Welcome to the Comian podcast. My name is Jeff Krasnow. I recently panned an article over on

Substack called the People's Health Plan, Health is a Common,

let's treat it like one.

And I was compelled to put together this 10-pillared plan for public health because there is just so much confusion and vitriol in the space of public health right now.

And I really wanted to try to find some sort of cohering set of principles that we can all rally around. So as many of you know,

I penned an entire book titled Good Stress, which centers around how self-imposing the right dosage of stress protocols,

or use stress, like fasting, deliberate heat and cold therapy, resistance training,

and immersion in nature can reduce the likelihood of developing conditions like diabetes,

heart disease, and dementia. I believe that over the last 50 years,

chronic ease has led to this epidemic of chronic disease.

But here's the caveat.

We lived that way for hundreds of thousands of years.

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors munched on local organic vegetables and grass-fed

lean protein in the form of wild game. They walked and walked and walked. Fifteen thousand steps,

if you're counting on your eye watch. And they lifted heavy things. They built structures and carried

firewood. They were exposed to extreme fluctuations

and temperature, very, very cold on the high plains of the Serengeti in the night and very warm

during the day. And they got plenty of morning sunlight, depending on latitude. But as we all

know from Andrew Huberman, get your morning sunlight, right,

and you'll get a good night's sleep. Our species did this for millennia on the savannah. By 1850,

this way of life had netted Homo sapiens, a measly life expectancy of 35 years. Of course,

this isn't mean people routinely drop dead in middle age. Many lived

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