Acne getting you down?

GM 🦁 This is Andrew's Apples, the 2-min health email that's like one of those mini bags of popcorn: short, a little salty, and only enough for one. Let's go.

• ⏩ Big Pharma adversity. Evidence is piling up that adverse effects from pharmaceutical drugs have been soaring in the past two decades. Data out of London has hospital admissions for adverse drug reactions going from 6.5% in 2004 to 18.4% in 2021. Yikes. Aside from the ongoing opioid crisis, over-prescription has been called "America's other drug problem," as 42% of older adults are on 5+ medications. As for the youngins? Thousands upon thousands of babies and toddlers are prescribed ADHD and/or antianxiety medication right away, sometimes before they turned one.

  • 🍎 Andrew's Take. It's clear - Americans do more drugs than a DEA sniff dog. What ever just happened to modest use of caffeine, alcohol, and nicotine (C.A.N.)? Three drugs, moderate consumption, that's it. Sure, sprinkle in some harmless shrooms when your unemployed friend is in town. There are too many time-tested methods for taking the edge off of life and almost always the pill is not the answer.

• 🐒 Acne getting you down? Very simple process: clean diet, sunlight every day (shoot for an hour), hop in the salty sea (Miami mobsters, LA kings, San Diego stoners), never any foaming soap on the face (i don't care how expensive that shit is), and a shower filter.

  • 🍎 Andrew's Take. Very sick of the "genetics" argument; dude, your poor lifestyle far eclipses your "unlucky genes." Also, drink a gallon of water a day from one of those old moonshine shoulder jugs. Your pee will be barely yellow and it'll feel great.

• 🕊️ Tweet of the Day. I thought that rich people ate only kale and carrots, like a rabbit.

How about them Apples? Hit me with any comments or questions.

Your friend,

Andrew🍎

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