Saturday 7

Published: Sat, 04/11/26

Updated: Mon, 04/13/26

Good morning!

Here's your Saturday 7 roundup!

🦷 What's the problem:

Most dental problems are early warning signs of a poor diet.

In the mouth it looks like:

-Oral microbiome imbalance
-Cavities
-Periodontal disease
-Impaired craniofacial development
-Fatty tongue
-Airway restriction
-Mouth breathing
-Fluorosis
-Tongue Coating
-Orofacial muscle dysfunction

In the body it looks like:

-Guy dysbiosis
-Diabetes
-Autoimmune, neurologic, cardiovascular disease
-Sleep apnea
-Obesity
-Hypertension, Low HRV
-Erectile dysfunction
-Low IQ, hypothyroid
-Cancers (Fn)
-H. Pylori, GERD

If you've had an oral health problem, this is why.

👩‍🍼 When it starts:

Many dental problems trace back to early childhood nutrition.

Poor childhood diet →

Orofacial myofunctional disorder + craniofacial dystrophy (underdeveloped muscles, jaws, and airway) →

Mouth breathing → dry mouth → oral dysbiosis →

Wrecked oral health (cavities, gum disease, malocclusion, snoring/apnea)

It also helps explain why allergy season worsens oral health.

About 64% of U.S. households buy over-the-counter allergy medication. Every antihistamine — Claritin, Zyrtec, Allegra, all of them — causes dry mouth.

Saliva is your mouth's defense system. It remineralizes enamel, neutralizes acid, flushes bacteria, and keeps the whole ecosystem in balance.

When medications suppress salivary flow, that balance collapses.

People with medication-induced dry mouth have 3X the risk of cavities. In other words, antihistamines essentially mimic the effects of mouth breathing.

Mouth breathing dries your tissues, shifts oral pH toward acidic, and creates an environment where harmful bacteria thrive and beneficial ones struggle. It's the same destructive cascade as medication-induced dry mouth, just arriving through a different door.

😴 What does the science say:

Morning larks versus night owls: Science weighs in.

Before claiming your chronotype, I'd challenge you to get at least 10-15 minutes of sunrise, mid-day, and sunset exposure, for a few weeks, and then see how your cards fall.

💡 How to be instantly likable:

The psychology behind being instantly likable.

My translation: It comes down to taking off any masks and dropping any character roles and "protective" shields, and just being your raw, open, authentic self.

🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:

"Stubbornness and flexibility aren't opposites; they're responses to different inputs. Be impenetrable to social pressure and quick to adapt to evidence."

– Shane Parrish

🪜 What step are we on:

Ray Dalio believes we are on Step 9 of 13 in the world order conflict.

Bitcoin was built for Step 12.

[In Step 12] there are big increases in taxes, debt issuance, money creation, FX controls, capital controls, and financial repression to finance the wars.

I had ChatGPT estimate when Step 12 would start, and it said probabilistically it's 2-5 years away.

Like Ray, most people want to live in a peaceful world built on win-win relationships rather than damaged by lose-lose ones, but it's prudent to study history and prepare for the worst.