Teens like social media!

Good morning 🦁 This is Andrew's Apples, the 2-min health email that is like Lunchables - all you could want, in a tiny package. Let's go.

• 🧠 Teens like social media! A new Pew poll found that 35% of 13- to 17-year-old teens “almost constantly” use social media. YouTube, TikTok, IG, and Snapchat lead the pack (in that order, with YouTube #1). Facebook is, predictably, on the decline. Sorry, Grandma Joan.

  • 🍎 Andrew's Take. It's always funny to see prestige publications write about this topic and act shocked. This is just how it is, folks. No reversal will occur, whereby the internet goes away and in-person churchgoing replaces the void. The only hope for the kiddos is that they'll follow mostly net-positive or net-neutral content creators. The younger people tell me that most of the TikTok accounts are but lewd OnlyFans accounts sans the subscription fees. Yikes. But, given the current economic and social circumstances, the empath in me wonders: can I blame them?

• 🐔 Take on 'plant medicines'. Fitness guru Ben Greenfield recently put out Part II of his coming-clean article about quitting plant medicines (acid, mushrooms, peyote, ayahuasca, ketamine, cannabis, MDMA, DMT, and whatever else SF types are sucking on). Full disclosure: he is a Christian. He is also a legit teacher who does deep research - a real student of the game. He had this to say: "[This] should be an important news flash for any modern-day Christian or pagan mystic: you don't need drugs to talk to God or hear His voice or seek His direction." Food for thought.

  • 🍎 Andrew's Take. Whenever a a cultural authority (SF/NYC collective brain, CIA, Prestige Media, CDC, Fox News, whatever) unblinkingly endorses something 100%, run. This happened with psychedelic/psychotropic drugs and HBO's Silicon Valley mocked it. These compounds are built either for pros (under sophisticated supervision) or morons (with an afternoon to kill). Too many horror stories of inexperience resulting in PTSD to just blindly back it like it's a glass of water.

• 🌳 Sleep prevents chronic disease. Dr. Peter Attia calls it "the best insurance policy for lifespan and healthspan." Also called a "life support system." Good lord, that's heavy. AIGHT! Mother Nature's best bet for immortality! It has also been shown that good sleep helps prevent the four leading causes of death in the developed world (heart disease, cancer, neurodegenerative disease, and metabolic disease).

  • 🍎 Andrew's Take. Hit the lights, kid. Remember: try to wake up around the same time every morning, despite when you fall asleep. If you get sub-6 hours, take an afternoon siesta for 20-30 mins. Night-night!

• 🕊️ Tweet of the Day. Lol, seedless fruit is an oxymoron. It does not exist. It is made Dr. Jekyll and will turn its eaters into Mr. Hyde. Same goes for "refined" oils, which are untouched naturally extracted oils pumped through mega-machines lined with chemicals and heat. Dead food. Steer clear, mate.

PROGRAMMING NOTE: AA is taking the weekend off to chew nicotine gum and do backflips off a boat into a lake at my old pal's bachelor party in northern Michigan. Be good and see y'all next week!

Your friend,

Andrew🍎

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