
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2009.06.029
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2012.05.013
Coldwater/Fertility
Treatment of Infertility with Chines Medicine 2nd Edition, Jane Lyttleton
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3414225
Wet hair/Headaches
Jenny
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2012.08.017
Shorts in winter/Bad knees
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knee.2009.10.005
