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🚰 Are you being medicated without consent:

70% of the USA adds fluoride to drinking water solely to prevent a disease (dental caries) and as such becomes a “medicine” by FDA definition.

98% of Europe has banned water fluoridation because it is a form of mass medication. (r)

Cavities are not caused by a fluoride deficiency. It's not an essential nutrient. And the fluoride put in water is not pharmaceutical grade fluoride...

Fluoridating water with pharmaceutical grade sodium fluoride would be prohibitively expensive. Instead a toxic waste byproduct of fertilizer factories, fluorosilicic acid, is dripped into the water supply.

Here's the history and health dangers of water fluoridation that they don't want you to know.

This is the 1st article I've published in a LONG time. I'm sure my writing is rusty. Feel free to send me the typoes :)

P.S.

The only thing I occasionally add to my water is LMNT and right now they have the grapefruit flavor available for a limited time. It's a love / hate flavor. I don't like it but others I know ration it throughout the year.

🍳 What's the best pan:

I spent many hours researching pans. I wanted something with high utility and safety. Anything with PTFE (teflon) was off the table, there are more/less good ceramic options, cast iron and carbon steel can be excellent choices, but for my criteria stainless steel was the winner.

Or so I thought...

They said, "all you have to do is heat, do the water drop test, butter, and cook!"

I have yet to perfect this technique, but many people graciously shared stainless steel nonstick tips and even a personalized video!

🎙️ What I'm listening to:

The Forgotten Highlander is a story of a soldier in a Japanese Prisoner of War camp. He survives starvation, torture, and an atomic bomb.

If you need a shift in perspective, it's hard to complain and not feel grateful after listening to this.

💡What is a friend:

There is a lot of research on the benefits to friendship. But what is a friend? This author describes the 10 levels of friendship.

A friend:

1. Is kind to your face 
2. Is kind behind your back 
3. Will celebrate your wins
4. Will console your losses
5. Can be trusted with vulnerable or confidential information 
6. Will do things to try and make you happy
7. Shows up – volunteers to help when needed 
8. Will fight for you 
9. Will push you to your potential (and tell you hard truths)
10. Will die for you 
     

🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:

An expert is a person who has found out by painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field.

– Niels Bohr

🍕 The most expensive meal ever:

On May 22, 2013, Laszlo Hanyecz bought 2 pizzas for 10,000 bitcoin, a day now celebrated as Bitcoin Pizza Day. In today's dollars, that's a $300M dinner.

Every year it reminds me of a letter that legendary investor Bill Miller wrote in 2017 to clients, when those pizzas had only cost only $50M 

Miller discusses bitcoin vs. the murderer's row of investors. 

The original murderers’ row was the name given to the first six hitters of perhaps the strongest team in baseball history, the 1927 New York Yankees...In the 1934 All Star game, the American League fielded an even more potent murderers’ row than did the 1927 Yankees. National League starting pitcher Carl Hubbell struck out in succession Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons, and Joe Cronin, all future Hall of Famers. How did he do it? He threw them screwballs, a pitch they had not seen before.

✅ When someone says "just kidding..."

69 reflections on life from a man stranded home alone.

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.

I did some spring cleaning this week and got rid of 2 old couches.

So, I'm shopping for a new couch and the salesman points out one and says, “This one will seat 5 people without any problems.” 

I asked, “where am I going to find 5 people without any problems?”
 

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

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