🥩 The Natural human Diet
On eating a species-appropriate diet
Our mission is to promote the benefits of a meat-based diet as a counter to the anti-meat rhetoric that’s pushing modern humans in the wrong direction. We gain ground by introducing more people to this results-driven way of life.
🥩 Hello Meatlings,
Meat is the foundation of a species-appropriate diet for humans.
When you eat a species-appropriate diet, you give yourself the best chance to live a long and healthy life.
Here are some fun facts about the natural human diet, highlighting work done by Bill Schindler PhD and Jessica Thompson PhD:
Our ancestors started eating meat 3.5 million years ago and hunted 2 million years ago; fatty bone marrow was a critical food resource for early hominins.
Every single plant on this earth has toxins, and removing or neutralizing them before they are consumed is essential.
Our digestive tracts are incredibly inefficient and are half the size they should be for a similar-sized primate; we don’t have gizzards, crops, or rumens to digest grains, hence the need to ferment, soak, and cook.
We are one of the weakest species on the planet and are not like other carnivores: we are not strong or fast, and we don’t have claws or fangs, but we can make tools to hunt, trap, and break the animal down. The earliest stone tool is 3.3 million years old.
Plants hoard their nutrients and must be appropriately processed to obtain the best nutrition from them (fermentation, nixtamalization, cooking, etc., have been practiced for the last 15,000 years).
Animals are essentially food factories; their biologically equipped digestive tract allows them to transform into their bodies nutrients from plants that are normally inaccessible to humans. For example, reindeer eat inedible lichen and transform that lichen into incredibly nutrient-dense, bioavailable food: meat and organs.
The Father of Primal Eating, Mark Sisson, once said: “We are all predisposed to disease if we mismanage our genes.” Our genes have coexisted with eating animals for millions of years.
This could explain why those who opt out of eating animals have twice the rates of depression and why vegans consistently have a higher risk of fracture at multiple bone sites, especially at the hip. The power of the right nutrition can also reverse medical conditions like IBD, autoimmune disease, and more.
Mark has also said: “I don't eat a single bite of food that I don't absolutely love.” This could also be the reason those eating plant-based will order a hamburger after a night out on the town, and pregnant vegetarians dream about and crave meat.
A species-appropriate diet shouldn’t require willpower or resolve to adhere to. Our brains tell us: “I NEED meat,” for a reason. It has retained the ancient wisdom that modern humans seem to ignore. It’s simple folks: eat real food, including animals.
✌🏻and ribeyes,
-Miranda MS, LN & The Yes2Meat Team
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📰 Science + Research: Sucralose, 100 million diabetics, and aging
🤣 Memes: Presidential candidate that’s jacked 👀
⚖️ Useful $hit: 7 things you didn’t realize you needed to know. And now you do.
💯 New CEO Corner: Show me a person that doesn’t make mistakes
👀 Robb Wolf on the basics
Onward!
🥩 Science + Research
🍰 What happens when you don’t eat a species appropriate diet of grains, sugar, seed oil and processed food… Lancet study: More than 100 million people in India diabetic. A survey commissioned by the health ministry also found that 136 million people - or 15.3% of the population, could be living with pre-diabetes.
🤔 Turns out that trusting the FDA to keep you and your family safe is not a good idea→ FDA-Approved Alternative to Sugar Turns Out to Be ‘Genotoxic’: Study New health and safety findings reveal sucralose (Splenda) is “genotoxic,” meaning it breaks up DNA. Source Tweet
💨 Methane may not warm the Earth quite as much as previously thought. The gas absorbs both longwave and shortwave radiation, with competing effects on climate.
🐁 Aging: Could a moderate protein diet be the key to youth? A new study in mice suggests that consuming a moderate amount of protein, between 25% and 35% may be most conducive to improved metabolic health. In the mice, a diet low in protein resulted in the development of fatty liver, and middle-aged mice exhibited higher levels of lipids, or fats, in their systems than younger mice. The moderate-protein diets also lowered lipid and blood sugar levels in the mice.
🪨 Blackrock insider shares how easy it is to buy a congressman 💸 → yes, this is how the world works.
🪓 Useful $hit Corner
🥑 Food: Lemon is amazing. Use it to heal small cuts and scrapes. Suck on a slice of lemon to ease nausea. Mix two teaspoons with with honey in water for a sore throat. Lemon is good on everything. Try it on steak!
🍷 Italy and France produce over 40% of all wine in the world.
💃 Spanish contains the largest number of positive words out of all languages.
🌎 Rad: Earth spins roughly 1,000 miles an hour.
🥩 Pre-heat that pan and let steak rest on the counter for at least 10 minutes. Finally, let it rest for 5 minutes after cooking on a rack to allow the fat to congeal and prevent the juices from running out.
🌞 Health → Walk barefoot for your foot/angle/back health and to ground yourself.
🧠 It’s all thought → Everything in your life starts and ends in your mind. Something is good as long as you decide it is. Or bad. And everything in between. We can all accept and use the Truth, yet few do.
🤪 Recent
You can’t hide truth. The MSM tries to, but as we see with each passing day, the Truth just keeps doing its thang and those that try to suppress it so they can maintain their positions of power keep losing ground
🔗 Link Corner
🤤 Thread and powerful visualization experiment showing the difference between the subconscious and the conscious mind? Read
🔥 On the correlation between easy money (money printer) and war: Hard cap on money = hard cap on war. #Bitcoin
😀 The Three Dimensions of Happiness - Martin Seligman, the Father of Positive Psychology, studied what makes people happy. Read through the summary of what he found.
👀 Video: The #1 Hidden Source of Your Digestive Problems by Dr Berg (we all have it)
Twitterings 3x
🎥 Tucker Max on The Meat Mafia Podcast
🥘 Master The Basics
"Eat protein, veggies, and some fat with every meal. Exercise smart. Sleep at least 8 hours a night in a darkened room. The only thing I would add to this prescription would be to: Stop taking yourself so seriously, laugh a lot, cry when you need to, hug more, make love more, and play until you are fall-down-tired."
- Robb Wolf
🪣 40 Lessons from 30 Years
A great piece by Nat Eliason: 40 lessons from 30 Years
Standing events are the best way to regularly see friends. Constantly having to schedule outings, dinners, etc. makes it hard to regularly see people. Create standing events. Invite people you want to spend more time with. It’s the easiest way to get more friend time in your week.
This one, in particular, I’ve thought about A LOT as an adult running companies and having kids—adult relationships fall by the wayside in the modern, busy, always connected world we live in. And that’s having cataclysmic effects on our culture and the future of society.
🤝 CEO Corner
Colin on advice, feedback, and musings.
"Show me a person who doesn't make mistakes and I’ll show you a person who doesn't do anything.” -Leonard Rubino
The spotlight effect is a cognitive bias. Being aware of this mental quirk so much so that I can identify myself falling to it in real time doesn’t mean I overcome it—anything but.
It’s the idea that everyone is looking at, thinking about you.
The classic example is a stain on your shirt. You think everyone notices. You ruminate on how everyone must be thinking about you. How embarrassing. Etc.
PEOPLE DON’T CARE. And they aren’t thinking about you.
They are thinking about themselves.
Most people have a hard enough time dealing with their problems that they seldom, if ever, have a second to spare for you.
When it comes to the “mistakes” you make in life, the marketplace, school, work, or whatever, most people don’t care. And most mistakes are not a big deal.
The big deal is limiting your potential because you fear making mistakes. That’s the mistake.
“If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.” -Confucius.
💻 Money/Bitcoin
You'll find a growing movement of meat-eating Bitcoiners.
I've thought about why that is—why did two unrelated groups of people converge on similar lifestyle choices?
And the best answer I can muster is first principles thinking.
To fully understand Bitcoin, it takes a ton of independent research, a hopeful and open mind, and the ability to see through the mountain of scams, half-truths, and blatant lies surrounding the technology.
Now compare that to the hard, long journey of finally waking up to the Truth that meat is a health food. The years of indoctrination you have to shed, and the voices you have to ignore—it’s the same process to becoming a Bitcoiner.
This is an excellent talk on the future of Bitcoin compared to traditional monetary investments/savings technologies.
🤔 To Ponder
“The health of soil, plant, animal and man is one and indivisible.”
-Sir Albert Howard
English botanist and organic farming pioneer.
🚨 Biohack
☀️ Sunlight - lots of it
I recently struggled with adrenal fatigue. So I did my bloodwork.
My vitamin D levels were low.
Strange, considering I go outside every day.
Then I thought about it and realized I still don’t spend enough time outside.
That, combined with a stressful few months, made it no wonder my energy and free-floating testosterone were also suffering.
As part of my stress mitigation + sunlight optimization routine, I am now splitting my work day up with a 1-hour break at the gym, where I read/think in the sun.
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