Saturday 7

Published: Sat, 11/09/24

Updated: Sun, 11/10/24

Good morning!

Here's your Saturday 7 roundup — Shock Edition!

🥛 Shocking change:

After 2 years of drinking raw milk, I'm stopping.

There are a few reasons why.

First, I want to move to a more ancestrally appropriate diet.

Beyond infant breastfeeding, humans didn't consume much (if any) dairy prior to the Agricultural Revolution.

Even after the Agricultural Revolution, drinking milk was not a traditional way of consuming dairy. Besides a few indigenous peoples like the Maasai and Samburu, traditional groups always fermented milk into other dairy products like cheese, kefir, and yogurt.

Second, the high quality milk I'd get (raw, A2, non-homogenized) is expensive and inconvenient.

Third, I am starting another "bulk" but not to the extent I did over the last 2 years where I gained 35 pounds. Milk helped pack on the pounds, but this current bulk is going to be less extreme.

Fourth, since I was a kid I've had a skin condition known as tinea versicolor. It comes and goes with seemingly no rhyme or reason.

Over the last two years it has been worse.

While I'm skeptical it's due to the milk (and there's likely a genetic component as 2 of my other 3 brothers also get it), I'm interested in seeing if it improves by cutting out the milk.

I'll probably test it back in at a future date, but for now, it's out.

P.S.

Here's an article all about dairy that explains more of my thoughts on dairy, carnivore, and if you should or shouldn't consume it.

🚰 Shocking proposal:

RFK proposed to remove fluoride from the U.S. water systems.

I re-tweeted it to highlight that this not some "conspiracy theory" idea.

Fluoride is a known neurotoxin, and the levels in the drinking water have been associated with significant reductions in IQ.

This shocking statement went viral.

P.S.

This is the history of water fluoridation they don't want you to know.

💰 Shocking statistic:

I read that only 1 in 25,000 men over the age of 35 in the US have a visible 6-pack (that's about 2,500 men total).

That's about how many billionaires there are (~2,500).

I think eating meat, working out, and getting in shape is about to become cool again.

P.S.

This isn't to say men need six packs to be healthy. Often maintaining the low levels of body fat to have one isn't.

💡Shockingly simple:

Roger Federer, one of the greatest tennis players of all time, achieved this greatness by winning only 4% more points than his opponents.

In his 1,526 singles matches, Federer won 54% of the points.

This 4% advantage compounded consistently resulted in 20 Grand Slams titles.

Giving just 4% more, over a long period of time, will make you great.

P.S.

Interestingly, in Meat Health Academy, I recommend people use a 4% system (0:39 mark) to "effortless" achieve their health and fitness goals.

💯 Shockingly true:

"Everyone wants some complex strategy…but you can beat 99% of people by just doing exactly what you said you were gonna do, the way you said you’d do it, by the time you said you’d have it done by. Which is also much more difficult than it sounds.

– Alex Hormozi

📊 Shockingly similar:

The stock market is like Roger Federer.

According to Charlie Bilello:

“On any given day in the stock market, your odds of a positive return are just 53%, little better than a coin flip. Increase your time horizon to a year, and your odds of success jump to 75%. At a 20-year holding period, there has never been a negative return for US equity investors. Play the long game.”