Hey, good morning! Here is your Saturday 7 weekly roundup! 🦷 What dental calculus (aka "tartar") means on a Carnivore Diet: What does it mean if you have an increase in dental calculus on a Carnivore Diet?
In the video I discuss: - What it means if you're experiencing more dental calculus
- Is it bad, dangerous, pathologic? Or protective?
- What is causing the plaque to harden
- Is it from starting carnivore (transition symptoms), finding mineral balance / homeostasis, coffee, dairy, macros, food toughness...?
- What to do about preventing the tartar
buildup
- Toothbrush / toothpaste (video coming soon)
I also talked with Dr. Al Danenberg this week on the Meat Health Snacks podcast (coming soon). He's a periodontist (gums specialist) and it seems we are in 100% agreement about plaque and calculus.
🔬 The benefits of dental calculus: Due to its high mineral content, dental calculus survives in the archeological record. Sequencing ancient dental calculus shows adverse changes in the
oral biota with the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions, directly correlating with worsening dental health. (r)
It also shows that the oral microbiome of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, who coexisted for thousands of years, were remarkably similar, indicating that we shared similar diets. Research published this week gives a big clue to what that diet was...
Using zinc isotope
analysis (δ66Zn) in the tooth enamel of a 150,000-year-old Neanderthal, researchers re-confirmed (with prior δ15N analyzes*) Neanderthals were top-level carnivores. (r) While we're talking about Neanderthals, one of this year's Nobel Prizes was awarded to researcher Svante Pääbo for his work in decoding their genome. Through his work, we can see the genetic flow from Neandertals to modern humans, whereby human genomes now contain 1-4% Neandertal genes. In other words, both species apparently interbred in the millennia that they coinhabited the earth. (r) *Nitrogen isotopes are generally analyzed from the collagen of bone or dentin, but these are susceptible to degradation over geologic time (>100,000 years).
An oxidation-denitrification method on tooth enamel can be used to measure δ15N values. And now, zinc isotopes, resistant to degradation, can be analyzed whereby the lower proportion of δ66Zn characterize carnivore trophic levels.
🌎 How the fattest became the thinnest:
The most obese state 30
years ago would be the thinnest state today...by a lot. 30 Years Ago: - Most obese state = Mississippi: 15%
Today: - Least obese state = Colorado: >25%
All states need more steak, less sugar and fewer seed-based products.
🗣️How to have a conversation:
"What do you do?" It's the basic, standard question everyone asks to initiate a conversation with someone they've never met. It leads to a robotic conversation. Try this: "What are you working on that you're most excited about?" Listen. Ask follow-up questions. Have a human conversation.
🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:
If you raise your children, you can spoil your grandkids. If you spoil your children, you'll raise your grandkids.
📉 Do we have 2 decades of financial repression ahead:
Russell Napier, market
strategist and historian, warns that we are in store for 15- to 20-years of elevated inflation (4-6%), as it's a proven way to erode the high levels of debt. To pull this off, Russell predicts the government will play a significant role in the creation and allocation of capital, directly interfering in the banking sector by issuing credit guarantees. The classic definition of a banker used to be that he lends you an umbrella but would take it away at the first sight of rain. Not this time. If you are a banker who believes in private sector credit risk, you stop lending when the economy is headed into a recession. But if you are a banker who believes in government guarantees, you keep lending.
🐺 How to run with the wolves:
As always, it's an absolute pleasure and honor getting to spend some time with you, hope you have a great weekend! Kevin P.S. What do carnivores snack on? Their body fat.
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