SNR #131: Dan Pardi, PhD - The Human Operating System & Developing a Philosophy for Health

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🗓️ 19 July 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Episode 131: Dan Pardi, PhD discusses all sorts of concepts related to the philosophy of health, including; using tech and tools to improve behaviuors, mindset over tools, research on PERMA and applying the "explore, expolit" concept to health.

Dan is an entrepreneur and researcher whose life’s work is centered on how to facilitate health behaviors in others. He is the developer of Loop Model to Sustain Health Behaviors to help people live a healthy lifestyle in a modern world.

He does research with the Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Department at Stanford University, and the Departments of Neurology and Endocrinology at Leiden University in the Netherlands. His current research looks at how sleep influences decision making

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0:00.0	There's a bit of a trend in the industry of like, hey, if we just can create the right tool, then health will be solved.
0:11.6	A mindset will always be better than the tools, right?
0:15.2	You have to facilitate the right mindset to approach life, and the tools can then augment it and fine-tune it and support it.
0:25.6	This idea of explore exploit is in reference to what we were just talking about. So Explore is the idea that you're always kind of searching.
0:27.6	You stay in search mode. You're trying to find the new thing.
0:30.6	Exploit has a negative connotation but in computer science just means maximizing the utility of
0:35.6	available resources to you. Which is basically what are the biological processes that are triggered in response to calorie restriction?
0:43.3	It turns out that fasting triggers a lot of those processes without a lot of the negative consequences
0:48.3	of calorie restriction. Hello and welcome. My name is Danny Lennon and you are listening to episode 131 of Sigma Nutrition
1:16.6	Radio, the podcast that gives you access to weekly discussions with the world's leaders in
1:22.9	evidence-based nutrition, health and performance. Today I'm delighted to have one of my favorite people
1:30.2	in this space back on the show, Dan Pardy. Dan is an entrepreneur, he's a researcher whose life's
1:38.2	work is centered around how to facilitate health behaviors in others. He's developed something called the loop model to sustain health behaviors,
1:47.0	which aims to help people live a healthy lifestyle in the modern world.
1:52.0	And he also does a ton of research within the psychiatry and behavioral science department
1:58.0	at Stanford University, as well as the departments of neurology
2:01.8	and endocrinology at Leiden University in the Netherlands and has done a lot of his work centered
2:08.0	around sleep and how sleep affects our decision making, particularly as that relates to decision
2:13.8	making with food choices. And Dan was previously on the show way back in maybe
2:19.6	episode 31 I think something around that time and gave an absolute masterclass on all the
2:27.7	intricacies and details of sleep and sleep research so if you are interest in that area
2:32.5	and you want to know all the details about
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