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Nov 22, 2022Liked by Chad C. Mulligan

Hi Chad, great read - thanks for this, the articles you reference and perspectives you bring. James Nestor talks about shrinking jaws in his book Breath, which was my first foray into the ill effects of modern diets - its seems so obvious now!

I heard this podcast by Dr. Mark Mattson at Johns Hopkins Univ and he seemed to suggest that edible plants actually don’t have antioxidants themselves but rather mildly toxic compounds that illicit antioxidative effects - meaning its your body that is producing antioxidants, and not the plants. I found this very exciting, to realize that stimuli is everything, with exercise, heat stress, cold exposure all resulting in the activation of antioxidant pathways. Have you explored this? If not, I think it would an interesting topic bringing together perspectives on human-plant coevolution and aspects from your recent articles on fermentation and food processing. Here is the podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/foundmyfitness/id818198322?i=1000532944125 see show notes for timestamps - but id recommend gobbling up the whole thing!

One point in reference to homeopathy being bogus, it actually worked for me. I suffered from near debilitating allergies and in 4-6 months of what seemed like sugar bubbles my incidents went down from 3-4X/week to 1X every few weeks. I have thought about what the mechanism is, but it seems beyond rational thinking. Placebo? But then I was merely “open” to what certainly shouldn’t be considered “medicine”. I personally stay open to all possibilities - even some of things antivaxers say. I know its messy and charged topic.

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Your posts on this theme have crystallized for me that my current primary ambition should be to relocate my family somewhere closer to a Whole Foods.

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Hey Chad you've written 'on' instead of 'one' when talking about how we've committed a hipcrime. Just wanted you to know.

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Great article, even though I have hoped for more hints to get out of our current mess. I am happy that you brought up Weston Price, as promised. I am also a victim of having a too small jaw. I had a tooth clamp for four years to widen my jaw. My wisdom teeth were all removed. I see the same problem arising in my children. Did you have a look into the cookbooks released by the Weston Price Foundation? I am on the fence of buying them for quite some time as I am not sure whether the recepies would be useful for Germany.

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