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Can sunlight and green spaces truly improve your health? 

🔥 Key Takeaways:

✅ How infrared light fuels your mitochondria and boosts cellular function

✅ The shocking study where planting trees lowered inflammation markers by 133%

✅ Why modern life is blocking beneficial light—and how to reclaim it

✅ The forgotten history of sunlight therapy and its role in fighting tuberculosis

✅ How melatonin does more than just regulate sleep—it protects your cells

✅ The crucial balance of light and darkness for metabolic health

✅ Why trust and community support might be just as important as diet and exercise

Plus, we break down practical, science-backed ways to integrate these natural health boosters into your daily routine—without overcomplicating things.

The episode is hosted by Niraj Gupta & Muskan Mittal. The Science up! podcast is now streaming on all music/podcast platforms like Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Gaana, JioSaavn. So Don't wait, go Science up! yourself!!

Keywords:

#SciencePodcast #Health #CircadianRhythms #InfraredLight #Photobiomodulation #Mitochondria #NatureAndHealth #EvidenceBased

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Ever wondered how your brain takes out the trash? 🧠🚛 In this episode of Science Up!, we dive into the brain's waste disposal system—the glymphatic system—and how it keeps your neurons squeaky clean. But here's the twist: aging slows down this clean-up crew, potentially leading to cognitive decline.

🔬 Key Takeaways:

✅ The glymphatic system flushes out metabolic waste using cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).

✅ Aging disrupts blood flow, slows CSF circulation, and weakens immune clearance, making waste disposal less efficient.

✅ Poor sleep impairs brain cleaning, linking sleep deprivation to neurodegenerative diseases.

✅ Meningeal lymphatic vessels shrink with age, reducing CSF drainage efficiency.

✅ White matter integrity declines, affecting brain connectivity and cognitive speed.

The episode was hosted by Niraj Gupta & Muskan Mittal.

The Science up! podcast is now streaming on all music/podcast platforms like Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Gaana, JioSaavn. So Don't wait, go Science up! yourself!!

#Neuroscience #BrainHealth #GlymphaticSystem #AgingBrain #CognitiveDecline #Neuroimmunology #ScienceUp!

Cancer has nerves—literally.

We usually think of cancer as a rogue army of cells growing out of control. But what if we told you that cancer isn’t just running wild—it’s plugged in? In this episode, we unravel the cutting-edge field of Cancer Neuroscience.

From gliomas hijacking neural circuits to prostate and gastric cancers using nerve pathways to spread, we break down how the nervous system isn’t just an observer—it’s a key player in cancer growth, metastasis, and even immune evasion. Can chronic stress fuel cancer? Can brain activity accelerate tumor growth? And could modulating neural signals be the next frontier in cancer treatment?

Join us as we decode the mind-blowing science behind how nerves, neurotransmitters, and even stress shape cancer’s fate. Because fighting cancer might not just be about chemotherapy—it could also be about tweaking the brain.

Host: Niraj Gupta, PhD Scholar at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Berhampur

Co-host: Muskan Mittal, PhD scholar at the National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi.

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Do you believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line?? Do you understand the general theory of relativity?? We are back with another episode to Science up! yourself .

We are thankful to Dr Ujjal Dey, Asst Prof, IISER Berhampur for answering our curious questions and this amazing learning experience.

This Science up! episode is hosted by Alphonza Joseph. Cheers to Amrita Mukherjee for co-hosting. Also thanks to 137 Inverse, Physics club of IISER Berhampur, as we, together brought out another episode of this series. Thanks to Science up! Team, Niraj Gupta (Founder & Host) and Mayank Agarwal for helping in editing the audio.

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Universe seems to follow some traffic rules, that's, no matter can travel faster than speed of light! Through this amazing conversation, Science up! has answered Why can't we reach speed of light? 

We are thankful to Dr Sandeep Chatterjee, Asst Prof, IISER Berhampur for answering our curious questions and this amazing learning experience.

This Science up! episode is hosted by Niraj Gupta. Cheers to Baibhav Srivastava for co-hosting. Also thanks to 137 Inverse, Physics club of IISER Berhampur; and Adarsh Dash for coordinating. Thanks to Science up! Team, and Mayank Agarwal for helping in editing the audio.

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As it’s brain awareness week going on. For people, at every education level, has a lot to know about his/her own brain. We are here to share some info, facts and a great discussion,  Having special attention on - India and the awareness in the country.

The episode is hosted by Niraj Gupta. Cheers to Nisha Kumari and Pratyush Mishra who discussed Brain awareness. Also, thanks to La Vida, the Biology Club of IISER Berhampur, India for the collab for Brain Awareness Week 2022. Thanks to Science up! Team and Mayank Agarwal for helping in editing the audio.

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Find below links to factsheets, puzzles, tests for brain and few research articles for reference.

Puzzles: https://bit.ly/Scienceup-puzzles

Fact sheets (How we see, smell, taste, hear and neurotransmission, stroke etc): https://bit.ly/scienceup-factsheets

How does brain work: https://bit.ly/scienceup-brainworking

Cognitive test - Wisconsin Card sorting test: https://www.psytoolkit.org/experiment-library/experiment_wcst.html

COVID-19 and brain

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04569-5

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/long-covid-even-mild-covid-linked-damage-brain-months-infection-rcna18959

La Vida website: https://sites.google.com/iiserbpr.ac.in/lavida

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We need sleep. Have you ever given it a thought- Why? We spend one-third of our lives sleeping- doing nothing. So why do we need sleep? What’s the science behind? And also your curious questions about sleep that we have received- like the amount of sleep you need, consequences of insufficient sleep and also oversleep.

We are thankful to Dr Nasreen Akhtar, AIIMS, New Delhi for answering all our curious questions. 

The episode was hosted by Niraj Gupta and Muskan Mittal (Welcome to the Science up! Team)

We answered,

Why do we need Sleep- the science behind

how much sleep do humans need

Importance of getting enough sleep

Can you actually compensate the amount of sleep you didn't take previous night

Compromising sleep amid exams

Consequences and long-term effects of insufficient sleep/ sleep loss

What happens if a person doesn't sleep for a few days? Or sleep only for just few hours

Effect of prolonged use of screens- mobile phones/laptops 

Is Oversleeping bad

Connection of sleep and diseases like Alzeihmer's

General advice on Sleep Hygiene and a quality sleep

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We knowingly-unknowingly are dependent on Bees. From the food on your plate to the cotton denim jeans that you're wearing, all thanks to the Bees. So what if the Bees went extinct? What would a World without Bees look like? Listen the whole episode to get your curious questions answered.

The Host, Niraj Gupta was joined with a pretty guest, Olga Koppel on the Science up! Podcast. Olga is a PhD candidate at University of Ottawa, Canada.

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Autism Spectrum Disorder is not well known by majority of people. We may have come across autistic people but even we do not know they have autism and they perhaps don't know themselves. The episode explores about Autism, what it is, its causes, types, and how to diagnose it. 

Tune in till the end of this episode to get yourself Scienced up! with not only science-y facts but also a sip of understanding and kindness. Understanding more about disorders like Autism, can create more beautiful world for all of us.

We are thankful to Dr Nidhi Singhal, Director, Research & Training, Action for Autism, India. for sharing her experience and detailed introduction about Autism.

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