Nick Weisser

Kategorie: Lifestyle

  • Lifespan

    Lifespan

    In his book, Lifespan, David Sinclair has proposed a radical new theory of aging, suggesting that the aging hallmarks are symptoms of epigenetic changes that occur over time, but that the original genetic code remains very much intact.

    If we can reset the code, we can slow, stop and even reverse aging.

    David Sinclair is a professor in the Department of Genetics and co-director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging at Harvard Medical School, where he and his colleagues study sirtuins—protein-modifying enzymes that respond to changing NAD+ levels and to caloric restriction—as well as chromatin, energy metabolism, mitochondria, learning and memory, neurodegeneration, cancer, and cellular reprogramming.

    Sinclair has suggested that aging is a disease—and that we may soon have the tools to put it into remission—and he has called for greater international attention to the social, economic and political risks and benefits of a world in which billions of people can live much longer and much healthier lives.

    https://youtu.be/GhEVgWnbWos

    David doesn’t give health recommendations or endorse brands, but he does share his personal supplementation which is closely related to his research.

    David’s Daily Supplement Regimen:

    • Resveratrol – 1 gram daily – mornings with yogurt
    • NMN – 1 gram daily – mornings
    • Metformin (prescription drug in the US) – 1 gram daily – 0.5 grams in the morning & 0.5 grams at night – except on days when exercising
    • Statin – a cholesterol lowering prescription drug taken since his early 20s due to family history of cardiovascular disease
    • Aspirin – 83mg daily
    • Vitamins – Aims to get majority from diet, but has mentioned supplementing the following:
      • Vitamin D3
      • Vitamin K2
      • Alpha Lipoic Acid
      • Coenzyme Q10
      • Quercetin

  • Smarter Faster Better

    Smarter Faster Better

    Freakonomics Radio is one of my favorite podcasts. It explores the hidden side of everything and in an episode from 2016 it explored how to be more productive. As with many things, productivity means different things in different situations.

    For his book Smarter Faster Better Charles Duhigg talked to more than 400 people about the secrets of being productive in life and business. Not that this is my main goal in life, but it’s still very useful to know about  the most important productivity tools and skills.

    Charles had this basic rule for his book, which was that when someone told him something that they felt made them more productive, that he wouldn’t include it in the book unless it seemed to be universal. And so if he talked to over 400 people, he probably heard 300 different ideas about how to increase productivity.

    But what he would find is that one set of ideas would work for a group and then another group would say exactly the opposite. So a good example of this is, like, the fanatical devotion on one goal at all costs. When he talked to people in Silicon Valley, they would say

    Here’s the most important thing on being productive, is that you choose, like, one outcome and you just remain persistent.

    And then he would talk to people in big companies and they’d say

    Here’s the thing about being productive. You have to be flexible. You can’t commit yourself to one goal.

    And this happened again and again and again, except that he did notice that there was this small handful of consistent ideas that kept on coming up. As he boiled through all of these stories and all of these papers that he was reading and all of these experts, there were really only eight things that came up again and again and again.

    The 8 Ultimate Productivity Tools or Skills

    1. Motivation
      We trigger self-motivation by making choices that make us feel in control. The act of asserting ourselves and taking control helps trigger the parts of our neurology where self-motivation resides.
    2. Focus
      We train ourselves how to pay attention to the right things and ignore distractions by building mental models, which means that we essentially narrate to ourselves what’s going on as it goes on around us.
    3. Goal-setting
      Everyone actually needs two different kinds of goals. You need a stretch goal, which is like this big ambition, but then you have to pair that with a specific plan on how to get started tomorrow morning.
    4. Decision making
      People who make the best decisions tend to think probabilistically. They envision multiple, often contradictory, futures and then try and figure out which one is more likely to occur.
    5. Innovation
      The most creative environments are ones that allow people to take clichés and mix them together in new ways. And the people who are best at this are known as innovation brokers. They’re people who have their feet in many different worlds and, as a result, they know which ideas can click together in a novel combination.
    6. Absorbing data
      Sometimes the best way to learn is to make information harder to absorb. This is known in psychology as “disfluency.” The harder we have to work to understand an idea or to process a piece of data, the stickier it becomes in our brain.
    7. Managing others
      The best managers put responsibility for solving a problem with the person who’s closest to that problem, because that’s how you tap into everyone’s unique expertise.
    8. Teams
      Who is on a team matters much, much less than how a team interacts.
  • Die ultimative Fettverbrennungsmaschine

    Die ultimative Fettverbrennungsmaschine

    Vor einigen Monaten habe ich mich mir einen Teil von The 4 Hour Body zu Gemüte geführt, muss aber zugeben, dass es mir etwas zu detailliert und langatmig war. Wenn man im Netz nach gesunder Ernährung oder Fettverbrennung sucht, bekommt man eine Unzahl von Empfehlungen serviert, die einen entweder auch «überfordern» oder skeptisch machen, vor allem wenn jemand dann noch ein fragwürdiges E-Book verkaufen möchte mit unerträglich suggestivem Gelaber.

    Über den The Grind Podcast von Lars Müller, der sich viel mit unternehmerischen Themen befasst, bin ich dann lustigerweise ohne direkt danach zu suchen auf die aktuelle Folge 48 gestossen, welche den marktschreierischen, Klicks und Zuhörer erbettelnden Titel «Wie du zur ultimativen Fettverbrennungsmaschine wirst» trägt. Aber nicht abschrecken lassen, der Inhalt ist erste Sahne.

    Lars unterhält sich mit der Sportwissenschaftlerin Tina Heinrich von Aeroscan, einem innovativen, wissenschaftlich anerkannter Atemgastest, der die Basis für individuelle und effiziente Bewegungs- und Trainingspläne liefert. Das Verfahren ist offenbar der seit über hundert Jahren anerkannte Goldstandard der Sportmedizin, die Spiroergometrie.

    Obwohl es zwischendurch auch medizinische Fachbegriffe hagelt, kann man die Inhalte auch als Laie gut verstehen. Mich hat der Podcast jedenfalls überzeugt, nach Freiburg zu fahren und einen Aeroscan durchzuführen, um mehr über meinen Körper zu erfahren und wie ich mit minimalem Aufwand den grössten Effekt erziele. In der Gefahr dass es evtl. mehr als 7 Minuten täglich Sport benötigt, um sichtbare Ergebnisse zu erhalten.

    (Beitragsbild von Pexels)