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🥩 Did Ray Peat ever comment on this:

Ray Peat has a devote following. They tend to be very vocal on Twitter.

I have not studied his work in detail but I am familiar with his general nutrition recommendations, some of which I agree with like his denouncement of seed oils (PUFAs) but some make me scratch my head like his advocacy for a lot of carbs, especially simple sugars.

What I want to know is did Ray Peat ever comment on evolutionary biology?

Unfortunately I can't ask Ray because he passed away in November 2022. So I asked Twitter, but I didn't get any good answers.

For example, animals in their natural food environment rarely develop cavities or periodontal disease.

Based on the fossil record, the same was true of humans until the Agricultural Revolution. With the transition to high-carb, grain-based diets, our ancestors suffered from a dramatic rise in oral disease.

Things only got worse during the Industrial Revolution with the refining of grains and the introduction of sugar.

For Peat to argue in favor of a high-carb, high-sugar, diet is fundamentally arguing against evolutionary biology and millions of years of selective pressures.

Peat did suffer from poor oral health.

To me, arguing for a diet that is bad for your teeth because it is somehow good for your overall health is a precarious argument to make...

🥛 What to wean to:

In peasant villages, childhood mortality is especially high between the ages of 2-4 years old.

For the first couple of years, while they are breastfed, these children are typically healthy.

However, malnutrition often accompanies the weaning to a carbohydrate-based diet.

For example, a common first food in Africa and Central America, is a pap made of sugar, water, and maize flour. (r)

This nutrient-deficient diet can result in weight loss, infections, kwashiorkor (image) and death.

Humans wean earlier (~2 years) than other primates (i.e. chimpanzees ~5 years) because of the higher quality diet (i.e. meat) that we are designed to be weaned to.

🗣️ What got a voiceover:

A couple of months ago, I posted a 47-second slideshow to address some of the theories of obesity.

There was a comment that asked if I do a voiceover and explain some of the data, so that's what I did (~3 min).

The quality is terrible, but it gets the idea across :)

💡How to live an "easy" life:

🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

– Leonardo da Vinci

🐂 What's starting to run:

Bitcoin is up 20% this week (at the time of this writing). 

It appears that a big reason why is that the ETF demand hasn't slowed since launching 7 weeks ago. 

According to Bitmex Research, there is more than 10X the demand for bitcoin from these ETFs than what the network produces per day (900 new bitcoins are mined per day, soon to be halved to 450). 

For Michael Saylor:

Bitcoin took his $500M company with $500M in capital growing at 0% a year and turned it into a $500M dollar company growing 5%-10% a year with $6,000,000,000 dollars of capital growing 160% a year." (r)

For Me:

Bitcoin is a revolutionary technology that makes the cost of beef go down over time instead of up.

📸 What's cringe:

I have 20 more cringe photos like this coming your way...

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.

After a decade of development, Apple is winding down their electric car program. (r)

Rumor has it that they cancelled these plans after realizing the cars would require windows.

Dr. Kevin Stock
Meat Health, LLC

NED LLC (The Snore Solution)
 

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