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Sanchez: Sitting near low performers increases your underperformance risk by 30%
“I saw a study done on a thousand companies where if you sit within a 25 square foot radius of somebody who's considered a high performer, you're 15% more likely to outperform. And if you sit next to a low performer, you are 30% more likely to underperform.”
Sanchez: Alpha School students score 2-3 standard deviations above traditional schools
“And basically, Alpha School came out with, like, two or three standard deviations of scoring by their students than a traditional school”
Ramsey Solutions projects 96% of revenue would survive if Dave Ramsey died
“Our survivability index, which is our accounting metric, says that 96% of the revenue will survive me if I died a day. The next year, 96% would survive me.”
Dr. Moore: 94% of US adults suffer from cardiometabolic compromise
“We have 20 18 stats that were published in 2021 showing that close to, I think, 90 four percent of U.S. Adults have cardiometabolic compromise.”
Dr. Moore: Women tolerate stress and sleep deprivation worse than men
“Women do not tolerate stress the way men do. Women do not tolerate lack of sleep the way men do. Women do not tolerate You know, consistent intensity the way women are sorry, men do.”
Dr. Moore: Instagram banned me for sharing semaglutide COVID-19 data
“When I started talking about the data that I found from 20 21 on the protective mechanism of semaclutide against COVID, I got deplatformed at 232,000 off Instagram.”
Dr. Moore: Big Pharma aggressively sent cease-and-desists to compounding pharmacies
“And they had sent a lot of Cease and desist letters to the telemedicine companies, the compounding pharmacists, the many doctors who were prescribing compounded, they really have, and Nova Nordisk And Eli Lilly have been pushing very hard against the compounde…”
Dr. Moore: Prozac was never studied as a long-term depression treatment
“Like Prozac for instance. It was never studied long term for depression. It was studied to be implemented as a basically like an emergency shoot when you're going through a terrible time period. You use it during a window.”
Dr. Moore: Untreated fatty liver becomes cirrhotic in 10 to 20 years
“Most doctors have fatty liver themselves. So they tell you, oh, your labs are normal. You have some fatty liver. That's okay. It's like, no, it's not okay. Your liver is literally going to be cirrhotic in 1020 years. Like this is maybe a little longer depends …”
Nagpal: A $10 million net worth is not in the top 1% of households
“Like, if you make ten million, if you have a net worth of ten million dollars, you are not in the top one percent of households. It's crazy. You're like one top one and a half, but you're on the top one percent with a ten million dollar net worth.”
Nagpal: 50% never open online courses, but higher prices increase completion
“Like, 50% of times people wouldn't open the thing. When you charge more money, you actually got better results, ironically. A lot of people were more likely to take the course, more likely to report a happier satisfaction just by charging more”
Dan Go: Getting in shape passes down epigenetic benefits to children
“The really cool thing that we're learning is that this can be generational. So, let's just say, like, you're overweight, you get yourself in shape, and then you end up, ah, having a kid. And you end up kind of like kicking the can, 90 years old, whatever it is…”
Harvard study: Calling a team a 'family' lowers business profits
“Harvard psychology professor Dr. Richard Hackman actually found that when a team was called a family, it reduces constructive conflict and challenge and lowers the profits of the business.”
Tough-love company cultures grow faster than retention-first businesses
“Companies that embrace a performance driven culture and quote unquote, tough love attract higher performing talent and grow at a faster rate than those that focus on retention at all costs.”
Brooks: Negative emotions trigger involuntary twitches on the left side of the face
“Watch the left side of people's faces when you're talking to them, and they will not be able to involuntarily control the activity. Slight twitches, a little bit more left face activity when they're experiencing negative emotions when you're talking to them.”
Brooks: Staying in graduate school long enough increases unhappiness
“And then when people hang around graduate school for long enough, their unhappiness starts to rise again.”
Brooks: Almost all consciousness-altering euphorics are harmful neurotoxins
“Almost any euphoric that you use to change your consciousness is a neurotoxin and bad for you. You know, it makes you feel high. It's a neurotoxin. That's what it comes down to.”
Brooks: Separate finances are a poor predictor of couple longevity
“If you're a merger, one of the tells of being a merger is you have separate finances and that's a, not a good predictor of actually, of growing together”
Brooks: Marriage provides happiness benefits to both men and women
“There was early data that turns out to not have been replicated very well, that men are happier when they're married than women are, that, that, that marriage is good for men, but it's not good for women. That's wrong. It's good for both.”
Van Der Beek: Flawed studies halted medical training for breech births
“What I discovered were there were some outdated studies on breech births that took into account third world countries without a head down counterpart. So the studies were heavily flawed, and at that time they stopped training doctors how to do breech births.”
Van Der Beek: Only about 10% of medical schools teach nutrition
“But are doctors trained in nutrition? Most of them are not. Last I checked, it was about 10% of medical schools.”
Sanchez: Late-term miscarriages lead to a 90% divorce rate
“Like, late-term miscarriages, you have a 90% divorce rate. 90%. And if you lose a child, it's closer to 95% as a parent.”
Sanchez: Zuckerberg admitted the government pressured Meta to censor vaccine content
“Well, I mean, look at Zuckerberg has come out now and said, actually, I wish we hadn't censored so many people around the vaccine, and also the government asked us to.”
Alexander claims floor-sitting cultures have minimal hip and knee osteoarthritis
“Like, so, so the places in the world that spend time on the ground with regularity, where it's just normal,
They have minimal to no incidence of osteoarthritis in the hips, in the knees, pelvic floor dysfunction is like, you know, not so much a thing.”
Fuller: Conservative and red-pill circles view divorced single mothers as undateable
“My dad's very conservative. So I had this view that if you had a kid and you were divorced, you were screwed. And that's really common in the more like Redfield areas or conservative areas.”
Kennedy: Grassroots Volunteers Bypassed Roadblocks to Deliver Hurricane Relief
“I'll take two of them rednecks in, in a Toyota Overlander that over a hundred PhDs from the federal government, and they literally would, they could get into areas that nobody could get into, and they were bringing Life-sustaining support to these people in th…”
Kennedy: Studies show financial outcome mirrors peer circle within $100,000
“Studies have shown economically, financially your circle plus or minus a 100,000 dollars is where you, you're going to end up.”
Sanchez: Your bank account matches the average of your five closest peers
“There's another statistic that shows that like if you get a group of five people that you spend the most Time with. And you analyze the bank accounts of those five people on average, your bank account will be the same.”
Saladino: High-erucic rapeseed oil is banned due to cardiomyopathy links
“If you just take rapeseed oil, there is a large amount of this monounsaturated fat called erucic acid in rapeseed oil, and that is linked to cardiomyopathy, heart issues in animal studies, and so it's actually banned. You cannot sell rapeseed oil.”
Saladino: Proton pump inhibitors increase pneumonia risk and cause nutrient malabsorption
“You give someone a proton pump inhibitor because they have gastroesophageal reflux, right?
Well, then you have an increased rate of pneumonia because of side effects.
Then you have malabsorption of multiple nutrients, including B-twelve and other things that a…”
Saladino: Touching thermal receipts absorbs endocrine disruptors through skin
“There's solid evidence that touching these receipts can lead to absorption of endocrine disrupting chemicals through your skin.”
Saladino: Sweating in synthetic athleisure increases chemical absorption through skin
“Whether it's a sports bra or leggings, when you sweat in these, you can, it increases the absorption of chemicals in these pieces of clothing significantly.”
Sanchez: Studies Show Makeup Boosts Women's Pay 15% to 30%
“There's quite a few studies that show that women who wear makeup have a double digit, we won't get that specific about the numbers, but somewhere between 15 and 30% increase In pay. Just from wearing makeup versus not. All things else being relatively equal.”
Saladino: Mouthwash kills bacteria needed for nitric oxide, reducing muscle hypertrophy
“Mouthwash, it kills all of the flora in your mouth, which are essential for the production of nitric oxide. There are studies in people who are working out in the gym that when they use to, when they use mouthwash, it actually attenuates how much muscle they c…”
Saladino: Women on birth control select mates with similar MHC genetics
“Somebody funded a study where women on birth control were given sweaty t-shirts from men, and they knew sort of the immunologic signature of the men in the t-shirts, and women on the birth control selected different mates in terms of compatibility with their g…”
Saladino: Dancers off birth control earn peak tips during ovulation
“And when the strippers off birth control are performing, they earn the most tips right around their ovulation. They have a huge peak in the month when they ovulate. And the rest of the month is like less tips, right? Women on birth control earned the same amou…”
Saladino: KFC and In-N-Out change fryer oil once a week
“I went to a KFC and an In-N-Out recently to do content, and I asked them, how often do you change the fryer oil? Which is peanut and soybean oil. They say once a week.”
Saladino: McDonald's french fries contain silly putty additive dimethylpolysiloxane
“Dimethyl polysiloxane, which is an ingredient in silly putty, which is in McDonald's french fries.”
Sanchez: Raw milk is illegal in more US states than silencers
“There are more states where raw milk is illegal than silencers, which I thought was interesting.”
Saladino: Studies link raw milk consumption to lower allergy and asthma rates in kids
“There are specific studies looking at lower rates of asthma, eczema, and allergies, the things I suffered from, but didn't drink raw milk growing up, in kids who drink raw milk, whether they grow up on a farm or off a farm.”
Senada Greca: 150 weekly exercise minutes is twice as effective as antidepressants
“Just as little as a 150 minutes a week of physical activity can have almost twice as much of the effect as an antidepressant or as a an anxiety medication can have.”
Senada Greca: Studies undeniably prove animal protein is superior to plant protein
“The studies are just out there and are undeniable as to how much more beneficial, like, animal protein is.”
Streeter says culture wars outranked inflation for 2024 swing voters backing Trump
“When you look at the people who identified themselves as swing voters who eventually broke for Trump, the issue, the culture wars issue outranked the inflation issue for them.”
Israetel: Mexico's income per capita matches US levels in the 1960s
“Mexico's income per capita is now similar to what the US income per capita was in the 19 sixties. It is no longer accurate to call Mexico a third world country or a poor country. Almost no one there is poor. Food insecurity is an incredibly unlikely thing in M…”
Israetel: Tirzepatide outperforms Ozempic, with more potent fifth-gen GLP drugs in trials
“Technically it's a third generation GLP drug, but fourth gen is Trisapatide. It's already on the market, Manjaro. Fewer side effects, bigger primary effect. There are fifth gen drugs currently in FDA approval process, which make Ozempic look like a starter pac…”
Israetel: GLP-1 drugs suppress addictive drives for smoking, drinking, and compulsive habits
“They actually lower your addictive drive to almost everything. People like quit smoking. They're quitting drinking on these drugs. They're, they stop biting their nails and stuff.”
Israetel: Jaw training can produce profound jawline hypertrophy in some people
“That's very likely, yeah. The effect might, in some people, be profound, where, like, they started their jaw stuff, and, like, a few months later, like, oh my god, like, Tony Dan's, that kind of thing, hanging out.”
Sanchez: Study finds over 60% of women prefer dad bods for partners
“I read a wild study that basically said, actually, if given two choices, a chad, very fit, six pack, et cetera, versus a dad bod, a little fluffy, maybe a tiny bit of a receding hairline, On average, as a partner, perhaps not in a one-off situation, they choos…”