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In this wide-ranging Q&A, I explore reinvention, enduring skills for the age of AI, friendship, mental health, fitness, language-learning, privacy, cognitive longevity, and more.

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Want to hear another round of me answering your questions? Listen to my previous Q&A episode, in which I covered the coming AI tsunami and how to build an offline advantage, book recommendations, spotting psychedelic red flags, treating courage as a learnable skill, and much more.

This episode is brought to you by Momentous Creatine! I’ve used Momentous Creatine for a long time, as it’s been one of the highest-quality creatine options available. Now, Momentous has taken that quality even further with Signature Spec Creatine, their most advanced version yet. Signature Spec is manufactured in a pharmaceutical facility using reverse-osmosis water purification.  It’s verified through a six-stage testing process with four independent agencies—delivering 10x fewer impurities, 2–5x tighter heavy-metal limits, and added PFAS and microplastics screening. 

The ultrafine powder also mixes cleanly, with no grit. Creatine supports strength, power, lean muscle, and recovery, with growing research on enhanced memory and cognitive performance. Head to LiveMomentous.com/Tim and use code TIM for 14% off your first one-time order or a total of 35% off your first subscription order.

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The Cash Account, which is not a deposit account, is offered by Wealthfront Brokerage LLC (“Wealthfront Brokerage”), member FINRA/SIPC. Wealthfront Brokerage is not a bank. The 3.30% Base APY on cash deposits is as of January 30, 2026, is representative, subject to change, and requires no minimum balance. Wealthfront Brokerage sweeps cash balances to Program Banks, where it earns the variable base APY. The Direct Deposit Plus Investing Program from Wealthfront Advisers LLC and Wealthfront Brokerage LLC provides eligible clients a 0.25% APY increase above the base APY on eligible Cash Account balances (up to an overall boosted rate of 4.30% for a limited time when including the three month 0.75% APY boost for new Cash Account clients) when you direct deposit $1,000/month plus maintain a funded investing account. Wealthfront may change or end the program at any time and determine eligibility at its discretion. Terms and conditions apply. Full details for both promotions at wealthfront.com/promo-terms.

Tim Ferriss, who is not a client, receives cash compensation from Wealthfront Brokerage LLC for advertising and holds a non-controlling equity interest in the corporate parent of Wealthfront Brokerage LLC, which creates an incentive that results in a conflict of interest. Tim expresses his own opinions and Wealthfront does not endorse, sponsor, or promote them. This ad may not reflect the experience of other Cash Account clients, and similar outcomes are not guaranteed. Investment advisory services are provided by Wealthfront Advisers LLC, an SEC-registered investment adviser. Securities investments: not bank deposits, not bank-guaranteed or FDIC-insured, and may lose value. See full disclosures here. 

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Andrew Huberman, Ph.D., (IG: @hubermanlab) is a neuroscientist and tenured professor in the Departments of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology at Stanford University School of Medicine, where he runs the Huberman Lab. His research spans brain development, visual perception and repair from blinding diseases, the neuroscience of stress and resilience, and neural plasticity. He has published more than 75 peer-reviewed articles in top journals including Nature, Science, Cell, and Neuron, and his honors include the Cogan Award, the McKnight Neuroscience Scholar Award, and the Pew Biomedical Scholar Award.

In 2021, he launched the Huberman Lab podcast, which became and remains the most popular health and science podcast in the world. Dr. Huberman is the co-founder of Scicomm Media, the company behind the podcasts Huberman Lab, Perform with Dr. Andy Galpin, and David Senra.

He is the author of Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body.

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“But what is failure? If somebody really put a gun to your head and said, ‘Curl that bar one more time or I’m going to kill your family,’ you’d curl the bar.”

— Dr. Andrew Huberman

“Not only am I not going to run for office, I’m running from office.”

— Dr. Andrew Huberman

“If the anterior mid-cingulate cortex or the posterior insula gets 10% thicker, great. But if you’re not making better decisions, frankly, who gives a shit?”

— Dr. Andrew Huberman

“There does seem to be something almost spiritual about whether or not we’re funneling energy into things that really reflect us at our best … versus competition. Competition, it turns out, is what destroys people.”

— Dr. Andrew Huberman

“It’s as if I was dying of thirst and I’m trying to reach for this and I can’t get it. That’s what grief really is.”

— Dr. Andrew Huberman

Want to hear another episode with someone who built a legendary physique on brutally minimalist training? Listen to my conversation with six-time Mr. Olympia Dorian Yates, in which we discussed high-intensity training and going to failure, his relationship to pain, how he warms up, specific workouts, common mistakes and misconceptions, self-talk, his favorite books, and much more.

This episode is brought to you by Momentous Creatine! I’ve used Momentous Creatine for a long time, as it’s been one of the highest-quality creatine options available. Now, Momentous has taken that quality even further with Signature Spec Creatine, their most advanced version yet. Signature Spec is manufactured in a pharmaceutical facility using reverse-osmosis water purification.  It’s verified through a six-stage testing process with four independent agencies—delivering 10x fewer impurities, 2–5x tighter heavy-metal limits, and added PFAS and microplastics screening. 

The ultrafine powder also mixes cleanly, with no grit. Creatine supports strength, power, lean muscle, and recovery, with growing research on enhanced memory and cognitive performance. Head to LiveMomentous.com/Tim and use code TIM for 14% off your first one-time order or a total of 35% off your first subscription order.

This episode is brought to you by Eight Sleep. Temperature is one of the main causes of poor sleep, and heat is my personal nemesis. But a few years ago, I started using the Pod Cover, and it has transformed my sleep. It fits over your existing mattress and cools or heats each side of the bed independently. I run hot. My lovely partner tends to run cold. With the Pod, we each get the temperature we want. No more fighting over the thermostat.

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This episode is brought to you by Helix Sleep! Helix was named best overall mattress of 2026 by Forbes, Wired, and Sleepopolis; best mattress for couples by Oprah Daily; and one of the most trusted brands of 2026 by USA Today. With Helix, there’s a specific mattress to meet each and every body’s unique comfort needs. Just take their quiz—only two minutes to complete—that matches your body type and sleep preferences to the perfect mattress for you. They have a 10-year warranty, and you get to try it out for a hundred nights, risk-free. They’ll even pick it up from you if you don’t love it. And now, Helix is offering listeners 20% off sitewide for a limited time at HelixSleep.com/Tim.

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In this edition of The Random Show, Tim Ferriss and Kevin Rose reunite over tequila to talk Zen retreats, learning to rock climb at (almost) 50, mortality and grief, why you should stop saying “one day,” AI predictions, and much more.

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Want to hear the last time Kevin and I got together for a Random Show? Listen to our Couch Edition, in which Kevin and I discussed our Zen retreat with Henry Shukman, DIY vagus nerve stimulation, my Bertolotti’s Syndrome back-pain breakthrough, balance boards and slacklining, Emil Abrahamsson’s tendon-strengthening protocol, photobiomodulation and urolithin A for mitochondria, blood-flow-restriction training, the Norwegian 4×4 protocol, vintage Japanese finds on Etsy, Kevin’s hummingbird-feeder obsession, and much more.

This episode is brought to you by Wealthfront! Wealthfront is a financial services platform that offers services to help you save and invest your money. Right now, your cash can earn 3.30% APY—that’s the Annual Percentage Yield—with the Wealthfront Cash Account from its network of program banks. That’s 8 times more interest than a typical savings account at a bank, according to FDIC.gov as of 05/18/2026 (Wealthfront’s 3.30% APY vs. 0.38% average savings rate). Right now, for a limited time, Wealthfront is offering new clients that use my sign-up link an additional 0.75% boost over the base rate for three months, meaning you can get up to 4.05% APY, limited to a $150,000 balance. Terms & Conditions apply. Visit Wealthfront.com/Tim to get started. 

The Cash Account, which is not a deposit account, is offered by Wealthfront Brokerage LLC (“Wealthfront Brokerage”), member FINRA/SIPC. Wealthfront Brokerage is not a bank. The 3.30% Base APY on cash deposits is as of January 30, 2026, is representative, subject to change, and requires no minimum balance. Wealthfront Brokerage sweeps cash balances to Program Banks, where it earns the variable base APY. The Direct Deposit Plus Investing Program from Wealthfront Advisers LLC and Wealthfront Brokerage LLC provides eligible clients a 0.25% APY increase above the base APY on eligible Cash Account balances (up to an overall boosted rate of 4.30% for a limited time when including the three month 0.75% APY boost for new Cash Account clients) when you direct deposit $1,000/month plus maintain a funded investing account. Wealthfront may change or end the program at any time and determine eligibility at its discretion. Terms and conditions apply. Full details for both promotions at wealthfront.com/promo-terms.

Tim Ferriss, who is not a client, receives cash compensation from Wealthfront Brokerage LLC for advertising and holds a non-controlling equity interest in the corporate parent of Wealthfront Brokerage LLC, which creates an incentive that results in a conflict of interest. Tim expresses his own opinions and Wealthfront does not endorse, sponsor, or promote them. This ad may not reflect the experience of other Cash Account clients, and similar outcomes are not guaranteed. Investment advisory services are provided by Wealthfront Advisers LLC, an SEC-registered investment adviser. Securities investments: not bank deposits, not bank-guaranteed or FDIC-insured, and may lose value. See full disclosures here. 

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DISCLAIMER FROM TIM FERRISS: I am not an investment adviser. Nor is Kevin Rose. All opinions are mine alone. Or his. There are risks involved in placing any investment in securities or in Bitcoin or in cryptocurrencies or in anything. None of the information presented herein is intended to form the basis of any offer or recommendation or have any regard to the investment objectives, financial situation, or needs of any specific person, and that includes you, my dear listener or reader. Everything you’re going to hear is for informational entertainment purposes only.

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Guy Oseary (@guyoseary) has been spotting talent before anyone else could see it for nearly four decades. Under his leadership at Maverick Records, Maverick sold more than 100 million albums. Guy has managed some of the biggest names in music, including Madonna, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and U2, and was named Variety‘s Music Mogul of the Year in 2022. He executive produced Twilight, which became one of the most successful franchises in movie history, generating more than $3.5B.  

Guy was also an early investor in Vita Coco and co-founded A-Grade Investments and then Sound Ventures, now with nearly $2 billion under management. At A-Grade, his hits included Airbnb, Uber, and Spotify. Sound Ventures launched with less than $100M and has since had 86 exits and 26 IPOs.

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“Sometimes having no options and no choice is really the best option.”

— Guy Oseary

“It always starts with the magic. I don’t care if you’re a tech company or whatever it is—a film, a product, a book—magic. You’ve got to have magic. Something has to pull you in.”

— Guy Oseary

“In my mind, every founder I invest in, I look at them like they are the rock star. I go, ‘That person has music they want to share with the world.'”

— Guy Oseary

“Fair use is not fair.”

— Guy Oseary

“I don’t feel accomplished. I don’t feel at all. I feel like I still have so much to prove and so much to do.”

— Guy Oseary

Want to hear another episode with someone who has a preternatural gift for spotting world-class talent? Listen to my most recent conversation with legendary music producer Rick Rubin, in which we discussed timeless methods for unlocking creativity, secrets hidden in plain sight, the future with AI, working with strong personalities, breaking out of “the sameness,” reinvention versus going narrow, and much more.

This episode is brought to you by AG1. I’ve taken AG1 for more than a decade. Longtime listeners have heard me call it my nutritional insurance. Here’s the news: they recently launched AG1 Pro, designed for people focused on performance and longevity. I’ll be traveling soon, and I’m throwing this in my bag to cover my bases while I travel. Past a certain age, maintaining lean muscle becomes priority number one, and AG1 Pro is formulated to support exactly that. It includes HMB, a clinically studied compound that supports protein synthesis and helps reduce protein breakdown, plus zinc carnosine to support the gut lining. Remember: training is only half the equation. Recovery is where the work compounds, and AG1 Pro is built to support it. It’s NSF Certified for Sport, so what’s on the label is what’s in the pouch. Get your free AG1 Pro Yeti Shaker in the Welcome Kit at Drinkag1.com/Tim.

This episode is brought to you by Momentous Creatine! I’ve used Momentous Creatine for a long time, as it’s been one of the highest-quality creatine options available. Now, Momentous has taken that quality even further with Signature Spec Creatine, their most advanced version yet. Signature Spec is manufactured in a pharmaceutical facility using reverse-osmosis water purification.  It’s verified through a six-stage testing process with four independent agencies—delivering 10x fewer impurities, 2–5x tighter heavy-metal limits, and added PFAS and microplastics screening. 

The ultrafine powder also mixes cleanly, with no grit. Creatine supports strength, power, lean muscle, and recovery, with growing research on enhanced memory and cognitive performance. Head to LiveMomentous.com/Tim and use code TIM for 14% off your first one-time order or a total of 35% off your first subscription order.

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“Coca is to cocaine what potatoes are to vodka”

— Wade Davis with Dr. Andrew Weil on the health benefits, sacred history, and unjust prohibition of the most misunderstood plant on Earth

Dr. Andrew Weil (@DrWeil) is a pioneer in integrative medicine and founder of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, where he holds the Lovell-Jones Endowed Chair and serves as Clinical Professor of Medicine and Professor of Public Health.

Wade Davis (@wadedavisofficial) is an ethnographer, writer, photographer, and filmmaker. From 2014 to 2024 he served as Professor of Anthropology and BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia, and from 2000 to 2013 as Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society.

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“If I told you there was a plant that you could take that gave you a slight lightness of being, a slight kind of skip in your step, a sense of well-being that eliminated all these sort of existential little neuroses that we all suffer as conscious beings, and it allowed you to focus at task, whatever that creative task was, whether it was a spinning of wool or the writing of digital code, and you could sit at task all day long concentrating on task with immense focus, with no sense of being under the influence of any plant, nothing as harsh as a second cup of coffee, and you found yourself at the end of the day ready to go home, have dinner, and do it all over again the next day—the truth is that coca has this capacity to improve our lives.”

— Wade Davis

“[Coca is] as important to that [Indigenous Andes] population as peppermint and chamomile are in European medicine. It’s their major medicinal plant.”

— Andrew Weil

“Coca has been used in South America by virtually every culture of the Andean and Northwest Amazon for 8,000 years. And during that time, there’s been no evidence whatsoever of any toxicity, let alone addiction.”

— Wade Davis

“In coca, there are 14 alkaloids. Cocaine is one of them. They all have similar chemical structures, and none of them have ever been studied. Once we isolated cocaine from the leaf, everybody lost interest in everything else.”

— Andrew Weil

“Coca is to cocaine what potatoes are to vodka.”

— Wade Davis

“As the anthropologist Catherine Allen said, to deny people coca in the Andes is not like denying the Germans beer or the British tea or the French coffee. It’s actually an act of cultural genocide because you cannot be runakuna, you cannot be of the Andes, of Pachamama, if you do not use the leaves.”

— Wade Davis

“I think that coca is the most perfect example of how we’ve gone wrong in our relations with the natural world, really failing to see that plant for what it is, confusing it with this one component of it, and then getting ourselves in enormous amounts of trouble.”

— Andrew Weil

“I feel that liberating coca is the final act of my professional life. I feel that very sincerely.”

— Wade Davis

Want to hear another episode that untangles the curse from the blessing of coca? Listen to this one with ethnobotanist Dr. Mark Plotkin about the 8,000-year history of the coca leaf, the varieties of coca and their uses, coca-leaf bonding among the Kogis of Northern Colombia, surviving altitude sickness in the Andes, the adventures of Richard Evans Schultes, ayahuasca and shamanic knowledge, the biocultural conservation of the rainforest, and much more.

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Sebastian Mallaby (@scmallaby) is the Paul A. Volcker senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and the author of six books, including More Money Than God, The Power Law, The Man Who Knew, and The World’s Banker. 

His latest book is The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence.

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“These machines will be smarter than us. They will want to survive. And they can be deceptive, they can obfuscate, they can go behind your back, pretend they’re doing one thing and then actually do another. All of this has been shown in all the tests of the models. And so we put those things together, I think your probability of doom cannot be zero.”

— Sebastian Mallaby

“For humans, to contemplate annihilation is absurd and the absurd is a close cousin of humor.”

— Sebastian Mallaby

“All through this topic there is this religious expression because religion is the lexicon for dealing with something that we find too mysterious to really understand.”

— Sebastian Mallaby

“I think any reasonable person should be both excited and a bit frightened, and that’s just the nature of it. It sounds contradictory, but actually, that’s the only rational response.”

— Sebastian Mallaby

“We only need to be ahead for the next couple of years, because by 2028 we will get to recursive self-improvement, where the frontier model codes, by itself, the next frontier model, and progress just goes vertical. And at that point, with recursive self-improvement, we’re done, the race is over. Whoever comes first at that point, that’s it.”

— Sebastian Mallaby

Want to hear another conversation with a legendary investor mapping the AI race and the US–China contest? Listen to my conversation with Benchmark general partner Bill Gurley, in which we discussed the AI bubble debate, circular deals and SPV chaos, angel investing in the AI era, his ten-day deep dive across six Chinese cities, the Xiaomi SU7 factory tour, Lei Jun as “the Steve Jobs of China,” America vs. China (lawyers vs. engineers), regulatory capture, why the IPO market is broken, stablecoins putting Visa and Mastercard on notice, and much more.

This episode is brought to you by AG1. I’ve taken AG1 for more than a decade. Longtime listeners have heard me call it my nutritional insurance. Here’s the news: they’ve just launched AG1 Pro, designed for people focused on performance and longevity. I’ll be traveling soon, and I’m throwing this in my bag to cover my bases while I travel. Past a certain age, maintaining lean muscle becomes priority number one, and AG1 Pro is formulated to support exactly that. It includes HMB, a clinically studied compound that supports protein synthesis and helps reduce protein breakdown, plus zinc carnosine to support the gut lining. Remember: training is only half the equation. Recovery is where the work compounds, and AG1 Pro is built to support it. It’s NSF Certified for Sport, so what’s on the label is what’s in the pouch. Get your free AG1 Pro Yeti Shaker in the Welcome Kit at Drinkag1.com/Tim.

This episode is brought to you by Eight Sleep. Temperature is one of the main causes of poor sleep, and heat is my personal nemesis. But a few years ago, I started using the Pod Cover, and it has transformed my sleep. Eight Sleep has launched their newest generation of the Pod: Pod 5. It cools, it heats, and now it elevates, automatically. With the best temperature performance to date, the Pod 5 ensures you and your partner stay cool in the heat and cozy warm in the cold. Go to eightsleep.com/Tim and use code TIM to get $350 off the Pod—which includes the Cover, Hub, and Base—for a limited time! Click here to claim this deal and unlock your full potential through optimal sleep.

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The Cash Account, which is not a deposit account, is offered by Wealthfront Brokerage LLC (“Wealthfront Brokerage”), member FINRA/SIPC. Wealthfront Brokerage is not a bank. The 3.30% Base APY on cash deposits is as of January 30, 2026, is representative, subject to change, and requires no minimum balance. Wealthfront Brokerage sweeps cash balances to Program Banks, where it earns the variable base APY. The Direct Deposit Plus Investing Program from Wealthfront Advisers LLC and Wealthfront Brokerage LLC provides eligible clients a 0.25% APY increase above the base APY on eligible Cash Account balances (up to an overall boosted rate of 4.30% for a limited time when including the three month 0.75% APY boost for new Cash Account clients) when you direct deposit $1,000/month plus maintain a funded investing account. Wealthfront may change or end the program at any time and determine eligibility at its discretion. Terms and conditions apply. Full details for both promotions at wealthfront.com/promo-terms.

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Max Levchin (@mlevchin) is a serial entrepreneur, computer scientist, philanthropist, and active investor in more than 100 startups. He is the founder and CEO of Affirm, the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth. He is also the co-founder and chairman of Glow, a data-driven fertility company. Both companies were created and launched from his San Francisco-based innovation lab, SciFi VC (formerly HVF [Hard, Valuable, Fun]). Max was one of the original co-founders of PayPal, where he served as the chief technology officer until its acquisition by eBay in 2002. In 2002, he was named to MIT Technology Review’s TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world as well as Innovator of the Year.

Prior to HVF, Max founded, and was CEO of, Slide, a personal media-sharing service, which was acquired by Google in 2010. Max also helped create Yelp, where he served as chairman of its board of directors from its founding in 2005 until 2015. He served on the board for Yahoo! from 2012 to 2015.

Max was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, before moving to the United States and settling in Chicago in 1991. He holds a B.S. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he founded and led four other technology startups.

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“The attempt to impress your mate on a daily basis is the secret to the best marriage.”

— Max Levchin

“The best recipe we’ve discovered as humanity is capitalism, a force for constant creative destruction where you build the next thing better than the other guy.”

— Max Levchin

“It’s okay to make a little bit less money if you are able to create something that’s societally more successful, more important.”

— Max Levchin

“If you tell an entrepreneur over and over again, ‘This thing will never work unless someone does X,’ the natural response is, ‘Well, I will do X and see if it works.'”

— Max Levchin

“The job apocalypse people are proclaiming is so goofy. There’s so much opportunity to build so many exciting things for everyone, not just a Silicon Valley startup.”

— Max Levchin

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“What I want the world to understand is that we are standing right now on the precipice of a revolution in genetic medicine.” — Jake Becraft

Jake Becraft is the CEO and co-founder of Strand Therapeutics, a company building one of the most advanced programmable genetic medicine platforms in biotechnology. Under his leadership, Strand is redefining what RNA medicines can do by enabling cell-selective targeting and therapeutic payload delivery inside the body, unlocking a new class of precision genetic therapies. He has guided the company from its founding vision through platform development and into clinical translation, positioning Strand at the forefront of next generation RNA therapeutics.

Beyond his role at Strand, Dr. Becraft is an influential voice in the national biotechnology landscape. He engages and advises policymakers, defense leaders, and industry stakeholders on biosecurity, innovation strategy, and strengthening American competitiveness in advanced biotechnology. Trained as a synthetic biologist at MIT, he operates at the intersection of science, entrepreneurship, and policy, focused on building both the companies and the institutional frameworks required to secure the future of programmable medicine.

He received his Ph.D. in Biological Engineering and Synthetic Biology from MIT. He serves on the board of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) and the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council (MassBio).

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“Our goal at Strand, and our challenge, is building drugs today that impact patients’ lives. We’re not a research institute. Our goal is not to do really cool research on mice and join the ranks of people who have cured mice of cancer. There’s millions of them. There could be a Nobel Prize every five minutes for someone who’s cured a mouse of cancer. Our goal is to cure human beings of human-being cancer. Our goal is to cure human beings of human-being diseases, and do so in a safe, effective, scalable way that impacts a person’s life as little as possible. And that is what we’re building.”

— Jacob Becraft

“What I want the world to understand is that we are standing right now on the precipice of a revolution in genetic medicine.”

— Jacob Becraft

“Everyone wants to cure cancer. I don’t need a story behind curing cancer. I just need a story about how we’re going to get there and how curing cancer is actually going to be one step on the road to solving disease writ large.”

— Jacob Becraft

“What we are in the midst of right now is the United States massively losing to China. China has built an industrialized version of clinical trial infrastructure for first-in-human trials that is so efficient and massively quick that they’re just able to go faster and cheaper into the thing that matters most, which is first-in-human trials. So the United States is actually in the process of very rapidly, as a country, falling behind China because what started as a place for American companies to come run clinical trials to get data and then take it to the FDA and then do larger trials in the United States has now created a flywheel structure within China where now just Chinese companies run their clinical trials faster than the American companies and then bring their Chinese-discovered drugs to the United States.”

— Jacob Becraft

“No one will learn until they care.”

— Jacob Becraft

“The biotechnology industry will be dragged kicking and screaming into the future, or it will be built up in a new way from new players.”

— Jacob Becraft

“If some bullshit hype filters into this, it’s worth it in order to take the correct swings at the truly big ideas, because one out of 10 transformations is better than seven out of 10 logical steps forward.”

— Jacob Becraft

“In low odds games, games where there’s a very low odds of success statistically, if you don’t go 100 percent all in, the odds will be zero.”

— Jacob Becraft

“When I look at some of those great investors who have made these high-conviction bets, it seems like they’re able to identify this moment in time for companies that is post-conviction, pre-consensus. The ones who know we’re post-conviction, we’re no longer saying, ‘Can we do this?’ We’re like, ‘Oh, my God, this is going to work.’ But it’s pre-consensus because not everyone has caught on yet or not everyone is convinced.”

— Jacob Becraft

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Sami Inkinen (@samiinkinen) is a Finnish-born, Stanford-trained entrepreneur and the founder and CEO/president of Trulia and Virta Health. Virta is on a mission to reverse metabolic disease in one billion people using technology, AI, and nutrition. Previously, Sami held roles at Microsoft, Nokia, and McKinsey & Company, after starting his career at a nuclear power plant in Finland. Sami holds an MS in engineering physics from the Helsinki University of Technology and an MBA from Stanford University.

A world-class endurance athlete, Sami is a triathlon age-group world champion and an 8-hour, 24-minute Ironman finisher, having completed the Hawaii Ironman World Championship seven times.

Sami also founded Fat Chance Row to raise awareness of the dangers of sugar and its connection to diabetes, rowing 2,750 miles from California to Hawaii with his wife—completely unsupported—while breaking a world record in the process.

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The content of this episode is for informational purposes only. Neither Sami Inkinen nor Tim Ferriss is a medical professional, and nothing discussed here should be taken as medical advice or a substitute for consultation with a qualified healthcare provider.

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“Structure allows flexibility and spontaneity.”

— Sami Inkinen

“Mood follows movement and motion.”

— Sami Inkinen

“The biggest secret is saying no to 99 percent of the things that many people consider ‘normal’ so what you care [about] gets done.”

— Sami Inkinen

“Truck drivers, their concept of a lunch is McDonald’s. We can’t tell them, ‘Oh, here’s the list. Go shop Whole Foods or Erewhon, and then go home and cook at home.’ It’s like, ‘Okay, McDonald’s it is. We’re going to reverse your diabetes on McDonald’s diet.’ And by the way, we do that.“

— Sami Inkinen

“The adherence of Virta patients, again, which are real Americans, not Samis, real Americans, is twice as high at one year as taking a GLP-1 drug. We have 83 percent adherence retention of patients at one year. And look at any of the publicly available data: people stick to GLP-1s like 40 percent, maybe 50 percent, 30 to 50 percent.”

— Sami Inkinen

“GLP-1s 100 percent affect your appetite. They change how much you eat, so you eat less, but they alone don’t change what you eat. … And if you don’t change what you eat, you’re not going to be perfectly or even optimally metabolically healthy.”

— Sami Inkinen

“Type 2 diabetes can be reversed systematically, not miraculously. And so hopefully I can be a messenger of hope that these conditions are reversible, especially after I already disclosed that I used to live thinking it’s your fault, it’s your fault, you are just lazy, you don’t have the willpower. But that’s not true. Nobody gets these things because they’re lazy or they decide. It’s because of our food environment. And the food environment kind of slowly but surely poisons us. But if you know a few little tricks and changes, you can actually turn back the clock.”

— Sami Inkinen

“The love language of American capitalism is dollars. And so when you can help someone else to make money, you’re going to be very, very successful.”

— Sami Inkinen

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Jerzy Gregorek (@TheHappyBody) is a 4x World Weightlifting Champion, co-founder of UCLA’s weightlifting team, and co-creator, with his wife Aniela, of the Happy Body program. 

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“I believe that everybody can improve. So it really doesn’t matter for me [if it’s] cerebral palsy or not. If it’s chronic fatigue, it can happen. If it’s fibromyalgia, the progress can happen.”

— Jerzy Gregorek

“[If] we exercise without mission or purpose or goals, we can exercise for 10 years and never change.”

— Jerzy Gregorek

“With cerebral palsy, I think that the focus is not athletic focus. The focus is to comfort them. So not really improve them … just to comfort them so they have the safe life and they are okay, I guess. That’s probably the difference here.”

— Jerzy Gregorek

“I saw the connection between the squat, the bench, the numbers, the words, the beliefs, and philosophy. I saw connections everywhere, and I created the challenges, the hard choices, every time, everywhere. For me, bench pressing, going from 100 pounds to 102 was not different than knowing what is 15 plus 17.”

— Jerzy Gregorek

“With cerebral palsy, they have different conditions, different beginnings. The most important [thing] is to find where is the beginning. Where to start is one of the major things because usually I think that we want too much. It’s not going to happen. So we need to find this very tiny thing.”

— Jerzy Gregorek

“We have to remember that we are facilitators. We are not really cultures that created the powerful human being. That powerful human being actually created themselves. And we have to create a place where it’s athletically aligned with athleticism and not care only.”

— Jerzy Gregorek

“[Tae Jin’s father and mother] were worrying all the time what will happen if they die, what will happen if something happened to them. Now they don’t have to worry anymore. Tae Jin is completely independent. He’s in college, for Christ’s sake! Just imagine that. And a lot of that, I believe, 100 percent, that can happen with everyone.”

— Jerzy Gregorek

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