Dr. Michael Kilgard

but you don't want the beta receptors.

And they're not very different.

There's this sweet spot, this Goldilocks zone, and the biology's always pushing us to be right in that, and everybody recognizes that.

People who do meditation, mindfulness, they recognize this, trying to stay in this right sweet spot, which is back to that optimization we've talked a lot about.

Why is that?

That's how you're trying to figure out which is the most important thing.

Not the max thing.

That might be something that's just pathological and weird.

Not the minimum thing.

That's something you could just ignore.

But this narrow range of things you're trying to pick out.

It's like shopping.

You don't want to buy all the things in the grocery store.

I'm only looking for certain things.

I would just mention gene therapy.

I worked on genes and moved them around a long time ago.

My mom asked me, are you sure we want that gene moved there?

Luckily, we find out genes are moving all the time anyway.

That's not something we're doing that's special.

But whether it's Duchenne's muscular dystrophy or Alzheimer's, if we have to do that, we'll do it.