Saturday 7

Published: Sat, 05/17/25

Updated: Thu, 05/22/25

Good morning!

Here's your Saturday 7 roundup!

✍️ What happened:

I had no idea this was going to happen.

August 21st, 2009

It was Friday.

The first week of dental school was almost through...

I "finished" writing the first chapter of The Human Diet months ago. But while editing it, I had an idea to completely change the narrative.

It's finally ready.

Chapter 1: The First Human Diet

P.S.

If you didn't know, I'm writing a book called The Human Diet.

During this writing process, I've decided to release some chapters (maybe all of them). I’d love to have you join the community of early readers and critiquers!

Any thoughts or suggestions?

Please leave a comment and let me know. I read all of them and implemented several of your suggestions into the Introduction.

Thank you! 🙏

🥩 What is my top food:

My top food is beef.

And by "beef" I mean all the cuts that come from a cow: hamburger, steaks, roasts, and organs.

Every few months I buy a 1/2 cow from a local regenerative farmer. I store it in a deep freezer and pull out cuts as needed.

Most days this makes up 70%+ of my diet.

Beef really is my only top food.

I think other foods are great, but most have caveats. There's a lot of nuances regarding the other "30%" of the foods I eat.

So much nuance that I created an entire program, Meat Health Academy, to unravel these details to optimize results.

💊 How much beef:

Creatine is one of the most researched supplements and one of the few that shows consistent benefits and safety.

One of those benefits looks like it may be cancer prevention.

In this study, higher creatine is associated with lower odds of cancer. (r)

I think much of the creatine research, which consistently shows positive health outcomes like enhanced physical and mental performance, is simply telling us — eat more meat.

Almost everyone is "creatine deficient" if we define it as not having optimal stores. Like "creatine deficiency" is a proxy measure for how much we undereat meat.

The body only makes about 1g/day, the rest we must get from our diet (3-5 g/day to optimize creatine stores).

Since it only comes from animal foods (notably red meat), the only way to optimize creatine stores without supplementation is to eat a meat heavy diet.

As a baseline ballpark: 1+ pounds for women and 1.5+ pounds for men.

P.S.

This is the king of creatine books.
It's a free download which is a lot better than the $133 hardcover!

💡 How to be more free:

The Paradox of Freedom

The way to increase freedom is to narrow your focus.

Stay focused on saving to achieve financial freedom.
Stay focused on training to achieve physical freedom.
Stay focused on learning to achieve intellectual freedom.

The disciplined become the free. —James Clear

In 2-minutes, this guy shows you how to brainwash yourself to become disciplined.

🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:

"It is fatal to know too much at the outset. Boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as the novelist who is over certain of his plot."

– Paul Theroux, on starting