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🥩 What is not a FAD:

Eating a hypercarniverous, meat-based diet, is not a FAD diet.

The oldest Homo sapiens jaw is dated to be about 300,000 years old.

If we condense these 300,000 years onto a 24 hour clock, AGRICULTURE started just 1 hour ago.

For the 1st 23 hours, we mostly ate just animal foods.

P.S. 

Just this week, archaeologists revealed a new cave site discovery with more than 100 Paleolithic paintings including at least 19 different animal representations, suck as horses, aurochs, and deer. No confirmed salad paintings. (More)

📏 How tall are you:

With the advent of agriculture, and the move towards high-carb, grain-based diets, we see a dramatic rise in tooth decay in the fossil record.

But the evidence suggests it wasn't just our teeth that suffered.

For example, height is a biomarker for population health.

At this time humans got shorter. (r)

Average height for men went from 5'10" during hunter-gathering periods to 5'5" after our ancestors took up farming. Women’s height decreased from 5'5" to 5'1".

The smaller skeletons also displayed signs of worsening health with increased bone defects (arthritic degeneration / porotic hyperostosis) and bacterial infections (periosteal lesions).  

However, not all people made the switch to agricultural, grain-based diets. Those that maintained their traditional hunter (-gatherer) roots also maintained their height and health.

😱 How afraid are you:

The fear of becoming obsolete (FOBO) reached a new high of 22%, especially among 18-34 year olds. (r)

This is due to advances in AI and robotics that can increasingly automate repetitive tasks.

Looking at this data, 2 thoughts come to mind:

1. New technologies bring along new jobs and new opportunities
2. The solution: don't get complacent, keep learning and growing

💡Which schedule are you on:

Do you run on a Maker's Schedule or a Manager's Schedule?

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Managers make sure all the trains are running on time. They do this by blocking their day into chunks. Meetings. To-do lists. Making sure nothing slips through the cracks.

Makers are building the next train. They operate with long blocks of time, working on a singular big project.

Each schedule works unless you try and put a maker on a manager schedule or vice versa. For example, the manager who forces the maker into various meetings destroys a maker's momentum. And manager without a detailed schedule feels lost.

My thoughts: Often you have to do both. I like to have my Maker's Schedule in the morning and my Manager's Schedule in the afternoon.
 

🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat...

– Theodore Roosevelt

📊 How far we've come:

David Marcus was the former president of PayPal. He went to Facebook to work on their Libra project.

Now, after years of trying to co-opt blockchain technology via a private / closed system, he has finally capitulated and embraced the open source standard.

It's wild to me that we are already having conversations about the lightening network on mainstream media. Fun times ahead.

🌒 What photo stopped social media in its tracks:

Photographer catches a "once in a blue moon" shot.
 

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.

Offbeat attractions in each state of the US. 

I need to get out more.

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

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