WILearned

New Video! Intermittent Fasting and Sleep

Hey everyone! New video. I'll have the transcript up early tomorrow, it's pretty late past my normal sleeping time and I need to preserve my circadian rhythm :) 

New Video! Intermittent Fasting & Hunger - The Science

New video on how hunger works during fasting. I know another video I did sort of already covers this (the Ghrelin part) but I thought it would be good to present everything together in the context of what is causing hunger when fasting (and in general).

Transcript is attached

Questions/comments/suggestions welcome as always!

Happy New Year! New Video - Brain Maintenance

New Video: The Japanese anti Hangover Drink

Quick video on turmeric. I tried to spice up the editing this time, hopefully it makes it more engaging. Script is attached with links to sources.

I actually take turmeric relatively often even though I rarely drink. It really does help a lot with inflammation so basically any situation I would want to use an advil in, I just use turmeric instead. It also helps with cheat days - you feel le...

New Logo

Hey everyone,

I got a lot of great input last time when asking about the logo. It seemed like visibility was a big point and, the cursive one I currently have is hard to make out - especially when viewed as a thumbnail.  So, I've come up with something sharper. I'm going to with one of the three below - would be great to hear what y'all think:

#1 (My favorite, but not as good contrast...

Sweet.

Maybe y'all have already got the update, but just wanted to share. If you're not in the loop:

-New payment system they were going to roll out was going to negatively affect patrons by charging them +30 cents for every pledge (meaning if you like to support many creators here and there, your fees would get way higher)
-Was a lot of pushback as this wouldn't be good for patrons or creators...

Intermittent Fasting - Problems?

Hey everyone, 

I'm getting back into this topic and am looking to make a "guide" video. Basically explaining what to expect when doing IF, how to make easier and more effective. 

Who has tried it and what problems have you ran into?
Or, if there's anything you're particularly curious about that you would like to hear address I'd be happy to know that.  2017-12-09 14:48:36 +0000 UTC View Post

Logo - Which do you prefer?

Hey everyone, 

Y'all brought up a lot of great points in my last post about whether I should change the channel name so I'm sticking with it. However, the logo does need some work and you may have noticed that I've updated it. (Youtube is kind of weird with updating the thumbnail so maybe you haven't seen it - for me it shows up when I'm writing a comment, but not on my channel and not on t...

New Vid! Why we don't have free will

I guess this image pretty much sums it  up. Transcript attached

Put a lot of time into this one, really hope y'all enjoy it

Name Change

Hey everyone,
I'm working on the free will video and it's getting to be pretty long - will probably have it out around next Friday. 

I've also been thinking about changing the name of my channel, it's not catchy in the least. I guess I could either: 

(a) Just use my name: Joseph Everett / Joseph Everett - What I've Learned / Joseph Everett (WIL)
(b) Come up with something m...

Net Neutrality Vid & Transcript

Hey sorry for the delay everyone!

Net Neutrality: Recommended Resources?

QUESTION: Any recommended reading, videos, lectures et cetera so I can learn more about the history leading up to, inner workings, implications about the less of Net Neutrality

Hey everyone, I'm sure everyone's familiar with this to some degree, and it's been fucking with my brain for a while now, but I want to try and see if there's anything I can do before December 14th.

My broth...

New Video! Free Will & Jerry's Dilemma

Editing Process

Hi there,

Here's a quick run down of my process (originally posted on Nov 17 - update coming soon!)
I threw together a google document that goes somewhat in depth into my not so organized process that somehow leads to a video.

I'll be editing ...

Free Will - Do we have it?

Question: Do we have free will?

How I'll define free will for the purposes of this poll: Free will is the ability to act at one's own discretion & one's motivations for action are "willed" into existence by the self.

For example: In my case, I could make the decision to quit making youtube videos and start taking lessons to become a singer at any time, regardless of my circumst...

Why Meditate? [Video] + [Transcript & Links]

Hi everyone,

Thanks for the wait, I'm sure y'all have been waiting for me to get into a new topic, especially after 3 straight videos on Salt. I over-researched this one so a bunch of stuff didn't make it in.

While working on this, I re-watched David Foster Wallace's commencement speech . He really hi...

3rd Salt Video w/ Transcript & Sources

Hey everyone, I tried doing a more proper listing of sources in the transcript this time. 

NEW VID - Salt Pt. 2 + Transcript PDF

A Third Salt Video?

Hey everyone, as mentioned at the end of my last video, my next video is a more detailed look at what about our physiology makes low salt a burden on the body. There's a big number of effects that result from eating low salt - too many to fit in one more video.

So, this time I'm going to focus on something called the renin angiotensin aldosterone system and natriuretic peptides. [SPOILER: ...

Resistant Starches - Comments?

Hey everyone,

Quick question: Has anyone here been looking into resistant starches much? I haven't read too much about them and my vague understanding of them was that they do some good in terms of helping out your GI microbiome, but I still tended to avoid them because I figured the carbohydrate content would kick me out of ketosis. However, my brother came to Japan recently and I used th...

New Video on Salt + Transcript

Hey everyone, I'm back!

Sorry for the long radio silence. I'll post an update sometime soon, (probably after I get some sleep) and get back to the messages I've missed.

Thanks for being awesomely patient as always, I hope this topic is interesting for y'all as much as it has been for me. Looking forward to hear what you think. 

Ultra pro recording studio

Quite satisfied with this Audio Technica ATR2100 USB mic - decent priced mic for anyone wanting to do narration. it gets a more "narration" sound than the AT2020. The AT2020 picked up sound too well - you could hear every little click of the tongue or rustle of my clothes. And yes, the pop filter is held up by a spice bottle

NEW VID (Ketosis) + Transcript & Notes!

Hey everyone!

Here's a PDF with the transcript for the video + links to the sources I used. 

Fasting Video Transcript

Sorry for the delay everyone, here's the transcript for my last video

Re: "What the Health" - New Doc

Hey everyone, just thought I'd share something I posted to FB about this new health documentary. It was interesting but raised a lot of red flags. While promoting a virtuous message, it seemed quite unreasonable in a lot of areas. Of course processed meats from animals raised in inhumane conditions and fed an unnatural diet of corn and grain is terrible for health. However, what if the animal is f...

Ketogenic diet - Who's doing it?

Hey all, 

I've been reading a lot on Ketogenic diets / benefits of Ketone bodies (i.e work by Jeff Volek, Stephen Phinney,  Dominic D'Agostino etc.) and am constantly impressed by the potential of ketones.

My diet has steadily decreased carbs more and more over the past 3 years or so, and I've really gotten into intermittent fasting (eating once per day) for about a year now. Ev...

New Video + Transcript: Calories vs. Hormones

Hey all, 

Here's the transcript for my new vid. 

Re: Muscle Wasting
(On this video, it would have been better to spend more time clarifying the point around 1:30 about muscle wasting)
I talk about how the body is trying to preserve energy, and so it will try to minimize processes that burn calories and save the calories it has. So, it will burn muscle for e...

Question about Exercise & Focus

Hey all, 

I rarely have the time to answer questions that come in through my contact form on my website, but the dragonballs aligned or something and I got back to this one so I thought I'd share:

[Question]

I have been watching your videos lately and I have come across a particular video about how Exercise (2017-05-31 04:27:34 +0000 UTC View Post