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#297 – Jonathan Reisman: The Human Body – From Sex & Sperm to Hands & Heart

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Lex Fridman

Technology, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Science

4.713.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2022

⏱️ 170 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Reisman is a physician and author of The Unseen Body who has practiced medicine in some of the most remote places in the world. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(07:01) – Hands
(16:15) – Sex
(25:56) – Future of medicine
(35:03) – Throat
(45:26) – Heart and blood
(53:28) – Genitals
(1:05:57) – Poop
(1:10:12) – Emergency room
(1:18:03) – Sperm
(1:23:09) – Liver
(1:28:38) – Living in the Far North
(1:47:21) – War and medicine
(1:52:07) – Antarctica
(2:05:03) – Artificial organs
(2:13:39) – History of medicine
(2:22:40) – Paul Farmer
(2:27:05) – Advice for young people
(2:34:03) – Struggle
(2:40:07) – Mortality
(2:45:44) – Meaning of life

Transcript

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0:00.0

The following is a conversation with Jonathan Reisman, a physician and writer of the unseen

0:05.3

body, a doctor's journey through the hidden wonders of human anatomy.

0:10.3

He has practiced medicine in some of the world's most remote places, including the Alaskan

0:15.8

and Russian Arctic, Antarctica, and the Himalayan Mountains of Nepal.

0:23.5

And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor.

0:26.1

Check them out in the description.

0:27.1

It's the best way to support this podcast.

0:29.8

We got Lambda for deep learning, Inside Tracker for longevity, Fundrise for investing,

0:36.2

on it for supplements and NetSuite for efficiency.

0:40.2

Choose wisely my friends.

0:41.8

And now onto the full ad reads.

0:43.6

As always, no ads in the middle.

0:44.8

I try to make this interesting, but if you skip them, please still check out our sponsors.

0:48.8

I enjoy their stuff.

0:50.1

Maybe you will too.

0:52.2

This show is brought to you by Lambda, Computers, Workstations, Laptop, Service, Cloud, Comput,

0:57.8

All for Deep Learning.

0:59.9

They're great both for individual researchers and huge companies.

1:03.9

I consider myself an individual researcher, but I'm also part of a group of researchers

1:08.5

that I've been for most of my life.

1:11.4

And perhaps one day I'll run a huge company at the dream.

1:16.6

And all of those will involve a very large amount of deep learning.

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