Dave Evans

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2,777 appearances 6 recordings 4 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 6 Jul

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Hidden Brain · Radical Acceptance · 4 May 2026 podcast

Could we just do that?

I said, well, okay.

He said, what do you mean?

I said, well, maybe the reason you're having strokes, Gary, isn't because God is going to use you as the demonstration of a miracle, but maybe you're having strokes because you've got really crappy DNA and brain chemistry that breaks down at about 50 to 55 years old.

Because, you know, we live in a broken world, and some of that brokenness falls on everybody.

We're all going to die, by the way.

All we're talking about is timing.

And I told him the story of the head of the gerontology department at Harvard Medical School, who I got stuck on the ground during an ice storm in Chicago with years ago, who reminded me almost nobody dies of old age.

They die of disease or starvation or an accident.

I said, so Gary, you're not going to die of old age.

You're going to die of something else, and maybe you're going to die of a stroke.

So maybe what's going on is, how do you live well through being a person who comes from a long line of guys with bad stroke DNA?

And he just stared at me.

He said, do you think that might be it?

I said, well, Gary, lots of people die in their 50s.

You might be one of them.

He said, well, if that's what's going on, what do I do?

I said, well, you do this as well as you can.

So we had a long conversation about that.

Well, this is where I make the distinction between nice and loving.

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