| I've got an action item for you all. If you happen to use Twitter, hop on and retweet my tweet asking Joe Rogan to have Tucker Goodrich on the podcast (or send him one of your own). Tucker has been banging the seed oil drum for many years now, and if we could get one of the strongest anti-seed oil voices onto the most popular and influential podcast in the world, the collective health of the podcast-listening community would skyrocket. Seed oils are one of those health topics that requires some time and detail. Sugar's easy to explain. Grains are too. You can hit those in a single elevator ride and get the point across. But seed oil? To really understand the predicament requires at least a 5- to 10-minute conversation. Joe's podcasts last up to 3 or 4 hours. They are extremely long form. You can really get into the weeds, and the weeds is sometimes where you need to go. Other than that, I was asked about a shake recipe for an elderly person on bed rest. This isn't mine, actually. It comes from a friend of mine whose grandma was on her deathbed years ago in the hospital. She couldn't eat anything the nurses were bringing her; it was just unappetizing. Zero appetite. So he goes down to the store, picks up a sack of vanilla whey isolate from the bulk bin. Dumps 20-30 grams of that into the blender with a few egg yolks, some heavy cream, some milk, and ice. Blends it up into a "milkshake" that tastes great. It worked. She loved it. She drank it. And she got better. That shake, which she continued to drink a couple times a day, helped her get out of that hospital bed and make it another year. Her health issues were non-negotiable at that point, but she wouldn't have made it that extra year without the shake. He'd occasionally throw in a scoop of vanilla ice cream, because at that point the calories can really help. That's the power of actual nutrient-dense food. Rather than drink the soy protein-laden Ensure dosed with canola oil and maltodextrin, she drank something her doctors were probably horrified to see her drinking—a big milkshake full of saturated fat and animal protein and cholesterol—and it worked. Funny how that works. Sometimes (most times) it pays to do something "wrong" or "forbidden," something that you know is right despite everyone telling you the opposite. I'm sure you've had a similar experience. I know I have. Tell me about it. I want to hear all the times you shirked "the way things are done" and went your own way. How'd it go? Take care, everyone. | 