Saturday 7

Published: Sat, 06/08/24

Updated: Wed, 06/12/24

Good morning!

Here's your Saturday 7 roundup!

🥛 What if you gain weight on carnivore foods:

By including raw milk in my diet for 18 months, I gained 33 pounds.

Does this mean I should cut the dairy?

In a podcast with Serena from Carnivore Revolution, I discuss "fattening" carnivore foods and whether or not weight gain is a sign that these foods are bad for you...

Unlocking Dental Health with Carnivore Diet @KevinStock12

We also discussed:

What's the proper human diet according to your teeth
Oral hygiene protocol: carnivore vs standard diet
How mouth breathing can ruin your health and teeth

🦷 What helps prevent cavities:

Meat helps prevent cavities.

One reason is because protein increases oral alkalinity which combats the acid production from carbohydrates.

Our ancestral hunter-gatherers intuitively knew what to eat and they didn't have the oral health problems that we suffer today.

Meat was their stable food.

There's a reason we say:

"Hunter-gatherer" and not "gatherer-hunter."

"Meat and potatoes" and not "potatoes and meat."

Potatoes are optional, the meat is not.

🥩 How many servings:

Meat was the main course of our ancestral hunter-gatherer diet.

Things changed 10,000 years ago with the agricultural revolution. We see it in the fossil teeth. Cavities and tooth enamel defects, like enamel hypoplasia, start to pop up with increasing frequency.

For example, 6,000 years ago in Upper Egypt, the Badarian culture started planting wheat, barley, lentils, and tubers.

Malnourishment ensued.

You can see it in their art and in their teeth.

They carved images of their starved bodies into limestone. Their teeth reflected the malnutrition via stunted enamel growth (enamel hypoplasia).

The rich were ok though. They kept meat as their main dish, eating cattle, sheep, and goats.

Yet today, the 3-4oz serving sizes of meat suggest it's basically a side dish.

💡How to eat the frog:

How to get things done:

🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:

"Success is peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do the best of which you're capable." ...and you're the only one that will know that."

– John Wooden