Why is life expectancy in the US declining?
Midlife mortality and mental health.
#78 – Sasha Cohen: The price of achievement, and redefining success
“You can be a healthy, functioning human being, or you can be the best in the world at something, but you can’t be both.” — Sasha Cohen
#76 – Kyle Kingsbury: Finding meaning, depression, and psychedelics
“[Ayahuasca] shifted more things in me and how I perceived the world than anything else.” — Kyle Kingsbury
#57 – Rick Rubin, legendary music producer: collaborating with sensitive psyche of greatest living musicians, and his personal story of weight loss and spiritual quest
“I came alive through that process. . .I was already alive in the studio, but maybe that was the only place I was alive before. But through exercise, I became alive more in life.” — Rick Rubin on how exercise changed his life
#51 – Robert Sapolsky, Ph.D.: The pervasive effect of stress – is it killing you?
“The [stress response] system has been serving vertebrates, doing a lot of help for them for an awful long time, and it’s only been a very recent modification to instead secrete [cortisol] in response to thinking about taxes.” —Robert Sapolsky
#41 – Jake Kushner, M.D.: How to thrive with type 1 diabetes and how everyone can benefit from the valuable insights
“You have this unique population of [type 1 diabetics] where you can see the insulin that goes into them, and you can see it’s direct impact on weight gain. . . and they’re at risk for cardiovascular illness. And to me that just says that there’s something about the Standard American Diet that’s making us sick. And ultimately we will all be at risk for cardiovascular disease.” —Jake Kushner
#01 – Tim Ferriss: depression, psychedelics, and emotional resilience
“It’s very hard for people to talk their way out of something that they didn’t talk their way into.” —Tim Ferriss
Calorie restriction?
In case you missed it, there’s a new series on calorie restriction (CR) up on the site.