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Tim Ferriss · 34 episodes · 599 sourced insights

What Tim Ferriss says about longevity & aging

Everything Tim Ferriss and guests said about longevity & aging across 34 episodes — each point linked to the exact second on YouTube. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

Longevity & Aging

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Glenn has been legally deaf since age 10 from scarlet fever; an audiologist later told him he had been reading lips for at least 40 years without realizing it.
00:38:53Scott Glenn · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2024
After Urban Cowboy, Glenn essentially never had to audition again, and he turned down lead TV roles to stay in Idaho and focus purely on the craft of acting rather than show-business politics.
00:30:29Scott Glenn · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2024
On The Leftovers, director Mimi Leader said his seven-page monologue take was 'a master's class in acting'; Glenn was so fully inside the role he couldn't even direct or watch himself.
01:05:35Scott Glenn · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2024
Glenn's core acting breakthrough is complete spontaneity: being so present in the now that you have no future or plans in a scene, which he says gives film performances their electricity.
01:11:18Scott Glenn · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2024
At 85, Glenn does breath-hold meditations three times a week, currently holding for 1:40 with a personal record of 4 minutes 15 seconds, aiming for a two-minute hold by age 86.
01:33:54Scott Glenn · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2024
Glenn met his wife Carol in a New York movie theater roughly 55 years ago; they sat through the entire film twice without touching, and he knew immediately he had fallen in love.
01:47:31Scott Glenn · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2024
Laurence Olivier told Glenn the single thing you need to make it in the business is pure tenacity: 'develop very strong jaw muscles, learn how to bite on and not let go.'
02:01:04Scott Glenn · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2024
Francis Ford Coppola gave Glenn a role at the end of Apocalypse Now because he believed Glenn had saved his life in the Philippines by keeping him from drowning in a river.
00:16:13Scott Glenn · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2024
Burt Lancaster commissioned a dinnerware set from Carol after learning the only other ceramic artist whose work he owned was Picasso.
00:21:29Scott Glenn · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2024
Glenn's father, a Snap-on Tools executive who rose from poverty, hit him only once in his life, and advised him to never set deadlines on pursuing his dream.
00:50:19Scott Glenn · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2024
Glenn converted to Judaism so his wife would not 'have a target on her back' that he didn't share; his Jewish name is Abraham Ephraim Ben Abraham.
00:51:22Scott Glenn · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2024
Glenn was certified in scuba diving by Jim Stewart, the legendary Scripps Institution dive master who wrote the syllabus for the Navy SEAL teams.
01:39:10Scott Glenn · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2024
Rudolf Nureyev told Glenn he was a more believable cowboy than John Travolta, and corrected Glenn that he was Tatar, not Russian.
01:54:16Scott Glenn · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2024
Glenn's morning routine includes a strong ear massage learned in a Tai Chi seminar and humming eight times with back teeth together to stimulate the vagus nerve.
01:20:39Scott Glenn · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2024
'Baby fit,' which Glenn does each morning, is a movement practice he says Russian special ops use, rolling over using legs then arms the way a baby would.
01:23:55Scott Glenn · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2024
His workout includes five rounds totaling 100 kettlebell swings and 100 push-ups, using 16-24 kg bells after retiring his 52 lb bell due to a muscle injury.
01:25:31Scott Glenn · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2024
While filming in Thailand, Glenn crossed illegally into Burma at Three Pagodas Pass in the Golden Triangle and trained Muay Thai with fighters there.
01:44:55Scott Glenn · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 2024
Before adding the buy Bitcoin button, Coinbase had no traction and was flat; Armstrong got the idea from customer feedback calls where users said they signed up but had no Bitcoin and didn't come back.
00:13:31Brian Armstrong · The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2022
Building the simple buy button was very difficult: Armstrong had to find a bank partner, integrate with the ACH network, convince them of the anti-money-laundering policy, and source the Bitcoin; launching it was the moment they hit product-market fit and growth became 'a boulder chasing downhill.'
00:15:04Brian Armstrong · The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2022
Armstrong describes Coinbase becoming a 'mission-first' apolitical company after a BLM-related employee walkout; he offered a generous severance package and about 5% of the company left.
00:25:52Brian Armstrong · The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2022
He says the activist faction felt like 50% of the company but was actually a 'very vocal tiny percentage,' and calls the apolitical decision one of the best things he ever did for the company.
00:31:35Brian Armstrong · The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2022
After Coinbase's 2021 IPO created over a thousand millionaires, Armstrong used his liquidity to fund hard-science ventures, hosting dinners with biotech experts that surfaced epigenetic cell programming as a focus.
01:18:24Brian Armstrong · The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2022
New Limit is a longevity company aiming to radically extend human health span using epigenetic reprogramming—exposing cells to transcription factors to rejuvenate them—with machine learning to search the roughly 10^15 combinatorial possibilities.
01:19:25Brian Armstrong · The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2022
ResearchHub aims to make scientific research more like open-source software (GitHub-style), addressing the replication crisis and academic silos, with a ResearchCoin reward and governance token.
01:26:39Brian Armstrong · The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2022
Armstrong's first project was a self-published book called 'Start Breaking Free' and a blog of the same name; he later concluded he should have started with the blog and packaged posts into a book.
00:02:04Brian Armstrong · The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2022
In Buenos Aires (around age 27-28) he observed a culture of pessimism—people kept their heads down expecting things could be taken away—which he attributes to roughly 100 years of mismanagement after Argentina was one of the world's largest economies in 1900.
00:06:17Brian Armstrong · The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2022
Armstrong cites Ray Dalio's 'Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order' as convincing him America is in slow (not imminent) decline.
00:10:28Brian Armstrong · The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2022
He recommends 'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman,' Dalio's book, and Milton Friedman's 'Free to Choose,' and rereads Paul Graham's essays 'How to Make Wealth' (2004) and 'Haters' (Jan 2020).
00:17:06Brian Armstrong · The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2022
An early Bitcoin Android wallet Armstrong built nights/weekends at Airbnb ran a full Bitcoin node on the phone, taking minutes to sync; he instantly knew it was built wrong, which sparked the idea for a cloud-based company.
00:21:12Brian Armstrong · The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2022
Coinbase has closed institutional deals with BlackRock and the largest sovereign wealth funds; Armstrong notes about 90% of the world's wealth is locked up in institutions.
00:48:14Brian Armstrong · The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2022
He cites transaction throughput as a scalability bottleneck: Bitcoin ~7 tx/sec, Ethereum ~25, PayPal ~500, Visa ~4,000.
00:50:19Brian Armstrong · The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2022
Armstrong's motivation hack when he doesn't feel like exercising is to type 'David Goggins' into YouTube and watch a random video.
01:09:31Brian Armstrong · The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2022
Instead of grinding through dense biology textbooks, Armstrong hired a (typically underpaid) grad-student biology tutor he meets for an hour on Sundays.
01:14:14Brian Armstrong · The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2022
In the documentary 'COIN,' Armstrong appears in dinosaur onesie pajamas he wore around the house and to early Coinbase hackathons.
01:39:03Brian Armstrong · The Tim Ferriss Show · Oct 2022
Thorp's first real-world blackjack test turned a $10,000 bankroll into about $21,000 in roughly 20 hours of serious play over one weekend (around $110,000 in today's dollars).
00:08:20Edward O. Thorp · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2022
With Claude Shannon, Thorp built a wearable computer with 11-12 transistors to predict roulette outcomes, giving a 44% edge; it is now in the MIT Museum and considered the first wearable computer.
00:13:00Edward O. Thorp · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2022
Thorp's hedge fund ran about 20 years with only three down months (each less than 1%) and just under 20% annualized returns.
00:28:18Edward O. Thorp · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2022
When the Chicago Board Options Exchange opened in April 1973, Thorp's traders were nearly alone using options pricing math, which he likened to having 'machine guns against bows and arrows.'
00:31:24Edward O. Thorp · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2022
After meeting Warren Buffett in 1968, Thorp told his wife Buffett would become the richest man in the world based on his ~30% compounding.
00:34:02Edward O. Thorp · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2022
In 1991 Thorp investigated a mysterious McKenzie & Company investment, found half the trades never occurred, and concluded Bernie Madoff (via brother Peter) was running a fraud, 17 years before it collapsed in 2008.
00:52:21Edward O. Thorp · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2022
Thorp was investor number one in Ken Griffin's Citadel, having met Griffin at around 18-19 through partner Frank Meyer and shared his collection of convertible securities prospectuses.
01:18:02Edward O. Thorp · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2022
Claude Shannon got Thorp's blackjack paper published quickly in the Proceedings of the National Academy but insisted on retitling it from 'A Winning Strategy for Blackjack' to 'A Favorable Strategy for Twenty-One.'
00:05:09Edward O. Thorp · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2022
Thorp expected 50 mathematicians at his talk but 300 showed up, many with pinky rings and sunglasses; novelist Tom Wolfe (then a reporter) wrote the AP piece that spread the story nationally.
00:07:15Edward O. Thorp · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2022
At about age 20, Thorp doubled his strength on a bet, eventually bench pressing 375 and military pressing 185 after a year of lifting.
00:16:39Edward O. Thorp · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2022
After gasping during a quarter-mile jog at 35, Thorp used Ken Cooper's aerobics points system and went on to run marathons for about 20-25 years.
00:19:15Edward O. Thorp · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2022
Berkshire Hathaway shares Buffett's exiting partners could take around 1964 were about $12; the stock now trades a little under $500,000 per share.
00:35:34Edward O. Thorp · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2022
In 1982 Thorp bought Berkshire at $982 a share even after missing the run from $12, trusting he knew what Buffett would do.
00:36:35Edward O. Thorp · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2022
Thorp's '4% rule' for retirement spending and '2% rule' for endowments (including advising a cryonics group's endowment fund) come from his mathematical and simulation studies.
00:47:37Edward O. Thorp · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2022
Teaching himself chemistry at age 14 in 1946, Thorp learned Svante Arrhenius's 19th-century work showing carbon dioxide causes global warming.
01:02:51Edward O. Thorp · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2022
Thorp closes with Kurt Vonnegut's story about Joseph Heller, who, at a rich man's party, said he had something the host never would: 'enough.'
01:30:33Edward O. Thorp · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2022
On 'unoptimized living,' Tim explains he is simultaneously optimizing (Occam's Protocol strength training, recently gaining 10-15 lbs of muscle) and deliberately deoptimizing other areas, arguing you can't optimize everything and life is about trade-offs.
00:02:50Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2023
Tim names 'digital emotional surrogacy' as the under-discussed trend, predicting photorealistic VR avatars and companions like Replika will become a replacement—not just a supplement—for human interaction within about two years.
00:41:30Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2023
To counteract the loneliness epidemic as an introvert, Tim books trips and time with friends/family roughly six months in advance, putting money behind them to exploit the sunk-cost fallacy so he won't cancel.
00:44:15Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2023
Tim predicts an explosion of new 'religions' (some masquerading as CrossFit, veganism, etc.) plus renewed uptake of Abrahamic faiths, arguing everyone worships something and the most at-risk people don't know what they worship.
00:53:46Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2023
On longevity, if forced to pick one form of exercise, Tim chooses resistance/weight training, because progressive resistance is easy to quantify and weight loss isn't sustainable without upgrading underlying muscle/mitochondrial 'machinery.'
00:55:23Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2023
Tim details his low-back pain protocol: Fisher Traction door device, internal/external rotation work, terminal hip extension when walking, Hyperice foam rolling, a portable pillow, and proper chair ergonomics for L5 stenosis from a bulging disc.
01:11:50Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2023
On interviewing, Tim reveals he gives guests final cut, spends 5-10 minutes building rapport before recording, and pursues 'side alleys'—how he uncovered Debbie Millman's first public account of childhood sexual abuse.
00:59:54Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2023
Tim discloses a five-year relationship ended about a year ago, that the past year was extremely stressful, and that while his back issues are structural, emotional components (per Sarno) likely also play a role.
01:14:39Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2023
Tim donates monthly to Charm Industrial (which puts oil back underground, charmindustrial.com) and uses Terraset Climate to offset his travel carbon footprint.
00:00:35Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2023
His rustic home is intentionally meant to be lived in and even 'abused'—scratches and wine stains from social use—not treated like a museum, with a deliberately autumn-themed backsplash.
00:13:50Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2023
For skincare, Tim uses only Dr. Bronner's unscented Castile soap for face, head, and body, avoids most sunscreen (preferring zinc oxide and long sleeves), and works 'inside out' with Nordic Naturals omega-3s.
00:20:56Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2023
To maintain multiple languages, Tim links them via the manga One Piece—using his most recent prior language as the 'safety net' to learn the next, since comics are dialogue-heavy and map pane-by-pane.
00:33:06Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2023
For dog training, Tim recommends Karen Pryor's 'Don't Shoot the Dog' and clicker training, citing the quote 'No one should be allowed to have a child until they've been forced to train a chicken.'
00:35:55Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2023
Tim warns of capability atrophy ('if you don't use it, you lose it'), citing how older generations navigate better offline than younger ones reliant on Google Maps, and advocates being a 'selective Luddite.'
00:46:28Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2023
Tim distinguishes his fear of the 'descent to death' (losing health span and cognition) from fear of death itself, which he manages via Stoicism (Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca) and ego-dissolving experiences.
01:08:31Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2023
Tim consumes Maui Nui venison sticks (9-11g protein each, three for his 30g) and invested in the company; he calls it the most nutritionally dense meat in the US.
01:05:03Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2023
Tim strongly endorses Pilates 2-3x/week with a technical instructor for core, pelvis position, and injury prevention, saying he'd tell his 30-years-younger competitive self to do it.
01:16:52Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2023
Tim is excited to go backcountry and sidecountry ski touring this winter on DPS touring skis he bought last season.
00:17:43Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2023
Sahrmann argues low back pain is a symptom, not a diagnosis; the real diagnosis is naming the specific movement that consistently causes the symptoms, then changing it to reduce or eliminate them.
00:15:00Shirley A. Sahrmann, PT, PhD · The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2023
She guesses Tim's problem before examining him: overdeveloped abdominals can become too stiff, increasing compression on the spine, especially with any side-to-side asymmetry.
00:16:46Shirley A. Sahrmann, PT, PhD · The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2023
In her judgment, at least 70 percent of people with back pain have it because their hip isn't moving optimally, forcing the back to compensate.
00:35:15Shirley A. Sahrmann, PT, PhD · The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2023
The body follows the rules of physics and takes the path of least resistance, so it keeps moving at the same problematic spot; treatment means making other places easier to move.
00:41:42Shirley A. Sahrmann, PT, PhD · The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2023
Examining Tim on video, she finds he has increased thoracic kyphosis (not just lumbar curve), partly from rectus abdominis pulling down on his thoracic spine.
01:09:43Shirley A. Sahrmann, PT, PhD · The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2023
She tells Tim to stop doing bridging exercises because his spine won't follow the glute-driven pelvic tilt, creating a harmful translation motion between pelvis and vertebrae.
01:14:57Shirley A. Sahrmann, PT, PhD · The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2023
Tim likely has femoral retroversion, a structural variation meaning his feet shouldn't point straight ahead for deadlifts or golf, and nobody had ever told him.
01:35:25Shirley A. Sahrmann, PT, PhD · The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2023
His lifelong kyphosis-lordosis since age 12-13 may be Scheuermann's disease, an idiopathic compression fracture pattern that won't go away; the goal is keeping it from getting worse.
01:42:27Shirley A. Sahrmann, PT, PhD · The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2023
From maximum exhalation to maximum inhalation you should be able to change your rib cage circumference about two and a half to three inches; less means abdominal stiffness is adding to spinal compression.
00:17:57Shirley A. Sahrmann, PT, PhD · The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2023
Breathing has two modes: 'pump handle' (sternum rising up front) and 'bucket handle' (the sides of the rib cage expanding laterally).
00:38:24Shirley A. Sahrmann, PT, PhD · The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2023
Sahrmann coins 'collapso-smasho' for spinal compression in older people without enough muscle and 'squeezo-smasho' for younger people whose overdeveloped abdominal tension adds compression.
00:55:36Shirley A. Sahrmann, PT, PhD · The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2023
Shoulders should sit at roughly a six-degree upward clavicle angle, around the C6-C7 level; the serratus anterior acts like a sling to hold the shoulder blades up.
00:57:46Shirley A. Sahrmann, PT, PhD · The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2023
Sahrmann is turning 86 next month; both her parents had dementia and she has now exceeded both their ages in life and dementia onset.
01:18:42Shirley A. Sahrmann, PT, PhD · The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2023
A friend once told her she had her pants on backwards because the quadruped exercise had changed the curves in her back and buttocks enough to alter how the slacks fit.
01:21:30Shirley A. Sahrmann, PT, PhD · The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2023
After years away from bowling during her PhD, she had to re-drill her bowling ball's finger grips because the quadruped position had elongated her chronically flexed finger flexors.
01:23:09Shirley A. Sahrmann, PT, PhD · The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2023
Scratching the bottom of your foot makes the tensor fasciae latae fire first; Sahrmann jokingly says she tried to contact the WHO because 'the tensor is run amok' worldwide.
01:31:37Shirley A. Sahrmann, PT, PhD · The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2023
The average (not 'normal') femoral head-and-neck rotation is about 15 degrees forward; many men have less, limiting internal rotation.
01:35:25Shirley A. Sahrmann, PT, PhD · The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2023
Sahrmann helps feed a friend on a dementia floor twice a day and notes most older people in assisted living are there due to physical disabilities that earlier movement care might have prevented.
01:46:09Shirley A. Sahrmann, PT, PhD · The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2023
Brene Brown reframes narcissism as the most shame-based of all personality disorders, defining it as the fear of being ordinary rather than genuine self-love.
00:13:36Brene Brown and Edward O. Thorp · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2024
Brown describes her marriage's 80/20 rule: she and her husband quantify their available energy out of 20 each and make a plan of kindness whenever the combined total falls below 100.
00:23:54Brene Brown and Edward O. Thorp · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2024
Thorp recounts wandering into blackjack after a 1958 Las Vegas trip, then using MIT's IBM 704 computer to mathematically devise a card-counting system to beat the game.
00:31:40Brene Brown and Edward O. Thorp · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2024
Thorp reveals that he and Claude Shannon built the first wearable computer in Shannon's basement to predict roulette outcomes, achieving a 44% edge.
00:40:34Brene Brown and Edward O. Thorp · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2024
Thorp's hedge fund ran ~20 years with only three down months (each under 1%) and just under 20% annualized returns, and he met Warren Buffett who he predicted would become the richest man in the world.
00:54:10Brene Brown and Edward O. Thorp · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2024
Thorp details how in 1991 he analyzed McKinsey's mysterious investment, found half the trades never occurred, and concluded Bernie Madoff was running a fraud 17 years before it collapsed.
01:17:23Brene Brown and Edward O. Thorp · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2024
Thorp explains his philosophy of 'enough,' choosing to wind down his fund when it stopped being fun, illustrated by the Joseph Heller / Kurt Vonnegut story.
01:43:08Brene Brown and Edward O. Thorp · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2024
Brown distinguishes kid-focused, parent-focused, and family-focused families, describing her household as family-focused with limits like two extracurriculars per child.
00:27:29Brene Brown and Edward O. Thorp · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2024
Thorp's blackjack abstract was initially rejected by the American Mathematical Society as 'just another fool with a system' before a colleague vouched for him.
00:35:20Brene Brown and Edward O. Thorp · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2024
Author Tom Wolfe, then a young reporter, wrote an AP piece on Thorp's blackjack system that gave it nationwide press.
00:36:23Brene Brown and Edward O. Thorp · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2024
Thorp, 89 at recording, says he was in his best shape between ages 55 and 65 and still walks three miles several times a week.
00:43:42Brene Brown and Edward O. Thorp · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2024
When the Chicago Board Options Exchange opened in 1973, Thorp says the only people on the floor were his traders, calling it 'machine guns against bows and arrows.'
00:57:47Brene Brown and Edward O. Thorp · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2024
Berkshire Hathaway shares worth about $12 in 1964 were just under $500,000 at the time of recording.
01:00:52Brene Brown and Edward O. Thorp · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2024
Thorp outlines his 4% rule for retirement spending and a 2% rule that allows capital to grow in perpetuity, advice he gave to a cryogenic freezing organization's endowment.
01:13:15Brene Brown and Edward O. Thorp · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2024
Thorp learned about CO2 and global warming at age 14 in 1946 by studying 19th-century Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius.
01:27:51Brene Brown and Edward O. Thorp · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2024
Thorp cites Jim Simons of Renaissance as having probably the best risk-adjusted record in the world, and says he was investor number one in Ken Griffin's Citadel.
01:39:28Brene Brown and Edward O. Thorp · The Tim Ferriss Show · May 2024
His biggest recent pivot is on fatherhood: he never felt he'd be a good dad, but after years of friends having kids and telling him he'd be great, he applied his own question ('has anyone less capable figured this out?') and changed his mind.
00:02:05Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
His planning horizon is only 6-12 months because if you can hit a long-term plan point-by-point it's too far within your comfort zone; doing well short-term opens unforeseeable doors.
00:06:42Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
He champions 'identity diversification'—each time you try something outside your current identity, it buys permission to keep doing so and opens new realms of possibility.
00:07:13Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
A core belief driving his sabbatical: constant productivity is the enemy of oblique thinking, and distance (not stillness) is necessary to make highly leveraged decisions and be a 'category of one.'
00:27:10Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
He softened after seeing dozens of materially successful friends still dissatisfied like 'a Hungry Ghost,' realizing success doesn't resolve most issues the way his subconscious assumed.
00:34:33Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
He believes giving kids more than ~10-20 million dollars can seriously screw them up—past a certain point, 'more is a lot less.'
00:36:40Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
His 10-year through-line is cultivating awareness to self-regulate a hypervigilant nervous system; he argues physiology activates first, creating 'a state in search of a story.'
01:05:53Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
He recommends his fear-setting exercise for career paralysis, noting very few moves are fatal and the 'worst case' is rarely as bad as imagined.
01:16:18Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
Cockpunch, his NFT/fantasy project, raised $2 million—all proceeds went to his Saisei Foundation to fund early-stage science.
00:08:49Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
He visited New York Comic Con for the first time and was stunned by its scale; he showed comic illustrations he made back in 1995-96 and once wanted to be a comic book penciler.
00:11:27Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
He defines joy as 'the forgetting of the self,' whereas the quest for happiness can become an obsessive focus on the self.
00:18:45Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
To keep interview questions fresh, he prompts ChatGPT to generate questions as if James Lipton, Terry Gross, Charlie Rose, or Lex Fridman were interviewing the guest.
00:22:25Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
For longevity he says he doesn't track protocols and recommends just following Peter Attia, whom he's known since 2009 and trusts because Attia turns down lucrative promotional deals.
00:47:36Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
His longevity frame is subtractive—not 'what can I do to live longer' but 'what can I subtract,' like avoiding heating food in plastic (phthalates) and using good water filtration.
00:50:14Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
He cites the metaphor of writing a novel being like driving across the country at night with headlights—you only need to see far enough ahead to navigate.
00:58:34Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
The core relationship in his 'Legends of Varata' world is a father-son dynamic (Tyroon and his father); he says with $100 million he knows exactly the animated film he'd make.
01:01:38Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
He's been using a Zen meditation app called 'The Way,' built by Henry Shukman, twice a day for 10 minutes, and invested in it early.
01:07:24Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
He points to the free fear-setting resources on tim.blog—both his TED Talk and the text from The 4-Hour Workweek.
01:16:18Tim Ferriss · The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2024
In Kjaer's study, patients who loaded an injury at day two after injury returned to sport 25% faster than those who waited nine days to load.
00:47:43Dr. Keith Baar · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2025
Eccentric loading for tendons was a 'false positive' — it worked because of slow velocity, not the eccentric motion itself; heavy strength training has the identical effect, and zero velocity (isometric) gives the biggest bang for the buck.
00:22:50Dr. Keith Baar · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2025
A boot or RICE is a 'mechanical stress shielder' that removes the tension tendons need to heal, so the standard orthopedic treatment can actually make the injury worse and cause scarring.
00:00:00Dr. Keith Baar · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2025
BPC-157 has no direct effect on tendon or ligament cells — engineered human ligaments treated with it showed no change in mechanics, collagen, or strength.
01:06:58Dr. Keith Baar · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2025
Women are four to eight times more likely to rupture their ACL because estrogen periodically inhibits a collagen cross-linking enzyme, lowering tendon stiffness during parts of the menstrual cycle.
01:23:19Dr. Keith Baar · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2025
Physical therapist Rob Whitley told a room of orthopedic surgeons that PRP, stem cells and prolotherapy show no benefit in randomized controlled trials — only getting load through the tissue works.
01:13:51Dr. Keith Baar · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2025
Mice on a ketogenic diet lived 13% longer than controls, an effect comparable to rapamycin, and old keto-fed animals had strength and brain function at the level of young animals.
01:33:43Dr. Keith Baar · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2025
Connective-tissue cells need only about 10 minutes of loading (e.g. 10s on, 50s off) to get the full adaptation signal, then a six-to-eight-hour refractory period before responding again — matching bone's response to as few as 40 stimuli.
00:08:19Dr. Keith Baar · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2025
Tendon stress relaxation drops exponentially; by 30 seconds you reach about 85% of the bottom, and waiting two minutes only adds about 15% more — hence 30-second holds for injured tendons.
00:26:29Dr. Keith Baar · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2025
Three days in a 3D-printed cast cost a mouse tendon 15–20% of its collagen and made it roughly 30% mechanically weaker — a larger loss than the muscle itself.
01:08:34Dr. Keith Baar · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2025
Fluoroquinolone antibiotics like ciprofloxacin raise Achilles rupture rate about 3.5-fold, while AT-1 (angiotensin) receptor blocking 'sartan' blood-pressure drugs taken by 15+ million Americans raise it 7.6-fold.
01:19:39Dr. Keith Baar · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2025
On keto, no carbohydrate forces reliance on mitochondria, and lowered mTOR triggers 'mitophagy' that culls weak mitochondria — but keto severely harms bone mass, which is why epileptic kids must eventually cycle off it.
01:36:51Dr. Keith Baar · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2025
Using a resorbable suture in Achilles repair allowed native tissue to recover and produced better collagen-synthesis markers than non-resorbable, with no difference in tendon length — contradicting surgeons' fears.
00:54:32Dr. Keith Baar · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2025
Testosterone activates lysyl oxidase and decreases collagen, creating stiff but brittle tendons — explaining why steroid-using baseball players' performance would suddenly 'drop off a cliff' from tendon ruptures.
01:26:25Dr. Keith Baar · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2025
Rupturing your ACL makes you 50% more likely to have a heart attack, driven by the habitual decrease in activity that follows the injury.
01:13:19Dr. Keith Baar · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2025
A 2017 study found ~15g gelatin plus ~200–250mg vitamin C taken an hour before brief exercise doubled blood markers of new collagen formation versus control.
01:01:17Dr. Keith Baar · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2025
The 'refractory period' for tendons is why Emil Abrahamsson's brother, with many injuries, did isometric hangs twice a day (six-plus hours apart) and got his hands healthy.
00:08:19Dr. Keith Baar · The Tim Ferriss Show · Feb 2025
Nsima's competition lifts: a 622 lb squat, 396 lb bench, and 755 lb deadlift for a 1758 total; in the gym he later hit a 645 squat and 775 deadlift, and notably pulled the 755 without a belt to prove his structure could handle the load unassisted.
00:01:32Nsima Inyang · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2025
The video that hooked Tim referenced Serge Gracovetsky's book 'The Spinal Engine,' showing a man with no arms or legs moving through space via spinal rotation alone, illustrating that the spine, not the limbs, drives locomotion.
00:04:13Nsima Inyang · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2025
The core breathing principle: most back issues trace to unconscious breath-holding; Nsima teaches inhaling on the way down and exhaling on the concentric (coming out of the hole) at lighter loads so the body feels safe and sheds excess global tension.
00:38:35Nsima Inyang · The Tim Ferriss Show · Jun 2025

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