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Good morning 🦁 This is Andrew's Apples, the daily email that makes you hotter naked and clothed. In under 2 min. Let's go picking.
🍄 Make room for mushrooms. Move aside classic antidepressants, for psilocybin (a psychedelic compound from magic mushrooms) is proving to be a real force in depression therapy, according to new research in Nature Medicine. The paper cited "global increases in brain network integration" aka less 'closed-brain' feelings of stuck-ness. As for dosing: no more party-monster pill-popping once-a-day dose of Zoloft, as one or two doses of psilocybin can do the trick. Sadly, depression is no longer relegated just to goth babes and twitter communists - close to 20 million in US are affected daily - so it's a good thing that we are recruiting the same ancient and effective compounds the San Francisco hippies abused.
🕺🏽 While we're at it... More research out of Canada cited that low doses of both psilocybin (queue Jerry Garcia cover band) and ketamine (queue east Berlin nightcrawlers) enhance motivation and attention, two feelings negatively affected by depressive disorder. Again, the most interesting aspect of this development is that (a) still-taboo substances are being reconsidered for their therapeutic qualities and (b) these substances do not require a daily dose like their Big Pharma predecessors do. Far from another sham shaman or dazed club thot.
🥬 Who wants a snack? An evergreen essay from the NYT Magazine in 2013 exposed the clever and exploitive science behind junk food. The TL;DR (which is also the hidden mission behind Big Food as an enterprise): snack-ify everything, because that way the eater will never get full and thus crush the whole bag, box, shelf, pallet. Two wild examples are Coke and Cheetos. As longtime Coca Cola investor Warren Buffett once said, Coke has no taste memory - meaning that it can be glugged all day without getting sick of the drink. Can't say that about a root beer or a grape soda, which typically satisfy after one if not two cans. And as for Cheetos: the puff's melt-in-your-mouth quality persuades your brain to think no calories lie inside the food, allowing you to inhale them forever and for always. If you're in the tough business of grocery, every aisle ideally is the aisle of the Snack.
🧯 You only get hotter. This tweet below. By your 30s you have: outgrown your hammer-and-sicko far-left phase, closed your sl*t chapter (guys + gals), actually decorated your apartment, come to terms with not being the only person on earth, fixed your bad breath, and realized the coolest sexiest thing you could possibly do is be yourself. Straight HEAT!!!
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Andrew🍎
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