Animals of a particular species eat a similar diet. For example, there are not some lions that eat meat and others that graze on grass. Animals have "species-appropriate" diets, which are congruent with their design. While eating a carnivore diet (for humans) seems strange in today's culture, Israeli researchers just published research using genetics, biochemistry, physiology, morphology, and archaeology to compile overwhelming evidence that for 2 million years humans ate meat and little else.

 

 

It was this multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary rabbit hole of the sciences, which led me to starting Meat Health many years ago to share how these sciences interweave and ultimately answer the question "what are we designed to eat" (i.e. what is the human "species-appropriate" diet).

 

And not to plug Meat Health Academy (ok to plug it :) we devote an entire section to the analysis of these sciences, which when viewed together, transform how you look at food.

 

For the first 3 months of the year I forced myself to say "no" to everything. My #1 priority was finishing Meat Health Academy, which meant passing up on opportunities that I'd normally jump on, like being invited on podcasts. But with the release of the program, I'm now getting to say "yes!" Luckily I saw this thread on how to have a good conversation with some tips I need to heed:

 

I have podcasts coming up this month with Dr. Shawn Baker (4/22), Judy Cho (4/29), and Dr. Paul Saladino (TBD), so I'll be practicing these tips, especially point #4 (as I often fall into the "so yeah" trap).

 

"If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day."

 

 

I took a lot of languages in school. Latin. Ancient Greek. Spanish. And while the dead languages (Latin and Ancient Greek) help with the etymology of words, Spanish is the one I still (try to) use, as I often see pediatric patients who don't speak much / any English. But I need to brush up on it. And I enjoyed this article on how to learn a language (and stick at it).

 

 

Sara Blakely is the billionaire founder of Spanx, and as a kid her dad would ask her at the end of every week "what did you fail at this week?" When I first heard this I thought, "what a demeaning question!" However, rather than being demeaning, her dad said it in a way to let her know that it was ok to fail, ok to take risks, so much so, that if she wasn't failing at something, she wasn't going big enough.

 

 

 

 

– Jim Collins

 

 

As I've talked about bitcoin over the last few years, I've received many messages about other cryptocurrencies. In 2017 there was an ICO craze. Currently there is an NFT craze. These projects use blockchain technology. But in order to understand these projects, I think it's best to understand bitcoin first: "Bitcoin, Not Blockchain."

 

 

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