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“I don't give up on Trump. I do think that, for the wrong reasons, we can get him to do the right things” says former Human Rights Watch chief Kenneth Roth. Roth sits down with Ravi Agrawal to share his take on human rights today amid democratic backsliding, ongoing conflict, and a new U.S. administration on the world stage. Roth led Human Rights Watch for nearly 30 years and is the author of Righting Wrongs: Three Decades on the Front Lines Battling Abusive Governments. Suggested reading (FP links are paywall-free): Transcript: Can the World Do Anything About Conflict in 2025? Pankaj Mishra: How Gaza Shattered the West's Mythology Matthew M. Kavanagh and Luis Gil Abinader: Abolishing USAID Is Both Unconstitutional and Disastrous Brought to you by: https://incogni.com/foreignpolicy. Use promo code "foreignpolicy" to get an exclusive 60% off an annual plan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Make your health an act of rebellion. Join The Healthy Rebellion Please Subscribe and Review: Apple Podcasts | RSS Submit your questions for the podcast here News topic du jour: Pre-pandemic cognitive function and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: cohort study "Vaccination is central to controlling the present pandemic, with success reliant on a sufficiently high uptake to achieve herd immunity (Omer et al., 2020). 1. CBD and testosterone [35:01] Jonathan says: Hello I am a 42 year old male, to the best of my knowledge, in good health. I strength train 4 times a week and am looking to keep my testosterone levels optimal. I have no reason to believe my testosterone levels are not good, but am cautious about taking supplements that have a known negative impacts on testosterone. I am hearing a lot of positive claims for CBD, and believe that you've talked about personally using it. Two that are most prominent is: 1. to reduce inflammation and 2. To reduce anxiety. Do you know what the effects of CBD on testosterone? How does this differ from THC? Thanks! Jonathan https://gaiaguru.co.uk/does-cbd-affect-hormones/#:~:text=CBD%20has%20been%20suggested%20to,break%20testosterone%20down%20(4). "CBD has been suggested to reduce testosterone production by inhibiting the enzyme 17α‐hydroxylase, which makes Testosterone in leydig cells of the testes (4). However, CBD also inhibits specific cytochrome p450 enzymes in the liver which break testosterone down (4)." 2. Omega 6:3 Ratio When Lowering Saturated Fat [38:19] Nathan says: Hi Robb, First discovered your work in 2009 when podcast episodes were still single digits. My lungs had collapsed 14+ times, I had 3 lung surgeries, and long story short: I put a super rare autoimmune disease into remission thanks to you! In an effort to make this message easier to process, I've tried to ask the question first, then included context below if it's helpful. QUESTION: Dr. Cromwell recommended that I try lowering saturated fats to less than 15% of total calories, keep total fat around 60%, retest in a couple months, then chat with him again. Seems like a good next step. I've been mostly eating low-carb paleo + full fat grass fed dairy (keto at times, for mental performance) so I've been getting lots of what I've considered high quality animal fats...but this recommendation has me scratching my head regarding where I should be getting my ~60% of calories from fat from. I'm planning to increase fatty fish like salmon in my diet, but I'm a bit worried about getting omega 6:3 ratios all out of whack if I cut out much of the grass fed beef, grassfed full fat dairy, wild game, etc I've been eating. Egads! Thoughts? ### CONTEXT: After listening to your episode with Dr. William Cromwell, I ordered Cardiometabolic Risk Assessment and just got off a great call with him. Incredible person and amazing work he's doing. Anyway, everything looks good/great except for my cardiovascular risk, which is high (thanks to LDL-C at 174, non-HNL-C at 189, and ApoB at 136). I also have a family history of heart disease at a relatively young age, and though I'm only 34, I've been told that cardiac surgery in the future isn't much of an option on account of the fact that my lung surgeries essentially fused my lungs to my chest wall...so I basically need to just prevent cardiovascular disease in the first place. Given that I tested as highly insulin sensitive on his risk assessment, Cromwell said he'd expect me to do fine with up to 75g of carbs per day (currently doing 40-ish). p.s., my sister is a fishing boat captain and runs the only all-female crew (badasses) up there. If you and the family ever make it up there, we could get you the family discount (free) to go out on the boat and catch hundreds of pounds of incredible fish to bring back! Great for little girls to see women doing such badass work as well! You've made a pretty indescribable impact on my and my family's health over the years, and it's hard to thank you enough! 3. CGM sensor and BJJ [45:40] Jared says: Hey Robb, I'm making 2022 the "year of the data" and plan on spending time monitoring sleep, stress levels, etc with a wearable, testing ketones with finger pricks and tracking my blood glucose with a CGM (for at least a month). Any advice on where to place the sensor and how to secure it while rolling? I'm on the mats 4-6 times per week and I plan on using the Freestyle Libre 2 unless you have a better suggestion so ideally the sensor would stay stuck to me for 14 days. Thanks in advance for the insight and also for being a strong voice of nuanced reason during this covid shitshow. Jared Sponsor: The Healthy Rebellion Radio is sponsored by our electrolyte company, LMNT. Proper hydration is more than just drinking water. You need electrolytes too! Check out The Healthy Rebellion Radio sponsor LMNT for grab-and-go electrolyte packets to keep you at your peak! They give you all the electrolytes want, none of the stuff you don't. Click here to get your LMNT electrolytes Transcript: Can be found at: https://robbwolf.com/2021/12/31/vaccine-hesitancy-cbd-and-testosterone-omega-36-while-reducing-sat-fat-thrr096
No one is perfect! Transcript: Can your best life really be #nofilter? My name is Nathan Wilson and this is Zoom Out –The Career Center Podcast. Have you ever heard the phrase, “Effortless Perfection?” I know I’ve heard it on campus a number of times and it drives me nuts. Why, because it’s not real, it’s not a thing, no one is perfect. No one has been perfect; no one has ever been effortlessly perfect, no one will ever be effortlessly perfect. It doesn’t exist. It’s such an absurd standard that I can’t even believe it is ever said. But you can find yourself on social media wondering if that’s the case. Because you look at everybody’s rose filtered version of their lives and start to lose track of reality. It seems like everyone’s so good, everyone’s happy but you. But that’s not real. If you don’t believe me, take it from Asena O’Neil, so she was an Instagram model out of Australia, who had hundreds of thousands of followers and was making good money doing it. Then one day she decided, I hate this. And she wanted to expose what the real life of an Instagram model looked like. So she did. She deleted a whole bunch of her photos and then recaptioned some of the existing photos to tell the real story behind all those pictures that were supposed to look natural and effortless. So the first one I’ve got here, she’s got a big smile on her face, it’s a headshot, the caption reads: “I had acne here, this is a lot of makeup. I was smiling because I thought I looked good. Happiness based on aesthetics will suffocate your potential on here Earth.” The next one is a swimsuit shot where she is looking straight down in a pose that again is supposed to look natural like someone had just taken a photo of an every day person. A caption reads: “Not real life, took over 100 in similar poses trying to make my stomach look good, would have hardly eaten that day, would have yelled at my little sister to keep taking them until I was somewhat proud of this. Yup, so totally # (hashtag) goals.” There’s another one, a model out of the UK who did kinda the same thing. She had a really good following and decided to expose what what this really was, so she put a couple photos and explained it. One of them is on the beach doing what is supposed to look like a spontaneous jump. Well, the truth is it took a half hour and over 300 pictures taken by her poor boyfriend who was roped in as the official photographer. She knew it was ridiculous and how absolutely absurd to be out there for over a half an hour trying to recreate spontaneity. The next one is her in a yoga pose reading a book with a big smile on her face. Well, the truth is she didn’t do any exercise that day at all, she has Crime and Punishment in her hand and it took her a year to read and she never smiled like that the whole while she was reading. She’s got another photo on here where she’s showing off her new workout shoes and she’s sitting in a chair in workout attire. Apparently upon capturing the photo her boyfriend exclaimed; “wow, your stomach flab has folded up to look like an eight pack” which led to a whole bunch of comments like “abs girl” and “washboard” which she says made her feel guilty. She even has one on here, a glass of green looking juice that was supposed to fit the whole clean eating thing but she said that the juice didn’t even look like that. She used filters to make it look green and healthier. I mean how ridiculous. All the effort that’s put into looking natural. It’s all fake but it can deceive us. I found a meme to a quote that is attributed to Bill Murray that says; “Social media is training us to compare our lives instead of appreciating everything we are. No wonder why everyone is always depressed.” Well, this is exactly right. OK, you are not you social media and other people are nit their social media. It is not real. So, what does this have to do with career? Well, in line
Art and Visual Culture: Medieval to Modern - for iPod/iPhone
Transcript -- Can a crack in the floor be considered as art? This slideshow peers into Doris Salcedo’s C21st installation in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall, “Shibboleth”.
Transcript -- Can renewables power the world or do we need to look elsewhere for low-carbon electricity? What role can nuclear power play? The European renewable energy council predicts that renewable energy could contribute up to 100% of energy demand by 2050 while BP predicts a more pessimistic 10-20%. What could fill this gap?
Transcript -- Can ideas from improvised Jazz help you improve your management practice?
Transcript -- Can science and religion ever sit side by side? Not according to Richard Dawkins. And he has rock-star mice to prove it.
Transcript -- Can science and religion ever sit side by side? Not according to Richard Dawkins. And he has rock-star mice to prove it.
Transcript -- Can a crack in the floor be considered as art? This slideshow peers into Doris Salcedo’s C21st installation in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall, “Shibboleth”.
Transcript -- Can a crack in the floor be considered as art? This slideshow peers into Doris Salcedo’s C21st installation in the Tate Modern Turbine Hall, “Shibboleth”.
Transcript -- Can we still consider English literature English?
Transcript -- Can a liberal ever intervene in another person's way of living? Clare Chambers argues that in some circumstances intervention is appropriate.
Transcript -- Can citizens decide which laws to follow for moral reasons?
Transcript -- Can we decarbonise the UK?
Transcript -- Can we decarbonise the UK?
Transcript -- Can participatory development meet people's basic needs?
Transcript -- Can participatory development meet people's basic needs?
Transcript -- Can participatory development meet people's basic needs?
Transcript -- Can participatory development meet people's basic needs?
Cannabis, Consciousness and the Imagination - for iPod/iPhone
Transcript -- Can consciousness ever be described and explained in scientific terms?
Cannabis, Consciousness and the Imagination - for iPad/Mac/PC
Transcript -- Can consciousness ever be described and explained in scientific terms?
Transcript -- Can technology save the day?
Transcript -- Can technology save the day?