Ep 68 - A Brain-Shrinking Habit?
Show notes
Lauren is back in the US, which kicks off a tangent about her new (third) phone number and the newest "Dunkers" in the donut/soft drink industry. After that, they get into the headlines of the week. First up is "boy kibble," then a Shake Shack guilt-tipping controversy sparks a full rant about tipping culture creeping onto self-service kiosks and app-dependent businesses. After that, a New York Post piece on returning to the gym earns rare praise, followed by a less praise-worthy headline about active recovery. The back half covers a Huffington Post story on a study linking midlife TV watching to later brain shrinkage — interesting but with plenty of potential confounders and limitations. The top headline is a famous doctor (the same "alpha" physician advising RFK Jr. and JD Vance) claiming that toilet paper becomes unnecessary when you adopt his preferred diet. They close with a listener question about protecting your eyesight through a PhD.
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
4:42 Dr. Pepper Dunkers
8:07 "Boy kibble"
12:18 Guilt-tipping and app-dependent businesses
25:13 Returning to the gym the right way
31:04 Active recovery
38:31 Does midlife TV shrink your brain?
44:04 The carnivore diet & the toilet paper claim
52:07 Protecting your eyesight in a PhD