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What if some of the answers to living healthier lives have been with us for thousands of years?

In this episode of Expanding Health, Dr. Avriel Diaz sits down with Dr. Kristina Douglass, an award-winning archaeologist, anthropologist, and professor at Columbia University’s Climate School, to explore what human history can teach us about health, resilience, and our connection to nature.

Drawing on her research in Madagascar, Dr. Douglass shares how communities have passed down knowledge across generations to adapt to environmental change, protect natural resources, and live well. We explore what happens when that knowledge is lost, how music, dance, and capoeira strengthen communities, and why our relationships with each other and the natural world are fundamental to our health. And as artificial intelligence transforms how we learn, communicate, and connect, we also ask: Does having more information actually make us wiser? And what can thousands of years of human experience teach us about navigating this rapidly changing world?

A conversation about the wisdom of the past, the importance of human connection, and what it means to live healthier lives in a rapidly changing world.

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