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  61.  @45graham45  I'll take this as a serious question. Why? How? Ninety-three percent of Americans are metabolically unwell. There is an epidemic of metabolic diseases; diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, ADHD, dementia, Alzheimer's, and etc. As we get older, the ailments begin to pile on top of each other and get worse. I was simply one of these people, but advanced in age. What I think is quite amazing about myself is that I still had the ability to critically analyze my situation and to change for the better. Yeah, it would have been better to have made the change when I was still in the womb, but this is what is. Peace. There are several big reasons why people are unwilling/unable to make the necessary dietary changes. They are: 1: Sugar and carbohydrate and perhaps alcohol addiction -- and the difficulty in accepting the fact that they are addicted. 2: Malnutrition-Induced brain fog that prevents clear thinking. 3: Peer pressure. 4: Nutrition Ignorance -- many people simply don't know enough about what to eat an what not to eat, and many don't care to learn. 5: Government/Corporate Influence. Nuff said. 6: Family/Cultural Traditions. 7: Information overload -- there are many competing ways of eating; Standard American Diet, Vegetarian, Vegan, Paleo, Keto, Carnivore, Mediterranean, and on and on. How to choose? 8: One must be willing to buck the status quo and become a brave explorer. 9: Change is difficult. It's just too much work to sort through all the noise. These (and probably more) add up to a kind of paralysis that prevents change that would be personally beneficial.
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  187. This was fascinating. Thank you! I am neither a doctor nor a scientist. I was a carpenter by trade and am my own personal lab mouse. After two tours in Vietnam, I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. Since then, have been on a quest to not be sick, live as long as I can, and die healthy. In the 70s and 80s there was not a lot of knowledge. Wheat grass, sprouts, macrobiotics, Euell Gibbons, and that was about it. In the 80s I became a vegetarian, eating tofu, whole grains and canola oil. My health improved significantly, but was far from optimal. By the time I was 65, I had prediabetes, high BP, multiple chemical sensitivities, and a lot of brain fog. I was contemplating stopping driving. At that time my wife, who was critically ill with heart issues, went to a new cardiologist. She (the cardiologist) told my wife that pills wouldn't help much, and that she should read the book, Wheat Belly. We read it and changed our diets immediately, moving to Paleo and Keto. Her health is much, much better now. And I'm now 73, my metabolic disease and autoimmune syndrome has reversed dramatically, and I am driving with confidence. Now I am spending my time fine tuning, looking for every advantage, every angle, because when I look in the mirror I still don't see the person that I want to see age-wise. I know I can do better, but 50-years of less than good health has taken a toll. I also don't like what I see around me; my friends and family are dying sooner, at a faster and faster rate due to insulin resistance/metabolic disease. I am one of the "general public" intellectually-curious people that you talked about. Thank you again for venturing out of the Ivory Tower and doing this podcast!
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  358. Transportation can't be studied in a vacuum. If city planners transform cities to have walkable/bikeable neighborhoods that combine street level businesses, with a number of floors of offices above, and residential housing above that, then less public transportation will be needed. And given the future of online work and online shopping, then we can function without nearly as much public transportation. Even ride-sharing or car-sharing is problematic from a sanitary perspective and from the need to have more roadways. With more centralized and self-sustaining neighborhoods, in a way, we would be returning to our history of smaller tribes. There are many benefits to having smaller tribes. If cities don't change and mass transportation is still needed at the current rate, and social distancing is promoted to make public transportation safer, then a transit capacity of several magnitudes would have to be provided -- more transit vehicles, more frequency, more sanitation workers to clean the vehicles, more energy usage, and etc. Add to all of this the sprawling high density growth of cities due to significant future population growth (have you seen the size of some of the cities in China?), and I don't see mass transit being viable unless cities change their live/work/play structure. I'm thinking about this not because I live in a city (I don't, I live remotely in the mountains), or because I am a city planner (I'm not). I'm thinking about this because I am a model railroader. I would like to build a new layout that models a future green city. This morning, I asked myself the questions, "Is transit rail dead?" "What will transportation be like in future cities?" I'm watching numerous YouTube videos about city planning for the future and although I want to model light rail, subways, elevated trains and the like, I just don't see the need for nearly as much rail in well-planned future green cities. Great. What a dilemma. A model railroader with no railroad to model.
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