Saturday 7

Published: Sat, 03/16/24

Good morning!

Here's your Saturday 7 roundup!

🥤 How to live longer:

I thought this headline was a joke.

Soda is devoid of nutrition. Dairy is loaded with nutrition.

But this isn't to say that everyone should be drinking milk.

There's a lot of nuance to consider with dairy: A1 vs A2, raw vs pasteurized, lactose vs milk fats.

Here's a detailed article about if you should include dairy or not.

🐄 How the planet can live longer:

From human longevity to planet longevity, cows play an important role.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions:
Cattle can be a net carbon sink, that increase biodiversity and water-holding, while breaking down nonnutritive foods and converting them into the most nutrient-dense foods we can eat.

Feed:
They can subsist on just grass, upcycling nutrients by grazing on land we can’t use for crops on food we can't eat. Further, most additional feed is non competitive crop residues.

Land:
As mentioned, cattle can graze on nonarable land and be rotated on other lands, increasing fertility, eliminating the need for herbicides, tillage, and nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium fertilizers.

We need MORE cows with good husbandry.

A picture is often worth a 1000 words.

📝 What's Step #1:

A friend that I see at the gym on a daily basis asked me what he was doing wrong.

Over the last 6 months his weight hasn't moved from 207 and his body fat is stuck at 27%.

For months, I've talked to him about diet and how he should focus on meat. He said he mostly was.

So I told him to write down every single thing he eats for three days, and then bring it to the gym so I can have a look.

Surprise, surprise. He was eating maybe 50 grams of animal protein per day. The rest was highly processed foods, lots of sugar, seed oils, and grains. He thought he was eating healthy, but he was basically eating the standard American diet.

If you're stuck:

Step #1, take a detailed inventory of everything you eat in a week.

Step #2, drastically reduce sugar, seed oils, and refined grains, while increasing red meat consumption to at least 1 gram of protein per pound of ideal body weight.

Step #3 (optional but highly recommended), give that list to qualified coach (here and here) to help you make a new food list that fits you, your life, and your goals.

💡How to be less unhappy:

With quality of life improving, why are people less happy?

According to George Mack: Envy.

Happiness = Quality of life - Envy

Comparison is the thief of joy.

Note: If "envy" makes you improve yourself without resenting the other person, it's not envy, it's inspiration.

🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:

"Intelligent people know how to get what they want. Wise people know what's worth wanting."

📊 Is this the Gold Rush:

Last week I posted a clip about the Gold Rush that got taken down, but this link should work (reposting because it's worth a watch).

To piggy back on it, here's a chart of gold over the last 50 years.

In 2004 the gold ETF was approved.

Prior to this there wasn't an easy way to invest in gold. But with an ETF, you could add gold to a portfolio with just a click of a button.

Like gold prior to the ETF, bitcoin wasn't easy for traditional investors to own. That all changed this year.

Investors are diving in. Like nothing we've seen in history.

This week bitcoin surpassed silver to become the 8th most valuable asset in the world.

Many (myself included) think it's only a matter of time before bitcoin flips gold as the most valuable asset in the world. It could even happen in the next few years. Having watched this magic-internet-money for the last decade, I wouldn't bet against it.