Food is f--king expensive

Just don't do anything the Good Lord wouldn't do.  Freakshow, "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle"

G-Morning 🦁 This is Andrew's Apples, the health email that is stylish, small, and effective - like a pair of gold opera glasses. Gimme 2 min. Let's go. 

1. 💊 Antibiotic resistance looking bleak. Back 2 school: antibiotics are drugs used to combat bacterial infections in humans and animals. And? Humans are increasingly overexposed to them via oversubscription by doctors and our food supply. Germs are smart, so when you play the same song for them over and over, they change their tune - we call this antibiotic resistance. Its logical end is that these drugs over time become ineffective and people will die from contracting previously treatable infections (currently 35,000 deaths/year and growing). The CDC and The Lancet even know it's getting bad. The medical community still routinely dishes out antibiotics for VIRAL infections, which by definition cannot be treated with bacteria-only-fighting antibiotics (think of a cold, flu, or ear infection, all of which are viruses). And then there's the food piece: livestock are fed antibiotics to facilitate unnatural and speedy growth (fatter chickens = fatter profit margins).

   1. 🍎 Andrew's Take: only take antibiotics when you have a BACTERIAL infection (otherwise google home remedies, many of which have been around for centuries), and prioritize organic/biodynamic protein and produce. Many of us are already such a pill, so we don't need more of them still.

2. 💸 Food is fucking expensive. Globally, food prices increased by 30% between March 2021 and March 2022. Yikes. In the last 15 months alone the following happened: the Suez Canal got clogged for a week, Bill Gates became the biggest landowner in the US, Ukraine/Russia (the "bread basket" of the EU) stopped exporting wheat etc., a new wave of bird flu forced farmers to kill millions of chickens, and most interestingly over 20 mysterious fires occurred to major food processing plants around the US (many with minimal details on the root causes). Compare that with just two fires in 2019... odd. Folks who work at these plants have chimed in that the fire suppression systems, in 2022, are "state of the art" and thus these fires should not be happening, especially in such rapid succession. Combine this with ever-changing weather patterns, C19, lower yields on shitty soil, and our government's choice to forgo energy independence, and you have no end in sight for expensive food.

   1. 🍎 Andrew's Take: plant a garden/join a CSA/buy from farmers markets if you can, because many of these events when taken together cannot currently be explained.

3. 🧂 Salt ≠ Sodium. Salt is a combination of 40% sodium and 60% chloride, both essential minerals. Originally a food preservative used to keep foods fresher longer, salt was consumed in way higher amounts by our ancestors compared to us today. And, per usual, the reason is political: similar to the Sugar industry demonizing Fat so it could sell more Sugar in the 1960s, a guy named Lewis Dahl in 1970 claimed he had “unequivocal” evidence that salt was linked to high blood pressure. Merely years later, no further proof backed up this hypothesis and yet the Senate told the population to cut their salt consumption by up to 85%. Lololol! So, salt is good for you, especially when it's high quality like Himalayan sea salt (which has high amounts of other crucial minerals like potassium).

   1. 🍎 Andrew's Take: when it comes to health, the government usually and lazily relies on dated, convenient "science" instead of looking at history to remain at the forefront of optimal metabolic health. You have you decide for yourself, call bullshit when you see it, drink your electrolytes, and eat your spinach, beet greens, and mushrooms.

4. 🕊️ Tweet of the Day. I'll give you a hint: golden arches.

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Andrew🍎 

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