Pucker up buttercup

Humans are not used to abundance. This causes most of our pain.  Anon

Good morning 🦁 This is Andrew's Apples, the health email that knows full well you probably have only four hours a day completely to yourself. So this'll take 2 min. Let's go. 

1. 💋 Pucker up buttercup. Kissing is good for you. Assuming your partner does not have teeth rotting out of their little pink head, it can: reduce blood pressure, relieve cramps/headaches, release happy hormones, boost self esteem, tone facial muscles (like, like, like face yoga!), and discern his/her compatibility with you. A bit more than what you thought you paid for, mate?

   1. 🍎 Andrew's Take: On his 60th surrounded by close friends, I saw my dad dip my mom crooner-style and land a big smooch on her. The crowd cheered. It was really fucking cute... damn. They've been married for 35 big ones and the kiss is still king.

2. 🍳 Four kings of cooking. Let's keep this real simple, gang. If you are cooking, only use the following four fats: coconut oil, unrefined olive oil, organic butter/ghee, or grass-fed tallow. (Avocado oil for the wonks out there, sure.) The war against inflammatory seed oils is not just a hot-girl-on-twitter meme right now (I mean, well of course it is too) but rather a way to reducing mitochondrial/cellular damage: weakened power-generators of the cell spell weakened cells which spell weight gain, discomfort, shit sleep.

   1. 🍎 Andrew's Take: Nature works in weird ways. It just so happens that the four aforementioned fats also make your food taste better. The ones unlisted by and large either add nothing w/r/t flavor or make your food taste like a Lego block. The best shit tends to stick around (how many filosofee hacks on twitter just reword Seneca and Heraclitus who coined the ideas over 2,000 years ago? THIS MANY!!!) so trust the "dead" who outnumber the living 14-to-1.

3. 🤙 Wait?! Cali weed cafes?!?! You can soon find weed cafes ("lounges" lmao) in CA cities such as West Hollywood, Palm Springs, and San Francisco. And thank god, cuz Californians have been bitching about their pearl-clutching bible-thumping gov for years tehehe. "Local officials say the lounges will help the industry compete with illegal drug sales."

   1. 🍎 Andrew's Take: This has nothing to do with crime and everything to do with a cash-grab (tax revenue on stoners) and control. Keep the people stoned and "happy" = easy votes. BUT. It's a two-way street: Orwell in 1984 thought the central state would be our demise, while Huxley in Brave New World thought we the people would actively (enthusiastically even!) partake in drug/tv/media/political consumption so long as it took the edge off of life. I am not anti-weed; it's a better addiction than crystal no doubt. And yet, I have seen Richard Linklater's Slacker... I know where these "weed lounges" go. Hint: the lounge bathrooms will go the way of Starbucks.

4. 🕊️ Tweet of the Day. I'll ante up: it's a god day already.

LMK what you think: the good, the bad, and the fugly. Always trying to do my best :)

Your friend, 

Andrew🍎 

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