Doctor Mike

I mean, capitalism wouldn't exist.

And so there's a certain sort of meritoriousness.

There's a certain gratitude I have toward the crazy people.

Because that's really what the people who can't stop, can't stop, can't stop are making life really, really good in a certain way, except their own.

Oh, absolutely.

No, for sure, the happiest people, they don't scale up into a prosperous, secure society.

Yeah, well, that's certainly a plausible hypothesis.

But there's also this, it's a funny thing when it comes to health.

There's a balance in everything.

There's a kind of a Aristotelian golden mean.

And look, I fall prey to this a lot too, right?

Because I have a lot of information as a behavioral scientist, but any more to be a behavioral scientist, you have to have a lot of information about neuroscience.

And then you're in biology.

And then when you're in the world of health and wellness and public education in the space of podcasting and everything else,

you're bombarded with data and studies.

And I'm reading 15, 20 papers a week just to kind of keep up with my columns and my books and all this kind of stuff.

And so it's very interesting how I can, I even wind up protocolizing my own life as well.

I mean, you fall into these particular patterns and that in and of itself lowers quality of life.

I mean, you can easily have too much healthcare.

It's crazy, but it's true.