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🦷 What your dentist doesn't know:

Too few dentists know that cavities are a sign of a nutritional imbalance — too many carbohydrates too few vitamins and minerals.

Correcting this imbalance requires reducing grains and sugars, and increasing nutrient-dense, bioavailable animal foods.

Perhaps cavities, the most common disease in the world, are an early warning sign of a nutritional imbalance that is also responsible for other diseases that too few doctors are aware of...

This is my general thesis of what your teeth say you should eat.

🥩 What's 20 years old:

Before I ever started researching what our teeth say we should eat, I was a fat kid hell-bent on figuring out how to lose weight.

It was such an obsession that 20 years ago I wrote a 50+ page senior thesis on the obesity remedy.

Today, I'd shorten it. 

Cause: Abundance of omega-6 fatty acid (i.e. linoleic acid) in the diet, largely a result of seed oils, which is exacerbated by refined grains and sugars. 

Remedy: Drastically reduce foods high in omega-6 as well as refined grains and sugars, and replace with nutrient-dense, protein-rich, healthy-fat foods typified by ruminant meat.

🔮 What is the diet of the future:

The combination of "what your teeth say you should eat" and "the obesity remedy" led me to the conclusion that the optimal human diet is low in sugar, refined grains, and omega-6 fatty acids. It's high in nutrient-rich, bioavailable, chewy meat.

This kind of diet is consistent with dental anthropology. 

In the fossil record we see that our ancestors' diet resulted in broad healthy smiles. Their diet would not have had sugar or refined grains. It would have naturally been low in omega-6 fats. 

Significant evidence suggest they ate a meat-based diet with some opportunistic fruits and fallback roots.

I think the diet of the future is very old.

💡How to get rid of problems:

This is easier said than done...

The trick is to re-define "problems" as opportunities.

A skills problem is an opportunity to learn and grow.

A personal problem is an opportunity to gain understanding.

A business problem is an opportunity to create value.

From now on, when I get hit with a "problem," I'm working on saying "good" and then defining what beneficial outcome can result from the "challenge."

I think everyone can benefit from this, but especially people in "lower mid life," the least happy age group in the US (and common globally), as reported in the 2024 World Happiness Report.

🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:

"You are the author of your own life, and it’s never too late to replace the stories you tell yourself and the world. It’s never too late to begin a new chapter, add a surprise twist, or change genres entirely."

– Tim Ferriss

🏆 Who is winning the race:

This week MicroStrategy bought another 9,245 bitcoins bringing their total to over 210,000, more than 1% of all bitcoin that will ever exist (here's how they are doing it).

If bitcoin were to become the base settlement layer of the financial world, MicroStrategy would likely become the wealthiest entity in the world.

This was a company whose trajectory was towards irrelevance a few years ago. Now, they are outpacing every US Megacap stock.

🏚️ Where to move:

The world's most beautiful villages.

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.

How people tip around the world. 

Dr. Kevin Stock
Meat Health, LLC

NED LLC (The Snore Solution)
 

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