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🥩 What's the difference between animal and plant protein:
If you're a regular Saturday 7 reader you've heard me harp on macronutrients and how they are not created equal. But it bears repeating: 1 gram of animal protein does not equal 1 gram of plant protein. Same with fats. Further, we often neglect to consider what comes prepackaged with plant-based foods such antinutrients, phytotoxins, and artificial /
synthetic ingredients.
This video does a good job of explaining some of the differences between animal and plant proteins (if you want to dive deeper, here's my tome article on protein).
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💊 Should you supplement:
I find research on vitamin supplementation particularly interesting because one would think it would suffer from the healthy user bias: people that take care of their health (watch what they eat / exercise / less likely to smoke, drink, or use drugs) are the one's who are most likely to take vitamins. Thus, one would think that research would associate vitamin supplements with health benefits. However, this isn't what we find...
- In 1994, a trial followed 29,133 Finish people in their 50s. All smoked, but only some were given beta-carotene supplements. Within this group, the incidence of lung cancer increased by 16%.
- A study published in 2007 from the US National Cancer Institute found that men that took multivitamins were twice as likely to die from prostate cancer compared to those who didn’t.
- In 2011, a study on 35,533 healthy men found that vitamin E and selenium supplementation increased prostate cancer by 17%
- Another study looked at folic acid supplementation in postmenopausal women finding that 10 years of supplementing this B vitamin increased their risk of breast cancer by 20%.
- A study of >1,000 heavy smokers supplementing vitamin A had to be terminated two years early as there was a 28% increase in lung cancer rates.
What's up with this?
Antioxidants neutralize free radicals. And while free radicals are notorious bad guys, they are important signaling molecules. Without them cells would continue to grow and divide uncontrollably and our immune system wouldn't get the call to take up arms against invading bacteria and viruses.
We dose up on antioxidants as if they are the elixir of life. At best, they are probably ineffective. At worse, they may just send you to an early grave.
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🏆 How to win:
Peter Theil famously said, "Competition is for losers."
The best way to win is to play a different game.
Society is good at training talent. Enough practice and you get good at hitting preordained targets. Talented people are in competition against other talented people chasing the same target. But you can avoid this zero-sum game by playing a different game. Your game. Being
different. Being unique is an infinite game. Your personal monopoly. It's the IP, the patent, that no one can use because only you have it (are it). When you're the only person who can do what you do there is no competition. You don't need to get good at competing, you need to get good at recognizing and cultivating your unique abilities.
Talent is good at hitting a target.
Genius discovers a new target.
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☑️ What to add to your daily routine:
- Imagine it’s 2030. What three significant changes have happened in your industry?
- How might you divide your role between you and a robot?
- Which of your strengths would be most useful if your organization doubled in size?
- How could you transfer your talents if your industry disappeared overnight?
- If you were rebuilding this business tomorrow, what would you do differently?
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🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:
"Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the thigs you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at
all."
– Richard Feynman
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💣 Why electric joules > kinetic joules
This piece of paper explains why spending electric joules (bitcoin) is better for human civilization than spending kinetic joules (bloodshed).
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🤳How to film videos with your phone:
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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
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