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🥩 What's a precarious argument:

Around the Persian Gulf, tribes living exclusively on marine foods had virtually no cavities.

Other tribes that incorporated agriculture (carbs) had increasing rates of cavities proportional to the amount of plant foods replacing marine foods.

With the advent of agriculture and high carbohydrate crops becoming dietary staples, cavities became prevalent. (Hillson, 1996)

The evidence of increasing carbs and increasing cavities is robust.

To argue in favor of a high carb diet is fundamentally arguing that a diet bad for oral health is good for systemic health, which is a precarious argument to make.

📰 How to access papers:

There is a ethical debate (for another time) about the accessibility of science and circumventing current blockades. 

Here's how to access research papers.

⚒️ How to get ahead:

A young man working 2 low pay jobs with a 1-year-old, felt like he had no way out. 

Here's some tough advice on how to get your head above water and then a ahead for good.

Sadness comes from a lack of options, it's a feeling of hopelessness. But whenever you feel that, I want you to think, 'this is ignorance, not sadness - it means I don't know enough, and that, I can control.'

💡How to get stressed out:

A recipe for stress:

High Expectations + Little Control = Stress

If it is not within your control, temper expectations.

If it is within your control, action tempers stress.

Most people have more control than they realize and need to spend more time doing than dwelling.
 

🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:

Opportunity is often missed because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

– Anonymous

📊 What happens when supply drops:

The next bitcoin halving is in April 2024. At this time the daily supply issuance gets cut in half. 

As economics teaches if supply drops and demand remains constant, price increases. This is exactly what we've seen with each halving.

But something appears to be different this time.

Since the last halving in 2020, the liquid supply appears to be dropping. Liquid supply vs total supply can be thought of like a "checking account" vs a "savings account." 

People are putting more and more in savings, and since you don't touch savings, this effectively reduces the supply further.

What happens when you cut the new supply (the halving) while the total supply becomes ever more scarce...

The "Root" is one of my favorite bitcoin analysts, and he explains this Cycle Theory and how these halvings every 210,000 blocks (~4 years) impact price and what might happen next April during this next one with liquid supply dropping in tandem.

🌎 What if human went extinct:

What would Earth look like 1 year after human extinction.

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.

"Hold your horses!"

It's an expression to tell someone to be "stable" — like a stable holds horses.

Dr. Kevin Stock
Founder, CEO
Meat Health, LLC | NED LLC
(314) 207-3216 (feel free to text me!)

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