Observers often misperceive the actual dangers of free soloing by focusing on the visual spectacle rather than the technical reality of the climb.

“I think they generally misperceive all the dangers and risks involved. You know, they just see it and they're like, "That's crazy. That's whatever."”

Taking controlled micro-risks allows people to train their brains to overcome irrational fears.

“So something that I kind of prescribe to patients, especially people who are risk averse as well. So they kind of are avoiding things too much is to kind of take these micro risks where your brain is just is making predictions all the time about what it expects.”

Formal breast cancer risk assessment should be completed by the age of 25 to provide sufficient time to adjust screening strategies if necessary.

“I think this is exactly right. A risk assessment should be done in your mid20s.”

ApoB is a superior metric for assessing cardiovascular risk compared to standard cholesterol-based measures.

“there are a handful of studies that show that non-hdl cholesterol may be equal to b there are more studies that actually show apob is better”

Extreme activities should be managed through thorough research and preparation rather than being labeled as daredevil stunts.

“I always fight against the term Daredevil you know I'm a risk manager risk assessment it's one of my big topics that's what I'm doing you control the risks so that in fact you're not you're not a daredevil at all”

Putting an eight-year-old child on a diet is harmful and could lead to low self-esteem or eating disorders.

“If you want to set her up and program her for low self-esteem, compromise self-concept, and the potentiality of an eating disorder, put an 8-year-old on a diet and start restricting her and start telling her what she can and can't eat.”

He argues that constant proximity to death helps him stay grounded and focused on what is truly important in life.

“So, when you're constantly there, it keeps you grounded and levelheaded of like what's actually important.”

The increased breast cancer risk observed in the Women's Health Initiative is largely attributed to the combination of estrogen and medroxyprogesterone acetate, while estrogen-only therapy did not sho

“the increased risk of breast cancer seen with estrogen plus progestin was mostly be attributable if not entirely attributable to the progesterone to the medroxy progesterone acetate”