Good morning!

Here's your Saturday 7 roundup!

🎥 What I watched:

I got a chance to watch "Open Wide" about Mewing on Netflix.

Crooked teeth (i.e. malocclusion) is a modern day phenomenon.

Bottle-fed formula, jarred commercial food, a soft diet with little to no chewing, and a diet devoid of essential nutrition, can prevent our faces from developing to their full genetic potential and result in small jaws, a small mouth, and crooked teeth.  

Mewing is an attempt to prevent or reverse this situation by training proper oral posture where the mouth is closed at rest and the tongue rests on the palate. 

The tongue then acts as a scaffolding for a wide arch and all the teeth fitting where they should. 

It also then results in proper breathing, that is, nasal breathing.

While I think "mewing" is essential in this sense (proper oral posture and nasal breathing), where I think it has fallen short is the lack of focus on the actual root cause — diet.

Breastfeeding provides the ideal nutrition and use of the oral-facial muscular to start a child on the path to proper craniofacial development. Weaning to meat provides the nutrient-dense nutrition and the chewing to continue this proper trajectory.

Proper oral posture and nasal breathing is then a natural consequence.

💸 What are you investing in:

Every meal is an investment.

• Short-term = how you feel and function
• Mid-term = how you look and perform
• Long-term = how your health holds up

How are you allocating your funds...

🥩 How to allocate it...

If 70% of your diet was meat-based foods like: 

• Beef
• Eggs
• Fish
• Dairy

30% of it could be less than ideal foods, and you'd still be fitter and healthier than 90%+ of people.

In fact, the anthropological evidence suggests we are hypercarnivores, which means we have the digestive flexibility to use non-animal foods for up to 30% of our intake (of course, what this 30% consists of DOES matter — i.e. seed oils aren't the same as seasonal fruits).  

But most of us should fall within this hypercarnivore spectrum.

A simple rule of thumb is to prioritize meat each meal. Anything else should mostly be single-ingredient, whole foods, that you seemingly tolerate well enough.

I like to use simple guidelines like this to make life easier, because we tend to make life hard...

💡Why do we make it so hard:

Life is so easy. why do we make it so hard?

I really enjoyed this video and perspective.

But to answer his question, I think part of the reason we make life difficult is because we want to. We want to challenge ourselves, to experience more, to see what we're made of. 

But sometimes we get so caught up in it all that the challenges we choose feel like stress and work.

This was a nice reminder that much of life's stress is a privilege .

🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:

“It’s the strangest thing: A lot of people as they get older get more protected and terrified. My desire is to keep throwing myself into things. My parenting, my relationship, my work. I’ll take the pain. I’ll take the joy. Because the feeling makes me go, I’m in life. It’s an enormous gift, this life.”
 

— Nicole Kidman

📊 What's the problem:

Jeff has the clearest presentation on how Bitcoin solves a problem outside of most people's awareness, one of the biggest problems in the world.

🎓 What to study:

The IMF says AI will affect 40% of jobs, worsening inequality. 

Schools are starting to prepare. 

On Tuesday the University of Pennsylvania announced that this fall students can select Artificial Intelligence as a major.

“We are training students for jobs that don’t yet exist in fields that may be completely new or revolutionized by the time they graduate,”

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.

This has been my favorite song for the last month. Probably because his crazy vocals.

Dr. Kevin Stock
Meat Health, LLC

NED LLC (The Snore Solution)
 

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