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🥩 What is a meat-based diet:
When I released Meat Health Academy earlier this year, I got this reaction:
In the Academy, I teach the Meat Health Method, which helps people do a meat-based diet, which includes helping people decide if they should include plant-based foods, and if so, which ones, how much, etc.
The goal is to help them find their place on the meat-based spectrum.
We could argue if humans are omnivores or facultative carnivores (there is no clear line that differentiates these two), but it really doesn't matter. What does matter is that omnivory among mammals exists on a spectrum.
Research shows that ~80% of mammals are omnivores and among those most (nearly 80%) "specialize" in eating either meat or plants. Meat-based omnivores consumes >70% of energy from meat, whereas a plant-based omnivore eats >70% plants. Only a minority of ominvores (less than 20%) are "generalist" that eat a more balanced mix of meat and plants. ( r) Why?
Omnivores tend to specialize because of anatomical / physiological constraints, which create bioenergetic limitations. Basically, they are more / less designed to eat either plants or animals.
For example, a wolf is technically an omnivore, but it's ill-adapted to eating any significant amount of plant-based foods. Chimps are also omnivores, but with their large gut and fermentation capabilities are designed to subsist on plants and not a significant amount of meat.
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🤔 What people intuitively chose to eat:
Before we lost our intuitive sense of diet (the kind that all animals in the wild have), humans preferentially chose meat. Whenever and wherever animal foods were available they were always preferred over plant foods.
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🏢 How to build a successful company (6 Steps):
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Find a real, unmet, need in society
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Solve that need with a product or service
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Never stop improving the product or service
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Obsess over customer delight (watch Bezos in 1999)
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Grow at the right pace
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Believe in yourself
"Most great lasting companies are built in a very similar way, which is neither complex nor hard to understand."
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💃 How to dance with systems:
As you may well know, I'm a big fan of systems. Putting the right system in the right place is the closest thing you can do to guarantee a particular outcome. Here's a long read on systems and how to orchestrate this all-important dance.
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🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:
"There is a formula for success in business, and it goes like this: You set out to find the very best talent in the marketplace, and then give them a compelling and inspirational vision of what you want them to achieve...Then you empower them to achieve those goals using their own skills and talents...at the same time, you demonstrate how enormously you value them...it's so simple and virtually nobody does it, because it requires a high-trust working
environment, and most business environments are low-trust. In order to own the future of your business, you have to design it around trust.
– Cindy Gallop, on building a successful business around trust
(pairs well with above 6-steps)
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👨🌾 How to invest in farmland:
I'm sure I'll be talking about bitcoin the rest of the year, so I thought I'd take a quick breather this week and mention another area I'm highly interested in: how to invest in farmland. Here are 3 great episodes that discuss a win-win-win trifecta: environment, health, and financial synergy.
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🔨 How to use the most powerful tool in the world:
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As always, it's an absolute pleasure and an honor getting to spend some time with you, hope you have a great weekend!
Kevin
A Saturday morning roundup on health and wealth, art and science, creativity and innovation, laughs and life by Kevin Stock. |
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