Anthony Gustin
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Former sports rehab, functional med clinician, and farmer. Actively building @eatlineage + @equipfoods, investing, writing, podcasting, & reading. Newsletter👇
Bend, OR
Joined January 2014
@cathrynlavery Actually helping (and receiving help from) people you have relationships with instead of hiring everything out to strangers is pretty awesome. Humans need community. Community is not friends that have the same lifestyle.
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The Hadza men "work" for about 3-4 hours a day hunting or making bows and arrows, the women about the same time maintaining the camp. The rest of their time is spent laughing, telling stories, sleeping, or playing music. No rushing, no stress, no worry.
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They even know what branches can be snapped as an anti-itch cream for bug bites. Throw me and all my friends in the woods for a few weeks and we'll likely all die. I get the sense this is another reason we're so chronically stressed. We actually have no idea how to survive.
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6. We're chronically stressed. The only time I saw the Hadza in a heightened state of stress was the five hectic minutes of chasing down and killing the baboons. Instead of "being chased by a lion" it was "chasing a screaming baboon." Otherwise? Extreme happiness and leisure.
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7. We have no practical skills. The Hadza can start a fire in under a minute & make tools out of branches in seconds. They even made a bandage out of boiled leaves that healed an enormous gash a dog got from the baboon within days. They live in abundance with their environment.
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10. Eat slow, in communion. Americans eat the opposite way. Fast, alone, and in front of screens. Even though the Hadza hadn't eaten in over 24 hrs before this baboon, they were present, relaxed, and eating very slowly. No wonder the science says this is good for digestion.
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3. No jogging. Sprint or walk. Even though you see chubby modern humans beating their joints up jogging on pavement for hours on end for "cardio," we didn't see anything remotely similar with the Hadza. They walk. A lot. Then sprint intensely around, under, and over trees.
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They can wait hours to cook meat after a successful kill, but the honey doesn't stand a chance. Never have I seen a human eat something so ravenously as after we found the beehive full of honey. And yes, it was one of the most amazing things I've ever eaten -- larvae and all.
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5. Honey > Meat. Right after we killed the baboon we stumbled upon a beehive. Within 30 seconds a fire was lit, a branch was on fire, and there was a guy 25 ft up in a tree smoking the hive out and ripping out honeycomb and frantically throwing it down to my hands.
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8. Fasting before feasting. This goes without saying, but when you need to actually find and hunt all of your own food, you fast before you eat. There is no snacking even though they could on berries, baobab, roots, etc. Fast, then walk/sprint/physical exertion, then feast.
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4. Water is overrated. The Hadza rarely drink water and are free of chronic disease & have high energy. Even though we were sucking down bottles of water after 15km they remained unfazed and were happy to dig into a dry creek bed to take a few sips of mud. Then back to hunting.
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So why do the Hadza have such good microbiomes? Maybe drinking mud, living outside, not washing their hands, and eating things with dirt all over them have something to with it rather than eating the mythical hundreds of grams of fiber. .
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12. Don't eat the berries. Or at least a lot of them. We stopped to snack on a random berry bush and I had a few handfuls. I got so sick I was hallucinating for hours. Turns out the seeds need to be spit out or you can die if you eat enough of them. Whoops!
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Just because this is the way the Hadza live doesn't mean this is the way every human needs to live. Humans are adaptable and can thrive in many ways of living. One thing that can't be argued is that our current way of modern living results in a healthier, happier human.
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11. No waste in nature. We ate the face, brains and all, of the baboon. The skin is used for clothing. The bones and intestines go to the dogs. There is no "trash" in nature. No recycling programs. Everything, including humans, gets recycled back into new life continuously.
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Skin cancer rates are up 17x since 1950 with people spending dramatically less time in the sun than ever before in human history. Obviously the sun isn't killing us. What is?.
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Caught the virus again and had another wakeup call about how poor the response to this pandemic has been. Every single person should be pissed off right now. We're 22 months into this pandemic and there's absolutely ZERO discussion on either prevention or treatment of COVID.
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The same goes for most of the world. There were hundreds of millions of bison, antelope, and elk roaming our lands in the USA until westernized humans came and hunted them to extinction and then industrialized us into our current manmade zoo.
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9. Organs are prized. The first thing that is eaten after the animal is cut up is the liver. Whether a baboon, genet cat, bird, or antelope, the liver is the first thing consumed. Then the heart and other organs. They eat everything cooked over open fire and no raw meat.
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There's no going back to living like a hunter and gatherer. But we can learn, experiment with ways of living more like a human, see how it impacts us individually, and keep going on this crazy journey.
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13. High fiber diets are a myth. The Hadza are celebrated for their diverse gut microbiome. Studies claim to have connected it with their "100s of grams of fiber/day consumption." . This is a LIE. The scant roots they harvest are chewed up and spit out. They barely eat fiber.
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🤯 Shocking data from @GlyphosateTest shows relative amounts of glyphosate: .0.1 ppb - altered the gene function and severe organ damage in rats.10 ppb - toxic effects on the livers of fish.700 ppb - permitted levels in US tap water.1125 ppb - Cheerios.11,900 ppb - GMO Soybeans.
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If you want to hear more about this hunting trip and our wild stay with the Hadza tribe, listen to the podcast @carnivoremd and I did about it here:
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But why? I've been fascinated with human health my entire life. Wild humans with their full genetic expression are nearly extinct. We are now zoo inhabitants. So last year @carnivoremd and I went to Tanzania, where humans first evolved, to see our species in our natural habitat.
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Look at the difference of this eight-year-old grass-fed beef (bottom) versus grain-fed (top)! 👀. Here's a thread on why this is and what it means for your health 👇
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This is absolutely NOT healthy. This is incredibly irresponsible during a pandemic that has killed nearly 2 million with clear evidence of worse outcomes for those with metabolic dysfunction and obesity.
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2. Hunting used to be bountiful, but now it's not. Protected safari areas <100 miles away from where the Hadza live look like the Lion King in their natural state. Thousands of large game as far as the eye could see. This used to be normal for them, now it's impossible.
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We have the first opportunity in my lifetime to vote for an administration that wants to address the chronic disease epidemic. There is no other choice.
RFK Jr: “I promise that within 2 years, we will watch chronic disease burden lift dramatically. Within 4 years, America will be a healthy country. I won’t fail. If President Trump is elected and honors his word, the vast burden of chronic disease that now demoralizes and
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What else do you want to hear about from my trip to see the Hadza? Happy to write more threads, just reply to this and let me know!.
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Obesity is not a disease. Obesity is not normal. Obesity is a symptom of a toxic environment.
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24% of our calories come from seed oils! 😳 . My dream? Use regenerative beef tallow to replace all seed oils. In fryers, at restaurants, in sauces, packaged food, everywhere. This would transform public health and save the planet. But is it possible? Let's do some math.👇.
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If you switch from eating real meat to "plant-based" meat, you are swapping cattle and grass for machinery, fossil fuels, herbicides, pesticides chemicals, factories, monocrops, semis, and profit for some greedy corporate shareholder. This is not better for the environment.
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We are now entering an era of plant-based plant foods with this fake avocado out of the UK. What are the ingredients? Beans, nuts, and rapeseed oil. Someone please stop the madness.
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12 hours in and we get @JoelSalatin advising USDA with @RepThomasMassie as Secretary of Agriculture? . Buckle up for an incredible 4 years my friends! A new Don is here. #maha
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Recommendations from your doctor you should probably do the opposite of:.1. Avoid red meat.2. Avoid salt.3. Avoid the sun.4. Avoid saturated fat.5. Eat seed oils.6. Eat whole grains.7. Don't eat much protein.8. Take prescription meds.9. Always eat breakfast.10. Don't question.
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Want more of my learnings on how humans should live? Follow along @dranthonygustin and sign up for my weekly newsletter on all things health, happiness, and human scale living here:
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Masks aren't prevention. Vaccines aren't treatment. Lockdowns are neither. The virus is still spreading regardless of masks, lockdown, or vaccination status. The lack of any discussion around prevention or treatment by ANY authority is a damn embarrassment to all of humanity.
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In Costa Rica for six weeks, 10 days in and my average resting HR is 20 points lower (!!! mid 60s to mid 40s) and my HRV is double, insane amount of energy, vastly better focus. Why could this be? . 1. Outside literally 99%+ of my waking hours.2. Eating hyper local food and.
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I just received a 45-minute rant about why I should avoid seed oils, complete with accurate mechanistic explanation, from a hipster barber in Bend, OR. The good word is spreading. There is hope.
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@heyemils When corrected for infant death rates, same or higher than most western societies. Health span? Even higher. They are virtually free from chronic diseases.
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It took 104 years to realize trans fats were killing us. It took 114 years to realize cigarettes were killing us. Since it takes over a human lifetime for us to understand if a something is slowing killing us, I’m not “waiting for the science” and eating seed oils in mine.
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Here's my (100% free) '22 review and '23 planning template. I've used it for 10+ years to clarify purpose, set, and achieve goals like:.Grow my practice to 6 locations in 3 years.Launch e-comm brands and do $150mm+ in 4 years.Sell my businesses and become a farmer. How it works:.
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No talk from any government official on how to eat better, what to supplement with, sunlight, sleep, stress, community, activity and exercise, seed oils, body fat or ANYTHING that modulates your own immune system and helps us ward off the virus. Only free fries & donuts with jabs.
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The masks didn't work so we all needed to get the vaccine, but the vaccines don't work so we all have to keep wearing masks? 🤔.
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When you get COVID, there's nowhere to go to get any treatment! Finding a prescription is nearly impossible (ivermectin/hcq/fluvox). Can't get monoclonal antibodies in Austin unless I'm black, hispanic, or fat/old/sick. No consensus on what anyone should do to minimize symptoms.
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Oat milk is not better, in any way, than regular milk.
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Land use of seed oil crops vs. number in head of cattle over time. And you're going to believe them when they say animals are destroying the environment? . Massive industrial monocrop production of seed oils is the single biggest health and agricultural blunder in history.
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Do you live in Austin, TX area and want the best meat you can eat for less?. I'm working on a new all in one service (sourcing, butchering, delivery, etc) for local regenerative beef, chicken, & pork. We hand deliver you 10lb and 20lb boxes of the best local meat. More info 👇.
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Less than 15 cents per dollar goes to a farmer when you buy produce and meat at the grocery store. Do not give 85% of your money to marketers, wholesalers, distributers, brokers, buyers, or retailers just for putting it on a shelf. Buy direct and support your local farmer.
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There are no greenhouse gas emissions in this photo.
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Venison I hunted on our property, eggs from this morning, chives from the garden, and potatoes and onions from a friend's nearby farm. Life is good.
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Leather = full utilization and respect of the animal, natural material, fully sustainable. Vegan leather = plastic made with chemicals in a factory that leeches micro plastics into our water, endocrine disruptors, doesn't decompose
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Where are the public health campaigns? Where are the efforts to get people healthy instead of dependent on pharmaceuticals that clearly aren't working? Where are the treatment centers to reduce symptoms instead of scrambling when people are in the ER too late and can't breathe?.
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Want healthy french fries? Prayers have been answered in Austin at @DaiDue as they have switched all their fryers back to beef tallow! . Fried food isn't necessarily unhealthy.
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Pepsi just acquired seed-oil free Siete Foods for $1.2 BILLION and I have been seeing A LOT of people freaking out that Big Food is going to ruin their favorite brand. Y’all need to chill out. Big Food buying smaller start-up brands does NOT mean they are going to destroy all of
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Farmers have the highest suicide rate of any profession: 3.5x normal population. They lose money, work sunrise to sunset, all to grow real food that people tell them kills us. This is a tragedy. Go support your local farmer. 👨🏻🌾.
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The scariest part isn't this fear based reaction and utter lack of any sort of responsible authority organizing for the public good. It is the thought "What happens when some real shit goes down?" Prepare accordingly.
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@aliengelhardt Can do another thread on what I experienced with the women as well if interesting?.
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Don’t you realize what Big Food did with margarine is what they’re doing to ALL animal foods now? . Disguise garbage as a real food, tell people it’s better, then 50 years later we find out it’s killing everyone. No accountability. Tons of profit. Rinse and repeat. 💰.
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133.3 million Americans diabetic or pre diabetic. Countless deaths, lifelong suffering, $16,752 cost to health care system per year per person. No public health emergency. 7000 cases monkeypox. 0 deaths. Public health emergency. Make it make sense.
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Who would want a low caff coffee? 20-30mg caffeine per cup instead of 150mg? 🙋♂️.
There’s a huge market opportunity for an ultra-high-end decaf or light-caf coffee subscription. Most decaf coffee lacks flavor, has a really chemically wash process… not good. I’d happily switch to lower caffeine if I could enjoy it as much.
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Seed oils aren't the only food group super high in linoleic acid. When consumed in higher amounts (above low single digit %) LA has been linked to obesity, inflammation, chronic disease, and more. So why are "real foods" like nuts, seeds, and grains high in this fatty acid?
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Whoever invented plastic cutting boards should be thrown in jail. Bring back wood.
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If saturated fat clogs our arteries and gives us heart disease, then why does human breast milk contain about the same levels of saturated fat as beef (50%+)? 🤔.
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I'm not aware of anyone looking into aged grass-fed beef. If enough people are interested, I'm going to pay to get the nutrient and fatty acid comp tested for grain-fed vs grass-fed vs aged grass-fed. Like or RT this if you're interested and want me to pay to run these tests.
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Just kidding 🤣 The top is a pork chop. But still, look at the color of the fat on the 8-year-old beef! This is the most yellow fat I've ever seen from a cut of meat. And the flavor? 🤤 It was rich, buttery, grassy, and unlike any other meat I've eaten. Why does this matter?.
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But wait, I thought saturated fat caused heart disease?
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@elonmusk Spatially sure. The ecological impact compared to other species though pretty wild.
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Top: corn-free soy-free pork.Bottom: corn and soy fed pork. Same cut. Same litter of pigs. Same land. Same conditions. Same practices. Different feed. Have sent these off to @vanvlietphd and @Travis_Statham for nutrition analysis. Very curious re: the results!
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Step 537 in making canola oil. Do you really need a randomized controlled trial to tell you this is not food? . Run from this toxic seed oil sludge and any trolls that tell you this is a health food.
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I have information that will lead to the arrest of seed oils.
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Fried ≠ unhealthy. Fried in vegetable oils = unhealthy. If you want to fry food, use tallow, palm oil, coconut oil, avocado oil, or from any mostly real food, high in saturated fat. (Beware of eating out. I know of only ~4 restaurants in the USA that fry in healthy fats.).
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Main argument from vegans is majority of meat is made in horrific factory farms. I agree. Let’s support local regenerative models that provide nutritious food (meat and plants) for humans. Instead their solution: Fake food made in factories that give people chronic disease.
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Seed oils are by far the least sustainable "food" source we have. Change my mind.
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You know that fishy smell when seafood goes bad? That's not fish. That's rancid PUFA. Seed oils would smell the same out of the bottle but are deodorized so you can't smell the rancid fats. We've tricked our noses to bypass the warning signs to avoid toxic rotten fats.
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Big thanks to @JesseBWatters for having me on his show tonight to chat about: .- My time with the Hadza tribe in Tanzania.- Why Americans are so sick.- Why meat is healthy for humans. (pt 1)
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Do you live in Austin, TX and want to get set up with a freezer full of the best regenerative beef you can find for cheap? . I'm helping ranchers & making food security insanely easy for you by bringing a freezer to your house and stocking it full of meat. DM me if interested.
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No seed oils = Michelin star. We are winning.
Seed oils are ubiquitous and were once unnoticed, but now removing them is earning restaurants Michelin awards. Los Felix and Krüs Kitchen are the first in Miami to win Green Stars, for eliminating seed oils, sourcing locally and using grass fed meats.
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The single biggest problem we face as humans is our separation from nature.
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Last 50 years:.📉Red meat, whole milk, eggs, butter/animal fat consumption declining. 📈 Fruit, veg, grains, seed oil consumption increasing. 📈📈📈Chronic disease, obesity, diabetes rapidly increasing . 🤔 Maybe it's not the animal products killing us . Cred: @bigfatsurprise
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Only an idiot would want to reduce the healthiest food on the planet, that also restores ecosystems the most, to "fix the climate.". HARD pass.
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Nothing to see here. (other than that this looks eerily similar to our obesity, chronic disease, and ecological destruction rates)
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@AlpacaAurelius What if the French Paradox and the Israeli Paradox are not paradoxes and instead exactly what we should expect?.
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Land use of seed oil crops vs. number in head of cattle over time. Do not believe them when they say grazing animals are destroying the environment. Massive industrial monocrop production of seed oils is the single biggest health and agricultural blunder in history.
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gm. Eggs from our hens on top of venison from our property and peppers from garden. Yes this is all for me
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Context first: . Why tallow? It is healthy for humans and the planet. Managed properly, it's the only truly sustainable way to produce fat. Regeneratively raised cattle restore ecosystems, sequester carbon, & support small local farmers while producing healthy fats for humans.
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One of the worst health lies we’ve ever been told: .Sunlight is bad for us and if we are in it we need to lather ourselves full of chemical goop for protection.
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Stop with all of the "RFK WILL BAN XYZ" rhetoric. "I will provide Americans with transparency and access to all the data so they can make informed choices for themselves and their families.". As he has always done. Another gem from @RobertKennedyJr : "I spent 30 years trying to.
Thank you @realDonaldTrump for your leadership and courage. I'm committed to advancing your vision to Make America Healthy Again. We have a generational opportunity to bring together the greatest minds in science, medicine, industry, and government to put an end to the chronic.
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While I agree diet (and primarily seed oils) impacts sunburns, let's not forget humans are locked in their zoo cages 99% of the time and do burn from lack of species appropriate graded exposure to the sun.
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Do I think it is sad that @tkelce and @JasonKelce are using their platform to sell junk food to kids when our child obesity rate is over 20%? Yes. But it's understandable. They have a huge audience and no one can write checks like Big Food (and Big Pharma) can. So as they try
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This is purely false. Chickens rely on massive external industrial monocrops for feed. Cattle can eat grasslands that can't grow food for humans and their methane production isn't a ghg, it is part of a natural biogenic cycle that gets reused. Beef>chicken for sustainability.
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Excited to chat about the "climate impacts" of meat next time. Now go eat a steak 🥩. (pt 2)
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Do just these three things and your health will improve dramatically:.1. Avoid refined fats (seed oils).2. Avoid refined carbs (sugars).3. Avoid refined grains (flours).
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Humans were under the sun for 100,000 generations until roughly the last 4-5 and you're telling me the sun is bad for me and artificial lighting indoors is good?.
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Are you really going to sit back and let these guys determine what you and your kids can eat?
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BREAKING: CDC announces otherwise healthy American population has been hit with heart disease, diabetes, and obesity due to the Ukraine crisis.
The U.S. economy has been hit with increased gas prices, inflation, and supply-chain issues due to the Ukraine crisis.
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