Commune with Jeff Krasno

A low dose of tirzepatide, taken purely to move the needle on cholesterol, turned out to move a lot more than that. In this episode, Jeff sits down again with Dr. Robin Berzin, founder of Parsley Health, to go through his bloodwork and an unexpected side effect: a blunting of desire that shows up in his coffee, his cocktails, and his ambition.

Why losing your appetite for food can also mean losing it for coffee, alcohol, and sex

What the dopamine and serotonin circuitry are actually doing on a GLP-1

The line between healthy desire and maladaptive craving, and where these drugs land on it

Why some people feel liberated when "food noise" disappears, and others feel flattened

What Jeff's ApoB and LDL numbers say about who these drugs actually help

This episode is for anyone on a GLP-1 or weighing one, and anyone curious what these drugs are doing beyond the scale.

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On her birthday, in a rented house in Hanalei, Jeff's daughter can't stop vomiting — and nothing he does helps.

In this episode, Jeff traces a frightening hospital stay in Kauai back through years of guesswork about her health — probiotics, boundaries, arguments over medication — and finds, in a room stripped of anything else to do, an unexpected closeness with her.

This is the twelfth episode of Diaries of a Dance Dad, an audio memoir series in Jeff's own words. It spans the full arc of parenthood: the inhale of birth and early chaos, the grind of no sleep and travel with kids, the gut-punches of failure, and the slow exhale of letting go.

Order Diaries of a Dance Dad audiobook & hear the tales that bookend my paternal journey from cradle to empty nestdom at onecommune.com/dancedad.

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Seventy thousand people build a city in the desert, survive on almost nothing they didn't bring themselves, and take it all down again — with no trash cans and no cleanup crew. This conversation was filmed live on the Aegean coast in Kaplankaya, Turkey, at Harvest Series, an annual thought leadership gathering where Jeff served as this year's MC.

Jeff sits down with Marian Goodell, CEO of Burning Man, to unpack how radical self-reliance and communal effort somehow produce cooperation at a scale almost nothing else in modern life does.

Why Burning Man works with no rubbish bins, no vendors, and no one enforcing cleanup

The origin story: a beach bonfire 40 years ago that became Black Rock City

How the 10 principles balance self-reliance against gifting and communal effort

Why adversity — rain, dust storms, scarcity — is part of what bonds the community

The global expansion into regional burns across 80+ countries

Marian's own path to leading Burning Man, and why she wants more young people there

This episode is for anyone curious about Burning Man beyond the headlines, and anyone interested in how large groups actually build trust and cooperate at scale.Video courtesy of Harvest Series — with thanks to the Harvest team for having us out there and making this conversation possible.

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Jeff has a field-tested method for embarrassing his daughters: impromptu pull-ups on subway scaffolding, a wake-up song called "School Days," and a rotating cast of accents that would make a dialect coach wince.In this episode, Jeff traces the accents — a southern drawl for Matthew McConaughey, a Dutch bur for Wim Hof — back to a mortifying kindergarten memory in Rio de Janeiro, and connects a childhood spent bouncing between countries to the quieter ache of dropping his daughter Lolli off at UNC.Order Diaries of a Dance Dad audiobook & hear the tales that bookend my paternal journey from cradle to empty nestdom at onecommune.com/dancedad.

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Eighty-two percent of pregnant women who got a COVID vaccine early in pregnancy miscarried — that's the claim now ricocheting across the internet, revived by newly released Fauci text messages and repeated to millions on Joe Rogan's podcast. In this bonus episode, Jeff walks through where that number actually came from, and why it doesn't mean what people think it means.

What Fauci's private 2021 texts really say about vaccine timing and pregnancy risk

How a preliminary CDC surveillance snapshot turned into a viral 82% statistic

The statistical error (called censoring) that explains the whole thing

What the completed research — meta-analyses of hundreds of thousands of pregnancies — actually shows

Why the same skepticism people apply to the CDC should apply to a gym owner's arithmetic

This episode is for anyone who's seen the 82% claim online, and anyone trying to think clearly about vaccine safety debates without picking a side first.

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