Derek Thompson

speaker

564 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 24 Jul

Derek Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 2.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway · Inside the Anti-Social Century — with Derek Thompson · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

And of course, we didn't even invent it.

It was nature that did it for us.

And so his final conclusion is that every minute of exercise that we do adds five minutes to our life.

And that's a really amazing statistic, right?

Every minute of exercise, at least moderately strenuous exercise, adds five minutes to your life.

If you go through the alcohol research, if you go through those observational studies, which are not particularly high quality because it's difficult to just look at a bunch of people, ask how much they drink, and then just sort of rank order by mortality, that's a very crude way to do it.

But again, we've never done a randomized controlled trial for alcohol drinking, which is kind of crazy.

It's literally never been done in the history of the NIH.

But to our best approximation...

A single drink seems to reduce, or drinking once a day, so a glass of wine a night, seems to reduce your life by about five minutes per drink.

So here's like an amazing, an amazing equivalence, right?

This is science essentially backing up like the Galloway Principle of drinking and exercising.

It's to say that, yes, there are some things that we do in life that are clearly not longevity optimizing, that are probably taking away from our life.

That's, you know, the scoops of ice cream and, you know, the martinis and mezcal and the gronies.

But it's not as if life is just sitting in a chair and then occasionally drinking a martini.

There's lots of things that we can do to add time on the other side of the ledger, in particular, working out.

And so if you're someone who can cultivate a life of drinking moderately and also exercising regularly, you're probably exceeding your sort of genetic allowance for lifespan.

significantly.

You're adding years to your life rather than taking them away.

So I'm entirely, I feel like even the way that the health optimizers think about optimizing is suboptimal.

Showing 341–360 of 564 · page 18 of 29