Peter Attia· MD
what we're incredibly good at using science today is to take things that give a little bit of pleasure evolutionarily and supercharge them so you know the natural endorphins that you get that will block pain under normal circumstances we can supercharge them in the lab and make fentanyl and 100,000 people died last year right and that that pursuit of that pleasure is utterly ruinous we can take something that is you know we look at a random series of events and when it's random we get payoffs a little bit we'll seek those events and that gives us a little bit of pleasure we turn that into slot machines in Vegas and you're sitting there at 4:00 a.m. by yourself that's that's really really bad for you