What Science Actually Says About How To Lose Body Fat - Ben Carpenter - #605

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03/23/23

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92m

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Ben Carpenter is a personal trainer, researcher, international speaker, fitness model and diet expert.

There are a million diets out there. All of them claim to work. Many of us have tried many of them, and many failed. So which diet is the best? What are the principles of fat loss that science agrees on as the most effective? How do we all get a 6-pack?

Expect to learn whether calories are a total lie, why the weight loss industry is filled with so much conflicting advice, the 4 key components to any good diet, how there can be so many approaches to the same end goal, whether diet or training is more important, how to improve your willpower, the single most important contributor to fat loss and much more...

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (00:30) Our Identity Lags Behind Our Reality (09:27) Ben’s Health & Fitness Background (13:17) Why Can’t the Fitness Industry Agree on a Way to Lose Fat? (23:15) What We Misunderstand About Fat Loss (33:48) Finding the Right Balance for Taking Responsibility (41:12) Fundamentals of Fat Loss (47:13) The Science of Food Texture (54:10) Do Calories Actually Matter? (1:05:46) How to Navigate the Countless Diets Available (1:12:03) Can I Lose Fat Without Exercise? (1:15:40) How to Improve Willpower (1:25:13) Making Boring Exercise Enjoyable (1:32:25) Where to Find Ben

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The Evolutionary Story Of Human Friendship - Robin Dunbar - #604

March 20, 2023

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85m

Robin Dunbar is an anthropologist, evolutionary psychologist, head of the Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience Research Group at the University of Oxford and an author.

Most animals need friends to survive. But no other animal has as layered and complex a social life as humans. The last 2 million years from trees to plains to apartments has caused huge changes to the setup of our social groups, and it's a fascinating story.

Expect to learn why any group size over 90 ends up with more people being killed than being born, why men don't have a best friend forever but women do, the link between human brain size and social groups, how male and female friendships differ, why the modern world has the most loneliness ever, what the single largest impact on your health is and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (00:18) Why Humans, Monkeys & Apes Have Huge Brains (05:18) How Human Social Groups Evolved (13:39) How Group Dynamics Impact Fertility (28:30) Why Living in a Big City is an Evolutionary Mismatch (45:08) How Did We Get From Small Tribes to Larger Settlements? (52:58) The Evolutionary Struggles of Growing Groups (1:02:01) Differences Between Male & Female Friendships (1:17:41) Why Men Think Women Are Attracted to Them (1:22:47) Where to Find Robin

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The Rise And Fall Of The Girlboss Meme - Katherine Dee - #606

March 25, 2023

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74m

Katherine Dee is a writer, journalist and internet historian.

There are lots of male subcultures. Incels, RedPill, Pickup Artists, Soy Boys. But what are women getting up to? Trends like Hot Girls Have IBS. Hot Girls Eat Fish. And most well known, the girlboss meme. Katherine is here to explain just what is happening in the oestrogen-fuelled underbelly of the internet.

Expect to learn why the girlboss meme came about, why there is a coming wave of sex-negativity, whether it really is possible to be hot while you have IBS, Katherine's biggest red flags when choosing a partner, whether it should be legal to pay to drug women so you can have sex with their lifeless bodies, why predictable is good when dating and much more...

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