I have a running document on my computer that I titled "Failures in Nutrition Research." It's several hundred pages long. One day I am going to organize it all. In this document I catalog everything from corruption in nutritional research to simply the limitations of it. 

 

While I don't have this document ready to share, I was asked in the Meat Health Mastermind if I could share proof that meat-based diets are best.

 

 

Last week I shared an article on "how to find your creative hot streak." I mentioned how I believe that casting a wide net (pursuing numerous interests) does more than just help you discover your unique work, but creates connections between "unconnected" areas that can be combined to create your unique work. Reflecting upon this, I realized that's exactly how I came to my conclusions about meat-based eating (discussed in the video above). 

 

It wasn't just through my obsession with fitness. Nor through my chemistry and biology studies. Nor was it through understanding nutrition and its role in dentistry, oral health, or dental sleep medicine. Nor was it through studying brain optimization and ancestral health. It was the connection of all these "dots," these separate fields, that ultimately pointed to meat-based diets as optimal human nutrition. 

 

If I had only dug deep in one or two of these fields I'd likely have different conclusions or weaker conviction than I do today. For example, if I had remained solely focused on body composition, I'd have been blinded to the more complete picture of health. Or if I had only focused "on the microscope" (i.e. chemistry / research) and never "zoomed" out to see ancestral health (archeology / anthropology) I'd have missed a large piece of the puzzle.

 

Tip: While traditional "success" advice is to go narrow and deep (aka specialize), I think by going broad and 20% deep (the 20% that delivers 80%+ of the results), you can cover the most area and make connections most people would otherwise never see.

 

 

What's more effective: 1 sugar pill or 2?

 

 

While we are talking about science and multidisciplinary learning that leads to unique insights, I feel obligated to introduce you to Moran Cerf. He is part hacker, part neuroscientist, part teacher. His unique combinations have led to breakthroughs which he discuses in this talk, such as: how to control dreams (both the kind at night and the kind you chase awake) and how to do the impossible (like change your past) and become unstoppable.

 

 

 

– Winston Churchill

 

 

After building and selling two companies (>$3.5B), Marc Lore is on a new mission. The plan is to buy 200,000 acres and build a 5 million-person city from the ground up — a utopia that will serve as a demonstration for a new kind of capitalism. Fascinating person / read.

 

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