Mike Israetel

They're like, um, you know, I went to school with a ton of Asians when I was at the university of Michigan, tons of Asian friends. And like, they'll eat like three pieces of sushi and be like, oh my God, I'm so full. will just like exist for eight hours longer.

And I'm like, oh my God, I could inhale three pieces of sushi, not even through my mouth, like just through my nose and that I can eat the rest of the sushi bar and they'll kick me out for overeating. Like, that's just a thing I can pull out of the hat anytime. It's genetics. You know, like there are absolutely physical differences between major human subpopulations and they're real.

And I'm like, oh my God, I could inhale three pieces of sushi, not even through my mouth, like just through my nose and that I can eat the rest of the sushi bar and they'll kick me out for overeating. Like, that's just a thing I can pull out of the hat anytime. It's genetics. You know, like there are absolutely physical differences between major human subpopulations and they're real.

And I'm like, oh my God, I could inhale three pieces of sushi, not even through my mouth, like just through my nose and that I can eat the rest of the sushi bar and they'll kick me out for overeating. Like, that's just a thing I can pull out of the hat anytime. It's genetics. You know, like there are absolutely physical differences between major human subpopulations and they're real.

And if we try to over index on the specific ways in which they're living their lives and thinking that's what's doing it, but we fail to address the confounder of genetics, which is going to be quote unquote learning a lot of stuff that probably either has much less of an impact.

And if we try to over index on the specific ways in which they're living their lives and thinking that's what's doing it, but we fail to address the confounder of genetics, which is going to be quote unquote learning a lot of stuff that probably either has much less of an impact.

And if we try to over index on the specific ways in which they're living their lives and thinking that's what's doing it, but we fail to address the confounder of genetics, which is going to be quote unquote learning a lot of stuff that probably either has much less of an impact.

And there are certainly things that Japanese culture does that are better than ours, but there are other things that Japanese culture does that aren't as great as ours. Like they're, they're older adults don't seem to engage in resistance training nearly as much. They have a much more muted gym culture than we do, for example.

And there are certainly things that Japanese culture does that are better than ours, but there are other things that Japanese culture does that aren't as great as ours. Like they're, they're older adults don't seem to engage in resistance training nearly as much. They have a much more muted gym culture than we do, for example.

And there are certainly things that Japanese culture does that are better than ours, but there are other things that Japanese culture does that aren't as great as ours. Like they're, they're older adults don't seem to engage in resistance training nearly as much. They have a much more muted gym culture than we do, for example.

Um, and, and so on down the line, also their bar culture is like just tied completely into junk food of the most despicable quality. Like the Japanese exclusively like oil fried, uh, uh, uh, breaded meats, uh, When they get drunk and like I had a basically stomach collapse when I tried doing that in Japan recently, but they seem to be thing is just fine.

Um, and, and so on down the line, also their bar culture is like just tied completely into junk food of the most despicable quality. Like the Japanese exclusively like oil fried, uh, uh, uh, breaded meats, uh, When they get drunk and like I had a basically stomach collapse when I tried doing that in Japan recently, but they seem to be thing is just fine.

Um, and, and so on down the line, also their bar culture is like just tied completely into junk food of the most despicable quality. Like the Japanese exclusively like oil fried, uh, uh, uh, breaded meats, uh, When they get drunk and like I had a basically stomach collapse when I tried doing that in Japan recently, but they seem to be thing is just fine.

The plenty of junk food and tasty treats, but they just don't seem to have a high food drive on average. And this is also reflected in the fact that while Japanese people in other countries, especially the United States tend to be fatter on average.

The plenty of junk food and tasty treats, but they just don't seem to have a high food drive on average. And this is also reflected in the fact that while Japanese people in other countries, especially the United States tend to be fatter on average.

The plenty of junk food and tasty treats, but they just don't seem to have a high food drive on average. And this is also reflected in the fact that while Japanese people in other countries, especially the United States tend to be fatter on average.

They're not fatter by nearly as much as you would expect if the obesogenic environment of the United States was really the thing causing all of us to be super fat versus just tasty foods around. And some of us like it a lot more than others. I mean, there's all kinds of subpopulation differences that present like this.

They're not fatter by nearly as much as you would expect if the obesogenic environment of the United States was really the thing causing all of us to be super fat versus just tasty foods around. And some of us like it a lot more than others. I mean, there's all kinds of subpopulation differences that present like this.

They're not fatter by nearly as much as you would expect if the obesogenic environment of the United States was really the thing causing all of us to be super fat versus just tasty foods around. And some of us like it a lot more than others. I mean, there's all kinds of subpopulation differences that present like this.

For example, if you look at the Indian subcontinent, then you tend to notice that the average Indian person just does not hold as much skeletal muscle as naturally as the average human in the world, and nor are they particularly prone to rapid obesity.