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🏠 What about fasting for autophagy:
Fasting has been all the rage for awhile now. There are 2 big reasons why:
- It stimulates autophagy (cellular cleaning mechanism)
- Research seems to show nothing but benefits
So why am I not the biggest advocate? I explain in this clip from one of our Mastermind sessions:
In the last couple minutes, I talk about the "cost / benefit" ratio of various interventions. I didn't go deep into the potential "costs" associated with excessive fasting, but one that I worry about (especially for those using fasting as a means for fat loss) is that it puts LBM at high risk and can become an obstacle to restoring metabolic health (the very thing they are trying to fix). In Section 5 of my article on protein, High Protein Diets and Longevity, I discuss this in more depth (this article is long, but if there is one section I'd recommend reading, it's this one, it's about 1/4 of the way down the page).
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🦸♂️ How to become your own superhero:
I was invited on the "Become Your Own Superhero" podcast with Laban Ditchburn. I love this podcast because it's about agency, "the capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices." ( r) In the podcast we talk about how to make the choice to get healthy, and, as Laban put it: "take over the
world" :)
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🤔 How to think for yourself:
At the core of "agency" is the ability to "think for yourself." A strange concept...I mean, who else is going to think for you? But there are some very interesting experiments that show how easily we can lose the ability to think and act for ourselves.
Dr. Stanley Milgram, now considered one of the most influential psychologist of the 20th century, designed an experiment where people were ordered to administer dangerous shocks to volunteers (they were fake shocks but the subjects giving them didn't know this).
"Contradicting the predictions of every expert he polled, Milgram found that more than seventy percent of the subjects administered what they thought might be fatal shocks to an innocent stranger...this groundbreaking work demonstrated the human tendency to obey commands issued by an authority figure."
When I read / watch these experiments, it seems all the subjects have "gut" feelings that shocking these innocent people is wrong, that they are inherently good people, but go against their human nature. It's important to stand guard your intuition and claim agency to it.
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📜 What is this article about:
This article is all over the place, yet strangely connected. I'd be hard-pressed to answer " what's it about?"
It's part self-help, part business strategy, part art, part life. Now that I write that, it's seems obvious why I liked it.
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🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:
"Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world."
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💲 How to get the most "bang for your buck" out of reading:
I'm a big fan of Preston Pysh, host of The Investor Podcast, who is a value investor (i.e. Warren Buffet disciple) turned bitcoiner. His podcast started by studying billionaire investors. In his research he compiled the books that most influenced these billionaires, and then created executive summaries of these books. Talk about getting the
most "bang for your buck" out of reading.
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⛵ Would you take a career sabbatical:
I'm not at a point in my life where a career sabbatical is something I'd even consider. I love my work. I have multi-year plans. But I do like the idea of being able to take a career sabbatical. To completely unplug. To disappear for a bit. To reset. I'm bookmarking this " how to take a sabbatical" to revisit in a few years.
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As always, it's an absolute pleasure and an honor getting to spend some time with you, hope you have a great weekend!
Kevin
A Saturday morning roundup on health and wealth, art and science, creativity and innovation, laughs and life by Kevin Stock.
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