Brett Weinstein

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272 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 2 Aug

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The Megyn Kelly Show · Dakota Meyer, Rob O'Neill, Bret Weinstein, and Heather Heying - Megyn Kelly's "Double Feature" of Fascinating Interviews · 2 Aug 2026 podcast

The problem is that we have figured out how to generate it in such abundance.

And because our ancestors never faced an abundance of such a substance, we don't have a circuit that tells us when enough is enough.

Effectively programming a creature to eat sugar when it's available in a world where there isn't very much sugar is a fine modality.

But when you have that program and there's sugar sitting on the table when you sit down at the diner, you've got a problem.

That is a good point.

Yes.

Obesity makes a good example because you can see it.

But the point that we are trying to make is that that same phenomenon happens in all sorts of places that you can't see.

So our psychological ill health is of the same sort, but somebody walking by you who is suffering from extreme anxiety and therefore heavily medicated and therefore suffering all of the consequences that come

from introducing these chemicals into their body is also sick.

And what one has to do is realize that for each of us, the sickness starts somewhere.

It starts mostly after you're born, you're born into a world.

And if that world was well, well tuned to you,

then you would develop in a way that would not leave you at odds with it.

So what that means is, for example, the first job of parents has to be to limit as much as possible the novel influences whose consequences we don't know.

Many of the pathologies that we see, we treat symptomatically, but really what we should be doing is looking at their cause and trying to exclude it from our children.

Well, I wouldn't leap to that conclusion.

It happens that modern life does not facilitate this.

And, you know, we have occasional sleep issues in our house too, but I will say we have taken neither Heather or I had any direct experience with kids when, when our kids were born.

And so we sort of bootstrapped some method for figuring out how to parent and

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