Random Show — Fasting, Biohacking, and Tony Robbins (#333)
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Serial entrepreneur, world-class investor, eagle scout, and all around wild and crazy guy Kevin Rose (@KevinRose), rejoins me for another episode of The Random Show. We discuss Kevin’s new diet obsession that may just save his life for many decades to come, fatherhood, minimalism, lifetime learning, ways to dial back alcohol consumption, lessons learned from Tony Robbins, most recommended books, and much more.
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#333: Random Show — Fasting, Biohacking, and Tony Robbins
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SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE
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Past episodes of The Random Show
What’s the Meaning of the Phrase Helter-Skelter?
Digg
True Ventures
Nestle Targets High-End Coffee by Taking Majority Stake in Blue Bottle by Michael J. de la Merced and Oliver Strand, The New York Times
Scientifically Designed Fasting Diet Lowers Risks for Major Diseases by Emily Gersema, USC News
SS Jeremiah O’Brien
What Is Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP)? by Rachel Nall, Healthline
This Tech Icon Fasts for 16 Hours a Day — and Just Launched an App to Help Others Do the Same by Melia Robinson, Business Insider
Oura Ring — Heart Rate Variability and Sleep Tracking by Kevin Rose, The Journal
How to Live to 100, Dr. Valter Longo, The Kevin Rose Show
The Longevity Diet: Discover the New Science Behind Stem Cell Activation and Regeneration to Slow Aging, Fight Disease, and Optimize Weight by Valter Longo
ProLon
What You Should Know About L-Theanine by Foram Mehta, Healthline
Precision Xtra
The Official Home for The Legend of Zelda
Marie Kondo — The Japanese Tidying Master, The Tim Ferriss Show
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo
Yunnan: 9 Things to Do in China’s Wild, Diverse Province by Chieu Luu, CNN
Searching PubMed for Articles on N-Acetyl Cysteine and Depression
Rhabdo: A Rare but Serious Complication Of…Exercise by Marcelo Campos, MD, Harvard Health Publishing
Low-Dose Lithium Orotate
Should We All Take a Bit of Lithium? by Anna Fels, The New York Times
The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman by Timothy Ferriss
Discipline Equals Freedom — Jocko Willink, The Tim Ferriss Show
What Are the Links between Alcohol and Dementia?, American Addiction Centers
The Return of Drunk Dialing Q&A: How to Ask Better Questions, Take Better Risks, and More!, The Tim Ferriss Show
Is Tylenol ‘By Far the Most Dangerous Drug Ever Made?’ by Josh Bloom, American Council on Science and Health
Sir Richard Branson — The Billionaire Maverick of the Virgin Empire, The Tim Ferriss Show
Learning How to Learn: Powerful Mental Tools to Help You Master Tough Subjects by Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski, Coursera
The Pomodoro Technique: The Acclaimed Time-Management System That Has Transformed How We Work by Francesco Cirillo
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain by John J. Ratey and Eric Hagerman
Exercise Promotes the Expression of Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) Through the Action of the Ketone Body Beta-hydroxybutyrate by Sama F. Sleiman et al., eLife
Body by Science: A Research Based Program to Get the Results You Want in 12 Minutes a Week by John R. Little and Doug McGuff
Unleash the Power Within
Date with Destiny
I am Not Your Guru
Brian Koppelman, Co-writer/Producer of Rounders, The Illusionist, Ocean’s Thirteen, The Tim Ferriss Show
Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers by Timothy Ferriss
The 4-Hour Workweek Author Says a 3-step Process He Learned from Tony Robbins Drastically Improved His Life by Richard Feloni, Business Insider
Salesforce
Unlimited Power: The New Science Of Personal Achievement by Tony Robbins
Anthony Robbins Personal Power II: The Driving Force, 12 Albums (Complete Program on 24 Audio Cassettes) by Tony Robbins
CreativeLive
Joe Rogan #legitasfuck
Bad Science: Quacks, Hacks, and Big Pharma Flacks by Ben Goldacre
Tribe of Mentors — Recommended Books from Mentors and Top Books from Tools of Titans
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Charlie Munger
Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
SHOW NOTES
Let the games begin. [04:08]
Who is this Kevin Rose fellow, anyway? [05:30]
A shared investment for which Kevin and I were ridiculed by the Internet. [06:16]
Kevin’s most recent obsession: the five-day FMD (fasting mimicking diet). [06:48]
How do Valter Longo’s and Peter Attia’s FMDs differ? [15:18]
With a prevalence of heart disease running through Kevin’s family history, how long does Dr. Attia give him to live? [16:21]
Crack is whack and meth is death, but L-theanine is… [18:28]
Does Kevin prefer Dr. Longo’s or Dr. Attia’s FMD? [19:17]
How do Kevin and I measure our ketone levels? [20:30]
What have been the biggest changes Kevin has felt or observed in himself or otherwise since we did the last Random Show? [21:49]
Why did Kevin and his wife Darya name their first-born child Zelda, and how has becoming a father changed Kevin’s perspective on life? [22:32]
What has Kevin done in the pursuit of leading more of a minimalist lifestyle? [24:23]
What Kevin learned about minimalism from a wise old tea (and key) master in China. [27:18]
Minimalism — particularly of the Marie Kondo variety — isn’t an all-or-nothing approach to life. It’s a philosophy with wisdom to be taken (or left) by anyone living any lifestyle. [28:36]
Donation as a karmic chess move. [29:55]
How Kevin delays and declines what would have once been expensive and unnecessary impulse purchases. [30:47]
N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC): what is it good for? [31:27]
The untold perils of eating oatmeal cookies and the benefits of lithium. [33:29]
Contrary to popular belief, I don’t walk around with a drip IV bag in my arm and a thousand pills I’m taking four times a day. Here’s my current stance on supplements. [34:44]
The primitive but effective way I track my baseline, and what helps me wake up ready to face the day. [35:50]
It’s really easy to become addicted to measuring things that don’t matter very much — or worse still, measuring things that will distract you from the things that do matter. [37:53]
How does Kevin track his baseline, and does it have an impact on his behavior? [38:24]
Kevin’s idea for an app that creates social pressure to drink less. He’s experimented with a spreadsheet version among a small group of friends, but how might it scale when applied to a larger number of users? [39:26]
What has helped Kevin dial back his own drinking consumption? [42:20]
What effect does traveling have on Kevin’s resolve to drink less? [44:13]
Kevin’s hacks for drinking less in social situations. [46:18]
Speaking of drinking, have you ever heard one of my drunk dialing episodes? The latest one is here. [48:43]
The real reason I might not be drinking alcohol if you encounter me in the wild — and an excuse you should feel free to borrow if you’re ever socially pressured to drink. [49:34]
The Richard Branson method of resisting this social pressure. [50:54]
Kevin sets aside time that used to be taken up with drinking to learn every night. What’s he learning lately? [51:49]
Experiments with duration intervals and break periods I’ve tried for learning (particularly new languages). [53:30]
How does exercise fit into a learning regimen? [55:40]
Why I’m not worried about falling off the fitness train for short periods of time. [58:41]
We compare Tony Robbins event notes. Kevin gets the fresh coal treatment. [1:00:04]
What the Wheel of Life exercise made clear to Kevin and how it galvanized his ambition to contribute to a cause beyond just writing checks. [1:04:07]
Be skeptical, not cynical — what convinced me to attend a Tony Robbins event even though I assumed it wasn’t really my thing. [1:07:08]
Tony Robbins exercises aren’t a one-flavor-cures-all tonic, but here’s one that changed my life. [1:08:45]
Tony Robbins can even make Kevin dance — and Kevin hates dancing. You might be surprised to find out who else he can make dance. [1:11:30]
Yesterday’s frowned-upon self-help genre is today’s lauded lifelong learning journey. Here’s how I once disarmed an interview intended to set me up as a champion of that genre. [1:15:56]
You’ll find charlatans in any genre or industry, but it shouldn’t invalidate the good that people are attempting in that space. The education to tell them apart is generally available to anyone who goes looking for it. [1:18:18]
How to spot nonsense. [1:20:06]
Most recommended books. [1:21:47]
Parting thoughts. [1:24:26]
PEOPLE MENTIONED
Dr. Valter Longo
Dominic D’Agostino
Peter Attia
Tony Conrad
Zelda Rose
Darya Rose
Josh Cook
Marie Kondo
Jocko Willink
Brenden Mulligan
John Oliver
Richard Branson
Benjamin Franklin
Salvador Dali
Tony Robbins
Brian Koppelman
Marc Benioff
Paul Tudor Jones
Andrew Carnegie
Joe Rogan
