Despite being young, I believe Siim has become one of the best educators in the health and longevity space. This video is spot on and straight to the point.
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I follow him on X and overall good info.
OK, you got me - I give up. Why exactly is this completely random video worth watching for anyone who has not lived under a rock for the past 600 years? As far as I can see, he says absolutely nothing that you can’t hear from any random “health” personality, or your aunt Tilly for that matter. Exercise, weight and cardio, eat well, sleep well, be connected, get blood tests. I mean seriously. Among his points is “take supplements that can help you, but not the ones that don’t” - gee, thanks for that bit of wisdom. Then he throws out a mishmash of supplements he takes completely random as far as I can see, fat generalities (“omega-3” - OK, no breakdown as to what is better EPA, DHA, combination of both, ALA, what?). He has done zero work to arrive at his supplement recommendations or justify them in any way - why do you need any of the particular ones (never specifies any form), or why he takes them in particular, he just namechecks the supps from the same general group of supplements that everyone and their dog pushes all over the internet. Oh, but it’s Siim saying it, I guess? As opposed to Bliim, Griiim or Tiiim. He’s in good health he tells us. All due to his special routine, he tells us. Yeah, right. He’s what, in his early 30’s? Newsflash: most young people are going to be pretty healthy with pretty good bloodwork assuming they’re not doing drugs or anything extreme. Get back to me, Siim, when you hit your late 40’s or 60’s, and then I might think your personal example means anything at all. Right now, my friend, you are living the youth dividend, nothing to brag about that you “earned”. Hey, I’m 25 and cancer free! No heart attacks! Congratulations, here’s a medal, now sit down, adults are talking.
This isn’t even useful for the average minimally health aware person out there, because they’ve heard all these generalities a billion times everywhere anyway. Seriously, is any such person going to sit up and go “weights and cardio, wow, had no idea!”, “good diet NO WAY!?”.
Now for the longevity crowd who follow the science and read the science papers, this is a complete and utter puzzle as to what exactly we’re supposed to get out of this - an utter mystery. Same ole’ nostrums as every advice column ever, but this time with no science backed proof on most of it (supplements, show us the literature! Why these??). Gobsmacked.
I’m not hating on this guy, just honestly puzzled. If I were at a meeting of astronomy fans, I wouldn’t expect someone to burst in and announce: “hey guys, amazing great information - the moon orbits the earth!!!UNO! I can’t give you any math or physics of how that happens, but boy it happens, took me 12 years to find out, you get that amazing fact in one sentence!”. I mean… OK?
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This response strikes me as a textbook case of “I’m going to argue for no reason because I’m having a bad day.”
I promise you I put less than one minute of thought into making this thread before you wrote this entire essay of a response.
It’s really not that deep.
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I agree. There is nothing new here that I haven’t heard a thousand times before.
Clickbait, as far as I am concerned. People watching, hoping in vain for some new insight.
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I didn’t learn anything new from this video specifically either, but for beginners or those who need a reminder, that’s great.
I vehemently disagree with his view that you don’t have to optimize and that “consistency is better than perfection” based on his own example and anecdote. For all we know, that might simply be because of genes and youth, and not solely determined by consistent health habits and lifestyle. If you don’t have the genes or youth, you might need more intensive biohacking like Mike Lustgarten does. That’s at least certainly the case for older people or those with specific diseases or conditions. General advice and consistency can’t be enough eventually.
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This response strikes me as a textbook case of “I’m going to argue for no reason because I’m having a bad day.”
Actually, no. I figured that if a fellow frequenter of this board posts something, I respect him/her enough to check it out. When I then don’t understand why it was posted, I ask - which is what I did in my “essay”. If I had no respect for the poster, I wouldn’t bother reading their post in the first place or responding, much less with an “essay”.
Time is the most precious commodity. There are thousands of studies to be read and information to be gathered. I thought that if you started a whole thread about something, it must be important. I didn’t want to miss it.
I promise you I put less than one minute of thought into making this thread before you wrote this entire essay of a response.
That explains it. Misleading title though.
It’s really not that deep.
Too bad.
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The fact you took this much time and effort to respond to a video with no new information for you says a lot more about you than it does about me. Not everyone here is as smart and knows everything like you do already.
I’m out.
So my spending time and effort in responding is something bad? What are we here for? Apparently hit and run remarks “I’m out” are what’s good.
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