There is an argument to be made that vegetarians in not-so-developed countries are healthier than vegetarians in more modernized countries because the lack of cleanliness of the vegetables may include soil, bugs, and bug eggs which protects them from the plant toxins and provides them with additional proteins from the bugs. #VegetariansShouldEatTheBugs

Pura Vida 🌞 Take a break from microwaving your brain by removing your AirPods from your earholes so I can scream at you about how the fermentation process pre-digests otherwise difficult to digest foods like grains and vegetables and neutralizes their plant toxins! #PuraVida

Medical professionals like to push a lot of “preventative” interventions. Recently overheard a dentist who recently got some certification to do botox injections (or something like this not sure the exact credentials), but regardless, he was talking to a sub-30 year old girl about preventative botox… If there’s anything I’ve learned about the body it’s that if you start giving it exogenous solutions to things that can be endogenously remedied, it’s going to use that as a crutch and stop endogenously solving these issues. If you start taking melatonin routinely for sleeping then your body stops producing as much of it endogenously and at a certain point it will be extremely difficult to go to sleep without your melatonin pills. #Goodnight #GN

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but when mixing your bentonite clay with your Mountain Valley water to make a mud mask, use a glass or ceramic cup. The clay is powerful at clinging to heavy metals so it could cause leeching from the metal utensil you use to mix it. Narrator: “Literally no one needed to hear this” #MudBoy

My mattress is literally an 8” thick pad of pure wool. Ditch your plastic sleeping materials. It supports humidity and subsequently bacteria, in addition to producing static. #RenounceFiatFabrics

There’s a1 milk and there’s a2 milk. a1 and a2 are references to the beta-casein protein profile. a1 is the more inflammatory harder to digest milk. This milk comes from Holstein cows. a2 is that milk. This comes from Jersey and Guernsey cows. When sourcing your raw dairy you should lead with one of two questions: Is the cows pasture raised grass-fed grass finished? OR Are they Jerseyor Guernsey cows? If the answer to either of these is “No.” then promptly walk away after shaking that dairy farmers hand (Because they’re still ranchers). #ThisIsTheWay

If you have access to raw bison milk you are one unbelievably lucky human. Every now and then I splurge since I can only get a half gallon for ~$45. I’ve read that it’s same health benefits to cow’s milk, but just *that* much more potent in nutrition.

Parent’s who are giving their kids plastic utensils to eat their food with: Don’t. They’re better off eating with their hands. It’s actually possible we’re all better off eating with our hands 🤔

De-plastic-ifying your life is no easy task. So don’t be discouraged when you come to the realization that most odds-and-ends things you own are made of plastic. Just start with the key items: Sleeping materials, toothbrush, underwear, cups, eating utensils. Then progress from there. Toothbrush may be the toughest one, but I’ll give you a hint: There are wooden toothbrushes, but the bristles are made of boars’ hairs.

Austrian Economists have this way of reframing seemingly banal human interactions into these powerful, beautiful, and natural exchanges. Ludwig brings me to tears. Every. Single. Time. #PuraVida

Pura Vida🌞 Tuck in your shirt, go down to your local farmers market, shake your ranchers hand, and then buy out his entire stock of pasture raised grass-fed grass-finished beef. All of it. #PuraVidaAgain

Speaking of skin microbiomes, throw a little raw kefir and raw honey in your bentonite clay mud mask to nourish the skin.

Most people’s daily showers are just a ritual of them genociding their skin microbiome. Chemical body wash, hot chlorine filled tap water, using a plastic loofah to scrub ones skin. Slap on some aluminum deodorant after and we’re good to go👍🏽 If you didn’t know, loofahs are a natural sponge-like species in the ocean. Ditch the plastic lookalike. #PuraVidaAgain

On my rest days from the gym and when I don’t have any particularly special event or gathering to go to I’ll skip a shower that day. My normal showers are already solely using filtered water and a loofah. But giving the skin microbiome a break is always good. I liken it to real milk vs pastuerized “milk”, when you get rid of the natural enzymes the milk rots and spoils whereas with the natural enzymes the milk clabbers. Fully intact (just a slightly sour taste).

Most of health is just not interfering with your body’s natural processes. Get out of your own way. #gm #PuraVida

I am not an advocate for taking supplements. Too complex. You have no idea what you’re getting without thorough research and even then the product is likely denatured in a way that is not compatible with your body to even utilize. Magnesium as far as I can tell is one of the most difficult minerals to get, but I think between raw dairy, bone broth, and supplementing with bentonite clay you may be able to get adequate magnesium in this world of degraded soil.

It is incredible how “smart” your ancestors were when it came to preparing and eating foods properly. Because grains and legumes have differing amino acid profiles (where one is strong in the amino acids that the other group lacks) it is important to eat them together and with a meat to get the entire spectrum of amino acids so you can properly utilize them. Sure enough that’s exactly how most traditional Mexican dishes are prepared (beans, corn tortilla, beef/chicken/pork). I’m sure this is common in other cultures as well. Not to mention that the Aztecs understood the process of nixtimalizing of corn. BUT! This is too much complication for me so I personally would just cook a ribeye steak instead. #Simplicity

It is not “Boomer Capitalism” that destroyed your food systems. Depending on how you personally define “Boomer Capitalism”, it’s a symptom of or completely confused for existing in a fiat monetary system. The fertile soil for the destruction of your food systems were laid long before boomers were even born. Everything boils down to the economics. Inflationsim and government subsidies make the most clownish of activities economical. Why are vast swaths of land dedicated to growing nutrient devoid food? Government has been subsidizing their growth for decades. It’s (artificially) economical. Why is Round-Up Ready Corn the standard? Hiring several workers to individually spray the weeds around the crops is more expensive than creating a GMO crop that can be crop dusted en masse with toxic pesticides. It’s (artificially) economical. Why do almost all restaurants fry the food in seed oils? Restaurants run on pretty thin margins as it is and even more so when inflation hits the proteins so frying in artificially cheap seed oils is a way to cut costs. It’s (artificially) economical. Why is almost all of the store bought beef and dairy of such low quality? The way the agricultural subsidies are structured is so that the farmers with the most acreage and production receive most of the subsidies so these factory farms that keep the cows in dire straits, constantly producing stress and fear hormones, and kept on concrete lots, are able to churn out even more. It’s (artificially) economical. Why is the soil so degraded? Because those same farms as mentioned above, have a highly concentrated number of cows shoulder-to-shoulder on concrete lots. Whereas naturally you would have large swaths of land NOT taken up by GMO corn and soy - and now increasingly solar panels and wind mills - where many smaller regenerative ranching operations can flourish and allow the cows to graze and fertilize the fields naturally. Additionally, the artificially economical Round-Up Ready Corn fields that are being sprayed with toxic industrial chemicals are leeching into the soil killing it’s fertility and breaking down the aluminum in the earth that ultimately ends up in the food. and so on and so forth. #PuraVida

People think they’ll smell if they don’t use deodorant. You will if your diet is mostly industrial chemicals. If you’re eating a high quality species appropriate diet you won’t be detoxing all of it through your sweat. So when you do sweat, it won’t be this pungant offensive stench, you’ll just have this faint sweat smell that can only be noticed if one puts their nose directly in it. Otherwise, it’s not noticeable and easily washes off from the filtered water in your shower. #ThisIsHealth #PuraVida

For most of my adult life I have avoided buying white clothes mostly because I knew eventually yellow pit stains would arise given this was a common theme in most of my clothes as a teenager. I recently thought maybe that was because I was detoxing through my armpit sweat. Turns out, the aluminum in the deodorants mix with the proteins in your sweat and form this yellow-ish color. Another reason you should drop your fiat-deodorant. Not only will it poison you with parabens, phthalates, aluminum, and lord knows what other chemicals, but It’ll also stain your beautiful natural fiber clothes. Stop using deodorant, but if you must there are plenty of natural options now. Bentonite clay is a viable option as well. #TheMoreYouKnow