Drugs are earned

Good morning 🦁 This is Andrew's Apples, the 2-min health email that's like when grandma makes her world-famous muffins but mills the damn flour herself. Let's go.

• 🌞 Sunscreen from God. Astaxanthin is the most potent nature-made sunscreen and you can get it from your diet. A 2012 study found that taking 6mg of oral astaxanthin led to "significant improvements in skin wrinkling, age spots, and skin elasticity."

  • 🍎 Andrew's Take. Internal sunscreen. Say no more. It has been used for centuries in Hawaii and other tropical regions. As we have touched on, 99% of topical sunscreens are total trash, packed with manmade chemicals that disrupt your hormones.

• 🍨 Hummus? Go turbo organic. A paper from 2019 showed that nonorganic chickpeas often contain a dangerous herbicide, whose levels have been increasing dramatically over the past five years. Especially among the big guys, like PepsiCo.

  • 🍎 Andrew's Take. Hope and Yorgo's are all-timer organic brands and won't leave you hanging. Again, these papers are going to keep pouring in about how torched our food supply is and how important organic is going to be with both whole foods and mildly processed foods like hummus. Stay tuned, titans.

• 🚬 Drugs are earned. There is a lot of chatter lately in prestige media and on Health twitter about how alcohol and drugs are categorically bad. A real pro like Dr. Huberman argues that, while you can drink, alcohol does lower your stress threshold in everyday life. A more conspiratorial "out-there" take would say that alcohol is exclusively used to hide from life's problems, just at night.

  • 🍎 Andrew's Take. But lately, my attitude has leaned a bit naughtier :) I think that if you are taking care of your body, your stress levels, your relationships, your mission... you should be able to rip a couple cigarettes in the morning with your coffee and without your shirt on. Get smashed like you're on dirty Sixth Street in Austin TX. That's what your 20 year-old self would have done and that little dude/girl knew something you may have since forgotten. If your life is somewhat in order (or you're a college kid with absolutely zero real responsibilities), let your hair down.

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

Your friend,

Andrew🍎

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