Two Percent with Michael Easter

Michael speaks with physician and competitive powerlifter Dr. Jordan Feigenbaum about what peptides are, why they suddenly seem to promise everything, and what the human evidence actually shows. They discuss:
Why GLP-1s normalized injections
What counts as a peptide drug
Why BPC-157 lacks human trial data
What sham surgery research suggests about peptides and pain
Peptide sources—the good, bad, and ugly
Whether Dr. Feigenbaum would prescribe peptides to patients
Which peptides may survive the hype
The future of peptides and new laws around peptides
And more …
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Two Percent is hosted by Michael Easter. Today's episode was produced by Joey Fischground, Robbie Hiser, Dana Brawer and Julia Nutter. From Kaleidoscope, our executive producers are Mangesh Hattikudur and Kate Osborn and Julia Nutter. From iHeart, our executive producers are Katrina Norvell and Nikki Ettore. Our Head of Video is Maria Paz Mendez Hodes. Our editor is Will Mayo. Our theme music is by the Heater Manager.
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Michael speaks with Eric Frohardt about his twelve years on SEAL Team 6 as a sniper and assaulter—and what you can learn from it. They discuss:
- How to stay calm under pressure (lessons from sniper training)
- Why farm kids outlast the fittest gym athletes in SEAL training
- Mindset lessons from war
- The ridiculous bet that started a SEAL career
- Watching 9/11 from a deployment in Guam
- Rebuilding after losing your identity
- Why adversity is a gift and more …
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Two Percent is hosted by Michael Easter. Today's episode was produced by Joey Fischground, Robbie Hiser, Dana Brawer and Julia Nutter. From Kaleidoscope, our executive producers are Mangesh Hattikudur and Kate Osborn and Julia Nutter. From iHeart, our executive producers are Katrina Norvell and Nikki Ettore. Our Head of Video is Maria Paz Mendez Hodes. Our editor is Will Mayo. Our theme music is by the Heater Manager.
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We treat aging, fatigue, and even disease as things that just happen to us. Ellen Langer, the first woman tenured in Harvard's psychology department, has spent five decades showing that our way of thinking has a massive say in all of it.
Michael sits down with Langer, author of The Mindful Body, to talk about how much of your health is actually under your mind's control. They cover:
- The experiment that turned back old men's bodies
- Maids who lost weight by seeing their work as exercise
- Why the stories we tell ourselves about bad events are “the whole ballgame”
- The truth about mindfulness—what it really is and a meditation-free way to find it
- A scientific case against following the rules
- How putting a label on a disease changes how it impacts us
- How to think if you get a health scare
- A better way to make hard decisions
- And more …
Go deeper: The Brain Glitch That Makes Modern Life Feel Miserable
Two Percent is hosted by Michael Easter. Today's episode was produced by Joey Fischground, Robbie Hiser, Dana Brawer and Julia Nutter. From Kaleidoscope, our executive producers are Mangesh Hattikudur and Kate Osborn and Julia Nutter. From iHeart, our executive producers are Katrina Norvell and Nikki Ettore. Our Head of Video is Maria Paz Mendez Hodes. Our editor is Will Mayo. Our theme music is by the Heater Manager.
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Tyler Cowen has spent decades studying what makes people, societies, and economies thrive. He thinks we’re living through the fastest technological revolution humans have ever faced—yet most of us are still planning our lives as if nothing is changing. Michael sat down with Tyler to find out how to live better today, tomorrow, and years from now. They cover:
- Whether we should panic about the future
- Why initiative now beats intelligence
- The case for free-range kids
- Why antidepressants are overprescribed
- What challenging trips abroad teach us about happiness
- The math of exercise and whether it’s worth the investment
- Whether America has become complacent
- How AI makes people smarter or stupider
- What Tyler will never hand off to AI (and what’s best to give to AI)
- When AI will improve human lifespan
- Whether AI will lead to mass job losses
- And much more …
Tyler Cowen is a professor of economics at George Mason University, the economist behind MarginalRevolution.com, and the author of nearly 20 books, including The Complacent Class. He also hosts Conversations with Tyler.
Two Percent is hosted by Michael Easter. Today's episode was produced by Joey Fischground, Robbie Hiser, Dana Brawer and Julia Nutter. From Kaleidoscope, our executive producers are Mangesh Hattikudur and Kate Osborn and Julia Nutter. From iHeart, our executive producers are Katrina Norvell and Nikki Ettore. Our Head of Video is Maria Paz Mendez Hodes. Our editor is Joey Fischground. Our theme music is by the Heater Manager.
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Modern work has a giant problem: It keeps us stressed enough to be miserable, but never stressed enough to quit. Cal Newport, a computer scientist at Georgetown University, says that's not an accident: When work switched from factories and farms to offices, we never figured out how to measure the productivity of knowledge workers. Looking busy became our flawed metric, even though busyness keeps us from producing better work.
Michael sits down with Newport, author of Deep Work and Slow Productivity, about how to do deep, valuable work in a world that rewards fake productivity. They cover:
Why emails and meetings are killing our ability to do work that means something.
The conversation to have with your boss when you have too many meetings and other tasks.
The three core rules of “Slow Productivity:” do fewer things, work at a natural pace, obsess over quality.
Enduring myths of productivity, from Jane Austen to Jack Kerouac.
How to say no without burning a bridge.
How to use AI to enhance your work without hurting your thinking.
How to rebuild your attention span the way you'd train for a mile.
And more …
Go deeper: A Viral NYT Story Says Remote Work Makes Us Depressed. It's Wrong.
Two Percent is hosted by Michael Easter. Today's episode was produced by Joey Fischground, Robbie Hiser, Dana Brawer and Julia Nutter. From Kaleidoscope, our executive producers are Mangesh Hattikudur and Kate Osborn and Julia Nutter. From iHeart, our executive producers are Katrina Norvell and Nikki Ettore. Our Head of Video is Maria Paz Mendez Hodes. Our editor is Will Mayo. Our theme music is by the Heater Manager.
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