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Your diet causes skin cancer not the sun.

The potato discourse has gotten out of hand. Let's do this properly. What people think the potato is: - A staple food that sustained civilisations - Rich in vitamins and minerals - A complete, satisfying whole food - Proof you can thrive on plants alone - The humble hero of the working-class diet What the potato actually is: - A starchy underground storage organ designed by the plant to survive winter: not to feed you - Protected by glycoalkaloids, natural pesticides concentrated in the skin, sprouts, and green flesh - A food you're instructed to peel specifically because part of it is mildly toxic - High on the glycaemic index: drives insulin as effectively as table sugar once digested - Nutritionally modest: some C, some potassium, no complete protein, no fat-soluble vitamins, nothing the meat it used to accompany wasn't already providing - The food of last resort that defined subsistence, not flourishing: adopted by European peasants because it was cheap, calorie-dense, and hard to tax - Famous for sustaining the Irish: until the one crop failed, and then it killed them in their hundreds of thousands, which is what happens when a food system narrows to a single low-nutrient staple The "you can live on potatoes" claim requires milk to make it even partially true. The milk is doing the work. The potato is providing the calories. These are not the same thing. Deep-fried in seed oil: you have added oxidised linoleic acid and a compound (acrylamide) the WHO calls a probable carcinogen, to a food that was already doing nothing special. The potato is not bad. The potato is fine. The potato has simply been given the mythology of a hero for doing the job of a backup plan.

One aspect of the GLP-1 explosion that's been interesting to me is learning of all the tissues in the body with GLP-1 receptors. When I was first taught about GLP-1 about 20 years ago, we thought it was limited to brain, gut, and pancreas. It's MUCH more abundant. In fact, the newest research finds GLP-1 receptors in the nasal cavity (your nose)! This might be one more mechanism of satiety--perhaps the smells of food don't elicit as strong a response when the nasal GLP-1 receptors are activated.

Took me 10 months to unfat myself and I took no Reta. Learned a lot about myself along the way and endured the power of discipline. It sucks but much more rewarding than taking a fat drug or peptide.

MicroStrategy is down -13% on its Bitcoin. All that financial engineering & fancy tickers. Would have been better off just parking that capital in treasuries.

"You can't change Lp(a). It's genetic." Every cardiologist told me this after my heart attack. My Lp(a) was 276. They said I'd need drugs for life. I got it down to 52. No drugs. Here's my chart. 🧵