Episode 4. I Was Taking Ashwagandha To Send A Work Email

Today I explore what's so frustrating about modern health trends. Plus, why Francis Fukuyama may have been right about the end of history and why our extreme comfort has created a crisis of meaning. We’re evolved apes trying to run a digital program on crude meat servers, and the results are getting weird.Chapters00:00 – The 24-Month Health Hype Cycle02:34 – The High Cost of "Proprietary Sawdust"04:22 – Biohacking as Procrastination06:14 – Aging and "Japanese Paper" Skin08:29 – Fukuyama and The End of History09:59 – The Last Man: Stagnation in a Massage Chair11:02 – Plato’s Thymus and the Need for Recognition13:57 – "Victory Has Defeated Us": The Curse of Abundance16:39 – Struggling Against a Just Cause23:43 – Finding Individual Meaning (Without the Metamucil)