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Here's your Saturday 7 roundup!

🥩 How to kill the fewest animals:

The only meat I've eaten this year is beef. No chicken. No pork. Mostly just grass fed, grass finished beef from a local farm.

I took inventory and realized I'm on pace to eat 2 cows this year. 

That means, all in, I'll be responsible for ~2 animal deaths.

This is more vegan than most vegans as monocrop agriculture kills countless animal lives.

🐘 What your ancestors ate:

If you want to know what your ancestors really ate, what the real “Paleo Diet” was, there is one place to look, one fossil that rules them all.

Because there is only one part of the body that exists in the fossil record that actually comes into contact with food — teeth.

They are archaeological miracles.

Covered in enamel that is 97% mineral, teeth endure for millions of years. It’s why they are the most prevalent fossils. And they tell us a lot.

The size, shape, and structure of teeth tell you what that mouth could eat and did eat, where the inhabitant of these teeth lived and what diseases they had.

By analyzing wear patterns, morphology, and chemical signatures like stable isotopes and trace elements, you can infer what your ancestors ate that led to cavity-free, straight, healthy teeth…

It was a lot of meat.

But unlike me, our ancestors didn't have access to a deep freezer to minimize animal death.

In fact, the evidence is that wherever our ancestors migrated, they hunted and decimated the largest animals. (r) 

🥱 How to get more for less:

Social media is funny.

I'll spend a good amount of time crafting, what I think, is important info, like isotopic analysis of teeth. It falls on deaf ears. 

But then I just post something like this, and it just goes and goes...

Don't worry, I'll keep posting the boring stuff! 

💡What's the incentive:

Don't ask your barber if you need a haircut.

If you need to inspire action or illicit change in yourself or others, inspect the incentive.

For example, in the 1700s nearly 1 in 3 British criminals were dying during transport to Australia.

Britain switched from paying sea captains for every passenger who walked on the ship to paying them for every passenger who walked off. 

The survival rate shot up to 99%.

🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:

"“I pay no attention to anyone’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own way.”

– Wolfgang Mozart

📊 Why the young feel poor:

I remember 25. I was one year away from graduating dental school with my whole life in front of me. Full of hope, excitement, and optimism.

Today's 25 years old's largely don't feel that.

Today's youth see no way out, drowning in educational debt with no prospect of ever being a homeowner or living the American dream.

Financial repression is crushing the young.

If you've ever heard bitcoin described as "hope" — this is why. 

🔬 Food inventions since 1940:

Food products invented the year you were born.

As a general rule of thumb, if a "food" is invented, best to avoid / limit.

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.

I got a 10lb package in the mail this week, like a late birthday present.

LMNT released a new electrolyte carbonated drink. 

They are good. Too good. I don't like things that taste that good! 😂

Right now they are running a 1st Edition Special. They have Black Cherry Lime, Grapefruit, Citrus, and Watermelon.

My favorite is the Black Cherry Lime, but really, they are all very good.

Dr. Kevin Stock
Meat Health, LLC

NED LLC (The Snore Solution)
 

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