Hello and welcome to the Consistency Project podcast.

I'm Patrick Cummings here with E.C. Sinkowski each week. We simplify the principles and practices of nutrition, health, and fitness that will help you perform better, feel better, and live better. Thank you so much for tuning into the show. Hello, and how are you, E.C. Wonderful. How are you doing? I'm great. I'm excited about this chat. We're going to talk about a book called

The Comfort Crisis, which is one I've read and enjoyed, and I'm excited to get your take on it. So we're going to talk about, I think we did this for your ultra-processed people. We did an interview, or not an interview, we did an episode on the Ultra Process People book, and I think you pulled out their top 10 lessons. So we're going to do top five lessons, or your top five lessons from The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter, yes?

Yes. Yeah, I've slimmed it down from 10. 10 to five. Five is good.

10 to five. Yeah, that one was more just direct quote and response. This one's more about

like I kind of am pushing these towards five lessons,

if you will. Yeah, one of the coaches in my most recent kind of masterclass group was like,

oh my gosh, your nutrition stuff falls really in line with the comfort crisis. And I, of course,

knew of the book, but I hadn't read it. I knew generally the premise was like, we're too

comfortable. But I actually didn't. The title gives you quite a away. Yeah, you're like, okay, I think I understand. But I really thought it was going to be mostly just more like mental resilience and mental toughness. I didn't think there was going to be as much as there was on nutrition in it, which was really interesting. And even fitness. Like I don't, I don't know why I didn't think there'd be

more. But yeah, it was a really nice kind of a most surprise. Like when people are asking for what's a

good nutrition book. I'm like, I might actually just recommend the comfort crisis. I remember when I read it, I think I texted you. I asked if you had read it before because again, Yeah, you did. And I didn't pick up on like, why is he asking?

Cool. So I actually do like this book. I think I picked up rucking from this book.

Like this book. I think I picked up rucking from this book. This book was the first one to be like, oh, maybe I should actually try that. So rucking and some good nutrition stuff. Anyways, I recommend it. So shall we just dive into some lessons? Yeah. Okay, cool. So lesson number one that you've got is you're too comfortable. Kind of already teased

at this one. So I'm going to read a little bit of quotes from page 15. The modern comforts and

conveniences that now most influence our daily experience, cars, computers, television, climate

control, smartphones, ultra-processed foods, and more have been used by our species for about

100 years or less. That's around 0.03% of the time we've

walked the earth. Constant comfort is a radically new thing for us humans. Okay, and then this

continuing on page 2122, problem or comfort creep explains that as we experience fewer problems,

we don't become more satisfied. we just lower our threshold for what we

consider a problem we end up with the same number of problems except our new problems are

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