How to Extend Your Lifespan & Healthspan with P.D. Mangan

My guest is a writer and commentator on health, fitness, and life extension. He’s also authored six books. When I personally need quick health advice, I visit P.D.’s Twitter, which is a treasure trove of great health information.

P.D. overcame chronic fatigue largely through his own efforts. Now at 65 years old, he’s in better shape than most men half his age.

In this episode, P.D. talks about how early humans evolved—how hunter-gatherers lived, worked, ate, and slept. He discusses how mainstream health authorities screwed everything up in recent decades, why their ideas have been mostly wrong, and what you can do to be truly healthy & fit.

P.D. believes a good gauge of health is: “Is your waist-size half your height?”

He also believes you can extend your lifespan and healthspan by making a few deliberate choices.

Enlightening discussion with a wicked smart & insightful guest—hope you get as much out of this chat as I did.

Questions asked:

Would hunter-gathers eat to the cubic capacity of their stomach?
Was good health information kept behind nefarious institutional gates or is this just new science that’s come out?
Do you think that what the experts proclaimed when I was born (1980) had become groupthink?
How fearful does [that] make you for other sorts of groupthink i.e. the CDC, WHO, COVID, Climate Change?
Are you sold on the health benefits of kombucha?
Where do you stand on Crossfit vs. proper form at the gym?
How often should we go to failure with our reps when lifting weights?
[Distance running vs. sprinting?]
[As someone who is strict with diet & exercise], are you also a saver & investor?
What is your favorite thing to invest in?

Fun Questions:

Where were you the first time you logged on to the Internet and what did you do?
Which is more cancerous, sugar or feminism?
True or False: Within the next 100 years, human life spans will no longer be finite?
True or False: Flexing is good for your muscles [not like Instagram-flexing, but physically flexing]?
If Elon Musk colonizes Mars, would you consider going?
If you had to take only the books written by one these authors, who would you take? Thomas Sowell, Matt Ridley or Nassim Taleb?
If you were competing as a Coach for a $2 million prize—you had to slim-up your team. What do you tell your team when you first meet with them? Which exercises do you have your team do Week 1?
If your team could only focus on either Nutrition or Exercise, where do you want your team to focus?
Overrated / Underrated: Mike Cernovich, Joe Rogan, Dave Portnoy, Tim Ferriss, James Clear