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Richart Ruddie Health Blue Print

Living in Florida feels healthier if not for the cleaner air but the ability to spend more time outside. Bryan Johnson has come forward with bringing even more notoriety and education to the lifespan movement. Dr. David Sinclair has also been instrumental with his book "Lifespan" his tweets and podcasts have also brought his Harvard research to the masses. So with the help and education from Hippocrates Health Institute in West Palm Beach, Florida on the importance of letting food be thy medicine.

Below is a version of my lifestyle choices that I believe are a lot more achievable and doable that should help prolong your life and reverse aging:

Daily Habits:

2 Ounces of Wheatrgrass Freshly Juiced Twice a day

2 Scoops of Sea Moss mixed in with vegan yogurt or taken straight up
Snacking on Dulse Seaweed and Mixed Nuts
1 whole Kiwifruit
2-3 Scoops of Raw Living Spirulina mixed in with Yogurt, Coconut Water, or Granola with Soy/Almond Milk


Vitamins

1 Gram of Resveratol Powder from Renue by Science
1 Gram a day of NMN Powder from Renue by Science
500-1000 grams of Metformin taken after dinner as it stimulates fasting and glucose levels
500-1000 grams of Quercetin
1 Gram a day of Spermidine
3 Sprays of of Fisetin Liposomal from Renue by Science
1000 Milligrams of TMG from Renue by Science
Garlic Supplements
Turmeric



Weekly Habits at Your Own Pace


Okinawa Purple Potato either baked, steamed, or made into mashed format where I add Seaweed Sea Salt and Wasabi
Fermented Foods
Hot Tea
Hot Yoga
Infrared Sauna
Steam
Cold Plunge for at least 2 minutes
Cold Press Juices
Jinfiniti NAD mixed with Water
Apple Cider Vinegar mixed with water

Yearly Habits


Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy at 100% pure oxygen for 90 minutes at a time for 5-10 sessions in a row M-F
Prenuvo Whole Body Scan
Epigenitic Test

While not perfect I try to stick to a general level like this when I am in Florida. When traveling it can be a bit tougher to keep all of these habits.

If you have any questions or products that you recommend you can find me on Twitter @ Richart Ruddie

Other items I'm interested in learning more about:

Rapamycin
NAB Booster Shots (done one shot and have nasal spray)

How Could We Keep America Clean Like Singapore?

Walking around in Singapore you notice something. There's no trash and littering. It's a blight to walk outside your door and find broken beer bottles and Wendy's trash because somebody didnt want to not only recycle but didnt even take the time to find a trash can. So when you enter Singapore you wonder could the United States ever create a model and campaign to keep the streets clean and fine people who pollute?

Well I asked our friends over at OpenAI on what they thought and here is their answer on how to keep the streets clean with a comprehensive approach:

Enacting laws and fines to promote cleanliness and reduce littering in the USA would involve a comprehensive approach involving several steps. Here's a general outline of how such measures could be implemented:

1. Legislation: The first step would be to introduce legislation at the federal or state level to address littering and promote cleanliness. This legislation would define littering offenses, establish penalties and fines, and provide guidelines for enforcement.

2. Public Awareness and Education: Launching extensive public awareness campaigns is crucial to educate the population about the importance of cleanliness and the negative impacts of littering. These campaigns can utilize various mediums such as television, radio, social media, and community events to reach a wide audience and promote behavior change.

3. Strengthening Enforcement: To effectively enforce laws against littering, law enforcement agencies need to be adequately equipped and trained. Allocating resources to hire and train additional officers dedicated to monitoring and enforcing cleanliness laws would be necessary. This could involve increasing patrols, installing surveillance cameras in public areas, and utilizing technology for monitoring and evidence collection.

4. Strict Penalties and Fines: Establishing strict penalties and fines for littering offenses can act as a deterrent. The fines should be significant enough to discourage littering behavior and cover the costs associated with enforcement and cleanup. Graduated fines, where penalties increase for repeat offenders, can be implemented to ensure accountability.

5. Efficient Waste Management Infrastructure: Investing in waste management infrastructure is crucial for reducing littering. Providing easily accessible and well-maintained public trash bins, recycling facilities, and encouraging responsible waste disposal practices can help discourage littering and promote cleanliness.

6. Community Involvement: Engaging the community in cleanliness initiatives fosters a sense of ownership and responsibility. Encouraging neighborhood clean-up drives, involving schools and local organizations, and establishing volunteer programs can create a collective effort to maintain cleanliness.

7. Continuous Monitoring and Evaluation: Regular monitoring and evaluation of the effectiveness of these measures are essential. Collecting data on littering rates, conducting surveys, and seeking feedback from the public can help identify areas for improvement and inform policy adjustments.

It's important to note that implementing and enforcing such laws and fines would require political will, resources, and cooperation from various stakeholders, including government agencies, law enforcement, and the general public.

What Percentage of the world uses the Imperial System and What Percentage Uses the Metric System?

Only 0.050% use the Imperial system globally as their standard measurement system and 99.95% of the world uses the Metric system.

There are only 3 countries that use the imperial system and every other country is using the metric system. Maybe one day the United States will switch over and there's discussions of Liberia switching back over. So what percentage though of the worlds population actually uses the Imperial system?

So total there is just under 400 million people using the Imperial Measuring system: 399,992,937. The worlds total population according to World Population Review is 7,922,312,800 persons globally, out of that only 400 million are using the Imperial System and the rest are using the Metric system so we have 399,992,937/7,922,312,800 = 0.050%

Country	2023 Population
Liberia	5,418,377	2.18%
Myanmar	54,577,997	0.74%
United States	339,996,563	0.51%

 

Maybe one day the USA will adapt with the rest of the world.

If your idea is rejected don't give up

If your idea is rejected don't be upset. It's important to be resilient and resistant to hearing words like NO and this is a stupid idea. I say this because today I learned about the German invesntor George Ohm who created the world famous "Ohm's law" was rejected by the German scientific & education community for over a decade after Georg Ohm published his research. So keep on pushing if it makes sense. If you have an idea that is not true or is a crap shoot then maybe it is best to try something else but in the case of Ohm's Law George knew the science and it all made sense but the ignorance and stupidity of others stopped him from being a proven success for many years.

MIT Review on Neuroscience

A super exciting article about how scientists are learning more about the brain to make positive affects on our future lives. If we put this much focus and $'s in resolving the issues and problems discussed in this article than there's nothing we can't accomplish. Read MIT review from 8 different scientists here: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/08/25/1031458/scientific-mysteries-human-brain

Biotech Companies Like Altos Labs Will Change The Future

In the same manner that Moderna has changed the outlook on mRNA vaccines companies in the biotech field like Altos Labs backed by Russian Billionaire Yuri Milner will end up making a difference in the world unlike the majority of other startups from the last 10 decade. Altos Labs is a biological reprogramming technology that will rejuvenate cells in a lab to extend human life. Just like the book Longevity I'm reading explains that we need to stop treating disease but focus on treating aging. The reason for this is disease most commonly comes as a result of aging. You can read more about it here: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/09/04/1034364/altos-labs-silicon-valleys-jeff-bezos-milner-bet-living-forever/

In addition a rat has grown hair based on cells. This may not be monumental as changing aging but could be a replacement of current male balding therpaies such as transplants: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/01/18/1043751/bald-lab-grown-hair-cells/

Science for the win!

World Economic Forum Biggest Risks for 2022 - Richart Ruddie

Every year, the World Economic Forum asks hundreds of leaders from around the globe to see what they fear most. Not personal fears but ones for the economy, for the people, and for the planet. 

Each year we see a lot of similarities and some years we have new worries that creep in. Today the 2022 Global Risks Report was released but prior to that these are the most pressing worries for some of the world’s most powerful people in the world so it's worth us listening in.

For 2021 they were worried about Infectious diseases and obviously a top choice as COVID is a global issue that has just hit an all time high in terms of cases. Pandemic may be the biggest headline for 2022 but if Omicron sends us towards an endemic result and it gets milder and milder we may be able to close the book on this pandemic.

Livelihood crisis. As we are seeing record breaking wealth it's important for Effective Altruists to focus on helping those who are struggling. I don't mean local restaurants but those who survive on less than $5 a day.  The world’s poor had a harder time making ends meet in 2021 and we expect the same for 2022 as globally those vaccinated and affording protection against the virus in one way or another is miniscule in comparison to what 1st world countries can do. 

Extreme weather events and there will be at least 1 every year for the next 20 years is my prediction. Wildfires, Avalanches, Tsunamis, Hurricanes. It's been happening since the beginning of time and will continue until we can come together and you see how hard that is for the Country none the less the world to do. I'm not a scientist but enjoy nerding out to really learn about a topic and looking at history as Ray Dalio says is one of the best ways to help predict future events with the highest share of accuracy.

Cyber Security whether it's extreme Ransomware cases like we saw in 2021 as the world becomes more virtual the hacks and vulnerbilities will only expand. It's a cat and mouse game and this will never end due to human error. Crypto Scams and Fraudelent payments are here to stay unfortunately. 

What are your predictions for 2022 and 2023?

Rich Ruddie

A Perspective on Public Health Mandates

Lloyd Blankfein one of the most respected people in this world who was at Goldman Sachs for 37 years provides a really great perspective on the matter. It's not an individual freedom but a public health situation. You don't have the right to run red lights and put others at danger or to go around waving a gun. You have to stop at traffic lights and if the country starts a war you don't have the individual freedom to not go to war.

Affecting the rest of the world with public health. Of course everything is nuanced and there is no exact answer but always great to hear different perspectives and viewpoints especially from some of the most successful people in the world.

CEOs ability to do their job and to lead their people. Champion of the people.

Hans Rosling is Interesting

Swedish guy who makes a lot of really great videos talking about epidemiology stuff like life expectancy. Definitely worth watching

NY Times Covers Bad News and it's attraction

Below is a piece from at the New York Times about how we are attracted to negative news and  that the major media players in the USA overly promote negative headlines with pessimism regarding COVID-19 vs. other countries, scientific journals, and smaller media outlets that tended to cover it more on a factual basis instead of promoting their opinion. I will add my commentary and thoughts in bold below:

Is bad news the only kind?

Bruce Sacerdote, an economics professor at Dartmouth College, noticed something last year about the Covid-19 television coverage that he was watching on CNN and PBS. It almost always seemed negative, regardless of what was he seeing in the data or hearing from scientists he knew.

When Covid cases were rising in the U.S., the news coverage emphasized the increase. When cases were falling, the coverage instead focused on those places where cases were rising. And when vaccine research began showing positive results, the coverage downplayed it, as far as Sacerdote could tell.

But he was not sure whether his perception was correct. To check, he began working with two other researchers, building a database of Covid coverage from every major network, CNN, Fox News, Politico, The New York Times and hundreds of other sources, in the U.S. and overseas. The researchers then analyzed it with a social-science technique that classifies language as positive, neutral or negative.

The results showed that Sacerdote’s instinct had been right — and not just because the pandemic has been mostly a grim story.

The U.S. media is an outlier

The coverage by U.S. publications with a national audience has been much more negative than coverage by any other source that the researchers analyzed, including scientific journals, major international publications and regional U.S. media. “The most well-read U.S. media are outliers in terms of their negativity,” Molly Cook, a co-author of the study, told me.

About 87 percent of Covid coverage in national U.S. media last year was negative. The share was 51 percent in international media, 53 percent in U.S. regional media and 64 percent in scientific journals.

Notably, the coverage was negative in both U.S. media outlets with liberal audiences (like MSNBC) and those with conservative audiences (like Fox News).

By The New York Times | Sources: Bruce Sacerdote, Ranjan Sehgal and Molly Cook

Sacerdote is careful to emphasize that he does not think journalists usually report falsehoods. The issue is which facts they emphasize. Still, the new study — which the National Bureau of Economic Research has published as a working paper, titled, “Why is all Covid-19 news bad news?” — calls for some self-reflection from those of us in the media.

If we’re constantly telling a negative story, we are not giving our audience the most accurate portrait of reality. We are shading it. We are doing a good job telling you why Covid cases are rising in some places and how the vaccines are imperfect — but not such a good job explaining why cases are falling elsewhere or how the vaccines save lives. Perhaps most important, we are not being clear about which Covid developments are truly alarming.

As Ranjan Sehgal, another co-author, told me, “The media is painting a picture that is a little bit different from what the scientists are saying.”

Why the bad-news bias?

The researchers say they are not sure what explains their findings, but they do have a leading contender: The U.S. media is giving the audience what it wants.

When the researchers examined which stories were the most read or the most shared on Facebook, they tended to be the most negative stories. To put it another way, the stories that people choose to read skew even more negative than the stories that media organizations choose to publish. “Human beings, particularly consumers of major media, like negativity in their stories,” Sacerdote said. “We think the major media are responding to consumer demand.”

That idea is consistent with the patterns in the data, Sacerdote added: It makes sense that national publications have better instincts about reaching a large audience than, say, science journals. And overseas, some of the most influential English-language media organizations — like the BBC — have long received government funding, potentially making them less focused on consumer demand.

All of that sounds plausible to me, but I don’t think it is the full explanation. I have worked in media for nearly three decades, and I think you might be surprised by how little time journalists spend talking about audience size. We care about it, obviously, but most journalists I know care much more about other factors, like doing work that has an impact.

In the modern era of journalism — dating roughly to the Vietnam War and Watergate — we tend to equate impact with asking tough questions and exposing problems. There are some good reasons for that. We are inundated by politicians, business executives, movie stars and others trying to portray themselves in the best light. Our job is to cut through the self-promotion and find the truth. If we don’t tell you the bad news, you may never hear it.

Sometimes, though, our healthy skepticism can turn into reflexive cynicism, and we end up telling something less than the complete story. I am grateful to Sacerdote, Cook and Sehgal for doing to us journalists what we normally do to others — holding up a mirror to our work and giving us a chance to do better.

Evidence Follows Impactful Events

By definition, evidence follows–and does not precede!–rare impactful events. Waiting for the accident before putting the seat belt on, or evidence of fire before buying insurance would make the perpetrator exit the gene pool. Ancestral wisdom hasnumerous versions such as"Cineri nunc medicina datur"(one does not give remedies to the dead), or the famous saying by Seneca"Serum est cavendi tempus in mediis malis"(you don’t wait for peril to run its course to start defending yourself).

 

For more go to: https://forecasters.org/wp-content/uploads/Talebetal_25062020.pdf

Advice on COVID-19 based on Stats and Science

As the Latin sayings: cineri nunc medicina datur (one does not give remedies to the dead) or post bellum auxilium ([one must not] send troups after the battle).

Never cross a river that’s 4 feet deep on average: As we saw, risk management (or policy making) focuses on tail properties not the body of probability distributions. For instance, Holland has a policy to calibrate their dams not on average height of sea levels but on the properties of the maxima — all it takes is one mistake to cause a disaster.

Science is not about safety: Finally, science is a procedure to update knowledge; it can be wrong provided it produces interesting discussions that lead to more discoveries. But real life is not an experiment. If we used a p-value of 0.01 or other method of statistical comfort for airplane safety, no pilot would be alive. For matters that have systemic effects and/or entail survival, the asymmetry is even more pronounced.

Source: https://forecasters.org/blog/2020/06/14/on-single-point-forecasts-for-fat-tailed-variables/

What is Military Grade - Richart Ruddie Tells You

So you've heard the term Military Grade and think it must be bullet proof and indestructable. After all if it's good enough for the United States Military than it must be good enough to sell and advertise. Well thats the beauty of marketing and psychology. There's a lot of products in the world that are just plain junk but if its advertised well than it won't matter because buyers will jump on a product for a multitude of reasons.

What Military Grade actually relates to is that it meets the very bare-minimum requirements of durability and costs the very least. So it's like when you ask a lazy person to get something done for you they are going to find the easiest way to get it done. That could be equivalent to military grade too. So next time you  find something that says Military Grade now you know what it translates to.

Also thank you to Everipedia for the Richart Ruddie Feature: https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/richart-ruddie

110 is the Minimum Population on Mars for Sustainability

To sustain and build a community to survive on Mars we will need at least 110 people. Now we have to figure out logistically to get the humans from SpaceX launch sites to Mars and to start terraforming and turning us into multi-planet species and ensuring our survival after an already rough 2020 but this is nothing compared to what real devastation could entail.

Here is the scientific paper breaking down the information on Mars Sustainability: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-66740-0 

I was Born Closer to the 1940s Than Today

Welcome to 2020. As each day goes forward this becomes more so the case than it is today. December 31st 1949 is closer to 1985 babies and the weirdest thing about kids today: most of them will live to see the 2100s. Time is a weird thing when you think deeply about it.

ClimaCell The Future of Hyper Local Weather

ClimaCell is a Boston based company with 100 employees thats using hyper local internet of things data to determine true weather compared to our standard iOS Weather application that is often misleading much like I see in Florida saying rain and thunderstorms on days where it's sunny with no precipitation. So Climacell is a new service that is a spin off of the idea that I've discussed using hyper local data from users to update what the weather is similar to how Waze uses data from it's users to determine traffic jams, construction work, accidents, and police officers.

ClimaCell uses public cameras, windshield wiper speeds, and other variable data that it acquires and has Delta, Jetblue, Sports Stadiums, and smart municipalities already using their services. They have a bright future ahead: https://www.climacell.co/science-team/

Replicator 3D Printing Technology

As I was an early adopoter to the current 3D printing Boom and growth that we've been seeing over the last decade especially with the growth and success of Protos Eyewear the first consumer grade 3D printed eyewear that also is completely customizable based on the metrics of your face I was amazed to see Scientific American with the replicator article today. It scans the object and completely replicates it as one solid piece as opposed to additive manufacturing layer by layer. Curious to learn more about this (if you come across this and do please contact me).

With the Protos Eyewear project the crafting and customizing of the hinges proved to be one of the most difficult tasks so I'm curious how this would replicate a pair of high end eyewear?

Reference: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/forget-everything-you-know-about-3-d-printing-mdash-the-replicator-is-here/

-Richart Ruddie

 

Carbon farming - Holistic Planned Grazing - Agroforestry & Regenerative Agriculture

Certain trends and innovations that we can apply can not only improve conditions that we thought were almost irreversible. Similar to the recent bookmark I made about Plastics being recycled and how this would create a conglomerate bigger than Apple & Google combined. The information below I'm bookmarking courtesy of Tom:

Carbon Farming is a point of very high leverage to reverse climate change by taking one of the highest offenders of co2 release and turning it into a net sink while giving farmers a better chance in the market and strengthening local food economies:

Carbon farming is the broad term used for a suite of practices which aim to sequestor carbon from the atmosphere into either biomass or into soil. It is very important because agriculture is one of the leading causes of co2 emissions and therefore climate change. It is also a driver of climate change in that as trees and other perennial vegetation are removed from landscapes evaporation transportation is reduced, breaking the water cycle. Less water being transpired into the air means dryer climates, and greater temperature instability.

Many solutions to climate change are important and effective however this is a much higher leverage point than most because you are essentially taking a huge driver of climate change and not only stopping it, but reversing it. The models of how effective this could be in a relatively short amount of time to reduce the impacts of climate change are incredible(see the works of Paul Hawkins and Eric Toensmeir for numbers)

Within carbon farming there are many different practices however Agroforestry is proving to be one of the most effective, not only because it is essentially the incorporation of trees into landscapes which obviously helps solve the problems raised above but it also benefits farmers by helping them have a more diversifed production portfolio which can hedge against bad production years or market forces. In many cases it can help them shift away from commodities with very thin margins towards higher value crops that can be sold in more local and regional markets which helps the community over all.

Within agroforestry there is a specific practice called silvopasture which essentially means grazing animals under tree systems. When grazing animals are managed within a Holistic Planned Grazing Framework they can draw down and sequestor tremendous amounts of carbon in places that are not suitable for vegetable crop production (slopes, rocky areas, etc.) (see the work of Allan Savory/Savory Institute )and Holistic Management International.

Recycle Plastic and Become the worlds largest company

This past years winner from The Royal statistical society was for a creative number was for 90.5% thats the amount of plastic that can be recycled in the world to create a multi-trillion dollar company. The 90.5% is the amount of plastic that is currently unrecycled. Sustainable companies that positively impact the world are a growing trend. Look at the success of the Beyond and Impossible Burgers. Instead of paraphrasing the piece read part of it below and the rest of it at:

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/7/e1700782.full

Plastics have outgrown most man-made materials and have long been under environmental scrutiny. However, robust global information, particularly about their end-of-life fate, is lacking. By identifying and synthesizing dispersed data on production, use, and end-of-life management of polymer resins, synthetic fibers, and additives, we present the first global analysis of all mass-produced plastics ever manufactured. We estimate that 8300 million metric tons (Mt) as of virgin plastics have been produced to date. As of 2015, approximately 6300 Mt of plastic waste had been generated, around 9% of which had been recycled, 12% was incinerated, and 79% was accumulated in landfills or the natural environment. If current production and waste management trends continue, roughly 12,000 Mt of plastic waste will be in landfills or in the natural environment by 2050.

How Innovation Saves Lives

Apperion has created some graphs to display how innovation and inventions can impact us globally saving billions of lives.

To say that we're living in the best of times would be correct if you look at life expectancy globally. In the late 1900's Africa and the former USSR declined sharply in life expectancy but they and every where else has seen an increase with Africa seeing the steepest increase.

Source:

http://www.visualcapitalist.com/50-important-life-saving-breakthroughs-history/

FUD with Hurricane IRMA

Hurricanes put in the highest levels of fear, uncertainty, and doubt in people. The media exploits these fears and it is better to be safe than sorry. The problem IMO with Hurricanes are that you never know where in the path it's going to hit, how much damage its going to inflict, and how bad it will be when it gets there. Lets see what happens with Hurricane Irma & Jose.

Why Elon Musk is the Most Valuable Person in the World

If there is a will then there is a way. After spending what seems like countless days reading Tim Urban and Andrew Finns Wait But Whys latest feature on How and Why Spacex Will Colonize Mars detailing with in depth precision everything from how cool it was to go to the Moon in the 60's and how excitement has waned to the most important part of the piece and why Elon Musk is the most valuable person in the world.

We are doomed. Well maybe not us today but humanity in our time here on planet earth will one day succumb to one of four possible doomsday situations. When that time comes if we have colonized and made life on a different planet then we can ensure the survival of our species.

There are people who set out to change the world but can't because of financial constraints. We have to wonder how many other people would be on missions to disrupt the world for the better if their initial successes took off as Musk's had.

Elons mission is a motivator to the entire world. He wants to give us a reason to get up in the morning and to be excited about life. Life is all about being positive and having our sights set on big goals. Saving humanity and guaranteeing our future is just one of the many huge bonuses of what SpaceX is doing and he is so damn passionate about it that he is holding off on going to Mars until he knows that without the slightest bit of uncertainty that SpaceX will carry on with out him in full capacity with people as passionate and strong willed as he.  

We all strive to be great and Musk is our Edison of today. The greatest man to ever live. Thousands of years if not millions the future will look back at this small period of time and talk about the man who saved humanity and ensured it's survival.

A whole new profound respect after reading the Wait But Why Novel on Space X and why it is so damn important. 

P.S.

If the Wait But Why Guys are reading this then shoot me a message and I will gladly donate a few hundred dollars to your cause to keep you blogging and have some other ideas for you.