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  1. Big news in the biohacking podcast world this week, as the undisputed star of that space Andrew Huberman is subject of a front cover magazine piece in NY magazine, making allegations about his behaviour towards a number of women.  You can read the piece here.

    https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/andrew-huberman-podcast-stanford-joe-rogan.html

    Essentially it accuses Huberman of infidelity and of troubling behaviour.  I find some of the things really weird and uneasy - he apparently yelled at his partner for days about her life choices, specifically having a second child.  He appears to have infected her with an STI.  Reading the article, he comes across as neurotic and obsessive, as well as controlling and abusive, specifically this part

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    According to Sarah, Andrew’s rage intensified with cohabitation. He fixated on her decision to have children with another man. She says he told her that being with her was like “bobbing for apples in feces.” “The pattern of your
    11 years, while rooted in subconscious drives,” he told her in December 2021, “creates a nearly impossible set of hurdles for us … You have to change.”

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    The first three rounds of IVF did not produce healthy embryos. In the spring of 2022, enraged again about her past, Andrew asked Sarah to explain in detail what he called her bad choices, most especially having her second child. She wrote it out and read it aloud to him.

     

    That part of the article genuinely reminded me of Justin Lee Collins, if anyone remembers him - obsessiveness about a partners past relationships, controlling behaviour.  A lot of people are defending Huberman by saying "well the guy is 50 and has six girlfriends, what he's saying must work", which overlooks the aspect of his behaviour being controlling.  

    Prior to this article, I'd read a lot of criticism of Huberman and the way he presents information in his content.  He mixes things that have good evidential basis, like exercise more, get better sleep, don't drink too much alcohol, with things that don't have a good evidential basis, like cold plunge baths for fat loss, psychedelics for mental illness etc.  Discussion of this here

     

    He's generally accused of presenting studies that are not solid evidence for human effects as being solid evidence.  He also shills supplements (the ubiqutous Athletic Greens).  

    In one strange moment, he discussed giving his dog synthetic testosterone (Huberman himself takes exogenous testosterone as well as consuming Human Growth Hormone) which he claims improved his dogs mood and anxiety and described his dog looking at him with "gratitude" for doing so.  Must be a clever dog!

    Do P&Bers enjoy Huberman's content?

    Have P&Bers ever formulated their own protocols for better living?

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    Basically, Joey Barton now sits at home on Twitter, poasting about anything that happens in a bid to hoof up engagement.  No job in football, no job in punditry, he has to keep doing this to keep some sort of podcast gig a possibility.

     

  3. I have been making attempts to improve my metabolic health in the last few months - doing more cardio and watching my diet. As part of this I downloaded an app to monitor my heart rate, I take a reading once if twice a day when I’m resting. Considering my size I feel I have a very low heart rate. I am 6’ tall and weigh about 113 kilos, my resting heart rate is consistently below 60. Every measure my I’ve done in the last week has been below 60, including a couple at 51.

    Is this something to be concerned about? Cardiologists of P&B, show yourselves!

  4. 6 hours ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

    A crosspost with the "menu anxiety" thread awaits.

    I feel bad that starting that thread may mean people think I’m a gammony “these kids today” type of person. The people I know of that generation (zoomers are born between 1997 and 2012 I think) are very cool and together and in many ways far cleverer and more interesting than I was at their age. Ironically, one thing I find the Z-ers are far better at is food - until I was about  25 to 30 I had no interest in cooking or even eating out well, I just ate anything and focused socially on drinking. The kids I know through work and family are all much more refined in their tastes than I was or any of my mates were.

    I feel there’s a specific subtype of person who gets drawn into the “DoorDash is about my human rights” stuff.

  5. Joey Barton is sore because he expected to get a pundits gig after his management career went in the shitter.  When he began his grifter/podcaster/discourser career, he continually talked about punditry, saying you could only get on if you were a woman or black, he posted a video of his sons saying that he was fighting for them to get a gig as a pundit in the future - very odd to look at two young boys and say "if they work hard, they could get a gig as a summarisesr on Sky Sports in 30 years time!".  He was clearly talking about himself.

    He got most traction on the females in football thing, there isn't really space even among the grifter/podcaster/discourser world for saying that there's too many black pundits so he's leaned heavily into this now.

    Ironically, his brother who just did twenty years in prison for murder probably has better career prospects than Joey.

  6. Just now, Todd_is_God said:

    Joey Barton is not the only person highlighting it, though.

    I get people really want Scottish Domestic Women’s football to be good, but it just isn’t.

    The reaction to any criticism of this display of goalkeeping is incredible tbh. This didn’t happen in an amateur Sunday League kick about - it was a national final broadcast on Satellite TV. It just shouldn’t be happening at that level

    Joey Barton said it was "cosplay football" - not real football.  He has said previously that women shouldn't do punditry on TV because women's football isn't real football.  He clearly insinuated that women who worked in sports broadcasting got there because they'd had sex with decision makers.  He's not saying "this is poor goalkeeping", which it obviously was.

  7. The yanks seem to be going tonto about Door Dash, which I think is a Just Eat equivelent, and the acceptability or otherwise of ordering the majority of your food from there.  Some truly insane takes, where people who want to overthrow the system and have a revolution explain in painful detail why they are unable to go to a shop, buy a microwave meal, bring it home, heat it and then consume it.

     

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