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• Bakri says compounding-pharmacy clinicians often pocket the markup between the pharmacy's price and what they charge patients, and urges patients to ask the doctor what they paid.
  00:32:32Dr. Abud Bakri · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• All peptide raw materials (the API) come from China; there is no such thing as an American-made peptide.
  00:35:11Dr. Abud Bakri · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• Bakri estimates $5-10 billion was spent on gray-market 'research-only' peptides in the US in 2025.
  00:38:37Dr. Abud Bakri · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• Bakri recounts injecting BPC-157 locally into a torn tricep and healing in ~3 weeks versus a typical 3-month recovery.
  00:54:46Dr. Abud Bakri · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• Huberman admits he uses pinealon a few times a month to roughly double his REM sleep, with effects lingering on off-nights.
  01:07:09Dr. Abud Bakri · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• Huberman says sermorelin spiked his PSA (prostate-specific antigen), so he stopped it immediately.
  02:11:38Dr. Abud Bakri · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• Bakri describes self-experimenting with a 1mg Ozempic dose and suffering 'projectile vomiting' through a hospital night shift.
  02:32:43Dr. Abud Bakri · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• The 'celebrity protocol' is a trinity stack of GLP-1, growth-hormone modulator and androgen therapy for rapid fat loss and muscle gain.
  02:14:12Dr. Abud Bakri · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• BPC-157 is a 15-amino-acid fragment of a larger ~40 kDa gut protein (BPC) isolated by a Croatian group in 1991; humans don't naturally make the 15-mer.
  00:07:12Dr. Abud Bakri · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• Animal studies gave 1,000x doses of BPC with no real adverse effects, so its LD50 is unknown, which blocks FDA approval.
  00:20:06Dr. Abud Bakri · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• Orally or rectally administered BPC-157 doesn't appear to go systemic; it wasn't detectable in the blood in trials.
  00:21:37Dr. Abud Bakri · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• More than half of the peptide market is female; 'soccer moms' have become major peptide affiliates.
  00:39:50Dr. Abud Bakri · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• Pinealon (EDR) is mislabeled; it actually derives from a cortex extract (cortexin), not the pineal gland, while epitalon is the pineal one.
  01:08:43Dr. Abud Bakri · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• The thymus is largest before puberty (baseball-sized in a baby) and shrinks under androgens, estrogens and corticosteroids after puberty.
  01:29:50Dr. Abud Bakri · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• GHK-Cu is high in youthful blood (~200 ng) and drops to the 60s by age 65; a properly formulated topical should be blue from the copper.
  01:51:32Dr. Abud Bakri · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• A $3 lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio on a standard CBC can stratify disease risk, yet Bakri estimates ~0 of 100 US physicians use it that way.
  02:01:19Dr. Abud Bakri · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• GLP-1 was discovered in the saliva of the Gila monster.
  02:24:32Dr. Abud Bakri · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• Lilly is trying to push retatrutide above 40 amino acids to classify it as a 'biologic' for a far longer (~15-year) patent and to block compounding.
  02:34:48Dr. Abud Bakri · Huberman Lab · Jun 2026
• Says the secret of immortality is 'tantalizingly close' via telomeres and telomerase, but the catch is cancer uses the same mechanism to live forever.
  00:00:00Michio Kaku · The Diary of a CEO · May 2026
• Concludes alien life almost certainly exists but states he does not believe aliens have arrived on Earth, putting credible sightings at only 5%.
  00:08:45Michio Kaku · The Diary of a CEO · May 2026
• Reveals he is agnostic, not atheist, raised between Buddhist and Christian parents, and treats religion as social 'glue' rather than truth.
  00:30:39Michio Kaku · The Diary of a CEO · May 2026
• Rejects simulation theory outright, proposing an 'option four' that it is all 'fairy tales' because the universe runs on probabilities, not scripts.
  00:32:42Michio Kaku · The Diary of a CEO · May 2026
• Recounts how the Vietnam War and a sergeant maimed by a child's hand grenade reshaped his entire morality and view of life.
  00:54:35Michio Kaku · The Diary of a CEO · May 2026
• Predicts an indefinite human lifespan may become possible by manipulating telomerase without 'waking up' cancers.
  01:09:33Michio Kaku · The Diary of a CEO · May 2026
• States his personal belief that humanity should eventually merge with robots to become superhuman rather than risk a civil war with them.
  01:33:29Michio Kaku · The Diary of a CEO · May 2026
• When pressed to bet everything on whether aliens have contacted Earth, refuses a firm answer and insists the scientifically honest answer is 'maybe'.
  01:27:15Michio Kaku · The Diary of a CEO · May 2026
• A Saturn V rocket would take 70,000 years just to reach the nearest star, so any visiting civilization would be vastly more advanced than us.
  00:06:09Michio Kaku · The Diary of a CEO · May 2026
• Star Trek's term 'space warp' comes from real physics; bending space enough to beat the speed of light is theoretically allowed.
  00:11:52Michio Kaku · The Diary of a CEO · May 2026
• There is a black hole at the center of almost every galaxy, including the Milky Way, in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius.
  00:24:52Michio Kaku · The Diary of a CEO · May 2026
• A black hole's escape velocity is the speed of light, which is why nothing that crosses the event horizon can ever come back out.
  00:26:58Michio Kaku · The Diary of a CEO · May 2026
• What we perceive as reality is only a tiny fragment of what exists; we cannot see ultraviolet, infrared, x-rays, radio or cosmic rays around us.
  00:34:49Michio Kaku · The Diary of a CEO · May 2026
• Kaku argues God functions as evolutionary 'glue' that holds intelligent, bickering tribes together once everyone becomes equally smart.
  00:39:30Michio Kaku · The Diary of a CEO · May 2026
• Quantum computers compute on atoms rather than transistors and the CIA worries they could one day break any digital code, including Bitcoin.
  01:13:16Michio Kaku · The Diary of a CEO · May 2026
• Google has set 2029 as a deadline warning banks and governments to upgrade encryption before quantum computers can crack it.
  01:14:18Michio Kaku · The Diary of a CEO · May 2026
• As a high school student, Kaku built a 2.3-million-electron-volt betatron particle accelerator that drew 6 kilowatts, consuming his mother's whole house power supply.
  01:16:54Michio Kaku · The Diary of a CEO · May 2026
• Kaku believes any genuine UFOs are robotic, not organic, because their maneuvers would crush the bones of any living creature.
  01:30:25Michio Kaku · The Diary of a CEO · May 2026
• Meta's aggressive bidding plus matching offers from other tech giants gave somewhere between 50 and a few hundred AI researchers the equivalent of an IPO as a class of people spread across Silicon Valley, a 'personal IPO' phenomenon Gil says was last seen with early crypto holders around 2017.
  00:01:32Elad Gil · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2026
• The current binding constraint on AI is a specific type of memory largely made by Korean companies, expected to last about two years; because every lab is similarly constrained, no single lab can buy 10x the compute, so capabilities should stay roughly close for at least two years.
  00:06:39Elad Gil · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2026
• Gil argues founders running successful AI companies should take a cold hard look at exiting in the next 12-18 months, citing that 90-95-99% of companies in any tech cycle go bust, and of ~1,500-2,000 internet companies that went public around 2000, only a dozen or two survived.
  00:13:50Elad Gil · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2026
• Gil predicted in a Substack post about three years ago that the AI model market would be an oligopoly aligned with the clouds, which is roughly what happened; he says it stays an oligopoly unless one lab pulls so far ahead on capabilities it becomes the default.
  00:17:26Elad Gil · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2026
• His team's unicorn analysis found that 91% of global private AI market cap is concentrated in the Bay Area (a roughly 10-by-10 mile area), with New York a distant second, reinforcing his advice to physically move to an industry's cluster.
  00:27:47Elad Gil · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2026
• Gil frames generative AI's core shift as moving from selling tools/seats/software to selling work product and human-labor equivalents, which is why previously bad markets like selling to law firms (Harvey) suddenly became viable.
  01:08:57Elad Gil · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2026
• He distinguishes the founder-limited vs market-limited theories of entrepreneurship and argues AI has thrown open tons of previously closed markets, so any AI company not seeing explosive growth quickly has something fundamentally broken.
  01:09:59Elad Gil · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2026
• An AI model's final output after months of training on a giant cloud is essentially a small flat file, analogous to how 3-4 billion DNA base pairs encode an entire human being.
  00:05:38Elad Gil · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2026
• OpenAI and Anthropic are each rumored to be around a $30 billion run rate, which Gil notes is roughly 0.1% of US GDP each; if they hit $100 billion they'd approach 1-2% of GDP.
  00:11:17Elad Gil · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2026
• A chart from Gil's team showed it once took companies like ADP roughly 30 years to reach $1 billion in revenue and Google about four years, while OpenAI and Anthropic did it in about a year.
  00:11:17Elad Gil · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2026
• With multi-trillion-dollar market caps now common, a company worth $3 trillion can pay $30 billion (1%) for an acquisition, creating unprecedented buying power for big exits.
  00:20:34Elad Gil · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2026
• Gil cites 2012 (AlexNet) as proof scaling worked, 2017 as when Google invented the transformer architecture (the 'T' in GPT), and ~2020 GPT-3 as the step-function moment he decided AI would be hugely important.
  00:34:30Elad Gil · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2026
• An analysis (possibly by Yuri Milner) found roughly 100 companies drove ~90% of all tech returns over about two decades, and just 10 companies drove ~80% of returns.
  00:43:44Elad Gil · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2026
• In the 1970s the four-year stock-option vesting standard arose because companies typically went public within four years; when Google took six years people thought it was shockingly slow.
  00:55:34Elad Gil · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2026
• Gil cites Coca-Cola redefining its market from 'share of soda' to 'share of liquid sold,' dropping from ~50% to ~0.5% market share, which justified acquisitions like Dasani.
  01:14:37Elad Gil · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2026
• Autism diagnoses went from roughly one in a few thousand 30-40 years ago to about 3% today, which Gil's deep-dive concluded is driven by shifted diagnostic criteria and incentives rather than older parents; he notes maternal age had a stronger effect than paternal age in some datasets.
  01:21:17Elad Gil · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2026
• Gil met Noam Shazeer (who started Character.AI then returned to Google) through working with early Google AI researchers, illustrating how smart, polymathic people aggregate together.
  01:25:57Elad Gil · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2026
• Tatem ties the peptide ban to the 2013 Myriad Genetics Supreme Court ruling that natural genes/compounds can't be patented, removing pharma's incentive to develop them.
  00:09:18Dr Alex Tatem · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
• In 2023 the FDA moved 19 popular peptides from the legal 'category one' to banned 'category two' overnight.
  00:13:56Dr Alex Tatem · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
• Says RFK Jr. has characterized the 2023 peptide ban as illegal.
  00:17:34Dr Alex Tatem · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
• Agrees '110%' that big pharma didn't want peptides in regular people's hands because they can't patent them.
  00:17:34Dr Alex Tatem · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
• Reports an FDA press release that in July it will consider returning seven peptides (including BPC-157) to legal status.
  00:24:52Dr Alex Tatem · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
• Claims FDA commissioner Marty Makary has tweeted more about cracking down on compounded GLP-1s than about diabetes or heart disease combined.
  00:31:42Dr Alex Tatem · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
• Tatem opens up that grueling surgical training left him with low testosterone and a near-breakdown after a patient lost a kidney.
  01:12:38Dr Alex Tatem · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
• Reveals he has personally placed 1,100-1,200 penile implants, a 13-minute procedure.
  01:25:00Dr Alex Tatem · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
• Insulin, isolated in 1921, was the first peptide used in medicine.
  00:05:08Dr Alex Tatem · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
• In animal studies BPC-157 healed fully transected Achilles tendons in rats, and its dose is so safe researchers haven't found the level that harms even 1% of subjects.
  00:07:41Dr Alex Tatem · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
• A patient who lost 100 lb on tirzepatide saw his sperm count increase tenfold into the normal range.
  00:21:45Dr Alex Tatem · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
• Revenue from semaglutide and tirzepatide alone is projected over $55 billion this year, approaching the combined revenue of the top four AI/LLM companies.
  00:47:42Dr Alex Tatem · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
• Melanotan II produces a deep tan with minimal UV exposure and also causes strong erections; its derivative PT-141 (bremelanotide) is an approved prescription drug.
  00:53:25Dr Alex Tatem · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
• Retatrutide, a triple-receptor GLP-1 drug, has produced 20-25% total body weight loss and Tatem predicts it will be a trillion-dollar drug owned solely by Lilly.
  01:03:21Dr Alex Tatem · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
• Total sperm counts in young men have fallen dramatically since 1973, illustrated with vials of progressively clearer water.
  01:08:28Dr Alex Tatem · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
• The Enhanced Games (Las Vegas, May 21-24) lets athletes openly use performance-enhancing drugs, offering $250K to winners and $1M for world records.
  01:19:21Dr Alex Tatem · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
• There are 30 million men with erectile dysfunction in the US, more than the population of Australia, and oral ED drugs fail the first time for 15% of them.
  01:25:31Dr Alex Tatem · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
• GHK-Cu is a copper tripeptide that declines with age and, applied topically, boosts collagen and elastin to improve skin.
  00:39:27Dr Alex Tatem · The Diary of a CEO · Apr 2026
• Stumpf reveals two Navy SEALs recently drowned during a 2024 real-world ship boarding in the Arabian Sea, their bodies never recovered.
  00:21:38Andy Stumpf · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2026
• Stumpf argues training deaths roughly every five years are tragic but essentially necessary, because soft training kills more people in the real job.
  00:26:21Andy Stumpf · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2026
• Stumpf describes the Carl Gustaf, a weapon whose manual warns it can separate the lining of your lungs after about six shots.
  00:33:38Andy Stumpf · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2026
• SEALs were forced to expend entire pallets of ammunition because issued ordnance could not be returned to base.
  00:34:09Andy Stumpf · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2026
• Stumpf shares his own end-of-life wish to skip embalming and be buried naturally.
  00:51:09Andy Stumpf · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2026
• Stumpf admits that when he finally got his hormones tested, his testosterone was around 200 and he assumed his life was nearly over.
  01:50:38Andy Stumpf · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2026
• Stumpf confirms he set a wingsuit distance world record of roughly 18.2 miles.
  01:53:12Andy Stumpf · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2026
• Rogan reads that President Trump told the NY Post a secret CIA 'Ghost Murmur' tool detecting heartbeats at great distance helped rescue a downed airman in Iran.
  02:27:26Andy Stumpf · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2026
• Lyme disease is named after Lyme, Connecticut, near Plum Island where tick bioweapons research occurred.
  00:07:43Andy Stumpf · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2026
• Alpha-gal syndrome (the tick bite that makes you allergic to red meat) first emerged in the US in the late 1980s but wasn't recognized until the early 2000s.
  00:08:14Andy Stumpf · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2026
• The Department of Defense is the only one of 24 major federal agencies that has never passed a full financial audit.
  00:31:31Andy Stumpf · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2026
• Tibetan sky funerals involve chopping up the body for waiting vultures as a natural return to the ecosystem.
  00:49:37Andy Stumpf · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2026
• Eddie Bravo's no-gi style traces back to Jean Jacques Machado, who was born with essentially one hand and dominated Abu Dhabi without gi grips.
  01:35:39Andy Stumpf · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2026
• Rogan credits an 'Iron Neck' training device and Regenokine blood treatment with curing his bulging discs and numbness.
  01:45:58Andy Stumpf · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2026
• A Gravity Industries jet suit produces about 1,050 horsepower, comparable to a Corvette ZR1, but only flies for roughly one to four minutes.
  02:03:30Andy Stumpf · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2026
• Google's Willow quantum chip reportedly solved in minutes a task that would take a classical supercomputer about 10 to the 25th power years.
  02:30:35Andy Stumpf · The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2026
• Visceral fat doubles your risk of early mortality and raises metastatic cancer risk by 44%.
  00:04:41Dr. Rhonda Patrick · The Diary of a CEO · Mar 2026
• Healthy young men sleeping 4 hours a night for two weeks gained 11% visceral fat with no change on the scale.
  00:14:56Dr. Rhonda Patrick · The Diary of a CEO · Mar 2026
• Adolescent boys with the highest BPA levels had 50% lower testosterone than those with the lowest.
  00:45:26Dr. Rhonda Patrick · The Diary of a CEO · Mar 2026

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