521: Rucking & other tips to boost brain health | Michael Easter, NYT bestselling author

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 15 January 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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“The average person today sees more information in one day than a person 700 years ago would have seen in their entire life," says Michael Easter. Michael, a health journalist and New York Times bestselling author, joins us to discuss how to reintroduce yourself to moderation and ruck your way to better health, plus: - Why do we overdo everything? (~00:03) - How to overcome information overload (~02:35) - Possessions and abundance (~05:42) - Consequences of superabundance on our well-being (~07:50) - Being lonely vs. being alone (~09:41) - The science-backed benefits of being in nature (~12:42) - The power of rucking for overall health (~17:48) - The health benefits of getting out of your comfort zone (~23:01) - Why we’re so vulnerable to overabundance (~24:38) - What makes processed foods so irresistible? (~26:32) - What we can learn from slot machines (~27:56) - How to break the scarcity loop (~30:43) - Living in Las Vegas (~34:55) - How to manage your expectations & be happier (~37:19) - How to practice misogi for personal growth (~41:41) Visit shop.mindbodygreen.com/creatine20 to get 20% off creatine+. Cannot combine with gift cards or other discount codes. Visit shop.mindbodygreen.com/whey20 to get 20% off grass-fed whey protein isolate+. Cannot combine with gift cards or other discount codes. Referenced in the episode: - Michael's book, Scarcity Brain. - Michael's previous title, The Comfort Crisis. - A study on phone use in nature. - Read more about the nature pyramid. - A study on calming fractals. - A study on eating slower with unprocessed foods. - Michael's newsletter, 2%. We hope you enjoy this episode, and feel free to watch the full video on YouTube! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Walkab, founder and co-ceeo of My Buddy Green and your host.
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1:32.0	According to Michael Easter, our world is one giant slot machine.
1:37.0	And he's not just saying that because he lives in Las Vegas,
1:40.0	like the slots, our lives are largely sedentary, unpredictable, and they go by fast.
1:47.0	So how do we slow down the game so we can all win?
1:50.8	Michael is a journalist in New York Times best-selling author and the founder of the 2%
1:55.6	newsletter which is one of my personal favorites and in today's show he
1:59.3	discusses how to reintroduce yourself to moderation,
2:02.6	why nature is organic Xanax,
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