Hot, Humid Obesity w/ Helen (Blue)

David Gornoski and Helen talk about the various issues of living at sea level, where physiology is going, Ray Peat and Rupert Sheldrake's work, the Neo-Darwinist bias in science, CO2 retention at high altitude, excess estrogen, Rene Girard, and more.

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Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
2:27 Issues with living at sea level
5:04 Caloric excess
6:39 Stress mechanism of heat and humidity
7:29 Less CO2 at sea level
9:02 Partial Pressure
9:22 Where physiology is going?
11:00 Academic trend around mitochondria health
12:12 Ray Peat and Rupert Sheldrake
15:07 Is there a conspiracy favoring epigenetics?
18:21 Randomness vs order
19:38 Questions people should be asking
20:15 Environmental poisons
21:42 How do we know we're unhealthy?
24:41 Starches and greens
26:01 Wheat and grains
26:44 CO2 and higher altitude
29:43 PUFA and sun radiation
30:50 Good high altitude locations
32:17 Why isn't this more talked about?
33:07 Living by the ocean
35:12 Haldane effect
36:42 Co2 therapies
40:15 Excess estrogen
41:50 What foods create open mindedness?
43:00 Demonization of orange juice
45:12 Gaining weight on Ray Peat diet
47:19 Good starches
48:01 Is Ray Peat diet Hakuna Matata?
50:12 Thyroid supplementation
51:17 Rene Girard, scapegoats, and high stress
58:55 Hot springs, nitrous oxide, and closing thoughts