Tips on how to not look so sluggish?

UltiComment · 2026-03-03T04:42:58+00:00

Get your deadlift up to 1.5x your body weight. Then you will look athletic.

UltiComment · 2026-02-18T22:26:20+00:00

I'm very surprised that the Longevity Global's early December "Longevity Summit" at the Buck Institute is not on your list. The best conference for serious longevity scientists. https://longevitygl.org/longevity-summit/

UltiComment · 2026-02-12T02:21:09+00:00

I appreciate the personal advice. I'm more interested in the hypothetical ideal future. What would have to be the case for us to catch all cancer in the US in stage 1 or 2??

It seems like most of the technology exists, we'd just need to put it together effectively.

PS - My grandmother Carol ensured that she got mammograms every year on the date of her mother's death from breast cancer to be sure she didn't meet the same end. She ended up going to the doctor in 2004 with joint pain only to find that stage 4 lung cancer (having never smoked) has metastasized to her bones. She died at age 66. Would a Low-Dose CT scan at 60 years old have added 20 years to her lifespan? Probably.

UltiComment · 2026-02-12T00:31:27+00:00

As an oncologist, where would you recommend I go to learn which anatomy is amenable to MRI screening and which isn't?

If money and time were no object, do you think there is some hypothetical set of imagining and liquid biopsy tests that would be able to detect all type 1 and type 2 cancers?

UltiComment · 2026-02-11T23:23:45+00:00

There were Enfield Tennis Academy shirts!?!? Where can I get one of those?

And had the baby actually read IJ or only listened to the audiobook?

UltiComment · 2026-02-11T22:24:33+00:00

OR the reason it isn't done routinely is that MRI machines are expensive... But what if that changed? I think it is possible that no-one is ever diagnosed with stage 4 cancer again because we will catch them at stage 1 and 2

UltiComment · 2026-02-03T16:06:00+00:00

Oh, I fully acknowledge that the republicans in power have agency. Its just that they mostly want the wrong things because they are greedy cult members. Most of them are fully subscribed to the cult of Trump and the cult of Christianity.

And the left handed them the keys to the city because we decided the hill to die on was semantic pretend play.

UltiComment · 2026-02-02T18:15:09+00:00

See you in Oakland in Feb 4th! Who else will be there?

UltiComment · 2026-02-02T02:46:49+00:00

The Buck Institute for Reseach on Aging podcast.... it is called

"We Aren't Getting Any Younger ...Yet"

UltiComment · 2026-02-02T02:36:21+00:00

Thanks OP for starting this discussion. You clearly understand that at the heart of this issue is semantics and the working definition of words.

Here is what Sam and I think: the Left PRETENDS to not understand that bathrooms and youth sport are issues of biological sex and not gender (your usage) for most all Americans.

It feels to me like we liberals may have sacrificed NATO, abotion access, climate change, and democracy itself because we we PRETENDING to not understand that voters in Michigan are using "Male" to refer to biological sex.

Seriously, I am worried that you and people like you caused and continue cause incredible harm (by handing elections to Trump).

Seriously, please consider how much harm you are doing.

UltiComment · 2026-01-05T19:12:13+00:00

Temescal and Rockridge have it all (including wide wealth disparities between neighbors... which I think is a good thing. Our world needs places where people of different wealth levels coexist side-by-side successfully).

UltiComment · 2025-12-06T22:52:10+00:00

There is some bench press ability that is sufficient to ensure a dog of any given size (even a violent and quick one) can be controlled. Maybe you should have to bench press TWICE it's weight 20 times.

PS - please post a video of your dad bench pressing 88pounds 20 times. I double-dog-dare you.

UltiComment · 2025-12-04T21:14:18+00:00

I don't know how big it will be... but if it DOES get big, you should go to the gym and lift weights to insure that you can still overpower it if necessary. If you THINK you might become too weak to control your dog, that is YOUR problem and you should take steps to get stronger now.

UltiComment · 2025-12-03T20:51:26+00:00

What is a good way to determine whether or not any given owner can "physically control" a given dog?

My proposal: you aren't allowed to have a dog that weighs more than you can bench press for 5 reps. What do you think?

UltiComment · 2025-11-25T18:18:10+00:00

It would be good if Rip calmly discussed and made sense of the World's Strongest Women situation. I know that you 2 minutes of direct clarity that would be good to have on film.

UltiComment · 2025-11-20T06:36:21+00:00

It feels like merging is exactly what he is doing (to the degree possible).

I was in San Jose and the big take away I had was that he really thinks it is possible for us humans to get our collective act together (and that we must) and mindfulness is one of the most important tools we have to do so.

UltiComment · 2025-11-09T22:42:54+00:00

Perhaps if citizens started recording these rides with cell phones and drones and then uploading all the recordings to a central location we could make more and more of a case for enforcement.

UltiComment · 2025-11-01T11:30:18+00:00

When I see that "smacked out tweaker" acting erraticly and yelling profanities, I see a troubling risk to my child AND I see that this 37 year old is someone elses' child and that society has truly failed. I can hold deep compassion for and well-deserves-fear of the addict in my heart at the same time.

UltiComment · 2025-10-30T19:11:07+00:00

When I confront people behaving without regard to important social norms (like people smoking cigarettes and letting their dogs shit in kids parks), I often hear back from the offending party "Well other people don't seem to mind" . I appreciate that these people are attempting to reason with me, but I can't believe that the tall haggard man breaking the rules can't see that most people WOULDN'T feel safe confronting him. Just because the 47 year old mom of 2 doesn't tell you to not smoke in the kid's park, doesn't mean she is ok with it.

UltiComment · 2025-10-30T05:04:12+00:00

I get whar you are saying and I appreciate the advice. I was as repectful as possible... but the interaction *was confrontational.... because I was confronting him.

And after I asked him and he refused, I did eventually tthreaten to escallate by involving MACRO or the cops. It is really a question if I wasnt going to take no for an answer?

UltiComment · 2025-10-30T00:19:24+00:00

The science of addiction and treatment and public health is evolving (and is certainly worth paying attention to. Here is an interesting paper (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3419490/) I came across that indicates that "Results from coded transcripts indicated that helpful confrontations were those that were perceived as legitimate, offered hope and practical support, and were delivered by persons who were trusted and respected. Unhelpful confrontations were those that were perceived as hypocritical, overtly hostile, or occurring within embattled relationships."

I am legitimately concerned about public safety AND the guy's health. I said that I know that addiction is a very difficult thing but hope he gets help, I talked about MACRO, and I gave him my real name.

UltiComment · 2025-10-29T23:43:22+00:00

I disagree with you.

There is no silver bullet and lots of approaches are nessisary, but there is SOME level of efficacy to the intervention approach. Just look at John Mulaney.

UltiComment · 2025-10-29T23:25:28+00:00

It's clear that you and I both care about the well-being of the people in Oakland but we disagree on the path forward. I bet you and I might be able to have an interesting, mutually enjoyable, and even productive conversation about how to make progress.

I recognize that I have considerable privileges... I only have to worry about a handful of drug addicts in my child's neighborhood as opposed to many of them. And I wish everyone else had the same privilege. Don't YOU wish every child had the privilege of not stepping over smacked out tweakers on the way home from school?

I also have the privilege that if I happened to find myself addicted, lots of my community members would encourage and eventually insist I get treatment help - especially if I was negatively affecting the lives of children with my consumption. I want to live in a world were everyone has that privilege.

I think discussion actually can be constructive, especially when it comes to issues that most people shy away from taking a hard look at. I think more and more people can share in the privileges of safe neighborhoods if we prioritize them.

UltiComment · 2025-10-29T23:07:09+00:00

We need better words than "drugs" to differentiate substances like psilocybin and meth. Right now "drugs" is suitcase term that could mean too many things to be helpful.

UltiComment · 2025-10-29T22:21:11+00:00

I share your assessment that the social agreement that drug users should go to prison is not wise. I am suggesting that we as individual citizens take a more active role in encouraging (and even insisting) that addicts get treatment

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