#483 - Using Memory To Eat Less, Biohacking Puberty, Hacking Distracted Eating, Stomach Pain With Fasting, Healing Tendons, Memorable Meals, And More!

Hi everybody and

welcome.

This is episode number 483 of the Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

I'm Melanie Avalon.

I'm here with Barry Conrad.

Barry, how are you today?

Mel, I'm doing so great.

Plants, it's been such a great week.

And hey, have you seen the new article? I know it's very related to biohacking.

And I thought of you.

It's about teenage boys trying to biohack their puberty.

Have you heard of this article?

Whoa.

I'm going to send you the link right now so you can have a look at it.

Biohack their puberty?

So basically, the long and the short is like there's this growing trend of teenage boys using peptides and other compounds because social media is sort of saying they need to get bigger or leaner or more muscly and optimize that whole rig as quickly as they can.

And it got me thinking about...

I guess the bigger conversation about what younger people are taking, especially without being fully developed.

And there's nothing wrong with wanting to improve your health, performance, or longevity.

We talk about it all the time.

But reading this kind of makes me go, where's the line? Especially age-wise, gender-wise.

When we were growing up, puberty was puberty.

So now it feels, based on reading something like this, like, well, actually...

I can safely say a lot of people, all young people on social media are exposed to all these new norms and upgrade this, upgrade that.

And I'm curious for you, someone who's so well-versed in biohacking and for so long, what you think about that or what the evolution of it all looks like now? I guess, like, do you think social media is pushing some of these kids into chasing optimization? Do you think it's, yeah, what are your thoughts on that?