Chasing Life

It reminds me of this conversation I had with Larry Brilliant who I'm sure you know who said something similar to what you said which is that it's only really in Hollywood movies and the book Hot Zone he added where you see these stories of viruses progressively mutating into something that becomes increasingly lethal.

So if you like the podcast episode, which you will, his book's called Invisible Storm. It's a soldier's memoir of politics and PTSD.

And I'm very excited about the book. And the book is sort of...I'm glad you put down into words the power of what you've been through and some of the things you were saying.

I think my version of your events of your life, which I'm sure you should care nothing about, but I'll give it to you anyway. I do care.

Is half the circle was written, the circle drawn of somebody in the public eye who was at the top of the world, admired, masculine, tough. But so what? But so what?

So the interviews I've done, this book is my way of frankly, just writing the book that doesn't exist until now and that I needed to read 14 years ago.

Let me just finish today by asking you about your new book. The book is called Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?

it really does depend upon what you value most. And partially it does depend upon the kind of illnesses you're anticipating and not.

Norway, Germany, the Netherlands and Taiwan, very low cost at the point of care, good primary care, good choice of doctor, low cost.

The main problems are really exorbitant costs that are affecting every country. The United States, the worst. We have a very complex and inefficient system.

the main purpose of this book was to find out what are other countries doing well that we can actually adapt to our country?

I think that that's the key. And that's what was so interesting when I was reading your book, you know, because the body keeps score, right? You have to ultimately at some point take breaks and the breaks are for your physical health, but also your mental health, right?

And the end result was her book, Hustle and Float, aimed towards helping others recover from burnout and then find balance in life.

But what if I told you that the key to handling these tough decisions may be a game of poker?

She says that life is like a game of poker because they are both full of unknowns, probabilities and incomplete information. And yet in both situations, we are still forced to make a move.

One of the things that you wrote in your book is the best way to understand uncertainty is to bet on it.

Celeste Headley is the author of the book, We Need to Talk, How to Have Conversations That Matter.

And I am the author of Apollo's Arrow, The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live.

If you want to learn more about Scott's proposals for improving our pandemic response, you should check out his new book. It's called Uncontrolled Spread. Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic.

The book of Face is about women's Faces getting older and why that makes people angry.

And it's based on my experiences and feelings about it. And then those of about 20 or so people I interviewed, mostly women.

In his latest book, which is called This Is Your Mind on Plants, Pollan dives deep into how plants and plant-based substances, from cannabis to caffeine, alter us and alter our minds.

Her take on friendship during a time when we had to sort of isolate was pretty insightful.

I first spoke to Professor Franco a couple of years ago. It was for the very first season of the podcast. The conversation was about maintaining friendships during the pandemic.

One factor that I talk about in Platonic is, you know, how we saw friendship in the early 1800s and before in the Western world was very different.

She's also author of the book The Brain on Youth Sports.

Your mother is demonstrating slowing of the aging process. Really? Why? Because it is untypical for an 80-something-year-old woman to sleep nine hours and not to have pain.

If we prevent aging, we prevent age-related diseases.

aging is the mother of all those diseases.

So for him, that leaves a lot of room for improvement, about 35 years worth.

How your beliefs about aging determine how long and well you live.

the positive age beliefs seem to have benefits to older individuals' health, but unfortunately some of the negative age beliefs that we can also take in can harm different types of health outcomes.

we have found that those who had taken in more age beliefs from their culture tended to live seven and a half years longer on average than those who had taken in more negative age beliefs from the culture.

It's amazing how, she says, that positive beliefs can affect us in three ways, psychologically, behaviorally and biologically.

Dr. Julie Holland is the editor of the potbook a complete guide to cannabis for a long time The work on cannabis and epilepsy was sort of inconclusive. Maybe it works. Maybe it doesn't they couldn't quite figure it out And it's only when they really started separating THC from CBD that they saw, you know definitively. Yes CBD seems to really stop seizures

Hank published two books that touch on Internet fame and the digital world. They are called An Absolutely Remarkable Thing and A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor.