#175 - Seth Stephens-Davidowitz: Don’t Trust Your Gut, Data For Life Decisions, How To Date, Best Parenting Decisions, Sports Genes, Physical Appearance, Alcohol & Happiness, And More!

The Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast

Melanie Avalon

Alternative Health, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.5 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2022

⏱️ 90 minutes

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0:00.0	Nature versus nurture on parenting.
0:02.0	Nature matters a lot.
0:03.0	The overall effect of the environment is pretty small.
0:07.0	Maybe one parenting decision, the most important,
0:10.0	and that's where they raise their kids.
0:12.0	Romance, it's a competitive market,
0:14.0	and you're competing with 95% of people for mates.
0:18.0	It turned out that the predictive power was surprisingly low in predicting romantic
0:24.1	happiness. A good short-term friend tells you what you want to hear, what a good long-term friend
0:29.0	tells you uncomfortable truths. Welcome to the Melanie Avalon biohacking podcast, where we meet
0:36.1	the world's top experts to explore the secrets of health,
0:40.2	mindset, longevity, and so much more. Are you ready to take charge of your existence and biohack
0:47.1	your life? This show is for you. Please keep in mind, we're not dispensing medical advice
0:52.9	and are not responsible for any outcomes
0:55.2	you may experience from implementing the tactics lying herein. Are you ready? Let's do this.
1:04.2	Welcome back to the Melanie Avalon Biohacking podcast. Okay friends, you are in for a treat with today's
1:10.4	episode. It is a super fun one. I love
1:13.0	when I get to do episodes that are not all about diet and health and wellness and physical
1:18.3	things like that, but instead about hacking your life, Seth Stevens, David Owitz's work is
1:24.4	honestly just fascinating. I learned so much reading his book and we dive so deep
1:30.5	into many topics in today's episode, including things like racism in dating, what actually
1:36.8	makes us happy, the role of quantified self-data, whether or not you can fool yourself, how
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