Joe Rogan Experience #2068 - Cameron Hanes

Joe Rogan and Cameron Hanes open with stem cells, peptides like BPC-157, and the distrust driving people toward self-directed health optimization. They drift through UFC fight breakdowns, steroid-era baseball, and a long appreciation of extreme physical specimens like Tom Havalon and David Goggins. The back half becomes a deep dive into Cam's archery-gear obsession (bows, broadheads, sights, arrows, lighted nocks) and the precision and confidence required to make ethical kills. It closes on philosophy: John Danaher's Kaizen, the spirituality of hunting, sharing wild game, and how earning your food reconnects you to something primal.

• Shane Dorian went to Tijuana for full-body stem cell treatment, getting his discs injected and being told to rest for eight weeks.
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• BPC-157 and thymosin peptides were pulled from the market; the UFC tests for BPC-157 even though it mainly just helps athletes heal.
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• David Goggins is running thousands of miles on bone-on-bone knees, and Tony Ferguson became the first to get through his hell week.
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• Peter Attia performs autopsies on the animals he kills, breaking down wound channels and hemorrhaging like a surgeon.
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• Gordon Ryan writes on paper exactly how he'll tap an opponent, seals it in an envelope, then sets the submission up several steps ahead.
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• Cam's Utah bull came within about two yards; he had to aim his 20-yard pin high to hit the heart, and the arrow broke off inside it.
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• The Salvator Mundi sold for $450 million, yet most of it was repainted by a modern restorer; MBS reportedly keeps it on a yacht.
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• The Pentagon failed its audit for the sixth year in a row.
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• Edson Barbosa's wheel-kick knockout of Terry Etim was believed to be the first wheel-kick KO in UFC history.
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• Turkish get-ups and windmills aren't 'sexy' but build the functional core strength needed for carrying elk quarters up a hill.
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• Tom Havalon is a 6'7", 300+ lb Australian who lifts homemade weights in the outback and deadlifts around 1,300 pounds.
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• Tooth of the Arrow broadheads are cut from one solid piece of steel with most of the mass in the ferrule, giving a four-blade, 4-inch cut.
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• In John Lusk's tests a 125-grain Tooth of the Arrow broadhead set a record, punching through roughly 75 layers of cardboard.
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• Cam shoots an 80-plus-pound bow launching a 520-grain arrow at about 300 feet per second for maximum lethality.
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• John Danaher says it takes roughly five to seven years of full-time training to reach world-class level in most sports.
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• Elk used to have large tusks, and the ivory teeth hunters keep are the evolutionary remnants of them.
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