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I love how Lauren went from being too shy to appear on camera to recounting that one time she got trashed making cocktails in literal trash cans. Bless her
it is nice to see two adults teaching each other in honesty, learning from each other and allowing us to be enlightened by the exchange. The conversation is both more pedagogic and more didactic than the monologue!
Surprisingly Guiness actually has a calorie count close to a light beer. It’s because the alcohol content is fairly low. Guiness only seems thick due to its color, flavor, and mouth feel since it’s nitrogenized
I am always surprised by this but it’s true. Guinness has less alcohol (and fewer calories) than a regular Pilsner. It’s the IPAs that are really caloric.
@@CobaltContrast It is now. For many centuries, Guinness was filtered through fish gills so it wasn't even vegetarian. For the last few years, the filtration technique no longer involves animal products.
I’m loving the addition of your wife into the podcast, it makes the pod feel much more casual and then easier to retain. One comment, I think you should restructure the camera for something like this, so that you two can more easily look at each other when talking. It’s a bit weird to hear you talk to each other but not look at each other. Otherwise, a great podcast!
When my uncle was in his early teens (in England), he was low in weight and had an iron deficiency. The family doctor told him to drink a couple pints of Guinness every day. He still in enjoys it to this day (he's in his mid-70s now) and I think he justifies the consumption as it was recommended by his doctor when he was twelve.
Thank you so much for these podcasts. I just found out that a close friend of mine is dying from cancer and your voice was the only thing that could make me fall asleep after an exhausting day of crying and whatnot. Seriously, thank you so much. 💖
@@Megan-zi9tf 💖 Thank you. Actually, he's still alive. He got more time because he went into remission for a while. Right now, it's weeks or a couple of months, but we're all trying to make them the best time they can be. 💜
From a psych major: Stress is one of the biggest risk factors for both mental and physical illnesses (especially cardiovascular disease and cancer). We also know that a functioning social support net is THE best way to prevent chronic stress. People that drink alcohol but only in low amounts usually do so with friends, hence I think It's just a bad proxy for that relationship
As a recovering alcoholic, 1:5 mix of everclear kept in the freezer and cold diet soda mixed with ice in a yeti cup is definitely the fastest and least caloric way to get drunk. In fact, you will likely blackout (but keep doing drunken things) before you finish drinking and barely wake up with a headache. However Adam's psychological concern is completely true in that binge drinking is incredibly bad behavior and the mindset to get drunk and happy the most healthy way is definitely what lead to me being sober 99 percent of the time and binge drinking on occasions but slowly binging more alcohol and more often, and then just being a functioning alcoholic during the day then drinking ASAP after work. Also, I was working a stressful job, living alone, away from family, and in a crappy LDR. Plus I'm predisposed to addiction but I already knew that prior.
Similar trend was seen in a sugar intake study done in Sweden. "Higher sugar consumption was associated with a less favorable lifestyle in general. The lowest mortality risk was found with added sugar intakes between 7.5% and 10% of energy (E%) intake in both cohorts. Intakes >20E% were associated with a 30% increased mortality risk, but increased risks were also found at intakes
@@zo.yeahhh The motivation someone has for avoiding sugar could also confound that. People who have medical conditions and thus strictly limit their sugar consumption, or stressed-out hypochondriacs who are super strict with their diet, etc might have worse health outcomes than the average person who eats a little sugar here and there. It might even be something like a gene mutation in the sweetness receptor that predisposes one to a particular cancer. This is why establishing causation is so important, a correlation by itself is nothing more than a curiosity that begs further research. With most things, I think there would be a strong association between "average" behaviors and health. People who engage in the typical behaviors of their culture are usually healthy, well adjusted people in good social and economic circumstances. Whereas those on the margins are more likely to have atypical behaviors.
there's research that shows that a person's attitude toward stress actually has more of an effect on health than stress itself and that stress can be better than no stress; see the book The Upside of Stress by Kelly McGonigal
@@jean-sebastienbasque-girou633 Interesting, I've never heard of that premise. I assume partially explained by neuroticism? Also stress itself doesn't necessarily have to be bad - does McGonigal differenciate between short- and long term stress or does he describe it differently alltogether?
I love this format! I think having someone else with you while recording these is great in terms of entertainment value. Having someone to riff off of and who can riff off of you makes for a much more dynamic viewing experience.
I remember, as a Canadian, having this conversation if beer is less healthy than wine or spirit as a booze due to its (variably) higher calorie content. Love the more scientific/nerdy background you bring to this. And fun podcast that also included your significant other! Adam has a life :)
Another part of the abstainer bias is that a number of people don't drink because it interacts badly (potentially fatally) with medications they're taking. Often when people take medication regularly for a long time it's because of a serious medical condition. And there are medical conditions that are known to be worsened by alcohol consumption as well. If your liver isn't working well consuming things that put unnecessary strain on it is probably a bad idea.
Wonderful episode. I'm a life long abstainer, have never ingested alcohol once in my life. Not for religious reasons, but because I grew up with 1 parent who was a rampant alcoholic (could not control their drinking, blackout drunk) and my other parent was an abstainer. My earliest memory in life as a child was finding my alcoholic parent passed out naked on the bathroom floor in their own vomit. I was also almost killed multiple times by my alcoholic parent who took me in the car while they were drunk. It did not take much to see: Parent A is awful anytime they drink the "bad" drinks. Parent B is normal and nice and never drinks the "bad" drink. So I grew with the idea (and fear) that my life would be destroyed like my alcoholic parent if I ever drank (that parent is now dead - from alcohol poisoning). I have no wish to find out if I can control my drinking like Parent B, or if I would turn to ruin like parent A.. so I made the VERY easy decision to simply never consume alcohol. I've never had issue with others drinking (friends etc), certainly never preached to others not to drink - I've found the social culture around it interesting at times. I will say... being a teen sucked.. my friends drank and I was the one who had to make sure my friends didn't get themselves killed getting home.. glad those days are long gone now, it eventually made me stop going out at all though and less social in my 20s as I got tired with babysitting drunk friends.
youre not missing much its fun at times sure but nothing beats waking up with loads of energy over being in bed eating fast food after a night of drinking
it is nice to see two adults teaching each other in honesty, learning from each other and allowing us to be enlightened by the exchange. The conversation is both more pedagogic and more didactic than the monologue!
@Hathur I applaud your choice of abstaining. But, according to Adam, you will not live as long as people who drink moderately. Does that make sense to you? It shouldn't, because the conclusions are misleading.
I definitely prefer the podcast WITH Lauren. I like the unscripted nature of this conversation too as it adds a little "spice" so to speak, and the back and forth really helps to keep me more engaged. Keep it up!
it is nice to see two adults teaching each other in honesty, learning from each other and allowing us to be enlightened by the exchange. The conversation is both more pedagogic and more didactic than the monologue!
As someone who routinely skips many meals and is very light, can confirm that drinking before you eat will get you smashed. Those nights where we go to a fancy restaurant and I haven't eaten anything all day, that 1 glass of wine that comes out early is enough for me to get tipsy.
which is odd when you think about it. One wold expect if hungry your body would be more apt to break it down. The empty stomach is probably the main factor.
@@jhoughjr1 the problem is the body rushes food from the stomach to the blood more quickly, but being hungry doesn’t make the liver more efficient. It results in more alcohol making it to the brain for longer.
@@elkaphant No sure specifically about your liver, but most definitely it's not good for you overall. It's always something I advise new drinkers when they first start drinking seriously: Never drink on an empty stomach if you don't want to feel like crap the next day, if not the same night.
If you're a vegan who is swayed by Adam's argument about reducing waste by using whey protein, but you still don't want to support the dairy industry, I'd recommend looking into Outcast Food. They make protein powders from fruits and vegetables that would otherwise have gone to landfill.
Hey Adam, your resident Mormon here. I love the pod and you have helped improve my cooking immensely. I especially love the science and wider perspective you bring. In your quest for accuracy and knowledge I wanted to throw out a quick correction, there is nothing in our religion that is specifically against caffeine, only coffee and tea. There was a large subgroup of people who believed it was because of the caffeine and thus there has been a subculture of people that are anticaffeine though that is starting to die with the rising generation. Your suger observation was quite fascinating and not something I had considered but now I definitely see it so thank you again for your perspective. Keep up the great work!
Well any rule against coffee and tea I would count as a rule against coffeine. In my unique lifestyle/belief coffee and tea is the only acceptable ways to ingest caffeine (not counting trace amounts i various items) Just on the basis that energy drinks and soda's with caffeine is really bad for you, while coffee and tea is not. both are addictive but an addiction that isn't bad for your health isn't really a problem in my book.
Hey! Your earlier podcasts are real knowledge bombs, but this natural style is so much nicer on the ear. Lauren is a great addition too! Great work, thanks for sharing
Please keep including Lauren, the dichotomy between you two is amazing. The well researched and prepared vs the curious and unbiased makes for an interesting and fun listen. Not to say I don’t like the pod when you’re just there, just a shift in expectations adds a bunch. Please keep the pod coming and don’t miss a week if you handle the workload! ;)
Guinness stout is actually both low in calories (comparable to light beers) and alcohol percentage (4.2%). Looks can be deceiving. This Irish beer always floats over other alcohol in mixed drinks (Black and Tan, Snakebite, Cream of Wheat, Black and Blue, Black Velvet). If one must drink beer, Guinness is one of the more healthful choices.
Adam, I hate to break this to you, but for Mormons it's just coffee and tea, not caffeine. Thomas Monson was well known for his diet Coke consumption. Some Mormons who try to understand the reason why coffee and tea ("hot drinks") are called out in the health code have assumed the common link of caffeine, but the church's official position, clarified in 2012, is specifically coffee and tea, not caffeine. But the sugar thing is spot on.
I don't think you necessarily have to have Lauren on all the time, but you definitely flow more naturally when you have someone to bounce off of (or maybe just be interrupted by). I much prefer 'I have done some prep' than 'I have scripted the entire thing'.
Abstainer bias also means that previous drinkers (maybe even just very moderate drinkers) end up lumped into the abstainer group when they have developed a health problem that requires them to abstain. Many medications require abstinence, diabetics should abstain, etc.
Hell yeah I clicked so fast when I saw Lauren in the thumbnail. Seeing you joined with somebody else this week reminds me, I remember you mentioned a few episodes ago that the pod seems to have naturally progressed into being the “Ask Adam” show since this format seems to perform better than interviews and such. I hope that doesn’t mean that we’ll NEVER get to see interviews anymore. Personally I love them. Also, I’m hoping we’ll get to listen to you and your friends from The Greatest Generation Pod review another movie soon! P.s. Appreciate you for acknowledging the eating vegans meme from your numerous RUclips poops. Had to repeat just bit to make sure I heard you correctly 😂
@@haruki4k I like those as well, Lauren is great so if they did a couples podcast every month it'd be fun but the serious ones are great information dumps.
Dude Guinness is actually super low calorie! It's a dry Irish stout, most of the sugars are metabolized by the yeast and it's low alcohol!! Sweet imperial stouts on the other hand, or big IPAs... That's a mega caloric load. Also super down with Lauren on the show, you two are hilarious together.
Personally, I like the highly scripted podcast. It gives you the opportunity to be a lot more cheeky and calculated in a way that I enjoy, it doesn't come out so much in your other content. The scripted content is what I feel you do very well, and if one was looking for "prepared/notes" discussions, there are countless other places that one could look, but the scripted content is much less common. Edit: I saw a little bit of that come through at 17:35 but it doesn't compare to that one question you answered a while back where there was a lot of emphasis on "SOME people might say xyz, but *you* aren't saying that" as a reply to the question. Something on politics, I don't remember precisely, but I did enjoy the tone. Edit 2: Just got to the end and heard what you said about "not saying you don't like it", but I hope that isn't what I've done here. And regarding statistics, I suppose I'd just recommend being wary of what story they tell, y'know? Personally, I know I'll likely be watching either way, but enjoyment of content is not binary. I could watch two things and like one thing more than the other.
I was about to comment that I would prefer the scripted over unscripted until you did confirm that you did still do the necessary research. That breakdown is one of the reasons I love this!
Hey y’all, I’m not sure you’ll see this, but a great but fairly rough rule of thumb for beer is ~30 cal’s/%abv. Believe it or not, Guinness has the same ABV as Bud Light… and the caloric difference between them is 125 vs 110 for a 12 oz pour. A 10% imperial stout or IPA is often over 300 calories, however.
Love Lauren! PLEASE bring it, 'cause she's all kinds of awesome! (BTW, love Adam also). I really enjoy the episodes that are science heavy because I'm a NERD, but this was also delightful. I'd say, mix it up!!
Hey Adam. Just letting you know that there appears to be some issue with your podcast. It’s not playable on PocketCasts, Overcast, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It’s either giving me and error or it’s infinitely buffering.
Hey Adam, your podcasts are not loading right now, at least when using the android Pocket Cast app. This is a recent thing (your podcasts were fine previously). Also, other podcasts are working, so something is wrong.
the amount of antioxidants in wine is kind of negligible compared with, say, blueberries; i.e. even if antioxidants are good for you, it's not really a good reason to drink wine habitually
I had 4 strong Belgian beers and biked home to my apartment a few months ago. I got almost all the way home, then crashed. Very embarrassing. Some dude came up to me, said "don't worry you still have all your teeth, your pride is still intact." It was a bit surreal. Also, beer has a lot of vitamins, especially some b vitamins apparently. At least this according to the Belgians. So who knows..
My little brother is a sophomore in college rn. He recently told me that last year, he drunkenly traded a tin of muffins that he made for the keys to his friend’s moped for the night. Crashed it immediately (at a very low speed - everyone is okay!) lmao
@@em-yz6rl If I recall correctly, the earliest evidence of beer brewing was found in ancient Mesopotamia, with it believed that it provided some nutrients otherwise difficult to get. It was likely a lower alcohol than the usual 4% they thought? It seemed an essential part of the Sumerian civilisation too. Community, workers possibly partly paid in beer rations. But yeah, heavy alcohol abuse is life ruining. The data is confusing at this moment in time whether having a small bit of alcohol, infrequently, is better or worse than going completely without. I started far too young, hit it too hard for too long, and almost never bother anymore by comparison. I'll have a heavy session about once every month to three months, but I'm at the age now that hangovers can last two whole days. No interest in getting my tolerance and iron guts back, and also can't afford it at all anymore! If anyone wants to put themselves off drinking, go to a popular bar on a weekend, in a solid-working class town. Just drink soft drinks, and just observe how people lose their humanity over the course of the night, and end up confused, emotionally unstable, primitive animals. I can't believe I used to regularly do that for what I thought was fun.
Hey Adam, I usually listen to your podcast on Spotify, because of the convenience. But, I wanted to come here to RUclips to tel you that this format of podcast is fantastic.
It could probably be confusing to a study but not to common sense that people with enough self control to just drink a little bit of alcohol are also healthier in like 20 different ways.
Despite saying the words, Adam really doesn't seem to understand that "correlation is not causation", and that's a huge problem in any conversation about science. He's also going out of his way to deliberately and dishonestly ignore the biggest and most important socioeconomic factors (race, income, religion). For example, I can "show you studies" that prove yacht ownership, country club membership, and opera attendance correlate to increased life expectancy. That doesn't mean that yachts and golf clubs are magical medical devices that cures diseases. Adam, apparently, would conclude that they are.
@@xinceras-6542 he's literally used that exact example in discussing the issue. He also uses copious disclaimers that he's not a scientist, he enjoys discussing these topics as an interested observer. If you have qualifications to dispute something specific, that would be a more productive comment.
Just an ex mormon here with a little clarification. Caffeine is permitted within the Mormon faith, it is specifically coffee and green and black tea that are generally prohibited. I would say from my experience in the faith that there probably as many caffeine abstainers as there are energy drink addicts and Diet Coke lovers outnumber them both. This has probably become even more notable recently, as a few years ago BYU started selling caffeinated beverages on campus which I would assume to many signaled the church giving its blessing to caffeinated sodas. Probably not worth correcting, unless you feel like it, but I figured it was worth mentioning.
Yeah no problem, I’m a bit of nerd about this stuff as I only recently left the church so I’m happy to share my knowledge. Here is some more info if you are interested. If I remember correctly the scriptural reference is Doctrine and Covenants 89, called the word of wisdom. There is a scripture in there that basically says you should not drink hot drinks. And If I remember my history correctly, the health code in general was taken a recommendation, not commandment until prohibition. When it was announced that it was to be taken as a commandment, hot drinks was defined to be coffee and tea. I’m not sure if this is official or not, but generally there is a cultural belief that herbal teas (and hot chocolate of course)are acceptable
Was there a chance that caffeinated sodas were previously prohibited? Or was cola always accepted? I thought I remembered reading probably a couple decades ago that sofa caffeine was also not acceptable, tho I had no direct knowledge.
The problem with those studies saying mortality for alcohol abstainers is higher than those who have one or two drinks is that many of the "abstainers" are former alcoholics or other drug users who have already wrecked their health. Adjust for this and you'll find the optimum amount of alcohol is no alcohol.
Lauren was great to have on. Her outsider input, intuition, and guesses when you are discussing causal/correlative research is both fun and is a good representation of the average person.
Probably my favourite episode of the podcast thus far (I'd say that I'm more of a casual listener than anything) but I enjoyed everything that the two of you had to say and obviously, the chemistry was great. Hopefully we'll get to see Lauren on again.
Beer is actually really interesting because non-alcoholic forms are often recommended during hot weather because it is often isotonic, so much so there’s a beer sold over here (the UK) called Erdinger Alkoholfrei that is called an “isotonic beverage” with added vitamins and minerals. Also Guinness (and other stouts) have higher levels of antioxidants to other beer styles fwiw
With the chemistry between Adam and Lauren, including her in the podcast might work well. Certainly this first co-hosted episode is on par with the other episodes qualitywise, and having the conversation rather than the monologue makes it a less monotone listening experience.
I actually listen to your podcast on Pocketcasts but I came here to leave a comment. 3 things, to be exact. 1. I love it when Lauren joins you, I think it's refreshing to listen to just two people having a casual conversation on a topic that I'm also interested in 2. When it comes to alcohol, I have a "weekend" rule. Which means I drink only on the weekends, or two days a week. And I try to limit my intake to 3 beers/2 glasses of wine/a glass of wine + gin per day. I find that as I get older it just works out better for me this way. 3. Around 30:00 you mention Turkey as an example of muslims replacing alcohol with coffee. I grew up in Turkey and the perception of alcohol varies WIDELY depending on where you are. You can find muslims drinking beer during the fasting period living next to a devout muslim who thinks alcohol shouldn't even be sold in his neighborhood! But Turkish beer is pretty well-established, and the wine industry is growing slowly but surely.
@@danhobart4009 She's a nice person overall but the extensive amount of non-sense laughter is what ruins it. Overall, she could be a positive addition but that was something I didn't enjoy myself
I read somewhere there is this rule of thumb about alcohol If it's frothy then it's high in calories If it's colourful then it's high in sugars If it's clear then it's high in alcohol
Hey not sure if you’ll read this feedback, but I’d like to put out some love for the higher curated Adam-only podcast. I really love how you get into the weeds more in those ones. That being said, I also like the laid back conversational podcasts with Lauren, but I think it might get a little boring for me if it was every time. Love you both, keep up the great work!
There is now vegan whey (literally chemically the same) and even if there wasn't, you can easily get enough protein on vegan diets, even for body builders if you are the type of person interested in body-building in the first place. Ethical vegans would obviously not "hit the whey" cuz there is no reasonable justification for it. Byproducts are also taken into consideration as a source of income and in break-even-calculations regarding amount of animals bred vs cost and it is seen as "demand" by the farmer, so buying it increases supply (even if less directly)
And then there is that study announced a few weeks ago (sorry, I forget the reference) that showed that more than about 2 drinks a week was associated with long term worse health outcomes.
Adam, I usually take in this podcast on Spotify, but I gotta add my opinion like any good internet user, so here I am. I am not a so-called "pod' person," I listen to a couple, but not very many, and pretty much exclusively during work/study time, but this podcast is probably my favorite of the ones I do listen to. I love the blending of cooking advice, scientific discussion, and anthropology. And while I've loved the episodes you do on your own and the ones where you interview others, I think I've loved the ones with Lauren even more. The conversations always seem a bit more fulfilled when there is someone else to bounce thoughts around with. Obviously, it is your show to do what you want with, but I would be happy with it being a 2-host program more often.
I abstain because when I used to drink I couldn't control my drinking, and I definitely think my addictive personality affects my health in other ways that I can't simply abstain from
I'm somewhat similar but I don't really believe in the concept of an 'addictive personality'. What I know from my own experience, talking to many others, and much research, proper research because I know *how* to do my own research... Firstly there's a lot of people out there with undiagnosed ADHD due to poor understanding of it, a misperception that it's only ever hyperactive naughty boys, that people 'grow out of' ADHD, so no adults ever have it, etc... Then much overlap with undiagnosed, untreated ADHD and drink / drug abuse, and then if we add in other factors like normal but nasty life stresses, and extra-wrong stuff happening, well people like me do indeed tend to go overboard. Then we get onto the false idea that most people can control their drinking. Those who can actually just go out for one or two pints and not make a proper sesh of it, or have just one glass of wine with a meal, are actually the minority. Alcohol has two fundamental effects. 1. It makes you increasingly thirsty the more you drink 2. It stops you thinking clearly. If you're at all interested in exploring the possibility you are ADHD, or just want to see what I'm on about, the How To ADHD channel is great and has much, much useful info. "How to know if you have ADHD" ruclips.net/video/cx13a2-unjE/видео.html ^
I usually listen on my apple podcast app but I came here to say: Adam, you’re amazing, one of my favorite RUclipsrs easily, but man the pod is so much better with Lauren on it (no insult to you) but it feels like you relax and become more of yourself when she’s around (which as a married individual I fully understand), plus she is also an all around entertaining speaker in her own right. I hope we will be seeing(hearing?) more of her in future podcasts
I think Lauren is awesome. Sha has to be for,... Well, se just is. I listened to this as I was slowly waking up on Saturday and her voice added a wonderful dynamic to Adam's always thoughtful, but occasionally monotonous, pod. Go Lauren! (Gonna new book soon?)
Please keep Lauren in the show. This was my first episode of the podcast, but I really enjoyed the back and forth between you two, and having multiple people talking who can bounce off each other makes the cast feels more natural and conversational IMHO. Plus she's a fellow history major so I personally would like to see more episodes with Lauren. That said, this channel is the reason I started enjoying cooking for myself and feeling more confident about "winging it" in the kitchen sometimes so I will watch regardless. Thank you both for all you do.
Lauren is absolutely delightful. I have a preference for the monologue format, but that's just personal taste. I'll still tune in to most of episodes regardless.
What a great duo. You guys bounce off each other in such a natural way. No wonder the marriage has been so strong. If she’s free every week I say keep her on as long as it can continue 💙👏🏼
I really enjoyed this episode and would definitely like to see more Lauren on the pod in the future as long as we didn't lose the Adam only episodes because those are also great in their own way.
As a hobby genealogist myself, I was very interested in hearing your family history - love to learn what others have discovered, so thank you for sharing (even if it was an ad!). I'd never complain about more family history either :)
I usually listen on Audible, but I tuned in here just to see how the format works with the two of you. I thought you'd be facing each other, rather than both staring directly into my soul. When it's one person, it seems normal, but two people facing me is weird. I think I'll go back to the audio only version :)
37:20 OMG! I live literally 10 minutes away from that village. It has ~ 800 inhabitants and it lays in the white wine producing area of Germany, the Palatinate (I kinda see a connection there 😁) I think the prononciation of "Ain-Zel-toom" is getting close to it. You nearly nailed it in the end. Another remark: the state of Rhineland-Palatinate is a rather new phenomenon (it was created during the allied occupation after ww2), before that it was part of Bavaria and before that it was it's own duchy called the Palatinate.
Hi! Adam, I've followed your channel for a while, I love your content. When you say at 25:23 "that's not just one study, that's like study after study after study...", I believe it would be more responsible to link those studies. I, for one, want to read them, at least to look at their dates of publication, abstracts, methods, sample sizes and sponsorships.
it is generally consensus but one of the theories is that people who don't drink any alcohol are already unhealthy i.e if you already have stomach issues or any sort of injury or really anything bad you're less likely to want to make it worse with alcohol. Another theory is that a little bit of alcohol is actually good for you because it builds up your tolerance for negative things or something I don't understand.
This episode (at least) is broken in the podcast feed. Overcast gives a "Not Found" error. The online Apple Podcasts gives a "Playback error" for this and every other episode I tried. The URL that online Apple Podcasts is trying to load is pretty messed up.
Despite one tasting much richer than the other, Guinness is actually pretty similar in caloric content to Bud Light (both around ~100 for 12 oz if i remember right). Irish dry stouts as a whole are pretty low in calories. The Scotch ales that Lauren mentioned and other stouts like milk stouts, imperial stouts,etc are much higher in calories.
@@johnh8268 Is he wrong and Guinness isn't thick and oatmeally like a dense and calorie-rich beer, or is he wrong and even thick and oatmeally beer doesn't have more calories than any other beer?
A friend of mine used to sell his blood plasma on Friday afternoons. Extra money for drinks, and less blood volume to dilute it. Surprisingly, he has not yet been diagnosed with cirrhosis.
Lol, I found their child popping into the show quite funny.... And I enjoyed having his wife present. I normally enjoy listening to him, but I did like the switch up....
Wow you two are just great, so entertaining. I am also a fan of the non scripted podcast format, so relaxing and some nice anti anxiety type content after another crazy work week.
Really enjoyed the two of you together, great podcast episode. Just a thought: the chemistry between you too seems stilted to me on the video with you both facing the camera rather than talking to each other. I guess you're doing this to ensure the audio picks up on the mic well? I don't know whether it works in the space you are recording in, but I wonder whether you could change things so you're partially facing each other and use an appropriate mic a little more forward so you can look at each other when you talk without affecting the audio?
Hi Adam, intro note. My audio podcast link was not downloading so had to listen this week via RUclips. Main comment: re show format, I'd recommend a 4-week cycle: a. Conversational episode with Lauren, b. Prepared note episode for deep dive topics, c. Field trip episode for some technique, production, artisan, and d. Guest interview or collab or wild card episode.
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00:33 - What's the healthiest way to drink alcohol?
21:35 - Why do light drinkers live longer than non-drinkers?
39:23 - Are supplements good as food for vegans?
The Podcast feed (via Apple Podcast app) seems to be broken... won't download. Says that the episode is not available.
@@earfdae Can confirm the audio episode is broken on Pocket Casts as well.
The heterogeneity of this podcast has risen by double. Pls more duo.
Bruh the google podcast link isnt working
Sorry. The second upload attempt didn't seem to work either.
I love how Lauren went from being too shy to appear on camera to recounting that one time she got trashed making cocktails in literal trash cans. Bless her
Lauren is the s***. Love her.
You’ve never had riot juice?
not shy, just ugly
it is nice to see two adults teaching each other in honesty, learning from each other and allowing us to be enlightened by the exchange.
The conversation is both more pedagogic and more didactic than the monologue!
I love that character development.
Surprisingly Guiness actually has a calorie count close to a light beer. It’s because the alcohol content is fairly low. Guiness only seems thick due to its color, flavor, and mouth feel since it’s nitrogenized
I am always surprised by this but it’s true. Guinness has less alcohol (and fewer calories) than a regular Pilsner. It’s the IPAs that are really caloric.
And its vegan.
@@CobaltContrast It is now. For many centuries, Guinness was filtered through fish gills so it wasn't even vegetarian. For the last few years, the filtration technique no longer involves animal products.
@@arifshahabuddin8888 I remember when they transitioned.
@@arifshahabuddin8888 They upgraded to micro-plastics, big win....
I VAPED OLIVE OIL FOR ADAM!
Not white wine?
what
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Did you season ur vape juice not ur vape?
tatse like chicken?
I’m loving the addition of your wife into the podcast, it makes the pod feel much more casual and then easier to retain. One comment, I think you should restructure the camera for something like this, so that you two can more easily look at each other when talking. It’s a bit weird to hear you talk to each other but not look at each other. Otherwise, a great podcast!
Please have Lauren on more!! Watching y’all’s dynamic is so sweet and fun
I agree
Good dynamics and Lauren is looking pretty hot these days.
Agree... the couple "bonus" pods with her were great also!
Yes! More Lauren! I feel like the addition of a little discussion in the moment can help clarify a lot of points and reinforce what's important.
TELL HER TO GET THEM TEETH FIXED HOLY SHIT
When my uncle was in his early teens (in England), he was low in weight and had an iron deficiency. The family doctor told him to drink a couple pints of Guinness every day. He still in enjoys it to this day (he's in his mid-70s now) and I think he justifies the consumption as it was recommended by his doctor when he was twelve.
Thank you so much for these podcasts. I just found out that a close friend of mine is dying from cancer and your voice was the only thing that could make me fall asleep after an exhausting day of crying and whatnot. Seriously, thank you so much. 💖
I’m so, so sorry for you, your friend, and their friends and family ❤
@@Megan-zi9tf 💖 Thank you. Actually, he's still alive. He got more time because he went into remission for a while. Right now, it's weeks or a couple of months, but we're all trying to make them the best time they can be. 💜
From a psych major: Stress is one of the biggest risk factors for both mental and physical illnesses (especially cardiovascular disease and cancer). We also know that a functioning social support net is THE best way to prevent chronic stress. People that drink alcohol but only in low amounts usually do so with friends, hence I think It's just a bad proxy for that relationship
As a recovering alcoholic, 1:5 mix of everclear kept in the freezer and cold diet soda mixed with ice in a yeti cup is definitely the fastest and least caloric way to get drunk. In fact, you will likely blackout (but keep doing drunken things) before you finish drinking and barely wake up with a headache. However Adam's psychological concern is completely true in that binge drinking is incredibly bad behavior and the mindset to get drunk and happy the most healthy way is definitely what lead to me being sober 99 percent of the time and binge drinking on occasions but slowly binging more alcohol and more often, and then just being a functioning alcoholic during the day then drinking ASAP after work. Also, I was working a stressful job, living alone, away from family, and in a crappy LDR. Plus I'm predisposed to addiction but I already knew that prior.
Similar trend was seen in a sugar intake study done in Sweden. "Higher sugar consumption was associated with a less favorable lifestyle in general. The lowest mortality risk was found with added sugar intakes between 7.5% and 10% of energy (E%) intake in both cohorts. Intakes >20E% were associated with a 30% increased mortality risk, but increased risks were also found at intakes
@@zo.yeahhh The motivation someone has for avoiding sugar could also confound that. People who have medical conditions and thus strictly limit their sugar consumption, or stressed-out hypochondriacs who are super strict with their diet, etc might have worse health outcomes than the average person who eats a little sugar here and there. It might even be something like a gene mutation in the sweetness receptor that predisposes one to a particular cancer. This is why establishing causation is so important, a correlation by itself is nothing more than a curiosity that begs further research.
With most things, I think there would be a strong association between "average" behaviors and health. People who engage in the typical behaviors of their culture are usually healthy, well adjusted people in good social and economic circumstances. Whereas those on the margins are more likely to have atypical behaviors.
there's research that shows that a person's attitude toward stress actually has more of an effect on health than stress itself and that stress can be better than no stress; see the book The Upside of Stress by Kelly McGonigal
@@jean-sebastienbasque-girou633 Interesting, I've never heard of that premise. I assume partially explained by neuroticism? Also stress itself doesn't necessarily have to be bad - does McGonigal differenciate between short- and long term stress or does he describe it differently alltogether?
I love this format! I think having someone else with you while recording these is great in terms of entertainment value. Having someone to riff off of and who can riff off of you makes for a much more dynamic viewing experience.
I remember, as a Canadian, having this conversation if beer is less healthy than wine or spirit as a booze due to its (variably) higher calorie content. Love the more scientific/nerdy background you bring to this. And fun podcast that also included your significant other! Adam has a life :)
Another part of the abstainer bias is that a number of people don't drink because it interacts badly (potentially fatally) with medications they're taking. Often when people take medication regularly for a long time it's because of a serious medical condition.
And there are medical conditions that are known to be worsened by alcohol consumption as well. If your liver isn't working well consuming things that put unnecessary strain on it is probably a bad idea.
Wonderful episode. I'm a life long abstainer, have never ingested alcohol once in my life. Not for religious reasons, but because I grew up with 1 parent who was a rampant alcoholic (could not control their drinking, blackout drunk) and my other parent was an abstainer. My earliest memory in life as a child was finding my alcoholic parent passed out naked on the bathroom floor in their own vomit. I was also almost killed multiple times by my alcoholic parent who took me in the car while they were drunk. It did not take much to see: Parent A is awful anytime they drink the "bad" drinks. Parent B is normal and nice and never drinks the "bad" drink. So I grew with the idea (and fear) that my life would be destroyed like my alcoholic parent if I ever drank (that parent is now dead - from alcohol poisoning). I have no wish to find out if I can control my drinking like Parent B, or if I would turn to ruin like parent A.. so I made the VERY easy decision to simply never consume alcohol. I've never had issue with others drinking (friends etc), certainly never preached to others not to drink - I've found the social culture around it interesting at times. I will say... being a teen sucked.. my friends drank and I was the one who had to make sure my friends didn't get themselves killed getting home.. glad those days are long gone now, it eventually made me stop going out at all though and less social in my 20s as I got tired with babysitting drunk friends.
Don't worry, you're not missing anything
youre not missing much its fun at times sure but nothing beats waking up with loads of energy over being in bed eating fast food after a night of drinking
Just say father
it is nice to see two adults teaching each other in honesty, learning from each other and allowing us to be enlightened by the exchange.
The conversation is both more pedagogic and more didactic than the monologue!
@Hathur I applaud your choice of abstaining. But, according to Adam, you will not live as long as people who drink moderately. Does that make sense to you? It shouldn't, because the conclusions are misleading.
I definitely prefer the podcast WITH Lauren. I like the unscripted nature of this conversation too as it adds a little "spice" so to speak, and the back and forth really helps to keep me more engaged. Keep it up!
it is nice to see two adults teaching each other in honesty, learning from each other and allowing us to be enlightened by the exchange.
The conversation is both more pedagogic and more didactic than the monologue!
As someone who routinely skips many meals and is very light, can confirm that drinking before you eat will get you smashed. Those nights where we go to a fancy restaurant and I haven't eaten anything all day, that 1 glass of wine that comes out early is enough for me to get tipsy.
which is odd when you think about it. One wold expect if hungry your body would be more apt to break it down. The empty stomach is probably the main factor.
@@jhoughjr1 the problem is the body rushes food from the stomach to the blood more quickly, but being hungry doesn’t make the liver more efficient. It results in more alcohol making it to the brain for longer.
I've been told that this is worse for your liver, anyone have info on that?
@@elkaphant No sure specifically about your liver, but most definitely it's not good for you overall. It's always something I advise new drinkers when they first start drinking seriously: Never drink on an empty stomach if you don't want to feel like crap the next day, if not the same night.
If you're a vegan who is swayed by Adam's argument about reducing waste by using whey protein, but you still don't want to support the dairy industry, I'd recommend looking into Outcast Food. They make protein powders from fruits and vegetables that would otherwise have gone to landfill.
Hey Adam, your resident Mormon here. I love the pod and you have helped improve my cooking immensely. I especially love the science and wider perspective you bring.
In your quest for accuracy and knowledge I wanted to throw out a quick correction, there is nothing in our religion that is specifically against caffeine, only coffee and tea. There was a large subgroup of people who believed it was because of the caffeine and thus there has been a subculture of people that are anticaffeine though that is starting to die with the rising generation.
Your suger observation was quite fascinating and not something I had considered but now I definitely see it so thank you again for your perspective.
Keep up the great work!
Well any rule against coffee and tea I would count as a rule against coffeine. In my unique lifestyle/belief coffee and tea is the only acceptable ways to ingest caffeine (not counting trace amounts i various items)
Just on the basis that energy drinks and soda's with caffeine is really bad for you, while coffee and tea is not. both are addictive but an addiction that isn't bad for your health isn't really a problem in my book.
Hey! Your earlier podcasts are real knowledge bombs, but this natural style is so much nicer on the ear. Lauren is a great addition too! Great work, thanks for sharing
I kinda like this because I get to see a more personal side of Adam
And Lauren adds a nice chemistry to the pod
Please keep including Lauren, the dichotomy between you two is amazing. The well researched and prepared vs the curious and unbiased makes for an interesting and fun listen. Not to say I don’t like the pod when you’re just there, just a shift in expectations adds a bunch. Please keep the pod coming and don’t miss a week if you handle the workload! ;)
Guinness stout is actually both low in calories (comparable to light beers) and alcohol percentage (4.2%). Looks can be deceiving. This Irish beer always floats over other alcohol in mixed drinks (Black and Tan, Snakebite, Cream of Wheat, Black and Blue, Black Velvet). If one must drink beer, Guinness is one of the more healthful choices.
Guinness is 'thick' because it is gased up with nitrogen which bubbles differently than straight CO2 - and nitrogen is 0 kcals too !!
Beer > Health
I generally agree, but if Guinness floats over other alcohol, wouldn't that suggest the opposite? Water is heavier than alcohol after all.
@@skyhawk_4526 the nitrogenation probably makes it less dense. If it were flat it would probably sink or mix.
The Podcast feed (via Apple Podcast app) seems to be broken... won't download. Says that the episode is not available.
You guys are so wholesome, it made my everclear-drunk ass smile!
Adam, I hate to break this to you, but for Mormons it's just coffee and tea, not caffeine. Thomas Monson was well known for his diet Coke consumption. Some Mormons who try to understand the reason why coffee and tea ("hot drinks") are called out in the health code have assumed the common link of caffeine, but the church's official position, clarified in 2012, is specifically coffee and tea, not caffeine. But the sugar thing is spot on.
I don't think you necessarily have to have Lauren on all the time, but you definitely flow more naturally when you have someone to bounce off of (or maybe just be interrupted by). I much prefer 'I have done some prep' than 'I have scripted the entire thing'.
I agree
Abstainer bias also means that previous drinkers (maybe even just very moderate drinkers) end up lumped into the abstainer group when they have developed a health problem that requires them to abstain. Many medications require abstinence, diabetics should abstain, etc.
Hell yeah I clicked so fast when I saw Lauren in the thumbnail. Seeing you joined with somebody else this week reminds me, I remember you mentioned a few episodes ago that the pod seems to have naturally progressed into being the “Ask Adam” show since this format seems to perform better than interviews and such. I hope that doesn’t mean that we’ll NEVER get to see interviews anymore. Personally I love them. Also, I’m hoping we’ll get to listen to you and your friends from The Greatest Generation Pod review another movie soon!
P.s. Appreciate you for acknowledging the eating vegans meme from your numerous RUclips poops. Had to repeat just bit to make sure I heard you correctly 😂
i agree , at least make lauren a cohost lol
this is purely my opinion but i liked the more serious/scientific atmosphere when adam was doing the pod by himself
@@haruki4k I like those as well, Lauren is great so if they did a couples podcast every month it'd be fun but the serious ones are great information dumps.
Dude Guinness is actually super low calorie! It's a dry Irish stout, most of the sugars are metabolized by the yeast and it's low alcohol!!
Sweet imperial stouts on the other hand, or big IPAs... That's a mega caloric load.
Also super down with Lauren on the show, you two are hilarious together.
Personally, I like the highly scripted podcast. It gives you the opportunity to be a lot more cheeky and calculated in a way that I enjoy, it doesn't come out so much in your other content. The scripted content is what I feel you do very well, and if one was looking for "prepared/notes" discussions, there are countless other places that one could look, but the scripted content is much less common.
Edit: I saw a little bit of that come through at 17:35 but it doesn't compare to that one question you answered a while back where there was a lot of emphasis on "SOME people might say xyz, but *you* aren't saying that" as a reply to the question. Something on politics, I don't remember precisely, but I did enjoy the tone.
Edit 2: Just got to the end and heard what you said about "not saying you don't like it", but I hope that isn't what I've done here.
And regarding statistics, I suppose I'd just recommend being wary of what story they tell, y'know? Personally, I know I'll likely be watching either way, but enjoyment of content is not binary. I could watch two things and like one thing more than the other.
I was about to comment that I would prefer the scripted over unscripted until you did confirm that you did still do the necessary research. That breakdown is one of the reasons I love this!
Is that a Dr. Mike Israetel mention!?
If so, that'll be an amazing episode! Can't wait for that one :)
Hey y’all, I’m not sure you’ll see this, but a great but fairly rough rule of thumb for beer is ~30 cal’s/%abv. Believe it or not, Guinness has the same ABV as Bud Light… and the caloric difference between them is 125 vs 110 for a 12 oz pour. A 10% imperial stout or IPA is often over 300 calories, however.
Love Lauren! PLEASE bring it, 'cause she's all kinds of awesome! (BTW, love Adam also). I really enjoy the episodes that are science heavy because I'm a NERD, but this was also delightful. I'd say, mix it up!!
Moar Lauren! 🙌
You two complement each other perfectly.
Hey Adam. Just letting you know that there appears to be some issue with your podcast. It’s not playable on PocketCasts, Overcast, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It’s either giving me and error or it’s infinitely buffering.
Yeah, for me too!
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There's something wrong with this episode on my pod-catcher- saying that it's not found. Anyone else?
Hey Adam, your podcasts are not loading right now, at least when using the android Pocket Cast app.
This is a recent thing (your podcasts were fine previously). Also, other podcasts are working, so something is wrong.
the amount of antioxidants in wine is kind of negligible compared with, say, blueberries; i.e. even if antioxidants are good for you, it's not really a good reason to drink wine habitually
I had 4 strong Belgian beers and biked home to my apartment a few months ago. I got almost all the way home, then crashed. Very embarrassing. Some dude came up to me, said "don't worry you still have all your teeth, your pride is still intact." It was a bit surreal.
Also, beer has a lot of vitamins, especially some b vitamins apparently. At least this according to the Belgians. So who knows..
My little brother is a sophomore in college rn. He recently told me that last year, he drunkenly traded a tin of muffins that he made for the keys to his friend’s moped for the night. Crashed it immediately (at a very low speed - everyone is okay!) lmao
Alcohol also depletes B vitamins in your body, especially B12. I don't think relying on beer for your B vitamins will do you much good.
@@em-yz6rl If I recall correctly, the earliest evidence of beer brewing was found in ancient Mesopotamia, with it believed that it provided some nutrients otherwise difficult to get. It was likely a lower alcohol than the usual 4% they thought? It seemed an essential part of the Sumerian civilisation too. Community, workers possibly partly paid in beer rations.
But yeah, heavy alcohol abuse is life ruining. The data is confusing at this moment in time whether having a small bit of alcohol, infrequently, is better or worse than going completely without.
I started far too young, hit it too hard for too long, and almost never bother anymore by comparison. I'll have a heavy session about once every month to three months, but I'm at the age now that hangovers can last two whole days. No interest in getting my tolerance and iron guts back, and also can't afford it at all anymore!
If anyone wants to put themselves off drinking, go to a popular bar on a weekend, in a solid-working class town. Just drink soft drinks, and just observe how people lose their humanity over the course of the night, and end up confused, emotionally unstable, primitive animals. I can't believe I used to regularly do that for what I thought was fun.
Oh man, my childhood friend's dad died that way.
Hey Adam,
I usually listen to your podcast on Spotify, because of the convenience. But, I wanted to come here to RUclips to tel you that this format of podcast is fantastic.
It could probably be confusing to a study but not to common sense that people with enough self control to just drink a little bit of alcohol are also healthier in like 20 different ways.
Absolutely. Add on to that people abstaining because of some underlying health problem should skew the numbers.
Despite saying the words, Adam really doesn't seem to understand that "correlation is not causation", and that's a huge problem in any conversation about science. He's also going out of his way to deliberately and dishonestly ignore the biggest and most important socioeconomic factors (race, income, religion).
For example, I can "show you studies" that prove yacht ownership, country club membership, and opera attendance correlate to increased life expectancy. That doesn't mean that yachts and golf clubs are magical medical devices that cures diseases. Adam, apparently, would conclude that they are.
@@xinceras-6542 he's literally used that exact example in discussing the issue. He also uses copious disclaimers that he's not a scientist, he enjoys discussing these topics as an interested observer. If you have qualifications to dispute something specific, that would be a more productive comment.
@@legomotionz Thank you for saying this so I didn't have to.
25:00-28:00 - drinking makes you happy and happiness leads to longevity.
Just an ex mormon here with a little clarification. Caffeine is permitted within the Mormon faith, it is specifically coffee and green and black tea that are generally prohibited. I would say from my experience in the faith that there probably as many caffeine abstainers as there are energy drink addicts and Diet Coke lovers outnumber them both.
This has probably become even more notable recently, as a few years ago BYU started selling caffeinated beverages on campus which I would assume to many signaled the church giving its blessing to caffeinated sodas.
Probably not worth correcting, unless you feel like it, but I figured it was worth mentioning.
Oh wow, I genuinely didn’t know that. Thanks for the info!
Yeah no problem, I’m a bit of nerd about this stuff as I only recently left the church so I’m happy to share my knowledge. Here is some more info if you are interested.
If I remember correctly the scriptural reference is Doctrine and Covenants 89, called the word of wisdom. There is a scripture in there that basically says you should not drink hot drinks. And If I remember my history correctly, the health code in general was taken a recommendation, not commandment until prohibition. When it was announced that it was to be taken as a commandment, hot drinks was defined to be coffee and tea. I’m not sure if this is official or not, but generally there is a cultural belief that herbal teas (and hot chocolate of course)are acceptable
Was there a chance that caffeinated sodas were previously prohibited? Or was cola always accepted? I thought I remembered reading probably a couple decades ago that sofa caffeine was also not acceptable, tho I had no direct knowledge.
wow, Lauren adds a lovely layer of brightness to the podcast! i enjoyed her presence and your back and forth!
Thanks, Adam, for continuing the pod. I've been listening to it so much recently, and frankly, I would be so bored without it now.
The problem with those studies saying mortality for alcohol abstainers is higher than those who have one or two drinks is that many of the "abstainers" are former alcoholics or other drug users who have already wrecked their health. Adjust for this and you'll find the optimum amount of alcohol is no alcohol.
Lauren provides great insights - you guys make quite the intellectual power couple! I’d love to see her back on the pod!
I love both styles of podcast, but I like this format slightly more. Thanks Adam and Lauren!
Lauren is fabulous, and if her schedule permits, I would love more of her. But y'all need to plug her books as an additional ad break.
Dr. Mike and you are my favorite ytubers. Super excited for the collab.
so cute to see both of you on the podcast, glad you keep making it for the time being :)
Lauren was great to have on. Her outsider input, intuition, and guesses when you are discussing causal/correlative research is both fun and is a good representation of the average person.
Probably my favourite episode of the podcast thus far (I'd say that I'm more of a casual listener than anything) but I enjoyed everything that the two of you had to say and obviously, the chemistry was great. Hopefully we'll get to see Lauren on again.
Did the episode get pulled from Google podcast? I and a few others I know that listen can't download or play it.
Beer is actually really interesting because non-alcoholic forms are often recommended during hot weather because it is often isotonic, so much so there’s a beer sold over here (the UK) called Erdinger Alkoholfrei that is called an “isotonic beverage” with added vitamins and minerals. Also Guinness (and other stouts) have higher levels of antioxidants to other beer styles fwiw
Really enjoyed having Lauren on with you!! The chemistry and banter is quite fun, and adds to the podcast imo!
With the chemistry between Adam and Lauren, including her in the podcast might work well. Certainly this first co-hosted episode is on par with the other episodes qualitywise, and having the conversation rather than the monologue makes it a less monotone listening experience.
I actually listen to your podcast on Pocketcasts but I came here to leave a comment. 3 things, to be exact.
1. I love it when Lauren joins you, I think it's refreshing to listen to just two people having a casual conversation on a topic that I'm also interested in
2. When it comes to alcohol, I have a "weekend" rule. Which means I drink only on the weekends, or two days a week. And I try to limit my intake to 3 beers/2 glasses of wine/a glass of wine + gin per day. I find that as I get older it just works out better for me this way.
3. Around 30:00 you mention Turkey as an example of muslims replacing alcohol with coffee. I grew up in Turkey and the perception of alcohol varies WIDELY depending on where you are. You can find muslims drinking beer during the fasting period living next to a devout muslim who thinks alcohol shouldn't even be sold in his neighborhood! But Turkish beer is pretty well-established, and the wine industry is growing slowly but surely.
Hey love the podcast and love it when you both are on it! The bonus episodes were really great!
His wife ruins it imo
@@danhobart4009 thanks Dan!
@@laurenmorrillauthor A pleasure
@@danhobart4009 She's a nice person overall but the extensive amount of non-sense laughter is what ruins it. Overall, she could be a positive addition but that was something I didn't enjoy myself
@@rossobrink8097 I can't stand her. If Adam has to drag her on why can't they start a separate couples channel.
I read somewhere there is this rule of thumb about alcohol
If it's frothy then it's high in calories
If it's colourful then it's high in sugars
If it's clear then it's high in alcohol
Hey Adam, Lauren is a great addition to the podcast. You guys make a really great team.
Hey not sure if you’ll read this feedback, but I’d like to put out some love for the higher curated Adam-only podcast. I really love how you get into the weeds more in those ones.
That being said, I also like the laid back conversational podcasts with Lauren, but I think it might get a little boring for me if it was every time.
Love you both, keep up the great work!
There is now vegan whey (literally chemically the same) and even if there wasn't, you can easily get enough protein on vegan diets, even for body builders if you are the type of person interested in body-building in the first place. Ethical vegans would obviously not "hit the whey" cuz there is no reasonable justification for it. Byproducts are also taken into consideration as a source of income and in break-even-calculations regarding amount of animals bred vs cost and it is seen as "demand" by the farmer, so buying it increases supply (even if less directly)
And then there is that study announced a few weeks ago (sorry, I forget the reference) that showed that more than about 2 drinks a week was associated with long term worse health outcomes.
Ditto to having Lauren on the show more often! So fun!
Love the free wheeling nature of this podcast, thanks in no small part to Lauren joining the pod. Love to see more of this in the future
Adam, I usually take in this podcast on Spotify, but I gotta add my opinion like any good internet user, so here I am. I am not a so-called "pod' person," I listen to a couple, but not very many, and pretty much exclusively during work/study time, but this podcast is probably my favorite of the ones I do listen to. I love the blending of cooking advice, scientific discussion, and anthropology. And while I've loved the episodes you do on your own and the ones where you interview others, I think I've loved the ones with Lauren even more. The conversations always seem a bit more fulfilled when there is someone else to bounce thoughts around with. Obviously, it is your show to do what you want with, but I would be happy with it being a 2-host program more often.
Yeah. I like the format.
This one didn't show up for me on Spotify for some reason?
Yes, seems to be missing on Spotify this week.
I'm Polish so I did get your German - Italian 'hell' combination reference easily and fearfully, lol. Great video guys!
I abstain because when I used to drink I couldn't control my drinking, and I definitely think my addictive personality affects my health in other ways that I can't simply abstain from
I'm somewhat similar but I don't really believe in the concept of an 'addictive personality'. What I know from my own experience, talking to many others, and much research, proper research because I know *how* to do my own research...
Firstly there's a lot of people out there with undiagnosed ADHD due to poor understanding of it, a misperception that it's only ever hyperactive naughty boys, that people 'grow out of' ADHD, so no adults ever have it, etc...
Then much overlap with undiagnosed, untreated ADHD and drink / drug abuse, and then if we add in other factors like normal but nasty life stresses, and extra-wrong stuff happening, well people like me do indeed tend to go overboard.
Then we get onto the false idea that most people can control their drinking. Those who can actually just go out for one or two pints and not make a proper sesh of it, or have just one glass of wine with a meal, are actually the minority. Alcohol has two fundamental effects.
1. It makes you increasingly thirsty the more you drink 2. It stops you thinking clearly.
If you're at all interested in exploring the possibility you are ADHD, or just want to see what I'm on about, the How To ADHD channel is great and has much, much useful info.
"How to know if you have ADHD" ruclips.net/video/cx13a2-unjE/видео.html
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I love the pod. I was worried it wasn’t coming back. Great work!
Lauren’s expertise is a welcome addition to the pod :D
as a turk, it is funny you say that we dont drink since i was watching this while sipping my whiskey.
I usually listen on my apple podcast app but I came here to say:
Adam, you’re amazing, one of my favorite RUclipsrs easily, but man the pod is so much better with Lauren on it (no insult to you) but it feels like you relax and become more of yourself when she’s around (which as a married individual I fully understand), plus she is also an all around entertaining speaker in her own right. I hope we will be seeing(hearing?) more of her in future podcasts
Lauren is great! Feels kinda like the interview format you had earlier on, which I was/am definitely here for!
I think Lauren is awesome. Sha has to be for,... Well, se just is. I listened to this as I was slowly waking up on Saturday and her voice added a wonderful dynamic to Adam's always thoughtful, but occasionally monotonous, pod. Go Lauren! (Gonna new book soon?)
Please keep Lauren in the show. This was my first episode of the podcast, but I really enjoyed the back and forth between you two, and having multiple people talking who can bounce off each other makes the cast feels more natural and conversational IMHO. Plus she's a fellow history major so I personally would like to see more episodes with Lauren. That said, this channel is the reason I started enjoying cooking for myself and feeling more confident about "winging it" in the kitchen sometimes so I will watch regardless. Thank you both for all you do.
I’m loving these episodes with Lauren. 😊
Lauren is absolutely delightful. I have a preference for the monologue format, but that's just personal taste. I'll still tune in to most of episodes regardless.
What a great duo. You guys bounce off each other in such a natural way. No wonder the marriage has been so strong. If she’s free every week I say keep her on as long as it can continue 💙👏🏼
I didn't know Lauren was missing from this show. Sorry to say that her presence makes this already good podcast so much more enjoyable.
I really enjoyed this episode and would definitely like to see more Lauren on the pod in the future as long as we didn't lose the Adam only episodes because those are also great in their own way.
Love these episodes with Lauren so much!!!!!! Big fan of the bonus pods that were with Lauren!!!!!!! More-en Lauren please-en!!!!!!!!!
oh, and you too Adam, i guess. :/
(kidding, you're both awesome which is why the two of you is better than one)
As a hobby genealogist myself, I was very interested in hearing your family history - love to learn what others have discovered, so thank you for sharing (even if it was an ad!). I'd never complain about more family history either :)
I usually listen on Audible, but I tuned in here just to see how the format works with the two of you.
I thought you'd be facing each other, rather than both staring directly into my soul. When it's one person, it seems normal, but two people facing me is weird.
I think I'll go back to the audio only version :)
I'm so happy to see Lauren on your podcast, please keep it coming!
37:20 OMG! I live literally 10 minutes away from that village. It has ~ 800 inhabitants and it lays in the white wine producing area of Germany, the Palatinate (I kinda see a connection there 😁)
I think the prononciation of "Ain-Zel-toom" is getting close to it. You nearly nailed it in the end.
Another remark: the state of Rhineland-Palatinate is a rather new phenomenon (it was created during the allied occupation after ww2), before that it was part of Bavaria and before that it was it's own duchy called the Palatinate.
Hi! Adam, I've followed your channel for a while, I love your content. When you say at 25:23 "that's not just one study, that's like study after study after study...", I believe it would be more responsible to link those studies. I, for one, want to read them, at least to look at their dates of publication, abstracts, methods, sample sizes and sponsorships.
it is generally consensus but one of the theories is that people who don't drink any alcohol are already unhealthy i.e if you already have stomach issues or any sort of injury or really anything bad you're less likely to want to make it worse with alcohol. Another theory is that a little bit of alcohol is actually good for you because it builds up your tolerance for negative things or something I don't understand.
This episode (at least) is broken in the podcast feed. Overcast gives a "Not Found" error. The online Apple Podcasts gives a "Playback error" for this and every other episode I tried. The URL that online Apple Podcasts is trying to load is pretty messed up.
Despite one tasting much richer than the other, Guinness is actually pretty similar in caloric content to Bud Light (both around ~100 for 12 oz if i remember right). Irish dry stouts as a whole are pretty low in calories. The Scotch ales that Lauren mentioned and other stouts like milk stouts, imperial stouts,etc are much higher in calories.
I figured somebody would correct him on this. Not everybody realizes Guinness is a relatively light beer.
@@johnh8268 Is he wrong and Guinness isn't thick and oatmeally like a dense and calorie-rich beer, or is he wrong and even thick and oatmeally beer doesn't have more calories than any other beer?
@@General12th That Guinness doesn't have many more calories than a light beer.
A 16oz can of Guinness has something like 130 calories. It tastes rich but is surprisingly pretty light
Double IPAs are the real killer
A friend of mine used to sell his blood plasma on Friday afternoons. Extra money for drinks, and less blood volume to dilute it.
Surprisingly, he has not yet been diagnosed with cirrhosis.
That would have been very funny to continue to call it episode 29 for another 10 episodes
Lol, I found their child popping into the show quite funny....
And I enjoyed having his wife present. I normally enjoy listening to him, but I did like the switch up....
I love having Lauren on the pod. I love how we get to listen to American Modern Gothic banter for about an hour. Thanks, guys!
The important thing for alcohol is to avoid cocktails with added sugar, juice, etc. i drink vodka lemon+ some club soda for the carbonation
Yes, Lauren is a great addition to the podcast. Good person to bounce stuff off of, and shows to be good with dynamic conversation, haha.
Wow you two are just great, so entertaining. I am also a fan of the non scripted podcast format, so relaxing and some nice anti anxiety type content after another crazy work week.
Loved the "pregaming", just, from eloquent Adam, "in the collegiate environment"
Really enjoyed the two of you together, great podcast episode.
Just a thought: the chemistry between you too seems stilted to me on the video with you both facing the camera rather than talking to each other. I guess you're doing this to ensure the audio picks up on the mic well? I don't know whether it works in the space you are recording in, but I wonder whether you could change things so you're partially facing each other and use an appropriate mic a little more forward so you can look at each other when you talk without affecting the audio?
Hi Adam, intro note. My audio podcast link was not downloading so had to listen this week via RUclips.
Main comment: re show format, I'd recommend a 4-week cycle: a. Conversational episode with Lauren, b. Prepared note episode for deep dive topics, c. Field trip episode for some technique, production, artisan, and d. Guest interview or collab or wild card episode.