Panelists Brian Wang, PJ Manney, and Shawn Phillips discuss the future of fitness
- The future of nutrition: vertical farming, genetically modified foods, vat meat, and a computerized nutritionists that resides “onboard”
- “Nutraceuticals” – food as medicine.
- Smoking: getting the information out about how smoking harms health helped reduce smoking. But the social stigma may have moved done more.
- A tiered system of nutrition?
- The disconnect between our buff entertainers and our fat butts.
- Related documentary: “Bigger, Stronger, Faster.”
- The promise of Myostatin inhibition.
- People that are out of shape don’t realize how bad they feel. Feeling bad becomes the new normal.
- The crappy beta versions of human enhancement that some people are experimenting with today, often to their detriment. When will better enhancements be available?
- Maybe we need a drug to make us take as much joy out of activity as a five-year-old. For them it’s not exercise… it’s play.
[This show first aired June 30, 2008.]
