Joe Rogan Experience #1890 - Bridget Phetasy

Bridget Phetasy returns to JRE six months after having her first child via C-section at 43, calling the pregnancy a miracle after being told she couldn't conceive. She and Joe range across the brutal realities of childbirth, colic and the 'fourth trimester,' arguing women shouldn't wait too long to have kids. A long health stretch covers seed oils, carnivore experiments, fake-meat safety concerns and weight-loss drugs, alongside Joe's pitch for nootropics like Alpha Brain and NeuroGum. The back half turns political: COVID vaccine mandates, gender-affirming care for minors, Big Tech censorship and privacy, the Pelosi attack, and a viral rant about wealthy Democratic politicians. Bridget also reflects on regret, the sexual revolution and why she's become 'radicalized' on motherhood and kids.

• Bridget delivered a nearly nine-pound baby by C-section at 43, with an abnormally large placenta, after doctors told her she couldn't have kids.
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• Joe reveals Onnit funded two double-blind placebo-controlled studies with the Boston Center for Memory showing Alpha Brain increased verbal memory and reaction time.
  01:15:22
• Bridget says having a kid 'radicalized' her into a single-issue stance against pushing gender-affirming care and puberty blockers on minors.
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• Bridget describes her daughter's colic via the 'rule of threes' and notes recordings of inconsolable crying babies were used in Guantanamo torture-resistance training.
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• Bridget reveals her viral essay 'I regret being a [__]' and that Louise Perry's book reframed her feelings about the sexual revolution, making her cry.
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• Bridget urges women not to wait, saying she was told she could not have children yet got pregnant at 42 on what she believes was her last egg.
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• In the 1960s the sugar industry quietly paid Harvard scientists roughly $50,000 (today's dollars) to blame heart disease on fat rather than sugar.
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• Industrial seed oils like soybean, canola and grape-seed were introduced to the American diet in the early 1900s and were originally industrial lubricants.
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• Joe and Bridget cite the claim that legalized abortion correlated about 18 years later with a measurable drop in violent crime.
  00:45:17
• A rat-feeding study commissioned by Impossible Foods found weight, blood and possible anemia changes suggesting the Impossible Burger may not be safe.
  01:07:02
• A NYT story details Google flagging a stay-at-home dad as a criminal and disabling his accounts and phone over medical photos of his sick toddler.
  01:33:39
• New York City was forced to reinstate workers fired for refusing the COVID vaccine, with back pay.
  01:48:49
• Semaglutide trials showed patients lost a mean of about 6% of body weight by week 12 and 12% by week 28.
  02:56:58
• About 5% of plastic placed in recycling bins actually gets recycled, with most single-use bottles never reused.
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