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This is Andrew's Apples, a small white bag of four fresh *fruits* to nourish your soul and make you feel great. Like doing corpse pose after a grueling six hour long yoga class. All this in under 2 minutes. Let's go picking.
🛋️ Susie, take a seat. Whenever you hear the term "government-backed experts," call the cops. Amid the mental health crisis, engendered in no small part by the pandemic measures, now "experts" want kids as young as 8 to be screened for anxiety. Hey, I'm a garden-variety midwit, but when I see a government mishandle a crisis that leaves millions in mental pain then immediately afterward recommend said millions (kids, no less) to be diagnosed and "fixed", I know something is wrong. Keep the peasants in pain and in the palm of your hand and all will be well, a tyrant thought. Anxiety and depression are very real, especially nowadays. But sitting down little 8-year-old Susie to tell her how damaged she is will only by and large create a problem that didn't before exist.
🦟 Superbuggin. While double-digit inflation forces more and more of the middle class to eat grasshoppers, another kind of bug is making moves. Enter the superbug: antibiotic resistant bacteria AKA bugs that are too smart to die. The reason they exist is both that we overuse antibiotics in factory farmed animals and that we spray pesticides on nearly everything we grow in the ground. Cows, chickens, shrimp, corn, soy, wheat. The CDC, in 2019, issued an apolitical Threats Report on the little buggers. More here. The solutions, as always, are only semi-solutions and predictable at that - buy local / wild-caught, avoid pesticides, and opt for organic. Yes, it's going to cost 20-30% more. *Sobbing Emoji* In a world where incentives are mixed up, there is always a cost to de-bug.
🤕 My head hurts. People really be headaching these days. A new study out of Norway found that over 15% of people suffer from daily headaches. Plus, 52% of people suffer recurrent headaches (including migraines, which women are 2x more likely than men to experience) at least once a year. Importantly, these data only apply to rich countries, which makes me wonder if headaches are a "rich person problem." Sure, slugging six bourbons on a school night will lead to a "headache" the following morning, but what about our more regular daily addictions (16 hours of screen time, minimal sunlight exposure, pounding coffee until 6pm, a drop of water to drink, listening to Joe Rogan at 4x speed)?
✈️ I'm A Travelin' Man. The tweet below. Ricky Nelson made a lot of stops and saw about a lot of girls. Bless his heart. The thing is: travel is terrible for you. Bad sleep, abnormal stressors, poor air quality and circulation, cabin pressure, and so on. G*d wanted you on the dirt, but traveling is sick!! When you do travel, at the very least, pack some nutritional insurance for the trip there and back.
How do you like them Apples? Suggestions? Hate me? If you ever need anything, hit reply.
NOTE: We are taking tomorrow off, so I'll see you Sunday for Sumday.
Andrew🍎
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