The Diary Of A CEO · 2024-08-29 · Steven Bartlett (host), Andrew Huberman
Andrew Huberman: You Must Control Your Dopamine! The Shocking Truth Behind Cold Showers!
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People in the United States consume about 3,500 calories per day on average.
"Most people get no regular exercise and they consume about 3,500 calories per day on average, so they're just on a steady weight increase for most of their life." (said at 3:22:46)
Nationally representative dietary surveillance in the United States (via the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, NHANES) indicates that average daily caloric intake is significantly lower than 3,500 calories per day. In representative US adult cohorts, average reported energy intake ranges between roughly 2,000 and 2,500 kcal/day for adult men and 1,500 to 1,900 kcal/day for adult women (varying across age groups), far below the claimed 3,500 kcal/day figure.
Approximately 80% of college students have taken prescription stimulants without a prescription.
"I think the data are something like 80% of college students have taken prescription stimulants without a prescription." (said at 2:41:50)
The claim that approximately 80% of college students have taken prescription stimulants without a prescription is contradicted by epidemiological evidence and meta-analyses. A comprehensive random-effects meta-analysis of stimulant misuse among college students found an overall estimated misuse rate of 17% (95% CI [13%, 23%]). Systematic reviews of nonmedical prescription stimulant use report prevalence estimates ranging across individual studies from 2.1% to 58.7% (with most campus-wide surveys finding rates between 5% and 25%), while 80% has occasionally been reported only for specific subsets regarding the diversion (sharing or selling) of medication by individuals who hold prescriptions, not total college student nonmedical consumption.
The top 10% of men are having most of the sex, while the bottom 50% of men have not had sex in a year.
"I've had multiple people sit here saying to me that really the top 10% of men are having most of the sex, and this bottom 50% of men haven't had sex for a year." (said at 2:37:44)
Nationally representative survey data from the General Social Survey (GSS) contradict the claim that 50% of men are sexually inactive in a given year. Analysis of US adults aged 18 to 44 found that between 2016 and 2018, approximately 30.9% of men aged 18–24 and 14.1% of men aged 25–34 reported no sexual activity in the preceding year, while among all unmarried men aged 18–44, the proportion was 24.4%. Across the broader male population, the vast majority of men report having regular sexual activity (most commonly with one partner), contradicting assertions that sexual activity is restricted to a top 10% while half of all men have had no sex for a year.
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