Good morning! Here's your Saturday 7 roundup! 🥛 What's the deal with raw milk:
I've been drinking raw milk for the last year.
It started because I was
curious how I'd feel. So I did a raw milk experiment.
Now it has become a daily addition to help
me in my weight-gaining goals this year.
A
few key points about raw milk: - It's more nutritious than pasteurized milk
- Pasteurization arose from poor animal husbandry
- Now raw milk is widely illegal
Even though it is very
nutritious, and even found to be protective against allergies and asthma, I don't think everyone should be drinking raw milk. Milk is meant to grow a baby mammal into a big mammal.
A calf into a cow.
An infant into an adolescent. In order to do this, it is loaded with energy – fat, protein, and sugars. It is also loaded with vitamins, minerals and growth factors. Lactose is milk sugar. And while raw milk aids in its digestion (compared to pasteurized), some people are still too lactose intolerant to consume it. Furthermore, many people are better off without this extra sugar in the diet (i.e. people
with metabolic dysfunction perhaps). Beyond just milk, if / when consuming dairy there are a number of potential factors to consider: raw vs pasteurized, A1 vs A2, separated (like butter and cream),
fermented (like keifir), whereby certain dairy products can be ok for you in the right quantities and others not-so-much. All this to say, while I don't think raw milk is for everyone, I strongly
disagree with how whole raw milk has been demonized, when in fact, it can be an extremely nutritious part of one's diet. Here's everything you need to know about dairy and if adding it to your diet makes sense.
🥔 While we're talking about controversial foods: If adding plant-based foods to your diet, my top recommendations are fruits and roots. But these come with a lot of caveats. Like milk, for various reasons, some people will do better with certain fruits/roots than others. But there are some standard protocols.
For example, the skin of the potato is the most toxic part. It's the barrier between external threats and the plant's energy storage. It's where toxins (like glycoalkaloids) do their job to ward off
fungi, insects, and pests. If you're going to eat potatoes, peel them. P.S. Not to pitch The Ultimate 90-Day Carnivore Challenge, but one reason the program is so robust is because after the 90-Day Challenge we spend 30+ days answering this question — can you add back in plant foods? And if so, which ones, how much and how often, to personalize your meat-based diet to you, your life, and your goals for long term
success.
🦷 What causes dental problems:
Dentists are hardly
trained to provide lifestyle changes to keep you out of their chair. But most dental problems come down to 2 things: 1. Poor Diet 2. Poor Breathing The modern diet is terrible.
It's mostly processed plant foods like refined grains, oils, and sugars. It's woefully low in actual nutrition. This causes an imbalance in the oral microbiome, resulting in a proliferation of bad bacteria and constant acid attacks, with an inability for the good bacteria to fight back and teeth to refortify. Solution: • Fewer processed plants. • More meat-based foods. Most people don't breathe properly. Mouth breathing has become a silent epidemic.
You want to keep your
mouth shut and breathe through your nose. This enables saliva to protect and nourish the teeth. This also allows for proper oral posture where the mouth is closed and the tongue rests on the
palate. Mouth breathing, and thus poor oral posture, can severely impact facial development with lifelong consequences such as airway obstruction.
The mouth is for eating. The nose is for
breathing.
💡Why you should have (at least) 2 careers:
🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:
Quality of life is having the freedom to make choices that are not fear based. Whether it’s the ability to choose the kinds of projects I want to take on and can learn from, or the ability to take a month off to travel. Freedom to choose is the ultimate luxury. – Danielle Colding
📗 What got added to my reading list:
Lyn Alden wrote a 540 page
book that moved to the top of my reading list (though I'll likely wait for the audiobook and a long trip).
In the meantime, I'm
watching this recent podcast she did for a high level overview.
🏥 Where are the best hospitals:
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. No thanks, I'm on a diet.
Dr. Kevin Stock
Founder, CEO
Meat Health, LLC | NED LLC
(314)
207-3216 (feel free to text me!) 🚀 If you'd like to help further my mission to provide the best weekend "edutainment" :) it would mean the world to me if you... 🙏Thank you for being a part of the Saturday 7! |
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