Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 9, 2026
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vilization, but you'll be the judge of that. But before we get there, let's take our energy up to the stratosphere. And all you need is a cup or mug or glass or a thermos, a canteen, jug, flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better, including d

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ouble whiteboards. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now.

Go. That's so good.

Yeah, I've got three cameras here that I'm trying to coordinate, but I think we can make this all work.

Well, let's talk about the news before I change the world with my double whiteboards. Let's see. Number one, there's some new obesity research that suggests that we know which part of the brain is regulating your energy and your eating, I guess. And with a small tweak there, some people say you could eat as much as you want without getting obese. Does that sound like good news? You can eat as much as you want? Maybe. I mean, it's not a thing yet, so it's premature. But there's some possibility you could eat as much as you want and not get overweight. Pretty good, huh?

I can't think of a worse idea, because our food is poison. You know, our processed foods are just... the more you eat, the unhealthier you're going to get. Do you know what makes me feel the best, which is one of the reasons I've lost the 10 pounds recently? I've started tracking when I feel good and when I don't. And it's perfectly clear that the thing that makes me feel bad for the rest of the day is food. Just food.

Now, it does matter what I eat. If I just eat fresh fruit and nuts, I feel fine. Fresh fru

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it and nuts, perfectly healthy all day long. If I eat anything that comes out of a package, I've got inflammation, I'm tired. It's a completely different experience. If I could eat twice as much food, I wouldn't really want to eat twice as much fruit and nuts, just as one example. I wouldn't want to. But you can imagine a lot of people who like to eat processed foods and stuff. They would eat twic…

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