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David Eaglemann's book Livewired which came out recently as a book I read in full-length form and I've listened to the Blinkist version of it as well.

I recently read a book that I read previously, which I love. By the way, I love Livewire.

The book is called The Art of Spending Money. And I make a point of the book is not called The Science of Spending Money because spending money is not a science. It's an art.

Morgan Housel has a, he has a couple of really good books. I actually liked the second one more. They're both excellent. But the second one is called The Art of Spending Money.

He quotes my low back disorders book as an example of anti-fragile medicine.

That was one of the foundational ideas for Mating in Captivity, my first book.

I think there is a section in the comfort crisis, and I've written about this in my other book, Scarcity Brain as well.

Yeah, could be for art, for intellectual history it's a classic Victor Frankel argument of man search for meaning, right?

As Victor Frankel is leaving the concentration camps what helps him survive.

And it's the debt that he owes to the future work that he wants to write to share with the world.

And it's not the fear of death.

It's the meaning of the work he could do for the world if he survives.

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I read The Coddling of the American Mind. It's an incredibly important book.

I actually did get this from Yasha Monk has a great book called The Identity Trap and Yasha points out that a trap has to have bait in it that's attractive. There has to be something that makes the creature want to go into the trap and then once they get the bait, there has to be something that prevents them from leaving.

There's a wonderful book called ''Keeping Together in Time'' by William McNeil. He was either he signed up or he was drafted into World War II training at a camp in Texas. They're marching up and down with wooden guns because they don't have real guns. And at first it seemed stupid to him, but after a few days his unit gets it. And when they can, they're like a unit, they're like a centipede, they're imperfect, you know, it was like a loss of self, it was ecstatic.

I read, Where the Red Fern Grows maybe 50 times and I love dogs.

I know Steven Kotler, I have respect for him and his books about Flow.

There's my book, other books, there's lots of information now on the internet about the subject, but she is going through a transition that is rocking her world more than likely and is affecting her brain, her bones, her heart, her kidneys, her skin, her ability to relate, her ability to tolerate. And it's probably gonna affect your relationship in some way.

And it was also something covered in detail. I was so excited by the neuroscientist as part of her area of research that they are showing clearly and she can point to the neuroreceptors of where that's happening. That progesterone seems to be really protected for our sleep.

Karen Tang just published, It's Not Hysteria, wait, hysteria. It's Not Hysteria. And she's a gynecologic surgeon, does a lot of work around endometriosis.

When I first wrote Galveston Diet, to be honest and transparent, it was for weight loss and I was frustrated with my weight gain and that was the pain point my patients had and that was my pain point, but I didn't realize it represented something much more sinister than just the way it looked, the visceral fat gain.

So I'm like, I gotta do better than this. I don't know enough. And so we had a guest speaker for Alpha Omega Alpha which is the Honor Society for medical school and I was one of the advisors. So, and it was this guy Tim Harlan who had started this culinary medicine movement and it was basically nutrition for doctors.

So it was the best thing I've ever done. Yeah, I was gonna say very cool. I mean, I learned about allergies and like all this stuff, you know, food allergies and things that I just didn't know and just basic nutritional principles like what it takes to build a healthy body and what, you know, I knew about quash or core and like severe deficiencies, but not good basic nutrition.

They talked heavily about Mediterranean. They talked a lot about the fad diets and stuff, but you know, the principles of the Mediterranean, I was like, I wanna teach this to my patients but they're not gonna eat a lot of Greek yogurt or they're probably not gonna eat a lot of feta, you know, like how can I kind of take these blocks and make it more Americanized?

And I really was into fasting at the time too. So I was like, let me put this fasting thing together with, you know, good nutritional anti-inflammatory principles and talk about the things we know or probably you should, you know, not having a whole lot of, you know, processed foods and high sugars and stuff and explain it in a way and how it's affecting their menopause and like how can she approach her nutrition? And that's how Galveston Diet was born.

And in there, in one of our papers, we quoted these beautiful passages from the book, Memoirs of a Stomach.

It was written in 1853.

And then on page 21, it goes to describe the dialogue between the gut and the brain.

And it says like that, how it is that the gut communicates to the brain with a rapidity through these two sets of electrical wires that communicate the arrivals of the day, as we may eat, with a precision and rapidity to the brain.

He has a paper or he'd published a paper, I believe in the 1930s. It's called Voodoo Death.

Walter Cannon goes and describes is that it's an activation of the vagus nerve and the peripheral nervous system that is a hyperactivation that is going through the sub-threshold level of consciousness.