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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Of all the Epstein “revelations”, this one is the most fascinating to me.  I’ve listened to his podcast for a few years, and found him to be sensible.  Not too over the top, maybe even a little boring with his long podcasts that get way into the weeds sometimes.

But recently he’s been going through the Rogan/Tech Bro transformation with the shirts getting tighter and tighter, the native warrior arm tattoos, the $50K wrist watches.  I thought mid-life crisis, but whoa I didn’t know he hadn't finished medical residency, that he was worked at McKinsey, that he had left his wife alone as she was in the hospital with their one-month old who nearly died and she performed CPR, and we find out not only was he a douche for that, but it was to stay in NY to meet up with Epstein.  And of course the crude, immature emails.

But I did not have him on my Who Will Be in the Epstein Files bingo card at all.  Which I guess is why I’m eating all of this up.
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Agreed. His book also seems generally sensible. He explains the research that drives his recommendations, some of which are just very sensible things to do and not unique to Attia. Other recommendations are not practical for the vast majority of people and seem designed to promote a model of care that he financially benefits from. But his explanations of the research have been helpful for me as a layperson.

I have loved some of his interviews, and others I found too technical. I also sometimes got a whiff of him sometimes steamrolling over his female guests, interrupting them, but he definitely also listened to them and I appreciated hearing their voices, especially about women's health. Another thing I noticed is his podcast guests have been 95% White, and his book doesn't address health disparities by race in any significant way. He doesn't strike me as a MAGA racist but my guess is he just doesn't think race matters, he probably "doesn't see race".

What is tricky about him is his whole approach makes some promises about extending lifespan and healthspan that can be very attractive to people and they get very engrossed in following his lifestyle, which is not proven to do what he promises. I think it can be dangerous to be fixated on this because he says a lot of sensible things and then he recommends things that are less sensible. The sensible things give credibility to the non sensible things. And that's where I get the snake oil salesman vibe.

When I heard the revelations, I was shocked, but it was like an "ooooh.... this is what I was sensing about him". He's someone trying to be a good guy, but clearly has a lot of issues.[/quote]

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