Self Quantification

This is a very dense conversation of deconstructing metabolic syndrome from a perspective of the ROS theory of obesity, represented by Brad Marshall. The scientific method of nutritional science is a balanced construction of arguments that ought to be coherent with our understanding of molecular biology, evolution, studies & anecdotal evidence. With this argument established, our succeeding goal is to map out a healthier alternative with both the perspective of currently overfat individuals and future beings in mind. This conversation would not be complete without a depiction of agriculture, as our food supply chain is a key issue in conversations of human health and environmental sustainability.

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Brad Marshall is the author of the Blog Fire In A Bottle and the creator of The Croissant Diet. Mildly obsessed with food and its history, his work focuses on trying to place current ideas about diet, including keto and carnivore diets, into the framework of traditional dietary patterns. For instance, the French diet before 1970 combined flour, sugar, butter, and wine, and the population was lean. Brad wrote The ROS (Reactive Oxygen Species) Theory of Obesity, which posits that ROS generation in the mitochondria of fat cells could provide the mechanism that explains why a traditional Chinese peasant diet (low fat with 85% of calories from starch), a French diet combining butter, wine, and flour, and a modern keto diet could all be expected to produce leanness but combining flour with polyunsaturated fats is a recipe for obesity. The core idea comes from the Protons thread of Peter Dobromylskyj’s blog Hyperlipid. Brad tested this hypothesis with his dietary experiment The Croissant Diet. He is also the founder of Firebrand Meats, which is dedicated to producing pork and poultry products that are low in linoleic acid, the n6 polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) whose intake has seen a dramatic worldwide increase in the last century. Animals cannot make PUFAs, so Firebrand Meats raises pork and chicken that are nearly free of them. “You are what your animals eat.” Brad has a genetics degree from Cornell, a certificate from The French Culinary Institute, has studied cancer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and worked as a programmer for the Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project. He spent the last 15 years raising rotationally grazed pastured pork on his farm in upstate New York while running a butcher shop, local food restaurant, and USDA-inspected meat processing facility.

Sebastian Lenk interviews Kevin Stock on the intriguing dedication he has towards health optimization and his extraordinary ability to achieve a work-life balance that is maximizing the positive impact of his professional and personal life.

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00:00 Introducing Kevin Stock

02:05 How to Profit from Creativity: Entrepreneurship

07:00 Rationality: Balancing Freedom and Safety in The Modern World

17:55 The Psychology of Motivation & Creativity in Futurism

24:40 About the Social Dynamics of Capitalism 

34:50 How Dental Hygiene is Connected to Metabolic Health 

40:00 Mouth vs. Nasal Breathing

44:40 On Breathwork, Sleep, Nutrition & Exercise

51:30 Longevity: Infant Mortality & Metabolic Syndrome

56:00 Further Resources

“Dr. Kevin Stock, a strict carnivore, has been passionate about health and fitness for two decades. He was the founder, CEO of Muscle Science, a national level physique competitor, and self-experimental researcher and scientist. He began his professional career as a Dental Sleep Medicine dentist where he treated Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) in his private practice. From there he invented the NED Device, an intranasal device designed to treat snoring and OSA. He is the author of the novella “Yourdrum” and soon to be released “Meat Health: The Carnivore Diet – The Hunt to Become Superhuman.” Currently, Dr. Stock is the founder and CEO at Scriptis, Meat Health, and NED. He is an active writer, reader, and researcher on topics from health and fitness to bitcoin and blockchain to science and philosophy.”

This episode focuses on the impact of artificial toxins in our environment on humans. Andreas Breitfeld explains the underlying science of electric and magnetic fields as well as artificial light and how harmful exposure can be prevented, mitigated and treated.

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00:00 Introducing Andreas Breitfeld

11:30 Deep Dive Into EMFs: Sources, Risks & 

23:00 5G: A Sacrifice of Health for the Sake of Technology

31:28 How to Mitigate the Damage of a Flight

46:20 Further Information

Through extensive research and development, Breitfeld Biohacking has pioneered cutting-edge strategies to shield you from harmful environmental hazards. It is our goal to empower you to be able to protect and shield your entire biological system against the harmful effects of modern life - both internally and externally - and to support you in optimising your physical and mental health. https://www.breitfeld-biohacking.com/

This episode focuses on the impact of artificial toxins in our environment on humans. Andreas Breitfeld explains the underlying science of electric and magnetic fields as well as artificial light and how harmful exposure can be prevented, mitigated, and treated.

00:00 Introducing Andreas Breitfeld

11:30 Deep Dive Into EMFs: Sources, Risks &

23:00 5G: A Sacrifice of Health for the Sake of Technology

31:28 How to Mitigate the Damage of a Flight

46:20 Further Information

In this episode, I invite Brian Sanders to dismantle the poor information surrounding the scientific field of fitness and how we can restore the scientific process. We discuss the validity of claims of corruption and fraud within this space and go on to offer our solution of individualistic choice.

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00:00 Introducing Brian Sanders 

01:15 Tragic Faults of Healthcare

07:00 Objective Research: On Bias, Humility & Love

10:40 Propaganda. Or, How Science is Manipulated

21:30 How Good Willed People Do Bad

24:20 Dietary & Environmental Sustainability

34:10 The Compound Effect of Health

37:50 On Macronutrients: Gluconeogenesis & The Utility of Fat

41:00 Further Resources

Brian Sanders is the filmmaker behind the Food Lies documentary, host of the top 5 nutrition podcast Peak Human, and an international speaker. He graduated from UCLA with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He works as a Health Coach at Evolve Healthcare and co-founded the health education company Sapien. He also works to spread the awareness of regenerative agriculture and increase access to well-raised animal products through his company Nose to Tail.

This is a conversation with Jennifer Anju Grossman on how the philosophical implications of Ayn Rand’s novels & literature relate to modern life. 

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00:00 Introduction

04:20 The Value of Implicit Understanding

12:15 On Philosophical Education 

19:15 An Analysis of the Spread of “Slave Morality”

25:45 Transcending Ressentiment for Success

29:00 A Critique of Superficial Arguing

45:20 Morality and The Pursuit of Happiness

52:10 On Identity Politics, Diversity & Intersectionality  

Jennifer Anju Grossman, a former Senior Vice President at Dole Food Company, became the CEO of the Atlas Society on March 1st, 2016. Jennifer Grossman has spent decades helping people to live freer, healthier lives. She launched the Dole Nutrition Institute — a research and education organization — at the behest of Dole Chairman David H. Murdock. She continued this agenda as Health Editor of Laura Ingraham's new lifestyle site, LifeZette. Previously Grossman served as Director of Education at the Cato Institute, and worked closely with the late philanthropist Theodore J. Forstmann to launch the Children's Scholarship Fund. A speechwriter for President George H. W. Bush, Grossman has written for both national and local publications."The principles of Objectivism, the philosophy rooted in reality, reason, and individualism, has never been more needed — nor more neglected,” says Grossman. “This is the perfect moment to help the public rediscover the moral vision of Ayn Rand."

Brett Lloyd shares his mind boggling story of how he overcame a lifetime of severe depression. The implications his success has on what incredible potential each human has, given one’s ability to completely transform life.

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00:00:00 Introducing Brett Lloyd

00:01:45 A Lifetime of Depression

00:19:15 Healing through Marijuana & Nutrition

00:28:30 How Valuable of a Grateful Person is

00:29:40 The Music - Emotion Connection

00:37:35 Survival: A Blessing and a Curse

00:45:00 On Personality: How Health Changes You

01:08:00 The Carnivore Diet: Experience, Downsides & Application

01:17:30 Thoughts on the Future: An Ultimatum

01:82:00 Brett Lloyd’s Favourite Creation

In my second conversation with the editor of Modern Warrior Health, we discuss the practices of Martial Arts from both a practical and philosophical perspective. We explore the nuances of different practices in their relation to ancestral living and benefits provided in a modern environment.

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00:00 Personal Martial Arts Experience

06:00 Mental Benefits of Fighting

10:00 Sex-Differences & Self-Defense

12:30 Getting Started with MMA

28:40 The Rewards of Knowledge

38:30 The Value of Precise Goal Setting

The medical specialist Rasmus Just gets interviewed by Sebastian Lenk. They dive into the science of health optimization, biohacking, and medicine. The emphasis of the conversation lies on modern efforts of enhancing longevity, productivity, physical performance, and creativity while minimizing the potential for disease or mental illness. The guest presents his personal strategy to balance 4 children, investing, entrepreneurship, and biohacking in deeply intriguing dialogue.

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00:00 Introduction 

01:50 The Accessibility of Biohacking

09:30 Transforming Tragedy into Passion 

19:35 On Chronic Inflammation & Work-Life Balance

25:30 Corruption within the Scientific Process

26:50 The Hierarchy of Evidence 

30:00 Nutritional Basis: Why we fall for Hyperpalatable, Ultraprocessed Foods

35:15 Choosing Happiness: Health over Pleasure 

36:30 The Utility of Measurement: Oxygon, Blood Glucose, Sleep, and Genes

49:20 Biohacking for Productivity: Industriousness & Creativity

53:30 Balancing the Aspiration for Quality & Quantity of Life

61:50 A Deep Dive into A Biohacker's Personal Programm

"Rasmus Just is a Business development executive, Inventor, Entrepreneur, Strategist and Leader in the field of biohacking and life science. He has a background as PhD in molecular pharmacology with expert skills in receptor mechanics, cellular biology, health & pathology, metabolic disease understanding and deeply passionate about setting the bar extremely high in Innovation and moving boundaries by process enhanced boldness, teaming and grit. MBA from AVT business school in Copenhagen. Strong believer in collaboration and bold ambitions to develop medicines and health tech with the potential to revolutionize treatment, cure and patients lives." Extensive hands-on laboratory experience and broad understanding of the whole drug discovery value chain and significant experience in collaborative work within Industry and between Industry and academia." - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rasmusjustalk/?originalSubdomain=dk

In conversation with Kaite Moore, I explore the concept of biohacking in its basics. She shares her story of how her fascination to optimize her health with certain habits and gadgets originated and how one may apply what she has learned. I was profoundly intrigued by her genuine enthusiasm and outlook on life. 

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00:00 Introducing Katie Moore

04:45 Personality: Extraversion, Perfectionism & Bravery 

09:15 Education: The Importance of Authenticity

16:50 Biohacking 101 

24:10 On the Power of Intuition

27:10 Incremental Progress: Adherence, Education & Quantifiability

34:20 A Lighthearted View on the Pursuit of Longevity

41:00 Stacking Habits for Spiritual & Physical Health

51:20 Further Resources