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320: Diet considerations, Disease-reversal, Losing weight, Metabolism Dynamic, Cram circuit

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Evolutionary psychologist, Doug Lisle, PhD, social scientist, Jen Howk, PhD, and Nathan Gershfeld, DC discuss the following listener questions:

  1.  I am curious about the work of David Sinclair from Harvard about his anti-aging research. He makes some pretty fantastic claims. He does, for example, advocate for a plant-based diet, but then talks quite a bit about supplements, including prescription drugs like Metformin. I also heard him say that although plant-based diets are good, we must avoid foods that spike blood sugars – like rice and grapes. Aren’t those whole foods? Grapes, really? What do they think of Dr. Sinclair’s work…work considering or majoring in minor things?
  2. I’m on the highest end of a healthy weight range even on a whole natural foods diet composed of fruits vegetables whole grains and legumes, with at most 1 avocado per week and 1 tsp of flaxseed per day. No nuts or seeds. I’ve lost weight before by restricting and over exercising, but I couldn’t maintain it. However I felt much more confident at this lower weight (about 10-15 lbs thinner than I am now). As women there’s a lot of pressure to be thin. How do I get over my desire to be thin? Is this something I can ever get over? I think about it every day and am tired of thinking about this.
  3. Is the thicker persons’ metabolism or spontaneous recovery different from the genetically skinny person? i.e. if your genetics figured out your survival success by having you eat more, weigh more and get more resources, won’t your body be genetically predisposed to continue those successful survival instincts that helped in your survival before?
  4. I’m having difficulty distinguishing the difference between eating intermediately to grit myself through the extinction curve of a condition cram circuit and eating under the hunger drive. How do I know if I’m eating intermediately or eating under the hunger drive when I got through this process ? Is there like a rule of thumb you would suggest we follow e.g 1 plate of food then nothing for a couple of hours??

 

 

Copyright Beat Your Genes Podcast

Host: Nathan Gershfeld, DC                           

Interviewee: Doug Lisle, Ph.D. and Jen Howk, Ph.D.

Podcast website:  http://www.BeatYourGenes.org

True to Life seminars with Dr. Lisle and Dr. Howk : http://www.TrueToLife.us

Fasting Supervision:  http://www.FastingEscape.com

Intro & outro song: City of Happy Ones · Ferenc Hegedus

 

319: Free will vs. decision making, Best political system aligned with human nature

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Evolutionary psychologist, Doug Lisle, PhD and social scientist, Jen Howk, PhD discuss the following listener questions:

1. If I am understanding what you have said in the past about decision making and free will, the main thing that changes/influences our behavior is new information. So, we really don’t have “free will” in our decision making like we think? If this is true, does it mean that — if we want to have more control or positive results in our decision making — rather than “trying harder” or “thinking more clearly” we should fastidiously study the situation and accumulate the most information possible. Then we kind of sit back and see what our computer-brain-cost/benefit/analyzer ultimately decides — even though we like to think WE are making the decision? Maybe I have this wrong. Can you elaborate?

2. I love learning about evolutionary psychology because everything makes so much sense. However, this knowledge often makes me sad because I now realize how many things I can’t change, specifically I can’t make my disagreeable husband nicer. Do the doctors ever feel this way? Any tips for not feeling defeated?

3. Generally advice givers tend to give big picture advice. However, from listening to the doctors I see much more attention paid to the little minute to minute and hour to hour processes of any meaningful goal. For example, the whole concept of running experiments is to change conditions at the granular level to see if they result in a meaningful difference in affect that supports the general direction someone wants to move in. Why is it that people tend to ignore the small details of change? Is it because they are not very interesting I.e they don’t really sell books?

4. Which political system is best aligned with human nature? And if we could click our fingers and make it happen, what would that look like in reality?

 

Copyright Beat Your Genes Podcast

Host: Nathan Gershfeld                              

Interviewee: Doug Lisle, Ph.D. and Jen Howk, Ph.D.

Podcast website:  http://www.BeatYourGenes.org

True to Life seminars with Dr. Lisle and Dr. Howk : http://www.TrueToLife.us

 

Intro & outro song: City of Happy Ones · Ferenc Hegedus

318: Jen Howk on Buddhism, Philosophy, The Matrix, Simulations, and Sentience

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Social scientist, Jen Howk, PhD discuss the following topics:

  1. I loved your last podcast about Buddhism and other perspectives in psychology. I’d love to hear more of your perspectives on spirituality such as how you would describe the personality profiles of popular gurus Byron Katie and Eckhart Tolle. They both claim to have been in close to catatonic states of misery/depression, suicidal and then overnight, woke up enlightened. If it’s not enlightenment, what are they experiencing? I’d also like to hear your views on other personality profiles such as influencers who end up being con artist and other weird, modern day criminals.
  2. Can all personality types be equally happy if they apply diligent effort to worthwhile goals? ie all other things being equal, would a low conscientiousness individual be as happy as a high conscientiousness individual if they both applied their version of diligent effort and equally felt they hadn’t left ‘anything on the table’ (despite those levels of effort and results being very different)
  3. I am curious how you would define a “sentient” organism. Does sentience even exist? If we are simply a system of electrical signals that indicates our next action based on a pre-programmed reward/punishment function, then are we truly more “sentient” than the AI personalities currently being built by OpenAI and Google, etc? How and where do we draw the line between an organism or machine that is sentient and one that is not? Do you think this should any implications for the construction and ownership of AI personalities and computer-based neural networks?

     

     

    Copyright Beat Your Genes Podcast

    Host: Nathan Gershfeld                              

    Interviewee: Jen Howk, Ph.D.

    Podcast website:  http://www.BeatYourGenes.org

    True to Life seminars with Dr. Lisle and Dr. Howk : http://www.TrueToLife.us

     

    Intro & outro song: City of Happy Ones · Ferenc Hegedus