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that do kind of connect to the end of the
last hours talking about Mayor zoron Mom Donnie the Commie
and his new tenants advocate, who's a communist who talks
about you know, people have to reimagine homeownership. It's a
form of white supremacy and blah blah blah. So basically
going to try to steal everybody's proper in New York City.
You know, landlords are going to be forced to deal
with frivolous complaints from the communist activists that you know,
get try to get them to make all these repairs. Meanwhile,
there's a rent freeze. Landlords can't afford to make the repairs.
So the city comes in and makes the repairs bills
the landlord, landlord can't pay it, then they seize the property.
So that's the that's the strategy going forward in New
York City. I'm sure it'll work out great for them.
And this is this is a particularly potent argument for
young people who have been blackpilled into thinking that all
is lost. They will never be able to have the
American dream, they will never be able to afford a home,
they will never be able to fill in the blank right,
And this is a demoralization message that is promoted to
young people both on the left and on the right politically.
And then the message of communism becomes more active because
now if you think you can't have these things, you're
going to want to take them from other people. So
first the lie is that you can't ever afford those things,
and then the action based on the lie is you
will now either support or look the other way when
guys like mom Donnie go and start seizing property of
quote rich white people in New York City. And well,
I mean to her credit, ce A Weaver, the communist
in charge of tenant, writes, she did say that yes,
even some pocs that's people of color, okay, which you
don't need a plural s at the end of pocs.
That would be people of colors, right anyway, So against
this backdrop I was interested to read there was a
published paper. This was in Nature, the magazine. The headline
on the study is no meta analytical effect of economic
inequality on well being or mental health? All right, So
a meta analysis this is when like you've got in
this case, there were one hundred and sixty eight studies,
okay that looked at economic inequality and the impact of
economic inequality on people's mental health. The idea being that
our mental health suffers as a society when we have
greater gaps between the rich and the poor, right, greater
the income inequality, the greater the mental health crisis. That
was the idea. One hundred and sixty eight different studies,
And a meta analysis takes the one hundred and sixty
eight studies and it analyzes them all together. So it's
not doing a peer review of the individual studies. It's
basically taking all of them together and saying, Okay, what
do we learn from this body of one hundred and
sixty eight studies. These studies covered eleven million people, and
it found no reliable link, no reliable link between economic
inequality and well being, or between economic inequality or mental health.
In other words, living in a place that has large
gaps between the rich and the poor does not affect
these mental health or well being outcomes. There is no
effect which obliterates this, like this idea that's been running
around for well, the ideas don't run around well unless
they're Antifa. But no, they this idea that's been out
there for the last five years or so that oh,
my gosh, income inequality. It's terrible, it's terrible. We shouldn't have,
you know, somebody who's you know, a million times richer
than the poorest person in the society. We need to
close the income inequality gap. We need to close that
gap mainly by taking money from the wealthier segments, right,
and then that will make people mentally healthier, that'll make
them happier. But the meta analysis does not bear that out.
Exposure to economic inequality is widely thought to erode subjective
well being and mental health, which carries important societal implications.
Contrary to popular narratives, random effects models showed that individuals
in more unequal areas do not report lower subjective well being. Moreover,
machine learning analyzes indicates that the association with well being
was negative in high inflation contexts but positive in low
inflation context Is that mean means that when you have
high inflation, that's actually the driver. It's the high inflation,
it's the inability to keep up with the cost of
goods and services that are increasing higher than your wages.
And inflation is caused by government the printing of the money, right,
all of the COVID relief, all the PPP and the
ARPA funds, all of the money that got I called
it helicopter cash. It's just, you know, like if you
were to just load up helicopters filled with government printed
cash and you just start pushing it out the side,
dumping money on everybody. Like that's what we did for
the better part of two years, and it created massive inflation,
and that's the driver. These findings challenge the view that
economic inequality universally harms psychological health and can inform public
health policy. So there's that. Here's another one that a
lot of people, and even at one point Milton Friedman
was supportive of this idea of a universal basic income
or a UBI. It's not a medical condition. People. You
be I, like you b I Universal basic income. The
results from the largest universal basic income study in America.
The results are in and they're not good if you
are a UBI fan. And this was an idea that
I thought had some promise too. But see, here's the
trade off is that if you're going to do a UBI,
then you got to get rid of the welfare state.
That's the trade off. And people won't get rid of
the They're not going to get rid of the welfare state.
People will not abandon all of these programs because their
jobs programs in a lot of cases, right, they're they're
providing middle class income for people to administrate the jobs.
And so you have a built in constituency of government employees,
people who are maybe getting grants through NGOs and stuff.
So there's a massive constituency, a cottage industry built up
around this spending, and so they won't get rid of it.
That was the whole point of the Earned income tax credit,
right with Ronald Reagan. That was the point was to
dismantle the welfare state and give people a direct lump
sum payment. And what happened was they never got rid
of the welfare state, and so then we ended up
with the Earned Income Tax Credit in addition to the
welfare state. And that's when Friedman was like, Okay, this
doesn't work because nobody will dismantle the welfare state in
exchange for just a lump sum payment the policy directly
to the people, rather than washing it through bureaucracy. What
the study found income dropped, labor productivity declined, the time
people spent unemployed rose, time spent on childcare, and self
improvement did not change. The policy is just as the
name implies. This is written by pat Ryan Over at
the Carolina Partnership for Reform North Carolina CPRNC dot org.
The policy is just as the name implies. Every single
adult receives an unconditional check every month, no strings attached.
There's no single cash transfer figure that UBI proponents have
settled on as an ideal number, but discussion generally ranges
from fifty dollars a month to one thousand dollars a month.
It's described as an anti poverty measure, but the Stanford
University reports one hundred and fifty five active or concluded
UBI experiments in the United States alone, and when they
did a meta analysis of all of them. The largest
randomized control trial finished up last year and it was
massive and the results do not look promising. You know,
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Universe Basic income or UBI in the United States wrapped
up last year. The study involved three thousand participants. One
thousand low income individuals got one thousand dollars a month
for three years. Two thousand others in the control group
got fifty dollars per month. Researchers from UC Berkeley, University
of Michigan, University of Toronto, and University of Illinois examined
the impacts across dozens of metrics, and the results do
not look promising the one thousand dollars per month group. Okay,
so the group that was making the low income individuals
that got one thousand dollars a month for three years,
they worked less and earned less than the control group
of two thousand people that got fifty bucks a month.
In fact, for every one dollar in UBI benefit, it's
total income fell by twenty one cents. Meanwhile, the treatment
group did not improve their education, They did not improve
their job training in any meaningful way that was different
than the control group. So there was no impact. So
like this idea that well, if you just gave people,
you know, one thousand dollars a month. Then they would
use the free time and the extra money that would
offset their expenses. It would free them up to pursue,
you know, a higher degree or something. They go back
to school, they would learn a new craft or trade
or skill or something right, they would be they would
devote their energies to something productive. And that did not
happen in any way that was different than the group
that just got fifty bucks a month. So how did
those in the treatment group spend their extra time leisure activities?
I'm as shocked as you are. Who gonna have seen
that coming. You're gonna give me one thousand dollars a month.
Now I don't have to work as much, and so
now I'm gonna do stuff that I want to do
with my free time. I'm not going to use it
for self improvement because I'm I've got a I got
a pad, I got a bit of a hammock. You know,
my safety net is more like a hammock. The transfer
group caused total individual income to fall by about fifteen
hundred dollars a year relative to the control group. So
when you give people the thousand dollars, they actually work
less and they make they make less money, so giving
them the thousand dollars doesn't help them. In fact, the
net impact is a negative. They lose money. The program
resulted in a two percentage point decrease in labor market
participation for participants and somewhere between one point three to
one point four hours per week reduction in labor hours,
so they took time off, they didn't go to work.
Participants' partners also reduced their hours worked by a comparable amount,
so there's a household impact that's negative as well. We
also saw significant impacts on duration of unemployment over the
three years of the transfers. The duration of the average
spell of non employment in the control group was seven
point seven months. The treatment the group that got a
thousand a month, they were unemployed for an additional one
point one month on top of the seven point seven
So the low income group that got the fifty dollars
a month in the transfers, they were unemployed for more
than half a year. And when you give people one
thousand dollars a month, they're unemployed now for almost three
quarters of the year. The working paper that was published
at the NBER we provide new evidence on the causal
effect of unearned income on consumption, balance sheets, and financial outcomes.
By exploiting an experiment that randomly assigned one thousand individuals
to receive one thousand dollars a month and two thousand
individuals that got fifty dollars a month for three years,
the transfer increased measured household expenditures by at least three
hundred dollars per month. The spending impact is positive in
most categories and is largest for housing, food, and car expenses.
The treatment increases housing unit and neighborhood mobility, so people
were able to move. They were right. They spent one
thousand dollars. They put it towards rent, they put it
towards car payment, they put it towards food. We find
noisily estimated modest positive effects on asset values driven by
financial assets, but these gains are offset by higher debt,
resulting in a near zero effect on net worth. The
transfer increased self reported financial health and credit scores, but
did not affect credit limits, delinquencies, utilization, bankruptcies, or foreclosures.
These results suggest that large temporary transfers increase short term
consumption and improve financial health, but may not cause persistent improvements.
In the financial position of young, low income households. In
other words, the thousand dollars a month transfers had no
effect on net worth or credit access. All the money
was plowed into consumption, and recipients of the thousand dollars
actually went more into debt. So I think the science
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time of year that a lot of people try to
hit a reset of sorts, adopt new habits, discard existing ones,
and the biggest New Year's resolution every year in America
is usually like lose weight, get healthy right and for
you know a lot of people listening to the show,
you will know that I got on the PhD Weight
Loss program about four years ago. I lost ninety pounds
on the program. Full disclosure, I am a paid endorser
of the program, but I do believe in the system
because it's the only one that has given me the
long term results that I've had after a lifetime of
battling weight gain and failed diets. So with the new year,
I wanted to chat with the founder of PhD Weight
Loss and nutrition doctor Ashley Lucas to discuss some strategies
and tips and information that could help you maybe be
successful in your New Year's resolution dot com or Ashley
Lucas Welcome. How are you doing? Hi Pete?
Speaker 2: I'm great, how are you doing? Happy New Year?
Speaker 1: Yes to you as well. Did you have a good
holiday season a lot of family, friends and good times?
Speaker 2: Yeah it was great. How about you?
Speaker 1: Yeah it was good. Well I got sick for Christmas,
so yeah, that's I got whatever that crud was going
around that flew like whatever it was. So but anyway,
so let me ask you in general in general, do
you do like the New Year's resolutions thing or like
in your experience? Are people generally successful in adopting new diets,
new habits, workout regimens when they do it as part
of a resolution for the new year.
Speaker 2: Well, I think it depends upon their method and how
they go about it. I think, you know, any time
of year we can make a resolution to ourselves to
create some positive change. I believe if we do it
on our own, there is a very high risk of
failure because accountability and support is key when creating some
kind of big change in our lives. It could be anything.
It doesn't have to be diet or weight related, So
it doesn't matter what time of year that we you know,
change our mind to change our life, and if it
is the new year, so be it. Just making sure
that we go about it with a plan, with accountability,
with support, and then yeah, I definitely think that that
can be successful.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The accountability component was essential for me because I
had done different diets over the years and none of
them ever took hold for a long term. I would
lose some weight, but then I would put it back
on and then put on more. Yeah, because it was like,
oh and there was like a reward system in my brain.
It was like, oh, well I did this good thing.
Now I'll reward myself by you know, doing a bunch
of bad things. And so yeah, the accountability is key.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was just chatting with a client actually up
in Lake Norman, and she had dropped forty five pounds
and it was the first time she had seen under
two hundred pounds. She's like, it is time to celebrate,
and I said, yeah, for sure, it's time to celebrate.
What are you going to do? And she said, well,
I think I'm going to saw some of this Tomento
cheese dip that I've had in the freezer for such
a long time and enjoy that and I was like,
you know what, First of all, some pimento cheese dip
can be on your plan. However, what if we change
the mindset and reframe the way we celebrate, Right, So
it's just like those little things. Why are we celebrating
fat loss with consuming more food instead of how could
you really serve yourself? What could you do in a
way that actually supports your body and nourishes it in
the way that it deserves and desires. Maybe that's a massage,
Maybe that's a new piece of clothing, Maybe it's a
new magazine or going somewhere and experiencing something. You know,
So it does. It takes that accountability and support and
mindset shift and someone there to remind you or kind
of catch you when those old habits creep back again,
because they do for all of us.
Speaker 1: Right, So the changing of the habits is difficult. That's
one of the pitfalls. What are some other pitfalls that
people run into besides I guess the lack of accountability
when they're trying to make these types of changes, particularly
with regard to their diet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we're always told and it continued to
be inundated with the message that we just need to
eat less and move more. Right, the concept around these
very popular drugs are still that we just need to
eat less, and these drugs reduce appetite, so we end
up eating fewer calories and then the scale starts to
move down. But the body is so much more complicated
than calories in and calories out. The food that we
eat tell our body what to do with the food.
So it's either going to tell the body to store
fat or to burn fat. And I don't think people
realize that that all calories are not the same. Just
being an calorie deficit isn't the answer. I mean for you, Pete,
Like we never talked about calories, did we. Did you
ever have to count anything?
Speaker 1: No? Yeah, there's no calorie counting. And I tried that
method several years I guess probably about seven years ago,
and no, it made no difference.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and like exercise too, were you surprised that you
didn't have to, like go to the gym and get
on the elliptical machine every day?
Speaker 1: I'm never surprised when I don't have to go to
the gym. So no, and look, you know, and you
guys talk about this. Also, walking is good for other reasons,
particularly in weight loss moves the lymphatic system around that
helps with the weight loss. Walking is good. But yeah, no,
people ask me, oh, did you work out? I never
worked out during the entire fat burn phase at once. Yeah,
that never.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'm not saying that a sedentary life is healthy,
getting up and moving your body, going for a walk
if you can. If you're listening to this and you
can't do that right now, that's okay. We have so
many people get started who are just in so much pain,
cannot move, so inflamed. And the focus of us is
your metabolism and reducing inflammation. And when we can reduce inflammation,
we can heal your metabolism. When we can reduce inflammation,
you will see that you could reverse type two diabetes
or pre diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, like all
of these quote unquote chronic progressive diseases don't have to
be that way. When you eat in a way that
supports reducing inflammation, these things can go away or drastically improve,
And weight loss is just a really fun byproduct of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got a reduction in my blood pressure meds
and completely off of the was it the I can't
even remember the name of it now. I was on
it for years, the heartburn medicine. The next sim A, Yeah, prilosec.
That was it. Yeah, completely off of that, never had
I've not had any problems with it since I lost
the weight.
Speaker 2: And I was watching I remember that surprising you.
Speaker 1: Yes, it was because and apparently I guess it was
my stomach pushing against my sternum or something. I don't know,
but I was watching one of your videos people can
check out her YouTube channel Doctor Ashley Show on YouTube,
and you were talking about exercises not a key component
of weight loss. And I hear this a lot from
people also think, oh, I'm going to you know, I'm
going to go to the gym, and that's going to
drive the weight loss. And I always tell them, like,
you're going to be Yes, you're going to be working
out and that's good, but like you realize you're going
to need more more caloric intake. You're going to then
your body's going to want more food because you're you're
expending a lot of calories and now you're going to
have this desire to eat more. It's going to be difficult.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think an interesting way to think
about this is let's say you got this feast coming
up or a celebration, let's say Christmas dinner, and you think,
oh my gosh, well, I'm not hungry. I want to
be hungry for this meal. I want to enjoy it.
What could I do to induce hunger? Well, what would
you do? Eat less throughout the day or maybe skip
all the meals, which, by the way, is not a
good tactic, but you would you wouldn't eat, and then
you'd like go for a run or go work out
and try to increase your appetite. That's exactly what it does.
So again, I'm not saying that you shouldn't move, and
there are specific types of movement that are going to
be more supportive of fat loss. And I actually have
this episode on the YouTube channel, so definitely check it out.
I think it's called something like why Cardios Keeping You fat?
But it is a huge appetite stimulator and it's so
easy to overeat what we have expended in the gym,
So you know, I more so look at exercise and
specific forms of exercise as a wellness tool, not a
weight loss tool.
Speaker 1: All right, So I heard you mention some pharmaceuticals. Let's
talk about the drugs. People may be thinking, well, you
know what, I'll get on the shots and that's going
to solve the problem for me. So what you're thinking
on these these GLP one.
Speaker 2: Drugs, Yeah, I mean I may open the door to
a lot of other problems, especially if not done right.
So the majority of people utilizing these medications do not
have any kind of shift in their dietary approach. They
simply are not hungry, so they're eating less. I was
just on a ski trip and the ski and Trust
instructor had dropped some weight using these drugs, and he's like,
I still eat pizza, I still eat these cookies. I
have no idea what's going to happen when I get
off these drugs, he said, because I haven't learned anything.
And so luckily for him, he was sitting next to
me and I was able to give him some education.
So I hope it helped. But most people are dropping weight,
and the majority of it is muscle mass. We know
that muscle mass is so important. It is the predictor
of metabolic health. It's actually the marker for longevity. The
more and the more healthier muscle mass that you have,
the longer you will live and the quality of your
life will be so much stronger. Unfortunately, about thirty percent
of the weight loss for most people utilizing these drugs
comes from muscle, and then the majority of people don't
like the side effects or the cost. They don't want
to be on these drugs forever, which you have to
be to keep the weight off, so they get off
of these drugs within one to two years, and the
majority of people regain at least seventy percent of the
fat weight within a year of getting off the drugs,
and so they end up actually fatter than they were
to begin with because they lost muscle, they put back
on fat weight in its place, and they're metabolically worse off.
So you just have to be super super careful and aware,
and still you'd have to shift the way that you're
eating and the mindset underneath it. So unfortunately there's just
no shortcut.
Speaker 1: Well, but people can, they can learn this stuff. I did.
I learned it with PhD in the program that you designed.
And so I've said this before, I greatly appreciate all
that you've done for me in my life to help
me get healthy. Highly recommend people check out Doctor Ashley
on YouTube. There's actually the episode I was watching Exact
Meal Plan for Women who want to lose twenty pounds,
and you just spell out the whole meal plan for
people if they want to lose twenty pounds, here's the
healthy way to do it. And there's a lot of
key instructions that are in there. Is there anything else
that you would like to add you think is important
or interesting here before we let you go? Mm?
Speaker 2: You know, if we're looking at food, I would say
that really focusing on your first meal of the day,
it doesn't matter what time of day it is, but
making sure that it's got protein in there and you're
better off. It's easier to think about if you go
savory rather than sweet. So if you're listening to this
and you're consuming say cornflakes or some kind of breakfast
cereal with a banana and some skim milk, it's one
of the worst breakfasts for you. And I know a
lot of people will be like, oh my gosh, I
don't think I like this Doctor Ashley lady, because I
love my cereal. But I'm sharing this with you from
the bottom of our heart because I really, really my
purpose to empower people to create positive change. I know this,
and we can create this biggest change by shifting up
what we're eating for breakfast. So thank more savory over
suite protein first whenever you can, and just with that
you'll see an improvement in your health. If you're not
already doing that, all.
Speaker 1: Right, you could check out her YouTube show, Doctor Ashley's
Show on YouTube, also the website Myphdweight loss dot com.
Doctor Ashley Lucas, thanks so much and all the best
in twenty twenty six. Thank you, same to you, all right,
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On the text line, Shannon says, thanks for the info.
I will check out doctor Ashley, but I'm not giving
up my Peloton workouts. They help my sanity. No, And
that's fine, That's totally fine. And I've talked about this.
When you know, when they build the plans for you,
when you're on the program, they ask you these things
like Okay, do you work out? And I was like no,
and they were like Okay, well, then we're going to
build a different plan for you. If I was working out,
if I was, you know, lifting weights all the time,
then the the amount of protein that I would have
to be feeding my body would have to be increased.
So I don't, you know, don't lose the muscle mass.
A message from jan who says to sorry, the first
meal of the day is the most important. Do seven
cups of coffee count as the first meal of the day. No,
it does not. You can have this, I mean, I
would not reckon. I've actually switched over to the to
DCAF because I drink coffee basically all day long. But
you really shouldn't. And this wasn't something that the PhD
folks told me. It was I came across this information
in someplace within the last probably two years maybe or
a year, that when you keep putting caffeine into your
body for the length of time that I do during
the day. I mean, I make a full pot of
coffee in the morning. It's DCALF now, but it used
to be fully leaded caffeine, right, and it basically keeps
on like inciting the fight or flight response in your
adrenal glands. I want to say, and so that's what
gives you the amped up feeling, that's what gives you
the energy. And so you're if you wake up in
the morning and the first thing you're drinking is coffee,
then it's wreaking havoc on that adrenal system and it
can lead to long term problems. So the recommendation is
that you wait ninety minutes before you have your first caffeine.
So I went over to the decalf and I had
to find the water processed kind, which is Pete's coffee.
I'm not a paid endorser of peats and it's spelled
pee t, so it's no you know, I have no
connection to it, no relation. But it's water processed because
most caf decaffeinated coffee is decaffeinated through like some alcohol process,
and it would give me immediate headaches. And I am
like in the one percent of the population apparently that
gets the headaches from that process. So I could never
drink the decalf, but I do love the coffee. So
then my sister in law bought me some of this
PiZZ dcalf that was decaffeinated with the water process, the
Swiss water process, I think it's called and I mean
they sell it at Harris Teeter and it's the only
one I've seen that has the water process and no
headaches from it. So but yes, you can have this.
You can have the seven cups of coffee. It's not advisable,
but you can have the coffee. But you're going to
have the first meal of the day at some point, right,
And that's what doctor Lucas was saying, is that when
you have your first meal, it matters what you're putting
into your body for that first meal. Right. You want,
like you want a high protein injection that starts your
body fired up, gets it fired up in the morning.
So you like, eggs are great, Eggs are great. Yeah,
protein and a little bit of dietary fat, like some
half and half, like two tablespoons a half and half. Now,
there was a study that came out NBC News reported
being overweight or obese has long been linked to a
greater risk of developing or dying from breast cancer. New
research suggests a reason certain breast cancer tumors may feed
on neighboring cells. The findings may help scientists find ways
to treat triple negative breast cancer, which is notoriously aggressive
and as much lower survival rates. Also, the results may
apply to any cancer that uses fat as an energy source.
This was published in a Nature communications. Triple negative accounts
for about triple negative cancer. Breast cancer accounts for fifteen
percent of all breast cancers. It tends to be more
common in black women and women under forty years old,
and it's more likely to come back than other cancers.
So apparently, what the cancer cells do is that they
gain access to the fat cells by poking like this
straw like structure into the fat cells and then dislodging
the lipids that are stored there. And what they found
was that the closer the fat cells were to tumor cells,
the more depleted the lipids were. And so when they
blocked the tumor's ability to build that straw, the tumor
stopped growing. So this could be very very good news
this link and if they could block the straws, then
you can reduce the mortality of the cancer. All right,
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