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