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🥩 What is an ancestral diet:

50,000 years ago there were 161 megafauna species that no longer exist today. 

During this extinction period, archaeologists find large animal traps, advanced spears, and butchered bones of mammoths, mastodons, and giant sloths.

These species went extinct at different times and at different rates, but everywhere, it occurred after humans arrived. (r)

The ancestral modern human diet was not plant-based. 
It was large fatty animals.

It's a sign of the times when it's considered radical to eat the most biologically and evolutionarily consistent, species-appropriate food — meat.

🥚 What does an egg yolk's color mean:

Chickens are meant to eat a wide range of foods such as grass and bugs.

Today, conventional chickens are fed corn and soy to fatten them up as fast as possible.

You can see the difference in the color of their yolks.

A dark orange yolk often means a healthy chicken foraging on quality feed yielding higher nutrition.

A pale yolk means an inferior diet and worse nutrition.

Pastured vs Conventional Yolks

Conventional eggs can have omega-6 to omega-3 ratios as high as 20:1.

That's ~3X that of pasture-raised eggs.

Conventional eggs have ~2X the linoleic acid (~1g compared to 0.5g).

No one needs more linoleic acid in their diet.

***Misleading Yolks***

The primary reason for the color difference is the amount of xanthophyll pigments in the diet that get converted to lutein and zeaxanthin and deposited in the yolk.

A chicken's natural diet will result in higher amounts of these and thus darker yolks.

But by simply adding some supplements like beta-carotene or marigold petals to the feed, a farm can trick consumers with dark yolks from chicken's fed poor feed.

Eggs are a health food, but I recommend sourcing them from a farm where the chickens get to move out in the pasture, consuming a more natural diet.

I get my eggs from a local farmer. But if shopping, I look for "organic pastured" eggs.

🍳 What's infinitely better:

A conventional egg is still infinitely better than "Just Egg".

💡How to do things:

Did you know, you can just do stuff.

🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:

"Develop the ability to be disliked and free yourself from the prison of other people’s opinions."

– Mark Mason

🪙 How to live off bitcoin without selling:

There's a tax strategy called "Buy, Borrow, Die."

Michael Saylor alludes to this strategy in his keynote at the Bitcoin Conference. 

I'm not recommending this, but here's how it works:

1. You buy bitcoin.

2. You borrow against it.

For example, once a year year, you could borrow 5% of the total value of your bitcoin. Use the funds to pay off the previous year's loan. The difference between new loan vs. previous is what you can live on. 

In down markets you might need to up it to 10%, but the increase in value during bull markets should more than make up for it.

The key to this approach is borrowing fiat at a much lower interest rate than the average compound annual growth rate (CAGR) for bitcoin.

Here's a template on how this would work using the power low model in order to retire on your bitcoin.

Based on this model, if you have ~15 bitcoin, you could retire right now and live off it very comfortably. If you have 1 bitcoin, it's 10 years.

3. You die. 

🚗 What to do if you're underwater:

If you find yourself underwater in a car, don't panic. Do this.

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 ordered a chicken and an egg on Amazon. 

I'll let you know.

Dr. Kevin Stock
Meat Health, LLC

NED LLC (The Snore Solution)
 

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