Ross Douthat

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4,896 appearances 23 recordings 5 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 27 Aug

Ross Douthat’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Interesting Times · Bryan Johnson’s Blueprint for a 150-Year Life: Is It Worth It? · 13 Aug 2026 podcast

And so it's not a passive thing where you've just trained. voice-verified

change your body to drive itself um you know the way that a Waymo might drive you around San Francisco, right? voice-verified

So what's the takeaway for someone who works a nine to five job in which maybe they you know maybe they can eat the protein powder or something, but otherwise they're not going to be dunking a basketball at two PM Pacific. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

I'm also interested watching you because I spend a certain period of my own life treating myself as a guinea pig. voice-verified

I had a very severe chronic illness that had basically totally ruined my life for a period of a couple of years. voice-verified

And uh let's just say there was insufficient medical data on how you would ideally treat this. voice-verified

And so I treated myself as like, you know, to you voice-verified

Use the language of studies. voice-verified

I was an N of one, right? voice-verified

And I was just trying things, things that people had recommended, things that had some science behind them. voice-verified

But this was an all-consuming process at a lot of times. voice-verified

But first of all, I was always treating it as a provisional thing, right, to get me back to health. voice-verified

That was sort of how how I understood it. voice-verified

In the end, it got me there or close enough to there that I was like, I'm not sure voice-verified

That I no longer live like that. voice-verified

And secondly, I didn't imagine that the things I was doing were were going to be generalizable, right? voice-verified

Like yeah, I I would, you know, if other people had the same illness, I would give them advice and compare notes and so on. voice-verified

But it just seemed so clear that whatever was going on in my own body was very, very idiosyncratic. voice-verified

And so when I look at what you're doing, I'm curious both of voice-verified

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