Disclaimer: on Fridays I'm sharing the 5 best links to get healthier, happier and smarter each week. eg. Walking 90 minutes a week makes you live 14% longer, WTF!?. Tell your parents to GET THAT WALK IN! Alternatively, unsub for eternal sadness.
1. NIH-Funded "Food Pyramid" Rates Lucky Charms Healthier Than Steak
I spent the last several months going deep on what it means to actually be healthy. Both of my parents survived cancer. I've had it run in my family for multiple generations, and I've also had my own health complications. There's so much crap out there that confuses people on what is actually healthy. The Munger-ism around show me the incentive really applies here. Companies behind food studies pump $12 of R&D dollars for every $1 of actual R&D dollars. What do you think they're going to say? That their foods that create billions are bad for you? No of course not. It's similar to doctors saying that Camel cigarettes are great for you (WTF?). And a prime example of this is one of the largest institutions claiming that Lucky Charms, a processed, sugary, marshmallow breakfast food is healthier for you than steak. It's just wild and goes to show you that big food is the real deal. You don't have to put on a tinfoil hat. You just have to do your own research.
2. Cost of healthcare will contribute to economic loss of 47.5T in loss in two decades.
This was from a TED talk that I saw which takes the inverse of deaths in productivity and then forecasts the loss in productivity and the loss in GDP added to the economy. Kind of a crazy thing. I know that the cost is $150 billion a year because 2 out of 3 adults and 1 out of 3 children are overweight or obese. Here are the links to back that up. We're literally eating ourselves!
3. You live 14% longer if you exercise just 90 minutes a week!
If you want to live 14% longer, you need to be doing 90 minutes of cardio per week. That's nothing. If you split that across the week, it's a matter of just taking a walk after every lunch that you have, or when you wake up, go for a walk. That's it. If you did 15 minutes you'd nail this protocol. But a majority of America doesn't even do that. It's wild. This was one of many, many snippets taken from Dr. Peter Attia's book called "Outlive". If you have not gotten a copy of that book, I highly recommend it. It's kind of like the Bible when it comes to longevity, general health, and his thesis on medicine 3.0 is phenomenal. The way that he can take the complexities and frankly the boring partof the health industry and makes them approachable and bite-sized is awesome. I've followed Peter Attia for a number of years. He's been on Tim Ferriss' podcast as well as Andrew Huberman's.
4. Going Raw Vegan makes your teeth fall out
This is a quote from a book I'm reading called Death by Food Pyramid. I saw a copy on the cooler of a farmer who my fiance and I buy raw organic milk from. I picked up a copy from Amazon and in the introduction the author talks about his introduction into health fads and how it was a big fad to be full vegan. One of the trends was that the vegans would be going through some of the symptoms of malnutrition but were considering it normal. Those who were a part of the tribe of vegans, of raw vegans that is, would tell you that that's just part of it. For instance if you were shivering when it's 75 degrees inside, no that can't be bad. That's not the side effects of the vegan diet. That's you just detoxifying and it gets even crazier where all the blood work that comes back is horrible but the person in the book is convinced that the doctor is wrong. Finally the protagonist goes to the dentist and the dentist is in shock when working on the author's teeth saying he's "never seen teeth like this in all of his years for such a young person" He had 17 cavities and the teeth were soft because of the diet, the lack of calcium, the lack of protein, the lack of fats. Thought this was crazy.
5. Alex Hormozi Full Body Workout
This is the dude that looks like a silverback gorilla. He's jacked hit the content marketing scene hard. He is brash, but there's validity to what he preaches. When it comes to exercising, proof's in the pudding. You can't fake physique. Sure, you could take performance-enhancing drugs, but you still can't fake the work. Being in good shape is the physical manifestation of discipline. It requires not only a strict training program and consistency over multiple years, but also a good diet and good sleep habits. Alex Hormozi's full body routine was something I watched in a YouTube video with Chris Williamson, who has his own podcast called Modern Wisdom. This is not recommended for someone just starting to exercise and lift. Alex has been doing this forever. He's got like 20 years of lifting, and I've got a good amount of lifting. So I just wanted to give this a try where his methodology is more based on pick and choose the parts of your body that you need to work on. So an example of this is he starts every exercise with calves, which is crazy. He'll do 100 reps of calves, and that's because he doesn't have big calves. But if you're going to train them every single day, then surely your calves will grow and take off. I've modified this for me to include more chest because I have a weak chest.
