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Eating one meal a day | Bryan Johnson and Lex Fridman

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Lex Fridman Podcast full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YbcB6b4A2U Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Four Sigmatic: https://foursigmatic.com/lex and use code LexPod to get up to 60% off - NetSuite: http://netsuite.com/lex to get free product tour - Grammarly: https://grammarly.com/lex to get 20% off premium - ExpressVPN: https://expressvpn.com/lexpod and use code LexPod to get 3 months free GUEST BIO: Bryan Johnson is the founder and CEO of Kernel, OS Fund, and previously Braintree. PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 SOCIAL: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman - Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman - Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/lexfridman - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman

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Like I'm not, it never occurred to me.", 'start': 59.116, 'duration': 8.371}, {'end': 70.903, 'text': 'This revolutionary, yeah.', 'start': 68.462, 'duration': 2.441}, {'end': 73.584, 'text': "Until you've outlined that.", 'start': 71.103, 'duration': 2.481}, {'end': 77.806, 'text': 'So maybe can you give some details in what this is just you.', 'start': 73.624, 'duration': 4.182}, {'end': 86.45, 'text': "this is one person, Brian arrives at a particular thing that they do, but it's fascinating to kind of look at this one particular case study.", 'start': 77.806, 'duration': 8.644}], 'summary': "Eating one meal a day in the morning can be revolutionary, as outlined by brian's case study.", 'duration': 27.334, 'max_score': 59.116, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/xdc05p8SmOI/pics/xdc05p8SmOI59116.jpg'}, {'end': 142.51, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 110.149, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 112.75, 'text': "i of course, i'm optimizing for my 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'start': 661.264, 'duration': 1.501}, {'end': 670.585, 'text': 'Yes the progress in biology over the past say decade has been stunning.', 'start': 662.905, 'duration': 7.68}, {'end': 680.291, 'text': 'Yes And it now appears as if we will be able to replace our organs, uh, zero X, uh, transplantation.', 'start': 670.605, 'duration': 9.686}], 'summary': 'Exploring optimal sleep, diet, and biological progress including potential organ replacement.', 'duration': 31.916, 'max_score': 648.375, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/xdc05p8SmOI/pics/xdc05p8SmOI648375.jpg'}], 'start': 272.839, 'title': 'Developing an algorithm for perfect health and the power of sleep', 'summary': 'Discusses the development of a scalable algorithm for perfect health, emphasizing real-time data collection and closed-loop systems. it also highlights the significance of good sleep as a powerful health intervention, emphasizing individualized approaches and cautionary 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The amount of deep sleep directly correlates to the willpower to avoid binge eating, emphasizing the impact of good sleep on dietary choices.', 'Dispelling the myth of overworking and emphasizing individualized approaches to sleep and health based on personal experimentation. The speaker highlights the shift from glorifying overworking to recognizing the importance of individualized approaches to sleep and health, supported by personal experimentation.', "Cautionary approach to trusting science on sleep and advocating for self-experimentation to understand optimal sleep patterns. The speaker advocates for a cautious approach to relying solely on scientific findings for sleep, instead emphasizing the need to be a scholar of one's own body and experiment to find the optimal sleep patterns."]}], 'duration': 397.746, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/xdc05p8SmOI/pics/xdc05p8SmOI272839.jpg', 'highlights': ["The objective is to create an algorithm for perfect health that doesn't require conscious thinking and is scalable to anyone.", 'Emphasizes the importance of real-time data collection and closed-loop systems for personalized health management.', 'Good sleep is a powerful health intervention and directly correlates to willpower, impacting dietary choices.', 'Dispelling the myth of overworking and emphasizing individualized approaches to sleep and health based on personal experimentation.', 'Advancement in civilization is defined as extending the number of important operations that can be done without conscious thought.', 'The future of being human involves devices inside and outside the body assessing real-time needs and creating closed-loop systems.', 'Cautionary approach to trusting science on sleep and advocating for self-experimentation to understand optimal sleep patterns.', 'The amount of deep sleep directly correlates to the willpower to avoid binge eating, emphasizing the impact of good sleep on dietary choices.', "The speaker's current approach is time-consuming and expensive, hindering time for other pursuits like building Kernel or shaping the future of humanity."]}, {'end': 960.218, 'segs': [{'end': 751.113, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 670.605, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 680.291, 'text': 'Yes And it now appears as if we will be able to replace our organs, uh, zero X, uh, transplantation.', 'start': 670.605, 'duration': 9.686}, {'end': 690.958, 'text': 'And so we probably have a path to replace and regenerate every organ of your body, except for your brain.', 'start': 680.792, 'duration': 10.166}, {'end': 697.577, 'text': 'You can lose your hand and your arm and a leg.', 'start': 694.895, 'duration': 2.682}, {'end': 698.497, 'text': 'You can have an artificial heart.', 'start': 697.597, 'duration': 0.9}, {'end': 700.878, 'text': "You can't operate without your brain.", 'start': 699.918, 'duration': 0.96}, {'end': 712.685, 'text': "And so when you make that trade-off decision of whether you're going to sleep under the desk or not and go all out for a four-day marathon,", 'start': 702.059, 'duration': 10.626}, {'end': 717.067, 'text': "there's a cost-benefit trade-off of what's happening to your brain in that situation.", 'start': 712.685, 'duration': 4.382}, {'end': 721.23, 'text': "We don't know the consequences of modern-day life on our brain.", 'start': 718.188, 'duration': 3.042}, {'end': 726.452, 'text': "We don't, it's the most valuable organ in our existence.", 'start': 722.349, 'duration': 4.103}, {'end': 735.14, 'text': "And we don't know what's going on if we, and how we're treating it today with stress and with sleep and with dietary.", 'start': 727.353, 'duration': 7.787}, {'end': 746.789, 'text': "And to me, then if you say that you're trying to, you're trying to optimize life for whatever things you're trying to do, the game is soon.", 'start': 735.82, 'duration': 10.969}, {'end': 751.113, 'text': 'with the progress in anti-aging and biology, the game is very soon going to become different than what it is right now.', 'start': 746.789, 'duration': 4.324}], 'summary': 'Potential to replace and regenerate every organ except the brain, with implications for optimizing life and the impact of modern-day life on the brain.', 'duration': 80.508, 'max_score': 670.605, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/xdc05p8SmOI/pics/xdc05p8SmOI670605.jpg'}, {'end': 813.171, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 783.613, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 789.456, 'text': "It's like yeah, you look at, kind of, there's a lot of things 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{'end': 859.727, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 835.314, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 843.522, 'text': "I think there's a balance to strike in long-term optimization and short-term freedom.", 'start': 835.314, 'duration': 8.208}, {'end': 847.699, 'text': 'For me, for a programmer for programming mind,', 'start': 844.203, 'duration': 3.496}, {'end': 856.745, 'text': "I tend to over optimize and I'm very cautious and afraid of that to not over optimize and thereby be overly cautious,", 'start': 847.699, 'duration': 9.046}, {'end': 859.727, 'text': 'sub optimally cautious about everything I do.', 'start': 856.745, 'duration': 2.982}], 'summary': 'Balancing long-term optimization and short-term freedom is crucial for programmers to avoid over-optimization and suboptimal caution.', 'duration': 24.413, 'max_score': 835.314, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/xdc05p8SmOI/pics/xdc05p8SmOI835314.jpg'}, {'end': 905.832, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 883.242, 'weight': 8, 'content': [{'end': 892.066, 'text': "But I worry that whenever I'm trying to be too strict with myself, then the stress goes up when I don't follow the strictness.", 'start': 883.242, 'duration': 8.824}, {'end': 899.489, 'text': "And so you have to kind of, it's a weird, there's so many variables in an objective function that it's hard to get right.", 'start': 892.906, 'duration': 6.583}, {'end': 905.832, 'text': 'And sort of not giving a damn about sleep and not giving a damn about diet is a good thing to inject in there every once in a while.', 'start': 899.909, 'duration': 5.923}], 'summary': 'Balancing strictness and flexibility in self-discipline is challenging due to numerous variables in the objective function.', 'duration': 22.59, 'max_score': 883.242, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/xdc05p8SmOI/pics/xdc05p8SmOI883242.jpg'}], 'start': 670.605, 'title': 'Future health trends', 'summary': 'Explores the future of organ 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It appears that there will be the ability to replace and regenerate every organ of the body, except for the brain, signaling a path towards significant advancements in organ rejuvenation and replacement.', 'The importance of brain health is emphasized, suggesting a shift in the value placed on brain health due to advancements in anti-aging and biology. The chapter emphasizes the increasing significance of brain health, projecting a shift in the valuation of brain health as advancements in anti-aging and biology progress.', 'The trade-off decisions related to brain health and the consequences of modern-day life on the brain are discussed, raising awareness of the impact of stress, sleep, and dietary habits on brain health. The trade-off decisions regarding brain health and the impact of modern-day life on the brain are highlighted, drawing attention to the effects of stress, sleep, and dietary habits on brain health.']}, {'end': 834.753, 'start': 783.613, 'title': 'Embracing life and risk', 'summary': 'Discusses the balance between being data-driven and embracing life, emphasizing the importance of taking risks and not being overly conservative.', 'duration': 51.14, 'highlights': ['Embracing life and taking risks is important despite being data-driven and conservative.', 'Balancing intelligence and data-driven decisions with embracing life is crucial.', 'Supporting a mindset of taking risks and embracing life, even if there is a chance of failure.']}, {'end': 960.218, 'start': 835.314, 'title': 'Balancing long-term optimization and short-term freedom', 'summary': 'Discusses the struggle between long-term optimization and short-term freedom, highlighting the challenges of over-optimization and the pursuit of minimizing stress while acknowledging the difficulty of achieving a balanced objective function.', 'duration': 124.904, 'highlights': ['The struggle between long-term optimization and short-term freedom The speaker discusses the challenge of finding a balance between long-term optimization and short-term freedom, indicating a common struggle in decision-making processes.', 'Challenges of over-optimization and stress minimization The speaker expresses caution about over-optimization and the impact of stress on decision-making, emphasizing the desire to minimize stress while avoiding excessive caution in pursuit of optimization.', 'Difficulty in achieving a balanced objective function The speaker highlights the complexity of balancing variables in an objective function, indicating the challenge of finding the right balance in decision-making processes.']}], 'duration': 289.613, 'thumbnail': 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