Name: Joe Rogan Experience #901 - Dr. Rhonda Patrick
Uploaded: 2017-01-19T23:17:48.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #901 - Dr. Rhonda Patrick' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-01-19. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #901 - Dr. Rhonda Patrick' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2017-01-19. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #901 - Dr. Rhonda Patrick

five four three two one dr. Rhonda Patrick hello hello welcome back you got a
big fat book of notes
over there I do it's uh it's like it's something I use like before I'm giving a
talk or something
like that where I like to something about writing handwriting things like helps
me remember oh yeah
this they've shown that I do that before shows if you looked at my notebook and
you think if you
ever thought that I like actually wrote in my notebook you'd think I'm a crazy
person because
I'm writing the same thing over and over again like all work no play makes Jack
a tall boy it's
I just like before a set what I do is I just write out the key things that I
wanted to work on and I
write them out over and over again so like I'll have a hundred page notebook
and it's like a hundred
pages of like half of it's the same stuff yeah and over again yeah I'm kind of
the same way like I'll
write out things like that are in more detail and then like you said I'll like
right just just like
a cue you know yeah well like it's different when you're giving a talk at least
like in academia like
a PowerPoint talk you have a slide and the slide cues like a couple of minutes
of talks so you write
you've got like it helps you remember what you're gonna talk about yeah that'd
help for comedy I bet
it's probably a good idea I should have a slideshow you know like that would
actually be a really good
idea for like particular points where you could show that you weren't lying
like look this is a
real thing you know right yeah you have like a reference there like there's a
couple of things
that I'm talking about in my new set where I have to I have to reassure people
that I'm not making this
up because it's so ridiculous you know and like one of them was this woman who
posed as a high school
student she was a 25 year old police officer super attractive and she posed as
a high school student and
convinced a young boy to sell her marijuana and then arrested him so it was
just an experiment no it was a
sting operation Wow and he was a regular kid he was an honor roll kid oh my god
and now he's a felon
that is crazy yeah there it is teen falls in love with undercover cop and
marijuana sting gets arrested
yeah so this is one of them I would love to be able to put that up and go see I'm
not because you
could I guess you could just make stuff up if you wanted to you know but isn't
that what comedians do
they make stuff I mean you can a lot but if you made something up like hey
there was a story in
the news and just made it up that sounds great I guess who cares if it's funny
you know just come
to laugh but yeah I guess you're right people like comedians usually make up
personal stories yeah but
sometimes there's they say it's true and I'm like it's so outrageous is it
really true like I don't
know because it's just so funny you know like some of the stories that some of
these comedians tell and
I'm just like how can this be true they said it was true but it's like my
friend part of comedy can you do
yeah you definitely can my friend Dom Herrera has a really funny joke about
that he goes he goes he's a
true story goes hey how about you just make something up that's funny you know
like it doesn't have to be true
buddy right okay but then they say it's true so it's kind of like messing with
you because the whole time
they're doing their bit you're like that's fucking hilarious yeah sometimes it's
true sometimes it's
not I guess it depends depends on the person yeah I assume everything in your
notebook is true well I hope
so you know the other thing that helps me like so this this helps you know
writing it down helps me but
also there's the running running like helps so actually this was very
interesting because a study
just came out not long ago showing that if you so if you run before you're
going to learn something
and you want to like let's say you want to like you know do something short-term
recall so you're going
to go up on stage and say something you know say a skit or whatever and if you
run right before that
it improves the short-term like memory so your short-term recall if you run
right before whatever it is
you're you quickly read over something and then you want to remember it but if
you are learning
something and then you run after you learn it and then like the next day you
want to remember it
so it's more of a longer-term memory it improves that so it's like whether or
not you're running
before after you learn it affects the short-term versus long-term memory wow
how did they work that
out that's bizarre well it wasn't like they were testing for that they just
found it out through
because they were just you know doing running before after they're probably
looking at
just to see how it affects short and long-term memory recall and they were
surprised to find out this
was a study that was done I can't remember where it was done I know I tweeted
about it not long ago
because it was like within this last month that it came out so you know it's
like if you want to if
you want to so like while I'm you know learning new material throughout the day
then I go for run in
the evening and then the next day I'll be able to recall it better
theoretically now I'm subject to
the placebo effects I know about this I'm like oh right that's a problem yeah I
don't run normally but
I did a 5k on Monday like I don't run at all but a buddy of mine had a 5k race
in Vegas so I flew in
for him and my friend Cameron Haynes and I ran it and it was surprisingly hard
I was like with all the
working out I do like it's only three miles it's like 3.1 or something like how
hard is that it's
fucking hard it's not easy yeah no so do you do any like aerobic yes yeah
between kickboxing jiu-jitsu
and I do elliptical machine a lot and I do a lot of yoga but doing you I'm
trying to do yoga three times a
week I'm not always successful at getting in there I got there last week three
times a week but I don't
run so I figured but all that stuff I do I'm like I'll have I'll be fine nope
not really so you didn't
train at all you just kind of like on the fly I just did this 5k yeah and I saw
I saw you post
something about this and isn't doesn't Cameron isn't he like some kind of like
crazy runner he's a freak
yeah he's preparing right now for the Moab race which is 235 or 234 miles
something crazy like that
and Jamie's a runner so when Jamie shakes his head like that you know it's
really gross yeah that's
incredible I mean he's a nut he did 205 last year he did the Bigfoot 200 which
is 205 miles plus it
has something insane like 55,000 feet of elevation change over the course of
the entire race because
you're constantly going up and down and up and down and at some points in the
race it's so steep and
the terrain it's an outdoor race over Mount St. Helens so and sometimes the
terrain is so brutal that the top
speed is two miles an hour he's gonna be like one of those like amazing super
agers like like like that
just very mentally sharp when he's in when he's older either that or he's not
gonna be that's been
shown like it's been shown like if you part of being a super ager like being a
super ager means
you're old but you're you're physically fit you're mentally sharp and mentally
sharp is is really the
key thing you know cuz yeah we start losing brain mass at like the age of 20
and by the time if you can
actually make it to 100 years old you lose like 20% of your brain mass so whoa
they found that one of the
keys to like maintaining your brain mass is pushing past that comfortable zone
physically so like you
know exercise wise and also mentally just you know obviously like like learning
new things and
challenging yourself so you know so when you're working out you don't do this
kind of like you
know half-ass thing right push yourself you have to really push yourself and
that seems to be key
for becoming a super ager that's crazy that it works with your brain why
exercise I mean exercise has
profound effects on your brain I mean specifically if you're looking at you
know aerobic aerobic exercise
a row you know it's hard aerobic exercise as you said doing a 5k running three
miles I mean you do
you do a lot of training and yet that was still hard for you you know because
doing that type of
aerobic exercise is difficult studies have shown that even just like 20 to 30
minutes of aerobic
exercise can in healthy young men increase serum BDNF so which is brain-derived
neurotrophic factor
this is a growth factor that is involved in growing new brain cells and in
allowing the existing brain
cells to survive so you know talking about combating brain atrophy you're
talking about commenting that
the fact that your brain is atrophying starting at the age of 20 that's the way
to do it your brain
starts to atrophy at 20 at 20 you start to lose brain mass yeah oh my god I'm
doomed I know it's really
frightening 20 you start at 20 peak at 20 yes I was so stupid at 20 I'm so much
smarter than I was when I
was 20 no I agree I agree I'm still stupid I mean it's not necessarily like
brain mass and intelligence I mean I don't know if you
know that there's definitely a court lit right but like when you start losing
mass in your hippocampus I mean
that's memory learning you know that part of the brain but there's just so many
studies showing that exercise
aerobic exercise and also you know it doesn't have to be aerobic you can do
resistance training that sort of stuff also affects the brain as well
but for me like I've been a runner since high school and track I guess long a
long time and for me you know I've done
like a few races I've done a marathon and I don't feel like marathons are my
thing like I felt like that was
just really rough you know like it was I mean I'll run three miles and and I
will feel challenged like if I
you know push myself I can do that and that I feel like doing that a couple
times three times a week is
plenty for me but when I run you know for me it's um my I entered this like
state of of like daydreaming
sort of I get creative you know when I'm going on like a three mile run I'm
just I start thinking about
things um if I have an important decision to make or something that's causing
me some sort of anxiety
I go for a run and I feel like I can address that issue better
and what's interesting is that there have been studies that have shown
that going for a run
um and specifically aerobic exercise
it activates
the part of your brain involved in executive function which helps you make
decisions
you know
it's it's kind of like that overarching part of your brain that like helps with
all the planning long-term planning and all that and so
I always I do I feel like if I go for a run if something's bothering me if I'm
anxious
I'm I always feel better 100% of the time like there's not a single time that I
go for a run and I'm like damn I feel worse
why did I do that
you know it's like I feel I feel like crap while I'm doing it I'm like oh this
is awful
well I feel like the human mind I mean this is all just theoretical and my own
theories
I think the human mind is designed to confront serious things like like
Predators and you know dangerous enemies and and we don't really get much of
that in this life
So when a person is dealing with stress
I think the mind is preparing for some things that don't exist
So even if you can work things out logically there still remains like this
residual effect of all these human
Reward systems that are kind of in place from the time we really did have to
have all those
those reactions in place to deal with you know dangerous invaders or you know
horrible
Natural conditions, you know, whatever there would be that we hardly ever
experience anymore
so like when I work out if I have anything that's bothering me or troubling me
I think I get like a distorted perception of
the danger of it or the physical reality like it could be something real simple
like I have
An issue at work that I have to deal with like maybe I ha