The Long Game 89: Infertility & Lifestyle, Amp It Up, Exercise & Anxiety
The Long Game 89: Infertility & Lifestyle, Amp It Up, Exercise & Anxiety👩🔬 Scientific Funding, Timing of Books, Ukraine, Intimacy, Arctic Silk Road, Chinese Efficiency, and Much More!Hi there, it’s Mehdi Yacoubi, co-founder at Vital, and this is The Long Game Newsletter. To receive it in your inbox each week, subscribe here: In this episode, we explore:
Let’s dive in! 🥑 Health🍼 Infertility: A Lifestyle Disease?I wrote a couple of times about infertility in the newsletter. Specifically, after reading Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race. I came across this great article yesterday, it’s resurfacing some of the critical components of the looming fertility crisis. future generations will laugh at how stupid we were for passively subscribing to a world full of micro-plastics and endocrine disruptors Soona @soona A deep dive on america's looming fertility crisis https://t.co/XHRaVlLfGL
Recent research suggests the detrimental role of endocrine disruptors.
Focusing on being healthy overall (the right diet, no processed foods) can be enough to fix a lot of fertility issues:
I expect the fertility tech space to be a huge area of innovation in the next decade. 🌱 Wellness🏃♀️ How Exercise May Tame Our AnxietyIn case you needed additional motivation to start or continue exercising regularly:
To pair with: The Opposite of Anxiety
🧠 Better Thinking📚 The Right Book at the Right TimeWe hear a lot of discussions about good books, book recommendations, and more. However, one key component of reading isn’t discussed as much: the timing of the books you read. Some books can change your life if you pick them up at the right time for you. For example, I read Healing Back Pain last January when I was ready to accept the mind-body diagnosis. I think that if I had read it one year earlier, I might not have accepted this diagnosis and would have stayed stuck with my chronic back pain much longer. When making book recommendations to someone, it’s worth trying to understand how their current life situation will be adapted or not adapted to specific books. Underrated: the timing of the books you read. A book can be great, but we rarely talk about its timing. The right book *at the right time* can be life-changing. ⚡️ Startup Stuff🚂 Amp It UpEver since I found out Frank Slootman’s Amp It Up! article, I read it once a week. He recently came out with a book to give more details and context. I read it last week, and it’s excellent. Here are some key elements of the book:
The culture of your company isn't about what you say, write on culture docs, and hang on the walls. It’s about what’s rewarded and what’s not accepted. It’s what you do. 📚 What I Read🚫 Perhaps Not Everything is EugenicsFreddie deBoer on the recent obsession with calling everything “eugenics.”
⚰️ The Death of IntimacyInsightful essay on the decline of sex and intimacy in Gen Z.
🇺🇦 War/Words (Part One)A good explanation of the risk of war in Europe:
To pair with: Russia and China’s plans for a new world order Russian troops have been massing near the Ukrainian border for weeks. Negotiations not looking good. US carriers also apparently now positioned to deter China if something happens in Ukraine.
No idea what's going to happen or which reports are accurate. Monitoring with caution. 🎙 Podcast Episodes of the WeekThis week in podcasts:
🍭 Brain Food👩🔬 New Ways of Funding ScienceWe need to make sure that our scientific knowledge keeps improving to keep progress going. The best way to do that is to radically improve scientific funding to enable many more scientists to pursue “crazy” ideas. Derek Thompson has an excellent write-up on how Silicon Valley is trying to launch a new era of science labs and scientific projects.
🎥 What I’m Watching🇨🇳 The Myth of Chinese EfficiencyA deep-dive on the frequently held belief that China is so efficient in building things. They might be building well and fast, but a lot of what they’re building isn’t solving any of their problems and actually creating issues. 🇷🇺 Why Russia is Building an Arctic Silk RoadRussia is set to be one of the big winners of climate change. The new shipping route opening in the Artic halves the time needed to go from Asia to Europe. 🔧 The Tool of the Week📊 Notion Health Tracker TemplateIn case you missed it last week! So many people find value in tracking their health and habits in the same place every day. At some point, it will all be possible on Vital, but in the meantime, we came up with a template to do so on Notion! 🪐 Quote I’m Pondering
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