Name: Modern Conveniences Are Making Us Weaker
Uploaded: 2021-06-18T17:35:47.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Modern Conveniences Are Making Us Weaker' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-06-18. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Modern Conveniences Are Making Us Weaker' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-06-18. Transcript available.

the Joe Rogan experience well we live in a crazy age we do it's fun but
stressful stress for a lot of people well and for your study for the study of
human life extension and anti-aging when you look at the stresses that are
completely they're very novel to the human experience like the stresses of
social media the stresses of cell phone use the stresses of blue light like
staring at screens at night like all that stuff like how much of an effect do
you think that's having on people and have we even quantified that yet we are
quantifying it and it's having a real negative effect mental health issues is
going to be the medical problem of the 21st century no question there are
companies that are doing these remote video chats with a psychologist or
psychiatrist they are booming these are the next billion-dollar companies no
yeah
I mean you want to anyone want to make money look into that but we are living
in
a stressful world we part of it's because we don't have much else to worry
about
we've gotten rid of all the major worries wolves yeah we don't have to even on
the
savannah anymore we're not gonna get picked off by a cheater well a lion
probably but we built this world we you know six million years ago the first
hominid ape-like thing was up in the tree walking around actually upright which
is
interesting right wasn't swinging from the branches that picked up a stick that
animal picked up a stick and that was put us on this treadmill where we are
today
innovation after innovation tool after tool after tool but in response our
bodies have
deteriorated we only build our bodies as much as we need to so if we've got
tools
and we can throw rocks we don't need a lot of muscles and in fact our head just
expanded so we could build better tools faster and faster and you know the
culmination of that is an iPhone but where are we going to be in another
hundred thousand years it's really scary because this treadmill we cannot get
off
it there's no going back there's no stationary because we got problems that
we've already created from our own technology that we have to solve with
better technology so that we're a species that once we've picked up that
stick we're on this path and those things that got us here there are actually
four traits that I think can think of that got us here that make us different
from all other animals those are out not just our what got us here they're our
biggest threat and but we also have to use them to get us out of this problem
and
what are those well let's see so the first one is tool making okay no big deal
we've got hands that have evolved to throw rocks shoes our feet actually are
built for shoes imagine that they're all these genes that we've our feet are
built for shoes yeah yeah our feet actually are we've had shoes for so many
years that we've got feet that fit shoes have you ever seen what it looks like
when those guys in the Amazon walk around with no feet and they develop these
hand-like feet oh they can pick up stuff oh no you have to see this because
what happens is when they walk around barefoot in the dirt for so long their
toes develop the ability to grip so they're gripping the ground so their
toes instead of being like a person wears shoes all the time where the toes are
all connected they splay out like hands that's very strange sense I want I want
that oh my friend Steve Rinella was in Guyana and he was hanging out with his
tribe and they live in the forest and like look at their feet that's
incredible maybe that's the way we should be
that's a way I think people lived when they live in the jungle forever that's
just the horror how do you say that war Ronnie this is the Ecuadorian
rainforest
these people this when you look at their feet I think it's soft ground and
they're walking around in dirt all the time and they their feet splay out and
they
develop the ability to like push off of things with their feet so it's it's the
exact opposite of the way human beings develop bunions where they smush their
feet into like these shoes that don't really fit human feet and then they get
these weird bunions where their toes are pointed towards the other toes this is
the opposite they spread out like fingers
yeah well we can trace the genetics of this we become a very weak species if
you get
into a a fight with a with you know let's say a chimp let's say a house cat
even
that no bite you off or a dog will eat your face off right we're at their mercy
but
even the strongest human cannot beat your average chimp or any chimp not even
close
pathetic so we're basically a lollipop physique we're a stick with a big head
but
that's because we've had these tools for so many years we've had fire even our
guts
have shrunken down we don't have long intestine so he put us out in the wild
we're screwed we can no longer exist in the wild yeah but I live in Boston I'm
out there in the winter for maybe 10 minutes I'm dead so that's who we are now
we are this pathetic physical species that has built tools that are got us here
but
are actually messing with our minds the blue light the chairs we sit in the
food we
eat all the time these have made us a weaker species so what I'm hoping to do
with my research and some companies I'm building is to get us out of that
problem
and engineer our way out and also make wellness and health a thing that people
actually can take care of themselves and what are the steps that what there's
one
thing that people can do and exercise is a good one right because of the fact
that
we live these sedentary lifestyles and most of the time people are sitting down
and
there's a lot of time spent standing at screens how important do you think it
is
to get out and do something and what kind of an effect does that have like what
kind of quantifiable effect does that have on life extension oh it's very clear
there are two things you can do that are well known to extend your lifespan and
when I say extend less when I don't mean be older for longer I mean be
healthier in your 80s and 90s like my dad who's turning 82 who's got the the
physique and mental aptitude of a probably a 30 year old he's stronger than me
so
you want that okay so what have to do well you have to start early you can't
just start when you're 80 although it helps but it's not the best do you want
to just get out of the chair people say walk but I think it's better to lose
your
breath become hypoxic you know hypoxia chambers or hyperbaric chambers these
stress the body a little bit so run for 10 minutes a few times a week that's
what I do
and you don't have to run for hours it's just 10 minutes is enough go biking so
it's
a fact that people who regularly ride bikes and I think it was something like
up to 80
miles a week but they would have a 40 percent less chance of having a heart
attack than someone who
didn't do that so it's a massive change not just a little thing at the margins
massive
changes the other thing is which I do is to skip meals so it's not that hard I
now
feel weird if I eat a meal for breakfast or lunch and I try not to snack to
this this
idea of nutritionists three meals a day plus snacks never be hungry is killing
us
it really is and we know that if you do these things to animals in controlled
settings they live longer a lot longer 20 sometimes 30 percent because they're
healthier for longer they don't get cancer and heart disease and dementia so I
don't know why we don't all do that I just think we just like to sit around and
eat
that's what it's good it feels good just eat chips M&Ms do what just feels good
oh
for sure yeah but is there like so when you talk about how eating one meal a
day
can extend your life is it because when you're eating all the time you're taxing
your digestive system which taxes your resources or is there some sort of a
mechanism that leads to decay of the human body from over consumption like what
is it
yeah so over consumption or just consumption in general makes your body
complacent and we know this in great detail at the molecular level there are
genes that respond how much you're eating and what you're eating and whether
you're
exercising and these are called longevity genes and they give our body
resilience and fight aging and slow down what we can now measure the biological
clock
so I can take your blood or actually now we've developed a very cheap test just
a swab to be
able to tell you very accurately how old you are not based on how many times
the earth goes around the Sun
that's ridiculous age is just a number you can actually take a swab I can tell
you how you are how old you are really but then using real science tell you how
to slow
that down and this is really cool just in the last few years we figured out you
can
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