Jonny

Health, cities, civilization. Building in Manila

[Jonny @jonnyabates]

"everyone wants to live like Americans"

@okaythenme is right, and that's the problem. The developing world wants to live how they think Americans live. How Hollywood used to sell it.

Because the hardware is easily understood (while the human software isn't), countries are copying the car-centric, deconstructed, inhuman consumer cities that treat nature, beauty, and social connection as optional or inefficient. In the limit, it paves the path to hell.

Americans already pay the ultimate price, mentally and physically. Dubai is a bit different but it manifests spiritually. SE Asia is showing it in physical health, though their family/collectivist values keep them saner.

SEA's notion of progress looks like an early arc of US consumerism. One that China emulated and now builds regionally but with less taste, more haste, and a fuck more LEDs.

My hope is that because SEA countries are building (while the US cannot), they may yet create beautiful, biophilic, circadian-friendly, human-scale places as new tech (energy, AVs, EVs, drones) allows them, and as some US states and hopefully China start to course correct.

[OK Then @okaythenfuture]

At the end of the day, everyone wants to live like Americans,

Absolutely fucking everyone.

That’s why so many American carbon copy suburbs are being built relentlessly throughout Asia.

The upper class of every nation wants that real housewives of wherever lifestyle. Even if they don’t have the per capita income to necessarily afford it.

Even myself, I’m basically an American still where I live. Actually living like a local? Fuck that noise.

[Jonny @jonnyabates]

wagmi

[jaiya @jaiyagill]

before you invest in a startup always ask how tall the founders are

[Jonny @jonnyabates]

All healthy people are alike; each unhealthy person is unhealthy in their own way

[@levelsio @levelsio]

@raviojhax Do you eat a diet of mostly whole foods (meat and veg and fruit), no alcohol, no sugar, just water or sparkling water?

And do you lift weights and do cardio 3-4 times per week?

If not, it's 99% of times that

[Jonny @jonnyabates]

Find healthy friends

[Biohacker @biohacker]

You have 1 year to get someone as healthy as possible

You're allowed, one lifestyle change, one supplement, one peptide

What your picks

[Jonny @jonnyabates]

@PerryALPHA If satire is an iq test then jfc the state of this comment section

[Jonny @jonnyabates]

@siimland I didn't see in the vid you talking about vitamin D. Is this all a sunlight protocol or with a supp?

[Jonny @jonnyabates]

@kjut4q @NousResearch sweet, setting mine up rn

[Alex Yablon @AlexYablon]

LLMs will always sound like millennials because no subsequent generation will be literate enough to produce much training text

[Jonny @jonnyabates]

@MarioNawfal Summoning @zaidkdahhaj

[Jonny @jonnyabates]

@zaidkdahhaj The truth about the sun and light is unfortunately too complex for our now illiterate society. Everything must be said in binary form. Or, we just fix the culture and environment to make it default. Circadian rhythm status-signaling. Biophilic design. Next-gen incandescents.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The year is 1950. Your doctor lights a cigarette and tells you smoking is fine. He read it in a study. He is telling the truth about having read it. He does not know, or is not saying, that the study was funded by the tobacco industry.

The year is 1958. Your doctor tells you to eat less fat. The evidence is contested. The contestation is not in the public messaging. The food industry has been helpful in clarifying which findings deserve attention. Some researchers who published contradictory data have been quietly defunded. Ancel Keys is on the cover of Time magazine.

The year is 1962. Your doctor prescribes thalidomide to your pregnant wife for morning sickness. It has been approved. The FDA gave it the green light in Europe. Twelve thousand children will be born with severe limb malformations before anyone in an official capacity acknowledges the problem. The families are told the drug was safe. The drug was approved. Both of these things remain true.

The year is 1972. Your doctor prescribes Valium. Britain is in the grip of a benzodiazepine wave that will last two decades. The dependency risk is known internally. It is not shared. Your doctor is not lying to you. He was not told either.

The year is 1999. Your doctor prescribes Vioxx for your arthritis. It is newer than ibuprofen, well-tolerated, and Merck has a study showing it works. Merck also has internal data suggesting it roughly doubles the risk of heart attack. This data will not reach your doctor for four more years. Fifty thousand people are estimated to have died in the interim. Merck eventually settles for 4.85 billion dollars. No criminal charges are brought.

The year is 2002. Your doctor prescribes OxyContin. Purdue Pharma trained its sales representatives to tell doctors the addiction risk was less than one percent. That figure came from a letter, not a study. The letter was about patients with terminal cancer on short-term doses in hospital settings. Your doctor is a GP with a patient who has a bad back. Nobody draws a distinction. Nobody is required to.

The year is 2008. Your doctor checks your cholesterol. Your LDL is elevated. You are prescribed a statin. Nobody mentions that the number needed to treat for primary prevention is approximately 250. Nobody mentions that the muscle deterioration you'll notice over the next two years is listed as a rare side effect rather than a documented pattern affecting a meaningful percentage of patients. The trial that informed the prescription was funded by the manufacturer.

Now it is today.

Your doctor has new guidelines. New studies. New consensus.

He is confident.

He has always been confident.

The confidence has never been the problem.

The confidence is, in fact, precisely the problem.

[Jonny @jonnyabates]

@BrianTycangco “Bahala na” mentality refuses to look up at any horizon

[Archive @archivebycosmos]

A collection of Parisian doors.

[Jay Alto @theJayAlto]

an absolute gigabanger from substack

[Paula Scanlan @PaulaYScanlan]

not having a tattoo is the new having a tattoo

[Evanss6 @Evan_ss6]

>lose hair trading
>take Finasteride from Hims
>lose ability to get erections
>take viagra from Hims

unreal business model tbh

[Rage ❉ @ragecvlt]

Isolation is the price of truth.

[Mgoes (bio/acc 🤖💉) @m_goes_distance]

you just woke up in 2046

- bryan johnson is sec of health
- peptides are a routine part of breakfast
- psilocybin is prescribed like ibuprofen
- testosterone levels are up 200%
- aging is a billing error your doctor can fix
- metabolism runs on a subscription model
- life expectancy is 150
- average IQ 140
- you pick your biological age at 35 and stay there
- vibes are permanently turned up

we're getting there sooner than you know, just don't quit yet

[Jonny @jonnyabates]

@m_goes_distance Conservative but ok 🔥

[Jonny @jonnyabates]

@bryan_johnson @gregmushen need your take, my man