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#239: How to Reverse Aging with Art De Vany

May 12, 2017

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Art De Vany

Art De Vany, a nearly eighty-year-old Professor Emeritus of Economics and a pioneer in evolutionary fitness, shares his secrets to reverse aging and maintain peak health. He discusses the vital connection between fitness, nutrition, and the aging process. Learn about his unique workout routines that prioritize resistance training and muscle health, alongside the benefits of intermittent fasting. Art emphasizes a two-meal-a-day strategy while critiquing modern dietary habits. His insights blend economics and fitness, offering a holistic approach to longevity.

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ANECDOTE

Aging: Failure of Renewal

Aging results from a failure of renewal, not from programmed genes.
Stem cells and their maintenance pathways like autophagy are crucial to counter aging damage.

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ADVICE

Eat Twice Daily for Renewal

Eat only twice a day to allow long intervals with low insulin signaling.
These intervals promote autophagy and protein quality control essential for renewal.

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Eccentric Exercise Boosts Stem Cells

Focus on eccentric (negative) workouts for muscle and stem cell health.
Use slow, controlled descents to double satellite stem cells without exhausting them.

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Navigating Evolution, Economics, and Entertainment

04:00 • 15min

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Fitness, Nutrition, and the Science of Aging

19:14 • 16min

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Maximizing Muscle and Mitochondrial Health

35:34 • 14min

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Intermittent Fasting and Workout Synergy

49:26 • 8min

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Exploring Egg Preparation and Personal Preferences

57:39 • 2min

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mTOR Activation: Balancing Health and Longevity

59:14 • 7min

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The Biology of Stress and Protein Synthesis

01:06:42 • 9min

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Rewiring the Mind: Physical Paths to Healing

01:15:51 • 4min

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Stories, Statistics, and Investments

01:19:28 • 7min

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Melatonin and Managing Health

01:26:47 • 16min

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Strength and Knowledge: A Personal Journey

01:43:14 • 11min

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Weekly Finds and Recommendations: Audiobooks and Mushroom Coffee

Hollywood Economics explores the unpredictable nature of the film industry, examining how factors like star power and big openings impact movie success. The book delves into the risks and uncertainties faced by the industry, challenging common assumptions about Hollywood deal-making and studio management. It provides insights into the chaotic dynamics of box-office revenue and the strategies employed by studios to mitigate risks.

Vagabonding

An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

Rolf Potts

In 'Vagabonding', Rolf Potts provides a comprehensive handbook for long-term world travel. The book is not just about travel but an outlook on life, encouraging readers to use the prosperity and possibilities of the information age to increase personal options rather than possessions. It covers practical advice on financing travel, determining destinations, adjusting to life on the road, handling travel adversity, and re-assimilating back into ordinary life. Potts emphasizes the importance of an independent spirit, simplicity, and a friendly interest in people, places, and things, making the reader an explorer in the truest sense of the word.

The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman

The Graveyard Book tells the story of Nobody 'Bod' Owens, a young boy who escapes his family's murderer, known as the man Jack, and finds refuge in a graveyard. There, he is adopted and raised by the ghostly residents, Mr. and Mrs. Owens, and protected by the mysterious caretaker Silas. As Bod grows up, he learns supernatural abilities and faces various dangers both within and outside the graveyard. The book follows Bod's adventures and his eventual transition into the world of the living, exploring themes of identity, family, and the intersection of life and death.

Skin in the game

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In 'Skin in the Game', Nassim Nicholas Taleb argues that having personal stakes in the outcomes of decisions is crucial for fairness, commercial efficiency, and risk management. The book highlights how individuals and systems that are insulated from the consequences of their decisions often make poor choices. Taleb draws on historical and contemporary examples to illustrate the importance of symmetry in risk and reward, and how this principle affects various domains, including politics, economics, and personal life. The book emphasizes that true learning and improvement come from experiencing the consequences of one's actions, a concept encapsulated in the Greek idea of 'pathemata mathemata' or 'guide your learning through pain'.

The Black Swan

The Impact of the Highly Improbable

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

David Chandler

Nassim Taleb

The Black Swan is a landmark book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb that investigates the phenomenon of highly improbable events with massive impacts. These events, termed Black Swans, are unpredictable, have a significant impact, and are rationalized after the fact to appear less random. Taleb argues that humans are hardwired to focus on specifics rather than generalities, leading to a failure to consider what we don’t know. The book delves into cognitive biases, the limitations of mathematical models, and the importance of robustness and antifragility in navigating a world filled with uncertainty. The second edition includes a new essay, 'On Robustness and Fragility,' offering tools to navigate and exploit a Black Swan world.

Fooled by randomness

the hidden role of chance in life and in the markets

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In 'Fooled by Randomness', Nassim Nicholas Taleb discusses the pervasive influence of chance and randomness in our lives and financial markets. The book argues that humans tend to underestimate the role of luck and overestimate the role of skill, leading to biases such as hindsight bias, survivorship bias, and the narrative fallacy. Taleb emphasizes the importance of recognizing and coping with uncertainty, and he critiques the tendency to seek deterministic explanations for random events. The book is part of Taleb's Incerto series, which also includes 'The Black Swan', 'The Bed of Procrustes', 'Antifragile', and 'Skin in the Game'.

Dr. Arthur De Vany is nearly eighty years old and ripped. Better known as Art De Vany, he was signed as a professional baseball player in his youth and later earned his Ph.D. in Economics at UCLA. He is most famous for his "evolutionary fitness" approach to training and diet, and our conversation focuses on that. During his time at UCLA, Art did many things, including creating mathematical and statistical models to precisely describe the motion picture market. Art is Professor Emeritus of Economics of the University of California, Irvine, and is a member of its acclaimed Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences. A lifelong student of metabolism and fitness, Art has lived as a Paleo athlete for more than thirty years and is considered a "patriarch" of the Paleo movement. He believes there is no such thing as "healthy" aging and that we can intervene to protect against the aging process. In this episode, we talk about his daily schedule, workout routines, why he never gets sick, ice ages, economics, philosophies of intermittent everything, and really dig into the details of a fascinating man. Enjoy! Show notes and links for this episode can be found at www.fourhourworkweek.com/podcast. This podcast is brought to you by Four Sigmatic. I reached out to these Finnish entrepreneurs after a very talented acrobat introduced me to one of their products, which blew my mind (in the best way possible). It is mushroom coffee featuring chaga. It tastes like coffee, but there are only 40 milligrams of caffeine, so it has less than half of what you would find in a regular cup of coffee. I do not get any jitters, acid reflux, or any type of stomach burn. It put me on fire for an entire day, and I only had half of the packet. People are always asking me what I use for cognitive enhancement right now -- this is the answer. You can try it right now by going to foursigmatic.com/tim and using the code Tim to get 20 percent off your first order. If you are in the experimental mindset, I do not think you'll be disappointed. This podcast is also brought to you by Audible. I have used Audible for years, and I love audiobooks. I have two to recommend: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman Vagabonding by Rolf Potts All you need to do to get your free 30-day Audible trial is go to Audible.com/Tim. Choose one of the above books, or choose any of the endless options they offer. That could be a book, a newspaper, a magazine, or even a class. It's that easy. Go to Audible.com/Tim and get started today. Enjoy.

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