Dopamine Fasting 2.0 has gone viral worldwide! This article has 140K+ views, and the international media from the ABC, The New York Times, BBC, and other prominent media have covered it across the US, UK, Australia, Finland, France, Japan, India, Russia, Turkey, and the Middle East. So what is all…

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Continued from: The Cure for Obesity and Diabetes is Processed Food (Part 2): Incentives, Influence, and Innovation. Original article published on Actualize. “Diabetes can be reversed!” …read international headlines today, based on a randomized controlled trial published in the prestigious journal, The Lancet. Study participants were first taken off their medications for diabetes and…

Continued from: The Cure for Obesity is Processed Food (Part 1): When the Poison is the Antidote. Original article appeared on Actualize. ‘Big Food’ is the New ‘Big Tobacco’: Using Economic and Social Deterrents In 1994, the CEOs of the seven largest big tobacco companies testified under oath to Congress, shamelessly claiming “nicotine is not addictive”, despite mountains of evidence to the…

Original article debuted on Actualize. “We have a war between two food systems, a traditional diet of real food and ultra-processed food” …tweeted Dr. Robert Lustig, a fellow Professor at UCSF School of Medicine. He’s right. But I replied with the inconvenient truth few are willing to admit: “processed foods have won the war.” That…

Three Stories of How Ordinary People Became Machiavellian — All I do is win, win, win, no matter what Got money on my mind, I can never get enough. — DJ Khaled, All I Do Is Win Previously, I explained that assholes exhibit what psychologists call the “Dark Triad” of personality traits: psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism. While one is…

How the “Dark Triad” of Personality Traits Drives Bad Behavior — In “The Performance-Values Matrix,” I argued that the biggest reason company culture degrades is that companies hire, retain, and promote “assholes” (mercenary employees whose lack of empathy causes interpersonal issues). I also introduced the Performance-Values Matrix as a reinforcement system to assess and address this very problem. …