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50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

“Which research studies should you believe?” w/Greg Nuckols

50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD

Jim McDonald

Fitness, Entrepreneurship, Tv & Film, Business, Health & Fitness, Film Reviews

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

New Year. New avalanche of fitness and nutrition-related studies to confuse the resolutionistas (and the rest of us). How are we supposed to decide which ones to believe? We asked Greg Nuckols, someone who spends a lot of time evaluating research, to break it down for us. Here are some of our thoughts: Are there some sources we should listen over others? Should you read the entire study or is the abstract enough? What’s a legitimate sample size and why are large sample studies rare? How long should a study be run to be believable? If a finding is something that wasn’t the main focus of the study, should we still take it seriously? You can find Greg on Instagram @gregnuckols, on his strongerbyscience.com, and on the Stronger by Science podcast. We kick it off by talking about life in 1920 vs 2020. Listener deals: For 20% off your first purchase, visit nativedeodorant.com and use promo code facts during checkout! Hosted by Mike Farr (@silentmikke) and Jim McDonald (@thejimmcd). Produced by Jim McDonald Production assistance by Connor O’Neal. Theme by Aaron Moore. Branding by Joseph Manzo.

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May 2023 Spanish Paper 1. When each question is about to start, students will hear a beep.

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For some, this will be all they hear as panic sets in. So tonight, when you sit down together,

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before you ask about La Historia or La Musica, ask them how they're doing.

0:24.0

A proper chat can ease exam stress. Britain get talking, ITV.

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You're listening to 50% facts to show where we're building a health and fitness resource by trying to answer a single question every week, just based on what we already know.

0:47.0

Or maybe what we think we know. Then we bring in the world's leading expert to tell us what we got right and what we got wrong.

0:53.0

I'm Jim McDonald and I'm Mike Farf. Welcome to our show.

1:01.0

2020. 2020.

1:04.0

It's kind of wild. What else to think about it? Because I think my grandpa, my dad's side was born in like 1908.

1:12.0

And I met him. He passed away when I was pretty young, but he's been thinking about like 100 years, especially these 100 years.

1:21.0

Yeah. Like holy shit. So much has changed. I can't even compare to what they're every day. I'm sorry for the rock star.

1:31.0

Stayed up too late. Smoke to pack. Took some Hennessy to the face voice. I was sick for normally I get sick and I just go straight child mode and I end up in bed.

1:43.0

And I'll just sleep until it's better. And I did that. I did two days of death sleep. Little fever, nothing crazy.

1:51.0

And so the fever's gone a little bit of congestion, but then I woke up today. My voice is jacked up, but I feel pretty good. So we're here. But I can't imagine what life is in 1909 or let's go 1920.

2:06.0

I guess you compare every day life to 1920 and 2020. No way. The drastic change in those 100 years is even comparable to any other 100 years.

2:20.0

Yeah. Like they insane amounts. Like we went from no TV to virtual reality. Yeah.

2:26.0

Rather than like and phones that like. Yeah, computer chips in our hand. Yeah.

2:32.0

They can do anything. Yeah. And it's this is weird, but but it's a but it's a thing. It's a definite advancement.

2:41.0

There is this new system for people with sleep apnea where they implant your device and there's like a there's like a wire that goes in the back of your throat and you have like a battery in your chest.

2:52.0

And what it does is that it shocks your tongue so your tongue pulls away from your airway. It does it in a one week you up.

3:01.0

Apparently once you get used to it, no, a tongue shock. Jesus. Yeah. It isn't like it. It isn't a startle by the time you're done. It's just a like almost unnoticeable.

3:10.0

It's an incredibly expensive surgery. It's like, I don't know. I saw $100,000, but that's made it may not be correct still.

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