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Here's your Saturday 7 roundup!

🥩 How to heal Lyme disease:

After two cases of Lyme disease, one leaving him cognitively impaired and nearly disabled, Tim Ferriss stumbled into a solution that erased every symptom in weeks and has held for over a decade. 

This is how Tim beat Lyme disease with a strict ketogenic diet.

In general, I'm not a "keto advocate" as it's too vague and doesn't tell of the quality of the diet. You can do a keto diet with seed oils or steak. 

Also, there's a time and place to "chase ketones" but for most people I don't recommend it. That said, there's no denying that nutritional ketosis can have unique healing properties.

🦷 Where it all started:

As SnoreBuds launches, I've been telling the backstory.

And this is where it all started.

The backstory is only 10+ years long. I'll abreviate it.

After graduating from dental school, I opened a practice exclusively dedicated to Dental Sleep Medicine. My office was a single room in a business park. With a single employee. Me.

I still laugh re-imagining the scene. Someone sees one of my blog posts, calls my cell, and schedules directly with me. I give them the address. They drive to a business park and see a telecommunications building. They obviously have the wrong address, right? But no. They walk into the building and a 26-year-old waves them into a small room. The kid proceeds to take their health history, do an exam, and lecture them on oral appliance therapy for sleep apnea.

And that's how it started. And how I discovered the limitations of oral appliances, and got the idea for SnoreBuds.

Fast-forward 10 years and SnoreBuds are now shipping!

Lesson

While there've been and continue to be many lessons, too many learned the hard way, one of the big ones is that resourcefulness is the antidote to a lack of resources. Do what you can, with what you got, from where you are.

🤖 What never stops:

The problems learning never stops. And business doesn't sleep.

So I've been building an AI agent to help handle customer questions.

Like my experience testing AI over the past few years, one moment I'm flabbergasted, the next disappointed.

But I think working together, we'll be able to tackle a lot.
 

Related:
The Collective Intelligence Project interviewed over 6,000 people to find out how we’re using AI and what we think it will do to our jobs. 

Consensus: 

It still can’t give me what I want, but seems to get closer every year, so it will almost certainly be doing the tasks I’m asking in 5 years. But the singularity doesn't seem too close. 

💡 How to put results on autopilot:

While creating rules for my AI agent, I realize it's just as important to have rules for myself.

Rules turn desired behavior into default behavior. You stop negotiating with yourself and just execute. 

Example: I have a rule that I work out every day. The workout changes, but the fact that I do doesn't.

Anti-Rules work the same way, but prevent unwanted behavior.

Example: I don't bring my phone into the bedroom.

List your rules and anti-rules and reap compounding benefits.

🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:

"The distance between deciding and doing is the single most reliable predictor of whether your life will be extraordinary or ordinary."

– Prompter, with 3 paragraphs that will change your life

📊 What is growing:

While it's been a very ugly week in markets, there is a glimer of hope.

ISM PMI measures whether the economy is growing or shrinking based on manufacturing. 

• Under 50 = shrinking
• Over 50 = growing

Here's the pattern: 

Every time ISM climbs back over 50, bitcoin enters a growth phase.

On Monday, ISM PMI clocked in at 52.6.

As long as unemployment doesn't tick up, this could signal a bitcoin breakout while most people think we're entering a year-long bear market.

☕ Why they have 2 holes:

What that extra coffee cup hole is for.

I recommend skipping these coffee cups altogether. 

Many disposable paper coffee cups are lined with plastic containing PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) which can leach into your hot beverage. 

These "forever chemicals" don't break down easily and are linked to health risks like immune problems and cancer. 

Further, that 🔁7 means it's basically unrecyclable, and likely made of other harmful plastics like BPA.

When getting coffee, I ask for glass or bring my own mug (and chocolate LMNT to sprinkle in:) 

As always, it's an honor getting to spend some time with you. 

Hope you have a great weekend!

Kevin

P.S.

What are peanut butter-style pay raises? 

IMO peanut butter isn't a health food, nor a good policy.

Dr. Kevin Stock
Meat Health

SnoreBuds
 

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