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🧩 Clues to our ancestral diet:
Many people, myself included, are drawn to the idea of eating like our ancestors. Part of the appeal comes from the evidence that suggests the chronic diseases of today largely didn't exist before we started manipulating nature's food. The "Discordance Theory" says we have Stone Age bodies living in a fast-food world. Our bodies aren't designed to run on the fuel we've created.
During this time, we manipulated food so drastically that today most people don't know what "natural" food would even look like.
Many people think broccoli is a natural, ancestral food...
Broccoli, cabbage, brussels, cauliflower...all come from this little plant (that many consider a weed) and would have never been eaten in human history until selectively breeding them (~100 years ago in the US).
This is what we've done with most plant foods. But often even worse. We selectively breed, genetically modify, chemically spray, mechanically and chemically process.
Because we've lost sight of our ancestral species-appropriate diet, I like talking about clues to what our ancestors ate.
For example, fossil teeth show beveling of the incisors to make arrows. These arrows weren't to shoot apples out of trees. There are many such examples of paramasticatory behavior recorded in teeth wear that infer ancestral dietary patterns.
Here's a couple other clues I talked about this week:
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🥩 Best meat delivery:
While this lists the top 6, it wasn't easy to boil it down, as there are so many great farms and farmers. We have a more complete list in the Meat Market where you'll also find Meat Health approved water, snacks, and supplements.
NOTE: In the Meat Health Store you'll see Merch, but please DO NOT checkout/purchase anything yet (it's still being finalized - almost there!), but if want to reply to this email with what you like, or something we could add, I'd love to hear your feedback!
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🗣️ Best career advice:
Chris asked people, "What's your single best piece of career advice?"
My favorites:
- Reduce uncertainty (increase someone's confidence that you can get them a certain result)
- Company > Role ("that's not my job" is a symptomatic response/thought of deeper problems)
- Either learn or earn (ideally both)
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💡 50 thought traps:
Bad choices stem from bad thinking. Cognitive biases lead to bad thinking. For example, we look for information to confirm things we already believe. If we are right, great! But if we're wrong, we'll forever be blinded to finding the truth. The solution here is to approach life with curiosity. Confirmation bias is just 1 of 50 thought traps (PDF) that can lead to bad life choices.
Becoming aware of cognitive biases is the way to think better and thus make decisions that steer your life in the direction you want to go.
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🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:
"We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed."
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💵 What is money:
This question will throw you down a deep rabbit hole. Lyn Alden does a fantastic job exploring the depths of " what is money?" in her most recent article (which at 70+ pages is a mini-book) that dives into the evolving nature of money.
TL;DR
Alex Gladstein posted a nice summary.
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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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