Erik Huberman

Without some sort of government intervention, I guess you're saying the onus is on the individual to be educated and an expert, but in everything that has to do with their health, well-being, safety, etc.

You think that the entire spectrum of that needs to fall on the individual.

Yeah, I mean, I think so.

I'll be arguing for some government intervention because I'd say in the simplest way to put it in the short term, we're all dead, as John Maynard Keynes said.

And if we don't have some sort of government protection to protect ourselves, the societal costs are going to outweigh the preventative costs.

they don't act to protect themselves and then because of that i think that the very corruption that we're trying to eliminate actually takes place as a result so on that point let's take what's happening currently with mama and you've got a lot of talk about the artificial dyes or like the big topic you know red 40 etc still in food supposedly going to be you know transitioning out over the next couple years with pressure from the government um and regulation from the government

There doesn't seem to be any shortage of demand there, though there's plenty of information, especially right now, that it is horrible for you, but people are still buying it.

And so the issue becomes... And where I agree, again, this is where we're on the same page on a lot of this stuff, there is absolutely government corruption, including organic and some of the stuff that happens out there.

You're educated on it.

I'm educated on it.

The vast majority of people aren't.

And even when there is plenty of information about how bad this is for you, Skittles are not having a problem with their sales right now.

And so...

At that point, without some sort of government intervention, I guess you're saying the onus is on the individual to be educated and an expert, but in everything that has to do with their health, well-being, safety, etc.

You think that the entire spectrum of that needs to fall on the individual, right?

But I think that expecting someone to... So another good example, there's the PFAs, plastic water bottles.

Like aside from the trash in the ocean, now we found out it's trash in our own bodies.

The only reason we know that is because scientists decided to do a study.

If they hadn't done that study...

Am I expected to figure that out myself?