• Fasting is all the rage these days. And it was brought up again in the Meat Health facebook group this week. So I continued to play devil's advocate sharing a study that shows we don't have much human data or evidence that fasting is all that effective outside of small animal models. Evidence shows no significant differences between intermittent fasting and control groups when looking at a number of factors including weight loss and blood markers. 

• Above is a good Twitter thread that shares a lot of my thoughts around forced fasting.

• Of all the furry mammals, we are the only ones that don't pant to dissipate heat. We rely on sweating to stay cool (h/t Nat Eliason). Running and hunting in the middle of the day was a competitive advantage for our early ancestors. Thus we are the only primate adapted for endurance running via a vestibular system and nuchal ligament for balance, longer lower limbs, a big toe that came in alignment with the other toes, sparse and short body hair, and millions of eccrine sweat glands that prevent us from hyperthermia. Humans are uniquely adapted to hunting (and thus eating meat).

💤 How to go to sleep:

• I rarely have a hard time going to sleep. By the time my head hits the pillow I'm out. But twice this week I awoke from REM sleep (i.e. a dream) and then had a hard time getting back to sleep. Like magic, a fellow Saturday 7 reader passed along this drumming technique that no eyelid can resist. I'll be trying this to trick my brain into falling to sleep!

• Daniel Elk, founder of Spotify, operates differently than most CEOs. His "work day" doesn't start until 10:30 a.m. But you can't argue with the results. In this interview, I gathered a number of gems from leadership to time management to decision making. But one of my favorite parts was on meetings:

• MacKenzie Scott is the wealthiest woman in the world. Following her divorce from Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, she immediately started figuring out how to give away her $60 billion. This is a fascinating read on a woman paving change in the world of philanthropy.

• I asked myself 2 questions recently and I have to admit, I answered "Yes" to both of them:
  • Do you ever get triggered by media, politics, social posts, ect.?
  • Do you have an open mind?
• Almost no one will admit to being closed-minded, but then shouldn't almost no one get triggered? Where is one to stand on the spectrum of open-mindedness? Don't we need to stand for something or fall for everything? But what about the parable about petting the elephant? Perhaps "strong opinions loosely held" (within "areas of competence") is a good framework. I don't know. But perhaps being able to say "I don't know" is the whole point.