Mahmoud Ashour’s Reviews > The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort To Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self > Status Update
Mahmoud Ashour
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A collective 70-plus percent of us are too heavy. Nearly a third of us now have diabetes or prediabetes, and 40 million have mobility problems that hinder them from getting from point A to point B. Heart disease kills a quarter of us. These are all medical issues that were essentially nonexistent until the 20th century. People are also suffering from 'diseases of despair' depression, anxiety, addiction, and suicide.
— Feb 18, 2026 12:39PM
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Mahmoud Ashour
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The modern comforts and conveniences that now most influence our daily experience: cars, computers, television, climate control, smartphones, ultraprocessed food, and more, have been used by our species for about 100 years or less. That’s around 0.03 percent of the time we’ve walked the earth... Constant comfort is a radically new thing for us humans
— Feb 18, 2026 12:30PM

