Saturday 7

Published: Sat, 06/27/26

Updated: Tue, 06/30/26

Good morning!

Here's your Saturday 7 roundup!

🦷 What tells the tooth:

Teeth are the clearest window we have into the ancestral diet.

They survive for millions of years in the fossil record and are the only remains that actually touched the food.

For most of human history, all 32 teeth fit into the jaw, came in straight, and stayed largely free of disease.

Now everyone needs braces, wisdom tooth extractions, fillings, and prosthetics to replace teeth lost to disease.

Our genes didn’t suddenly change.
Our diet did.

🍔 What it looks like:

I had friends over for dinner, and here’s what it looked like.

A simple, healthy meal!

But if you're having guests and want to be a bit more sophisticated, you can explore America's diverse barbecue styles.

🌰 How to make the highest-quality food:

80% of all the world’s almonds are grown in California by:

Trucking in 70% of U.S. honeybees for pollination: which lost over half its colonies last year
Heavy groundwater pumping: which has sunk some lands nearly 30 feet
Pesticides: which can harm bee larvae
Fertilizer: which can leach into groundwater as nitrate, contributing to the Central Valley water-quality problem

Meanwhile...

70% of the world’s agricultural land is grassland, much of it unable to grow crops.

But cattle can graze this rain-fed, non-arable land and convert its indigestible grass into the highest-quality food.

💡 How to guess:

When presented with competing explanations, the one requiring the fewest assumptions is usually the best place to start.

This is known as Occam's Razor.

Put simply, the simplest explanation is often the best one.

If you have to accept a complex, intertwined series of assumptions to reach one specific conclusion, always ask whether there's a simple alternative that fits.

Occam's Nutrition Razor: Start with an ancestral diet.

🧠 What quote I've been thinking about:

This is for anyone going through a hard time.

You're going to lose sleep. Doubt yourself. Wonder if you made the right call and have no way to know for years.

That's what “hard” actually feels like: Known costs with unknown payoffs with few mile markers. You’re not sure if you're lost or on the right path.

But here’s the good news: Hard means no one else will do it.
Which means...

Good...

More for you.

When you’re younger, "hard" feels like a warning to slow down, pivot, stop, etc. But once you understand what the path is actually supposed to look like, hard becomes a filter. Every wall you climb over is one more person selected out of the success pool. You survived this round of culling.

What to actually do:
Flip the script from "poor me" to "poor everyone else who has to try."

The other thing nobody tells you about the early days:
You're fighting a bear with a stick while someone further down the path is fighting a dragon with a nuclear bomb and six nations behind them.

The bear fight is actually harder. You just don't know it yet because you haven't seen the dragon...

And here's the unfortunate reality:

Nobody cheers for you when you need it most.

When you're in the lonely chapter, too different from your old friends but not successful enough for your new ones, that's when you want support the most.

That's exactly when you won't get it. So don’t expect it.

You have to be the single clap in an empty auditorium. For a long time. And that’s okay. The loneliness IS the proof. Proof that you're on the right path. Because if everyone were cheering, you'd just be like everyone else. Average. And that’s not where you want to be.

For you have to have a story worth telling at the end of your life...

You have to go through things other people weren’t willing to.

– Alex Hormozi