Self-HELP! PLEASE! OMG!

GM🦁 This is Andrew's Apples, the 2-min health email for the paleolithic plumbers... of truth. Let's get it.

🦷 Your first "gut". It's your mouth, people. Health starts with your oral hygiene, that dark cave that we shove food and pour drink into. "Your teeth are organs that are connected to your nervous system via the trigeminal nerve." Regular sun exposure, a proper diet mostly free of processed gluten (bad bread, bad pasta) and dairy (fat-free factory-farmed milk, yogurt, and cheese), and supplementing with key vitamins and magnesium... all of this will help. It turns out that metal fillings, root canals, and cavities have no place in your mouth. Holistic health practitioners are working on safe methods of removing these unnatural toxins from your mouth. Stay tuned. 🍎Andrew's Take. What I am noticing is that, slowly but surely, western medicine is moving closer to the eastern way, i.e., looking at the entire body as a singular organism. Fix your mouth, then suddenly your gut cleans up, and then your sleep improves, and finally you feel better with less pain. Quacks in this country for decades have gotten away with handing you one pill or drilling one hole, convinced the complicated web of issues will disappear. Think about it: if the ADA had any idea what it was doing, cavities would have been solved years ago. How have things gotten worse for folks? After all, food quality has been bad since the 1950s, when the TV dinner hit store shelves. Not buying it. Patients deserve better care. So long as our teeth keep rotting out of our heads, so too will our bodies.

😊 Thoughts re: self-help. The $10 billion industry is doing just fine, and of course it is. Write books and record seminars that expertly locate a familiar insecurity in the victim, promise them the world, and then make them come back for more. It is porn without the sex. Always, always coming back for more. Rarely getting off the drug. People live quiet lives desperately spinning in this hamster wheel. 🍎Andrew's Take. OK here's the deal. "Self-Help" as a genre should accurately be renamed "HELP! PLEASE! OMG!" People want help, I get it. But 99% of these books can be ignored. Not because the information is all bad or because the research is all bunk. It's not. Some good work has been done. But most of it should only be read and studied by other academics. If someone wanted a real Self-help book, they'd have to write it themselves. But because writing a book is a lot of work, instead learn to self-talk. You don't need help. You need to learn to talk to yourself: motivate yourself, make yourself crack a rib laughing, smirking at the past and smiling at tomorrow. You can read a NYT bestselling book on Wealthy Thinking or Not Giving a F&ck or whatever, and maybe you retain a single idea from those 300-page tomes. Within six months that single retained idea is likely gone. Perished. A speck of dust. What do you and your best friend do? Talk. So, talk. To yourself.

🕊️ Tweet of the Day. Lots of talk lately about how we all must collectively kill our ego, and how the ego is something outside of us. Nonsense. Anytime you did or said something even remotely interesting was because your ego was driving. The gut-wrenching letters from our species were not written from a place of midwestern humility. You can be an egotistic creature and a gregarious charmer at once. People who say otherwise have never been either.

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

Andrew🍎

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