Derek Thompson
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564 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
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I can see that every single morning.
And so in a way, it's like you have to make space.
As you're optimizing for all sorts of things that make you healthy and productive, etc., make space.
for the numbers that you can't see.
Make space for the fact that you're really not living the optimal life if you're only paying attention to the numbers that are optimizable.
Yeah, so I had a...
an interview with you and Ashley, who's a Stanford scientist, who's done a lot of work on the science of exercise.
Everyone knows that exercise is like good for them.
It's probably good for you, but like, how is it good for you?
How exactly does exercise change ourselves?
It's very difficult to do, very difficult to study in humans because like Scott, if I like put you on a treadmill or, you know, you, you watched you deadlift and then like had a scientist like
cut into your kidney to figure out exactly how it was affecting like the tissue health of your kidney, that'd be a very painful and frankly, incredibly illegal way to study exactly how exercise changes our bodies.
So instead of doing it to people, they do it to mice.
And the conclusion from you and Ashley's research is that exercise completely transforms the mammal's body.
It doesn't just improve the health of the muscles that are being directly worked on.
Like if you do a bicep curl, obviously you are exercising your biceps.
It changes your brain.
It changes your endocrine system.
It changes your cardiovascular system.
Exercise, he said, is basically the single best medicine that we have ever invented.
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