In *To End All Wars*, Adam Hochschild provides a nuanced portrayal of World War I, highlighting the conflict between those who saw the war as a noble cause and those who opposed it. The book explores the experiences of civilians, soldiers, and prominent figures like Rudyard Kipling and Bertrand Russell, offering insights into the war's senseless carnage and its lasting impact.
This book offers the first authoritative biography in English of Galen, a brilliant and profoundly influential figure in the history of medicine. It delves into Galen's life, his contributions to medical science, and his impact on Western medicine. The biography blends historical detail with the drama of Galen's time, including his experiences during an outbreak of smallpox and his role as a polymath writing on various subjects beyond medicine.
This book delves into the purpose and power of sleep, explaining how it affects every aspect of our physical and mental well-being. Walker discusses how sleep enriches our ability to learn, memorize, and make logical decisions, recalibrates our emotions, restocks our immune system, fine-tunes our metabolism, and regulates our appetite. He also explores the consequences of sleep deprivation and provides actionable steps to improve sleep quality, including ways to prevent cancer, Alzheimer’s, and diabetes, slow the effects of aging, and increase longevity.
Dr Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist, Associate Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine and a podcaster.
From personal dramas to scientific uproars, it's been a wild year for the biggest health & fitness podcaster in the world. And today we get to discover his biggest new insights about life, relationships and protocols.
Expect to learn whether you actually should drink coffee within 90 minutes of waking up, how to get the best sleep of your life according to the latest science, how to become a morning person, what Andrew has learned about the perils of fame and public scrutiny, what new research says on the world of longevity supplements, why you should always do your research when testing with peptides and much more…
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Timestamps:
00:00 Adenosine in the First 90 Minutes of the Day
12:15 Why Jocko Never Gets Tired
23:59 How to Become a Morning Person
35:05 Andrew’s New Daily Routine
43:39 Mentally Dealing With a Rapid News Cycle
53:46 Why Stories Are More Powerful Than Statistics
1:04:46 The Tim Kennedy Alarm Clock
1:09:55 Dissecting the Story You Tell Yourself
1:21:28 The Blessing & Curse of Good Memory
1:31:48 How Andrew Deals With Public Scrutiny
1:42:53 What it Was Like to Wake Up to the Hit Piece
1:55:28 Advice to People Going Through an Intense Time
2:04:50 The Lonely Chapter
2:14:28 Thoughts on Bryan Johnson
2:20:50 Current State of Longevity Research
2:32:00 Thinking About Your Long Arc
2:44:18 Using BPC-157 to Recover Faster
2:53:30 Why Andrew is Teaching an Undergraduate Course
2:57:47 Being a Researcher & Influencer
3:06:38 How to Follow Your Intuition More
3:24:41 What’s Next for Andrew
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