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the jurogan experience well we live in a crazy age 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 uh 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 uh remote video chats with a psychologist or psychiatrist they are booming these are the next billion dollar companies yeah i mean you want to anyone want to make money look into that but we are living in a stressful world and 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 we're not in savannah anymore we're not going to get picked off by uh a cheater well a lion probably but we've 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 100 000 years it's really scary because this treadmill we cannot get off it there's no going
back there's no stationary because we've 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 our 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 um our feet actually are built for shoes imagine that they're all these jeans 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 don't 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 who wears shoes all the time where the toes are all connected they splay out like hands that's very strange makes sense i want i want that my friend steve vanello was in guyana and he was uh hanging out with his tribe and they lit they live in the forest like look at their feet that's incredible maybe that's the way we should be well that's a way i think people lived when they lived in the jungle forever this is the horror how do you say that harani um this is the ecuadorian rainforest these people this um 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 or 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 bite you offer a dog your face off right we're at their mercy but even the strongest human cannot beat your average chimp or any chimpanzee 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 we 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 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 uh that are well known to extend your lifespan and when i say extend lifespan 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 physique and mental uh aptitude of a probably a 30 year old he's stronger than me so you want that okay so what do you 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 hyperbaric chambers they stress the body a little bit so run for 10 minutes a few times a week that's what i do um 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 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 uh 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 too 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 it's it's good it feels good to just eat chips do what just feels good oh for sure yeah but is there like so when you talk about um 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 the swab i can tell you how 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've figured out you can reverse human aging as well catch new episodes of the joe rogan experience for free only on spotify watch back catalog jre videos on spotify including clips easily seamlessly switch between video and audio experience on spotify you can listen to the jre in the background by using other apps and can download episodes to save on data cost all for free spotify is absolutely free you don't have to have a premium account to watch new jre episodes you just need to search for the jre on your spotify app go to spotify now to get this full episode of the joe rogan experience