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It’s become too easy to get in shape. Information at our finger tips, experts at every scroll with facts and opinions on what’s good for you, and access to resources that used to only be for a select few.
How do we get in shape when one person says “this thing will increase your life expectancy by 10yrs” and the next person says that same thing will kill you?
We’re way too deep into the information era of fitness, but this is a problem thousands of years old that already has a solution.
Transcript
Being healthy has become way too attainable because how does some dude in the Epstein files become the voice and how to live longer? Let's rewind to January 2021. Andrew Huberman just dropped his first podcast on how your brain works and changes. That leads you down a rabbit hole, peaking interest into morning sunlight exposure rank wondering, is my circadian rhythm off? And good, you knew lifting weights was good for you, but it just seems even more validated coming from a Stanford professor. In that collab with better Andy Galpin drop, and you realize my No two max is rank. So fuck it. You're in your hybrid era. But isn't running and lifting how you started this journey all along? You definitely seem to be getting fitter, yet you still don't feel healthy enough. Brian Johnson swapping plasma with his own son. Gary Breca saying your b vitamin deficiency is the cause of all your problems. Paul Saladino says red meat's great for you. But the next tier you scroll to, it says red meat will kill you. By no, you good a garment on your right wrist, a whoop on your left worst, or a ring just in case because it reads the sleep a little better. And a bunch of random needles from China in your bag. Are you exhausted yet? When did becoming healthy turn into a full time job? Bad thousand years ago, Seneca wrote about the abundance of books being a distraction. His advice was to pick a few and read them again instead of trying to chase every single new one. The over information problem we currently face is nothing new. It just explode to a scale we could have better predicted. We're cursed with having every single answer sitting in front of us. So in the era of information overload, double down the basics, find a few of the new things that work for you, and just do the damn work.
