The Most Expensive Eating Disorder
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The Most Expensive Eating Disorder
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#2I was so fit in my 30's, I measured a heart rate of like 38 sitting in a work meeting.
I could amuse nurses in an emergency room by clipping my finger into the machine, instead of the patient I was with, to set off the alarms with the low numbers.
One time I came in with some severe stomach flu. I was lying on my back and the nurse said to another, "Come here! Look this guy is so thin, you can see his heart beating in his abodomen. (Due to the aorta passing through there, and the heart behind it being massive.)"
When your HR is low, you can get pretty dizzy if you stand up at the wrong moment between pumps.
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#3Is ~2200 calories a caloric deficit for Bryan Johnson's size and activity level? If you're not in caloric deficit you won't really feel bad if you're hitting macros.
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#4Is ~2200 calories a caloric deficit for Bryan Johnson's size and activity level? If you're not in caloric deficit you won't really feel bad if you're hitting macros.
If we’re discussing just that one data point, I don’t think so. I think it could be, but it could also be okay. One of the challenges is knowing what’s he is actually doing commensurate with what he says he’s doing.
His workout is really hard, it it’s not a lot of resistance training. He’s gotten good at it so it has the benefits that a hard workout would. When I did it for a week, I suffered but I couldn’t match the metabolic demands that my Olympic lifts oriented training workout entailed when I lift heavy.
I’m very strong but I eat between 2500-2700 kcals in my 50s and I lift heavy. I eat a bit more on big run days.
Given the length and nature of his gym routine, o don’t think his burn ratio is that high.
As for the rest.. his temps and sleep patterns, I couldn’t say. He says he sleeps well and there is data to support the observation that he had trouble sleeping. I can sleep 8-9 hours without waking up, and that is definitely correlated to my workout habits and my peace of mind.
Brian is interesting but we may have partial data from him that is out of sync with what we think his other practices are at the same point in time.
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#5>It seems that he is spending a lot of his time & effort on maintaining his hair (huge kudos for admitting that!). If his body was functioning like an 18-year old he should not need to do that. If Bryan really set back his true aging clock he probably would not be battling with ongoing hair loss (as he most likely did not battle hair loss 20 years prior), or at least it would stop (which does not seem to be the case).
Androgenetic hair loss (what Johnson has and what the medications he takes are designed to treat) is caused by genetic sensitivity to DHT and DHT levels in the body, not aging. People who don't have the genetic predisposition to AGA or who have very low DHT levels can often make it to 60+ with no visible hair loss. It's not like they're "not aging," they just don't have the combination of genes and DHT levels needed for significant hair loss to occur.
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#7>It seems that he is spending a lot of his time & effort on maintaining his hair (huge kudos for admitting that!). If his body was functioning like an 18-year old he should not need to do that. If Bryan really set back his true aging clock he probably would not be battling with ongoing hair loss (as he most likely did not battle hair loss 20 years prior), or at least it would stop (which does not seem to be the case)…
> is caused by genetic sensitivity to DHT and DHT levels in the body, not aging
Is the formula something like: DHT sensitivity * time = hair loss ?
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#8>It seems that he is spending a lot of his time & effort on maintaining his hair (huge kudos for admitting that!). If his body was functioning like an 18-year old he should not need to do that. If Bryan really set back his true aging clock he probably would not be battling with ongoing hair loss (as he most likely did not battle hair loss 20 years prior), or at least it would stop (which does not seem to be the case)…
> is caused by genetic sensitivity to DHT and DHT levels in the body, not aging Is the formula something like: DHT sensitivity * time = hair loss ?
I'm not super well versed but my understanding is that that's right, with your actual DHT levels being the third variable. There are other non-hormonal causes of hair loss, like alopecia areata, but they're much less common.
DHT damages the hair follicles that are sensitive to it, causing them to grow back thinner after each growth and shedding cycle (which is typically a few years). As a result most men don't have visible hair loss until years after puberty kicks in.
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#9I was so fit in my 30's, I measured a heart rate of like 38 sitting in a work meeting. I could amuse nurses in an emergency room by clipping my finger into the machine, instead of the patient I was with, to set off the alarms with the low numbers. One time I came in with some severe stomach flu. I was lying on my back and the nurse said to another, "Come here! Look this guy is so thin, you can see his heart beating i…
When I was training to run a leg of a marathon relay a few years ago, my resting heart rate dropped a lot. One time I mentioned my overnight HR of 38 to my wife, a doctor. Next thing you know, I’m in a different doctor’s office being fitted for a Holter monitor. Everything was fine. Turned out my heart was just in great shape.
The doc said that they’re more aware of low HRs now because so many people are wearing 24/7 heart monitors, aka smart watches. Numbers that use to be taken as signs of “holy crap, something bad’s happening” are sometimes more like “huh, guess the normal range is wider than we thought”.
But for anyone reading who has a fast or slow heart rate: let your doctor be the judge of that, OK? Lots of the time it is something wrong, and you don’t want to dawdle on that one.
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#10>It seems that he is spending a lot of his time & effort on maintaining his hair (huge kudos for admitting that!). If his body was functioning like an 18-year old he should not need to do that. If Bryan really set back his true aging clock he probably would not be battling with ongoing hair loss (as he most likely did not battle hair loss 20 years prior), or at least it would stop (which does not seem to be the case)…
So does a man without hair loss imply they are slower aging?