Comment by silisili
1 day ago
I constantly go back and forth on this guy.
On the negative side - he looks obviously aged, he wears tons of makeup and teen clothes and stands out like a sore thumb. He seems to kinda shill products that may or may not be snake oil. He apparently took blood from his son, and now measures his and his son's boner in the middle of the night.
After all that you'd think I'm a hater, and maybe I am, but he open sources everything. There are more data points than a person would ask for. As weird as the boner thing is, it's slightly interesting. He takes brain scans and share them. Most of all, he seems like a genuinely affable person.
I don't know what to make of any of this, so I just sit eating the proverbial popcorn.
The boner measurement may seem weird, but it’s a very informative measure of general health, vascular health, and a few other things.
My friend who worked in a sleep lab as a student was tasked with measuring several aspects of boners. The Netflix movie “game changers” (or “you are what you eat”, don’t remember) also used these measurements to drive a point.
It is not any weirder than a urine test or fecal analysis, which we all take for granted when looking for specific markers (e.g. protein in urine or occult blood in feces). It is, however, much cheaper and easier to carry out in a daily basis.
I think he seems to be very honest and open. The only downsides is that he's a sample of one and he focuses a bit too much on appearances now. But he really built a brand of trust around his methods and I'm probably going to buy his oil, chocolate, powder, and replace functionhealth with his alternative