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Snake Super Health Podcast EPISODE 9: FIBER-MAXXING: THREAT, OR CHIMERA?

Episode 9: Fiber-maxxing: Threat, or Chimera? Hello. Good Morning. NINTH episode of Snake Super Health the POD in the can: a discussion on health for people interested in its edge—nutrition, red light, lifting, musculature, face yoga, pullover exercises, calisthenics, strength, raw dairy, energy, orange juice, black seed oils—but who don’t live there. Or who do. Or people who are normal. Or who aren’t. Subscribe on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/4xGZu5W2t1DN3AFQCsG6NL], on Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/snake-super-health-podcast/id1846403715], rate and review. On this episode… I (Snake) talk with my co-host Josh Feola [https://www.instagram.com/leantimes] about “fibermaxxing”—the real, encroaching threat of lifters and non-lifters alike “maximizing” their cruciferous vegetable intake and increasing soluble and insoluble fiber across the board for motility and shock value/internet traffic reasons. We don’t really eat an insane amount of fiber (well, Josh does; I eat an OK amount, mostly root vegetables in fact) but find the counter of this diet—a rejoinder to increased protein—logical, sane and mostly correct. Should we be eating fiber if we nail our probiotics? Is the high-protein vegetarian diet more ELEGANT than eating steak and sauerkraut? Dare we return oats to our diet? (I won’t myself, but Josh is going feet-first.) All this is in the episode. Listen to it here or on platforms. And: Follow @SnakeSuperHealth on Instagram Show notes: 0:00: Fiber-maxxing, defined. 1:00: Vids are everywhere, from New Yorker writers to lifters to f*rtmaxxers. 2:00: Is this meaningful or just… video context? 3:00: Fiber as a counter to “masculine” pro-meat/protein diets… 4:00: Is fiber for broads? (Maybe) 5:00: What’s fiber ABOUT? Or is this just newjacks hitting protein for the first time? 6:00: Is tracking daily fiber more important than tracking protein? 7:00: Defining fiber technically. 8:00: Probiotics receded fiber when they became popular under Trump; the bourgeoisie has always loved fiber; fibermaxxing is fun. 10:00: Insoluble vs. soluble fiber, and their relationship to probiotic foods. 11:00: The case for fiber even when you hit probiotics… 12:00: Volumetric eating = the path for cuts? 13:00: The parallel wakeup call of hitting protein and fiber goals 14:00: How much fiber a day? (14g/1000 cals say the institute of medicine) 15:00: Same rough numbers from 2000s/2010s bodybuilding lore (cool) 18:00: The nefarious plant-based diet-hot girl IBS connection 20:00: Peat: the third way? (Root vegetables, coffee, dairy) 23:00: Fibermaxing is the ANSWER to demonic protein-maxing; the Lindy elegance of a trad. vegetarian high protein diet. 25:00: Judd Lienhard [https://substack.com/profile/214611238-judd-lienhard]’s work, and galaxy brain post-bodybuilding ‘colorful’ diet. 27:00: Josh one for the road: Oat-maxxing diet? (Cholesterol, the potato diet; Penn Gillette…) 31:00: Obelisks and the gut (new science) 31:30: Josh is only going to eat oats—we’ll see what happens 32:00: Snake one for the road: RIP Global Strongman Gym (Prospect Heights)—strongman training is functional training but poorly branded. Reading list: * Fibermaxxing post 1 [https://bsky.app/profile/jamellebouie.net/post/3mh4imjtacs2g] (pro-beans), fibermaxxing post 2 [https://www.instagram.com/reels/DVxAkmmiWwQ/] (ranking veggies by fiber), fibermaxxing post 3 [https://www.instagram.com/reels/DQnqDgvkbt8/] (I won’t even describe what this guy is doing) * Vogue: Fiber, protein… what’s next? [https://www.vogue.com/article/protein-fiber-whats-next-on-our-plate] * WSJ: Beware of artificial fibers [https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/fiber-packed-foods-are-hitting-store-shelves-be-careful-doctors-say-c6dc0fd2] * Judd Lienhard [https://substack.com/profile/214611238-judd-lienhard]’s colorful diet plan [https://juddlienhard.substack.com/p/i-lost-10-pounds-of-muscle-on-purpose] (goated) * The Cut: Hot girl IBS [https://www.thecut.com/2022/03/ibs-sibo.html] (2022; critical pre-vibe shift text) * IOM fiber number [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26514720/]; T-Nation fiber number [https://archive.t-nation.com/lean-built-eating/fiber-made-simple/] (by John Meadows, RIP Mountain Dog) * John Meadows pre-workout meal [https://mountaindogdiet.com/basic/basic-nutrition/cream-of-rice-pre-workout-concoction-bowl-recipe/] * Snake Super Health: The Ray Peat diet explained [https://superhealth.substack.com/p/ray-peat-explained-and-more-or-less] * Josh 14TR: Oat macrodosing experiment [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-68303-9] on Nature: Cholesterol-lowering effects * More on this [https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/017-2026], from Univ. of Bonn * Slime Mold Time Mold: Potato diet group experiment [https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/01/26/smtm-potato-diet-community-trial-6-month-followup/] * Snake Super Health: P*tato diet [https://superhealth.substack.com/p/probably-the-only-flash-diet-that] * Adherents: Penn Jillette [https://www.foodandhealth.com/blog/penns-potato-diet]; Kevin Smith [https://www.mensfitness.com/nutrition/kevin-smith-weight-loss]; some potato industry guy [https://spudman.com/article/all-potato-diet-eight-years-later-voigt/]. * Psychophysical podcast on the topic [https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=dy6R3JZ7Rko] * Scientific American: Obelisks in the gut explain microbiome; are a mystery to man [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/weird-obelisks-found-in-human-gut-may-be-virus-like-entity/] * Snake 14TR: RIP Global Strongman Gym [https://www.instagram.com/globalstrongmangym/https://www.instagram.com/globalstrongmangym/] Thanks for listening. MORE THIS WEEK. More every week. If you liked this pod, tell a friend. SAMI REISS SNAKE SUPER HEALTH is reader-supported. To get it all, elevate your subscription. Get full access to SNAKE SUPER HEALTH at superhealth.substack.com/subscribe [https://superhealth.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Snake Super Health Podcast EPISODE 8: LOOKSMAXXING AS HIDEOUS TRUTH

Episode 8: “Looksmaxxing” Hello. EIGHTH episode of Snake Super Health the POD: a discussion on health for people interested in its edge—nutrition, red light, lifting, musculature, face yoga, pullover exercises, calisthenics, strength, raw dairy, energy, orange juice, black seed oils—but who don’t live there. Or who do. Or people who are normal. Or who aren’t. Subscribe on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/4xGZu5W2t1DN3AFQCsG6NL], on Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/snake-super-health-podcast/id1846403715], rate and review. On this episode… I (Snake) talk with my co-host Josh Feola [https://www.instagram.com/leantimes] about “looksmaxxing”—the maybe real movement that’s two years old and which we define as a series of exogenous interventions for superficial math-based beauty. We find it to be more honest than most other forms of dark wellness. Are we not all looksmaxxers? Do we not all love our mirror? Is it wrong for a 20 year old child to be so vain? Listen to the episode, and Follow @SnakeSuperHealth on Instagram Follow my ass here @snakesuperhealth [https://www.instagram.com/snakesuperhealth] Show Notes 0:00: Intro; Clav’s month on top 1:00: Is looksmaxxing… Lindy? 1:30: The wrestling aspect 3:00: The definition: exogenous intervention-biased approach to use data/math to solve superficial problems 4:00: Is Looksmaxxing just pre-mass monster-era bodybuilding? Is Clavicular a lazy Steve Reeves? 5:00: Face smashing works: see, Muay Thai shin development 6:30: Camille Paglia and Clavicular agree on this ONE thing 7:30: OK. Is it real? (Can’t say what “it” is) 8:00: SMV as a hack to not flirt… 9:00: How all fitness YouTube content got aimed at teenagers 10:00: The fellas talk Chan boards and explain incel humor 11:00: Society loves hotties; short skull shape discussion 12:30: Looksmaxxing as health sans utilitarianism, sans positivity 15:00: Does the looksmaxxing math create a bland standard of beauty? (Yes) 16:00: Is LM’s willed sterility, as a result of too much exogenous test, a failure of racist action? 17:00: Is LM just how it is for broads? 17:30: Is LM autosexuality? 18:00: Is Clavicular post-political? (Pro vaccine, pro seed oils, pro test, anti "subhuman JD Vance) 21:00: Do you have to be a day trader or looksmaxxer to hack adulthood? 22:30: Is Clav Attia butb without the double talk? 24:00: Mishima, looksmaxxing and the age of slop 25:00: Josh’s One for the Road: Too Much Tai Chi and extreme rootedness 27:00: Sami’s One for the Road: Hockey, Phil Kessel as tai chi master 29:00: Movement vs static health: A beautiful face in pics, or moving well? 30:00: Posture as anomalous beauty Reading list: Clav profiles/media: * Handsome at Any Cost [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/style/clavicular-looksmaxxing-braden-peters.html] by Joseph Bernstein for the New York Times * ‘Looksmaxxing’ Reveals the Depth of the Crisis Facing Young Men [https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/looksmaxxing-clavicular-vanity-trump/685636/] by TC Williams for the Atlantic (big one forthcoming I think) * Inside Clavicular’s Thirsty Tour of New York City [https://www.gq.com/story/inside-claviculars-thirsty-tour-of-new-york-city] by Kieran Press-Reynolds for GQ * Adam Friedland episode [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rodcdKuwH3o]; Matan episode [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RVWU7EK3MY] * Clav on vaccines [https://www.instagram.com/reels/DVT1xiLirB_/], seed oils [https://www.instagram.com/reels/DOFU4n1kdD2/], seed oil research [https://www.instagram.com/reels/DUE4LJODd8U/], JD Vance [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tX7RDn5zuIU] * Looksmaxxing and death [https://www.instagram.com/reels/DVRjLVRESbz/] by h_miller76; Gossip Goblin video [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/83KSHJaZJ3k] Rest: * Steve Reeves shake [https://physicalculturestudy.com/2022/10/05/steve-reeves-competition-diet-2/] * Mass Monsters [https://barbend.com/news/bodybuilding-eras-explained/] on BarBend * Sexual Personae [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300182132/sexual-personae/] by Camille Paglia * Confessions of a Mask [https://amzn.to/4b7lMvu] by Yukio Mishima * Sam Kriss on maxxing [https://substack.com/home/post/p-186872445] * Too much Tai Chi [https://x.com/cookiecarver/status/1949155876352254275] (X thread); Master Ding, Tai Chi, London [https://tai-chi.london/] * Phil Kessel fastest skater [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qjlOJORuAE]; stories of Phil Kessel only eating cheese [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg_8kNqC16xfxPPjjm8fvQtaF2mAOSJxC] Thanks for listening. Like and subscribe please. SAMI REISS Get full access to SNAKE SUPER HEALTH at superhealth.substack.com/subscribe [https://superhealth.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Snake Super Health Podcast EPISODE 7: Peptides, Peptides, Peptides

Episode 7: Peptides Hello. SEVENTH episode of Snake Super Health the POD, a discussion on health for people interested in its edge—nutrition, red light, lifting, musculature, face yoga, foot yoga, no other types of yoga—but who are otherwise NORMAL. Or who aren’t. Whatever. Subscribe on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/4xGZu5W2t1DN3AFQCsG6NL], on Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/snake-super-health-podcast/id1846403715]. On this episode… I (Snake) talk with my co-host Josh Feola [https://www.instagram.com/leantimes] about the recent spate of mainstream reportage on esoteric peptide usage, these drugs’ Chinese supply chain, whether they’re street drugs, whether they represent something new outright, whether they’re dangerous, which ones people are doing, their evolution out of the gym into the youth world, and how hard it is to find reliable, granular information on these drugs. Follow Snake Super Health on Instagram Follow my ass here @snakesuperhealth [https://www.instagram.com/snakesuperhealth] Show Notes 0:00: Intro—reporting on peptides 01:00: What are peptides? 01:30: Times story on Silicon Valley peptides [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/business/chinese-peptides-silicon-valley.html], NY Mag story [https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/peptides-from-instagram-china-wellness-cure.html], FT story about supply chain [https://www.ft.com/content/b15407bd-7b86-45c3-9780-0c92117ccbfb] 2:30: Peptides as a true… widget 3:00: The pharma roots of Chinese peptides 4:10: A water-cooler definition of peptides 5:30: NYMag story: the youth demand, and the lack of regulation 7:00: Brigham Buhler and the Rogan-world peptide head’s case for regulation 9:00: Is taking Peptides just looksmaxxing? And is looksmaxxing… Lindy? 10:00: What might regulation look like? 11:00: Vanity is Lindy; living forever… is not 12:00: Possible benefits of acute, casual peptide use 13:00: Compounding pharmacy vs. the Chinese WhatsApp route 14.00: Is distrust of Chinese markets Sinophobia? 15:00: Are peptides… probably fine? 16:00: The Chinese bias and Western bias against injections 19:00: Moving from gym and skincare sickos to gen pop… 21:00: Is a pill GLP-1 a transformative tech? 24:00: Peptides as supplement vs. street drug 27:00: Everyone’s on the take 28:00: Peptides as time saver; health without being a healthy person 29:00 Josh one for the road: Sean Geiger [https://substack.com/profile/301128768-sean-geiger]’s History of Oral Peptides [https://seangeiger.substack.com/p/a-brief-history-of-oral-peptides]: 34:00: Sami one for the road: Bulgarian Zerchers [https://www.instagram.com/p/DUMynjNjj_1/] Reading list: * Life on Peptides Feels Amazing [https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/peptides-from-instagram-china-wellness-cure.html] By Ezra Marcus for NY Mag * ‘Chinese Peptides’ Are the Latest Biohacking Trend in the Tech World [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/business/chinese-peptides-silicon-valley.html] by Jasmine Sun for NY Times * Jasmine Sun’s China Talk Peptides interview with Hamilton Morris [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r83Gpy4BXxc] (YT) * ‘I wouldn’t dare take these drugs’: how China supplies untested peptides to the west [https://www.ft.com/content/b15407bd-7b86-45c3-9780-0c92117ccbfb] by Eleanor Olcott for FT * Can Ozempic Cure Addiction? [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/16/can-ozempic-cure-addiction] by Dhruv Khullar (MD) for The New Yorker * Brigham Buhler on Rogan [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By17xYkP6jg] (YouTube) * 10 Zercher variations [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-AgIpiYS8I] (YT) * Peptides in Snake Super Health [https://superhealth.substack.com/p/os-9-peptides-olympic-chicanery-nikes] * History of Oral Peptides [https://seangeiger.substack.com/p/a-brief-history-of-oral-peptides] by Sean Geiger * Factories in Shenzhen [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/15/the-rise-of-made-in-china-diplomacy] by Peter Hessler for the New Yorker * Vice News fake sneaker factory capital story [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxAW3t423rg] (YT) * “Needle Up My Cock [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP8ud1kJkkU]” by GG Allin (R.I.P.) Thanks for listening. More to come ALWAYS. SAMI REISS Get full access to SNAKE SUPER HEALTH at superhealth.substack.com/subscribe [https://superhealth.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

EMERGENCY Snake Super Health Podcast EPISODE 6: RFK Jr.'s new Food Pyramid assessed

Hello. Shabbat is over. EMERGENCY/quick turnaround episode of Snake Super Health the POD (hosted by Sami Reiss and Josh Feola) covering Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the HHS’s new food pyramid, looking at the grub on the pyramid, its context in esoteric health, the credentialed and media reaction, strengths and weaknesses with the pyramid and what it might mean for the food MARKETPLACE and POLICY. We have some positive and negative thoughts on the pyramid and am worried regarding how it might be wielded against people who don’t conform with the choices of dark health. Listen to the pod for the whole 411. About the Pod Snake Super Health Podcast is a health discussion for people interested in severe alleyways of health—nutrition, red light, lifting, musculature, face yoga, foot yoga, no other types of yoga—who are otherwise NORMAL. Episode is hosted by Snake Super Health founder Sami Reiss and Josh Feola. Subscribe on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/4xGZu5W2t1DN3AFQCsG6NL], on Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/snake-super-health-podcast/id1846403715]. Want an article on this? Follow Snake Super Health on Instagram Follow my ass here @snakesuperhealth [https://www.instagram.com/snakesuperhealth] Show Notes 00:01: actual wisdom (source [https://soundcloud.com/the-post-america-podcast/161-chubby-fresh] 1h25) 01:00: Intro 01:30: Framing the rollout: praise from dark nutrition heads, and the critique 2:00: RFK Jr’s career and credentialism vs. the diet itself 2:45: Is RFK Jr. cherry-picking his science? 3:30: Dark-horse support from… the American Medical Association? 5:00: Ultimately this is a lifter’s diet…. 6:00: The source-pleasing behavior of immediate critical reporting on this diet 7:00: Similarities between this diet and Michelle Obama’s proposed diet 8:00: The guidelines themselves 10:00: Can the feds affect food policy? 11:00: Is this diet esoteric? 12:00: Does anyone give a s**t about the food pyramid? 14:00: What’s missing? 15:00: Will Peaters like this list? 16:00: Legislating health, social credit and whether governments might deny health care to people who eat Takis 17:00: What does this list mean for SNAP? 18:00: Is this list influenced by the market or will it influence the market? 19:00: The shocking/old ways of low cholesterol/low sodium diets 20:00: Expect more b******t protein and people getting fat off lamb 21:00: A Pyrrhic victory 23:00: Josh: One for the Road: Cabbage 24:00: Snake: One for the Road: Yosuke NWN muscle-ups Reading list: * The pyramid itself [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/The_New_Pyramid_USDA_2026.svg/2560px-The_New_Pyramid_USDA_2026.svg.png] * Realfood.gov [https://realfood.gov/] * The fact sheet [https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/fact-sheet-historic-reset-federal-nutrition-policy.html] * The 90-page report [https://cdn.realfood.gov/Scientific%20Report_1.8.26.pdf]; 400 page appendix [https://cdn.realfood.gov/Scientific%20Report%20Appendices_1.8.26.pdf] * Initial NY Times’ reporting on the matter [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/well/rfk-jr-food-pyramid-nutrition-guidelines-protein.html]; Vox analysis [https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/474554/food-pyramid-dietary-guidelines-maha-protein] * Praise/critique from demon health influencers: Saladino [https://x.com/paulsaladinomd/status/2008969387244703813], Nippard [https://x.com/JeffNippard/status/2008973966678085674], Huberman [https://x.com/hubermanlab/status/2008952938786640223] * A critical analysis of Social Credit in China [https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1072&context=alr] * Pinterest trend predictions for 2026 [https://business.pinterest.com/pdf/pinterest-predicts/2026-trend-report/] (PDF; cabbage) * The Biggest Food Trends of 2026, From Fibermaxxing to Cabbage-Core [https://www.foodandwine.com/food-trends-for-2026-from-experts-11871415] (Food and Wine) * NWN muscle-ups in Finland [https://www.instagram.com/p/DTNiwC0CEQv/?img_index=1] (and more [https://www.instagram.com/p/DTFjHcmCL0O/]) and pull-ups in general [https://www.instagram.com/p/DS6IfUvke-n/?img_index=1] * The Vegetarian power diet [https://ditillo2.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-vegetarian-power-diet-gary-zeolla.html] Thanks for listening. Subscribe if you like what you hear and see. SAMI REISS Get full access to SNAKE SUPER HEALTH at superhealth.substack.com/subscribe [https://superhealth.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

Snake Super Health Podcast EPISODE 5: Unpacking the Israetel drama

Hello. FIFTH episode of Snake Super Health the POD, a health discussion for people interested in severe alleyways of health—nutrition, red light, lifting, musculature, face yoga, foot yoga, no other types of yoga—who are otherwise NORMAL. Subscribe on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/4xGZu5W2t1DN3AFQCsG6NL], on Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/snake-super-health-podcast/id1846403715]. On this episode… The Mike Israetel drama On today’s episode, I chat with my friend and COHOST Josh Feola [https://www.instagram.com/leantimes/] and my friend, Miguel [https://substack.com/profile/519756-miguel] Rivera, PhD, about the Mike Israetel “drama” and ramifications. Who’s Mike Israetel? What happened? Why does it matter? Well, he’s a lifter. It’s dramatic but an important example of how strength and health gets discussed in professional circles. Here’s a short synopsis from an earlier Open Secrets post [https://superhealth.substack.com/p/open-secrets-4-a-binder-for-microplastics]: In October, Solomon Nelson, an Australian law student and lifting content creator, reviewed a doctoral thesis by Mike Israetel, a massively popular science-based lifting content creator and talking head (he was on Citarella’s show recently). After a close-reading of Mike’s thesis on the E. Tenn State archive, Israetel’s degree-granting institution, Nelson published a YouTube video detailing the impossible statistics, wrong data figures, numerous errors/copy-pastes, bad citations, 200 typos… etc., in the document, and also claimed the work had an unoriginal contribution to Israetel’s academic field, and that he should not be considered an academic anymore. (The thesis, published in 2013, was titled “The Interrelationships of Fitness Characteristics in Division 1 Athletes.”) Israetel immediately said Nelson reviewed a mistakenly uploaded rough draft, and offered a different one, but walked that defense back after the new upload was found to have current metadata. Other events occurred in the lifting world, but they’re less important for this discussion than this initial exchange. Israetel is best known as the “exercise scientist critiques actor/celebrity’s workout” guy; he also founded Renaissance Periodization in 2013, which is a science-based lifting template/business, whose calorie tracking app I reviewed here [https://superhealth.substack.com/p/caloriemacro-trackers-explained-ranked]. (I also wrote more in-depth updates on the drama in October [https://superhealth.substack.com/p/open-secrets-returnsvol-2-the-news].) I chat with Miguel, of Paradox Newsletter [null] to get a better look at the nuts and bolts of doctoral theses in general—how the research works, how to define “new knowledge” in a field, and whether Israetel’s thesis in question is novel or not— and Josh and I bookend this discussion with a look at Israetel’s work, study design in lifting “sciences”, and the extent to which strength training be studied scientifically. And whether YouTubers can be scientists. More about the PhD, less about the nuts and bolts of lifting. Show Notes: 1:00: Intro, catch-up on Israetel and Nelson 3:30: Credentialism in health: What does an advanced degree mean? 4:30: The PhD to influencer pipeline: Peterson… Israetel? 5:00: Is the appeal to authority to sell something to health consumers… new? (Dr. Oz) 6:30: Is science based lifting’s obsession with efficiency lazy, or helpful for working people? 7:30: Can specific lifting advice be advanced through short-term studies? How much does exercise variance matter? 9:10: Are there fundamental process issues with exercise science? (Double-blind; lack thereof; no placebos…) 10:00: Academia’s focus on running vs. lifting: One is natural, one is a skill 12:00: The journalistic and influencer oversimplification of progressive overload. 13:30: Interview with Miguel Rivera, PhD begins; Miguel’s history, and work 16:30: Are shoddy drafts common for PhD theses? 17:00: What does a PhD thesis demonstrate? (Adding a tiny point outside the circle of the field of knowledge) 19:00: Polish in drafts (PhD theses are not shoddy like this) 20:30: The ad-hoc nature, and variable writing quality, of PhD thesis work 24:40: Choosing a thesis subject: How it relates to a book 26:30: The roughness and growing pains of newer fields of study, like exercise science 29:00: “This isn’t a Mike Israetel problem, this is an exercise science problem”—Prof. Anthony Campitelli [https://collegeofidaho.edu/people/anthony-campitelli/] 30:00: Why is academic writing like that? Buttoned up… 33:00: Praise for the adversarial nature of peer review 34:00: PhD as a union card: A degree is never enough to confer authority. The work must be authoritative. 35:30: Can vernacular work be recognized academically? end Miguel interview 37:00: Josh’s take: Is exercise science just a young field? 39:00: Dings against Mike 40:00: Exercise Scientist Critiques Workout Plan = devil s**t 41:00: “Post Physique” as lifting world peer review… 42:00: How much do results matter for people prescribing work? (Taking bodybuilding advice from a failed bodybuilder) 43:00: The long tradition of grifting and health: Are better doctors the answer? 45:00: One for the road (Josh): Crispr fungus protein: Gene edits… high protein edible fungus in China. 47:00: China’s war on the obesity crisis—and the EU’s 51:00: One for the road (Snake): Physiological hygiene: working out every day instead of 3x a week 52:00: Why is lifting so obsessed with limiting volume and movement? Shouldn’t untrained people move in some way every day? Selected reading/viewing: * Mike Israetel’s PhD thesis [https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1194/] * Solomon Nelson’s critique of Mike’s thesis (original video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elLI9PRn1gQ]; worth watching, and response [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U15IsD7fivM]) * Mike’s response [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyahzQX7R6Q] (since redacted) and his apology [https://www.instagram.com/p/DPexBdkiazY/?hl=en] * Internet Anarchist’s critique of Mike’s thesis [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OD_S8cua_E]; Reddit PhD discussion [https://www.reddit.com/r/PhD/comments/1nv6yb4/an_analysis_of_the_phd_dissertation_of_mike/]; Coach Greg’s videos on Mike (1 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGpnMK_BalA&t=474s], 2 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdve4BYtc3I]…. there are hundreds. I love this guy) * Miguel’s Substack [https://www.paradoxnewsletter.com/] * CRISPR Fungus: Protein-Packed, Sustainable, and Tastes Like Meat- Crop Biotech Update [https://www.isaaa.org/kc/cropbiotechupdate/article/default.asp?ID=21607] * Physiological hygiene [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3kZJ2l878g]: a minimalistic, normal way to train (& how to select for volume [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCpwh58w_bo]), further discussion in this post: Thanks for listening. SAMI REISS Get full access to SNAKE SUPER HEALTH at superhealth.substack.com/subscribe [https://superhealth.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]