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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I'm really dedicated to creating a platform and a true marketplace of ideas where the best and most thoughtful ideas can cream to the top, if you will. I really support that kind of
freedom to have those difficult stressful thorny conversations that tend to yield the best and most reasoned ideas and i'm not sure we're really having them as a culture right now what i see is sort of a a sprint to the thinnest edges of the branch on all sides you know we tend to be more and more and more extreme and when i look at healthy systems whether they are
Economic or political or physiological or psychological, I think the signature of well-being and health is homeostasis. It's finding balance. It's finding the middle. So when I look at systems that are pushing to the edges of the extremes, that seems to indicate to me that there's a lot of dis-ease there.
Cool. Well, introduce me to some.
Me too. I can't believe that these kinds of conversations around chronic disease are in the zeitgeist right now. They're fully mainstreamed, where like two years ago, three years ago, you know, we were out there picketing like, hey, pay attention to us. It's really cool to pick up
know any media but like i see the new york times every day pretty much has some you know sort of feature on one of these things and and obviously other more independent media is very very focused on it and i think that that's a really a great thing i just get concerned around sort of faustian bargains you know that all of a sudden the only way you can actually make change around
you know, food systems is to also think that to embrace people that think that like climate change is a hoax or something. So this is the problem.
Yeah.
I'm in, I get it.
I believed that for years. Fat makes you fat and sugar is good for you. All these things.
Yeah. Right. Or that.
stress protocols that I actually walked backwards into is very related to this. So obviously I was very focused early on around like physiological stress protocols, many of which we've talked about, fasting, cold therapy, heat therapy, resistance training, light therapy, et cetera. The most difficult stressor, self-imposed stressor was actually psychosocial for me.
So I'll just set a little bit of context. And this relates to leaning in to stressful conversations. So at the beginning of 2020, or in March, when we were kind of anchoring into poor lockdown, Jake, who's my co-founder at Commune, he's like, Jeff, you should really write a weekly newsletter. It's like people are feeling very frightened right now. They're very alone.
And they would really benefit from, you know, having something that was rigorously researched every week, but just also like just little buoys of hope, you know, to navigate the choppy waters of COVID. So naively, I agreed to do this. And it was a pretty big email list at that juncture, probably about 1.2 million people. And I was writing an article every Sunday.
And so, but pretty significant article, like 1500, 2000 words, something like that. So- And then like three or four weeks and I was like, I'm over a literary barrel. You know, I've got to produce all that content every week. And fortunately for me, but somewhat, unfortunately for, I guess the rest of the world, you know, 2020 provided tons of fodder to talk about, right. And to write about.
So I was writing about the most thorny issues, you know, COVID obviously, but also the You know, the reckoning around racial justice in the aftermath of the George Floyd murder and then the election and QAnon and Trumpistan and everything else in between. I was including my personal email on these missives that I would send out every Sunday.
And Monday morning I would wake up and there would be this like deluge of opprobrium cresting the bow of my inbox. And it wasn't just recrimination. I mean, there was a lot of emails that were just very encouraging and very thankful and very grateful. But I'd probably get a hundred a week of people that just had some problem with me.
That over 2000 words or some turn of phrase or some concept would have like insulted them so deeply that they felt the need to reach out and let me know. And they definitely did not hesitate to let me know. And most of these emails were just like full of expletives and there was nothing I could really do about it. But there was often like very thoughtful ones, you know?
And I just kind of ground this in like in a very specific example. So like in 2020, like in August, there seemed to be enough data surfacing that, you know, the people that were contracting the disease most severely, you know, ending in hospitalizations or sometimes fatality. tended to be people that had multiple comorbidities or obesity and diabetes prevalence.
And obviously that's turned out to be very, very true in retrospect. But even at that time, pretty early on, there seemed to be indication of that. And I was just trying to write a thoughtful essay about where we were. And so I was doing the best research that I could. And I wrote this essay and
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