The following is a conversation with Brian Muir-Rescu, author of The Immortality Key,

the secret history of the religion with no name, a book that reconstructs the forgotten history of

psychedelics in the development of Western civilization. To support this podcast, please check out

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that I've had with him quite a bit, he's also a fan of it. I love this idea in general,

it honestly really feels like the future, where the advice we get in terms of lifestyle, in terms

of health, is based on actual data. As opposed to going to these kind of population level studies

to determine how much we should sleep, what kind of diet we should have, what we should fix about

our body, is good to be driven by the data that comes from your own specific body. I think the

studies that look at populations are good to build basic intuition, but the reality is very difficult

to do control studies there, and conclusive protocols for what you specifically should do,

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