Jeff Krasno
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350 appearances
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2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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She's like, oh, okay, okay, that sounds nice.
I was like, yeah, we'll walk up to this little mountain cabin that we have and kind of the same little trail that we walk up, that we've walked up hundreds of times, and we'll make this, like, wonderful dinner together, this, like, salmon and roasted yams, and I'll unpop this old bottle of Chateau Margaux that I've kept in the basement for years, and we'll sip these little thimbles and then...
go to bed and she'll spoon me and read me from that, like, same New Yorker article on plague tectonics that's put me to bed for, like, 50 years. And she'll sense my little, you know, parasympathetic slumber breath and, you know, turn off the light. And somewhere in the middle of the night— I like to challenge my kids with science—
Around 3 a.m., the mitochondria in my cardiac cells and my neurons and the mitochondria in your mommy's cardiac cells and neurons will emit one last plume of carbon dioxide out of their energy-producing chimneys. And our life, the way we know it, will end. And it's totally okay. It's totally okay. It's actually sort of emotional to talk about it. And, you know, she was like five or six.
And because she was so close to Source on some level, she didn't find that wish remotely morbid. She just gave me a big hug. She said, I hope you get your wish, Daddy. And so that... I think encapsulates the dream that I have for my own healthspan and lifespan. And the one, you know, that sounds obviously a little Pollyanna, right? A little model. And that death should be so...
empty of pain and decrepitude and cognitive decline. But it's also just as ridiculous that death should be this like inexorable march of bedpans and statins and insulin and worse, you know? And I do believe that that kind of healthspan is available to most people. Because in this day and age, we're largely choosing the way we die. and with very, very little thoughtfulness.
I mean, if you had asked a denizen of 1900, or if you had told them, okay, in 124 or 125 years, there'll be no smallpox, no death from cholera or typhoid, very little death from tuberculosis, whatever, and very little death from infection, they would have thought, oh my God, the human race is winning. Right? You figured it out. That's nirvana.
You know, fast forward 125 years, and, you know, our average lifespan is actually decreasing. But the time that we're spent alive is becoming increasingly miserable. You know, we are dying not from communicable diseases. We are dying from chronic diseases, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's, dementia, and other neurodegenerative diseases, cancer.
And in many respects, these infirmities of modernity are preventable and in some cases reversible. And so this is my great dream, not just for my own life, but for humankind. That we can live these full, vibrant, efflorescent lives. That becoming old is actually a wonderful experience. You know, the way that it actually should be. That you can feel that you are...
this accumulation of beautiful and treacherous experiences that then you can shed light on life for your future generations. And that is why I'm so committed right now at this place in my life to amplifying
the protocols if you will but the ways of living um that can instantiate that kind of full and vibrant life that was beautiful man that that moment with your daughter too is just stands out so strong uh what are those protocols as we start to wrap up i think
Yeah. It's always hard to pinpoint one because I've stacked a whole variety of protocols that have been so transformational. And there's a part of me that is super geeky that loves to talk about like mitobiogenesis and like autophagy and
um bdnf and heat shock proteins and you know endogenous endorphin production all these things you know that are part of a whole series of protocols but if i have to really boil it down you know every experience that we have as human beings is through the prism of our mind right And we go to the gym to exercise our biceps and our quads and our abs.
And sure, it's great to look and feel good in that respect. But we have to focus more, I think, on training our minds. Particularly because... We live within an ecosystem where the most precious commodity is your time and attention. We have taken Andre's focus and productized it and commodified it, and we sell it for profit. I'm not just saying you, obviously.
This is part of what we know as the attention economy or the persuasion economy. And what is downstream from that? is an inability to concentrate, endless distraction, and a lack of capacity to access the present moment. We can't even give each other the present of our own presence. Most of the time, we are just lost in thought. You know, we have monkey mind where
thoughts are branches and we're just swinging cuckoo bananas riotously from each one, you know? We're never here. We're obsessing about something in the past and projecting that into the future as some sort of negative anticipated memory, right? We build this anxiety like a mason with bricks over it. We become anxious about our own anxiety, and then that makes us anxious. I mean, this is crazy.
And this impacts every other part of our life. You know, how we eat, you know, how we treat each other. how we feel day to day. And so what is interesting is that a lot of the physiological protocols, stress protocols that I talk about actually have very, very potent psychological effects. ramifications.
Totally. You feel high. I mean, being in a sauna creates endorphins, endo, endogenous, inner, endorphin, morphine, opioids, inner opioid. You're accessing your inner pharmacy, literally, when you apply deliberate heat to yourself. So yeah, those physiological stress protocols have protein impacts on your psychology. But I do think this is where cultivating some kind of mindfulness practice is...
perhaps the most important thing one can do in a world that is just essentially endlessly trying to trigger you. I mean, our whole news and social media ecosystem is algorithmically preferenced to make you mad. or scandalize you through hyperbole and sensationalism and scandal, etc. So now we have to actually apply these practices to take back our own mind and
For me, I mean, that really does look like the simplest of meditation practices, of finding a single point of focus that could be the breath, that could be a kasina or drishti, that could be a mantra. And the real opportunity there is... is in the return. You're inevitably, if anyone has ever tried to meditate before, thoughts are going to emerge from under the crust of consciousness.
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