#156 – Jake Muise: Humanely harvesting axis deer while alleviating its impact on Hawaii’s vulnerable ecosystems
“If you can successfully harvest an axis deer with a bow, you can do almost any other animal on the planet.” —Jake Muise
#154 – Steve Levitt, Ph.D.: A rogue economist’s view on climate change, mental health, the ethics of experiments, and more
“What economists do now is they’re asked not just to estimate parameters really well, but to embed those parameters into models, which then have enough degrees of freedom that you can start to imagine: if I turn this dial to that dial, what would happen?” —Steve Levitt
#153 – AMA #21: Deep dive into olive oil, high-intensity exercise, book update, and more
“Think of diets like drugs…no one would ever believe that there is one drug that should be used by everyone for everything.” —Peter Attia
#152 – Michael Rintala, D.C.: Principles of Dynamic Neuromuscular Stabilization (DNS)
“If you have good programming, dosing, loading, timing, recovery, and on top of that, you have amazing body awareness and cortical function, you’re going to see longevity and you’re going to see nice quality of movement.” –Michael Rintala
#151 – Alex Hutchinson, Ph.D.: Translating the science of endurance and extreme human performance
“Any meaningful form of exercise that’s going to do substantial amounts of good is going to involve dealing with discomfort in one form or another.” —Alex Hutchinson
#150 – Senator Bill Frist, M.D.: A modern Renaissance man’s journey through science, politics, and business
“Public health has been the stepchild of health and welfare and healing. That is inverted now, and people appreciate it, but are we going to actually deliver on it? Not just next year, and not just put more funding in it, but really do it over a period of time?” —Bill Frist
#149 – AMA #20: Simplifying the complexities of insulin resistance: how it’s measured, how it manifests in the muscle and liver, and what we can do about it
“If you’re in the business of wanting to live the healthiest life you can live, which means longer and better, you’ve got to be insulin sensitive, full stop.” — Peter Attia
#148 – Richard Miller, M.D., Ph.D.: The gold standard for testing longevity drugs: the Interventions Testing Program
“I don’t really care what causes aging. What I care about is: What is the process that can postpone all the different aspects of aging?” — Rich Miller
#147 – Hussein Yassine, M.D.: Deep dive into the “Alzheimer’s gene” (APOE), brain health, and omega-3s
“What’s important is in science, you always have to be skeptical and you always need to find whether any particular study can be replicated or not before you make strong recommendations and adopt any drastic change and how you are consuming certain things, whether it’s a medication or a diet or a supplement.” — Hussein Yassine, M.D.
#146 – Guy Winch, Ph.D.: Emotional first aid and how to treat psychological injuries
“We have a choice in the stories we tell ourselves. We don’t have choice about the facts, we have choice about our organization, our perspective, and the narrative we create around them.” —Guy Winch