Dan Buettner
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Podcast Appearances
And you'll want to come over time and time again.
I'll guarantee you that's a better approach to
dealing with weight issues and longevity than $1,000 a month pharmaceutical habit.
The pace of discovery is increasing.
And I have to admit, AI is likely to help produce some major breakthrough.
probably at the genetic level or the nano level, or creating some sort of a drug that helps prevent the fundamentals of aging.
We don't see it yet.
We can see the pathway.
I don't think AI is going to make the human experience better.
We evolved for 25,000 generations doing what you and I are doing right now, Hala.
We're
making contact we're communicating we're sharing ideas we're doing that human to human ideally we'd be in the same room we'd be doing this over a nice meal i think that's never going to be fundamental to the human experience and i just don't think ai is going to replace that and also part of what is making america sick
And we have a sick culture here.
At least 80% of Americans are suffering from some metabolic disease.
75% of us are overweight.
We live in a sick culture.
That comes from the ease and overabundance of our lives.
Most of what drives longevity requires a little bit of effort.
It doesn't satiate our appetites for meat and sugar and processed foods and calories and rest.
And blue zones, they're sort of nudged into these foods lower on the food chain, nudged into movement, nudged into human interaction.