“I've never figured out how to do the coffee thing. You never figured out coffee? No. Really? Do tea things. Well, tea's nice. Tea's probably better for you, I guess. But, man, it's so hard to know.”
“Well, here, I'll ask you, because you're a health expert. How convenient. Start there. Because there's all this conflicting information about coffee. Like, some people say coffee's really good for you. It's, like, an amazing antioxidant. And there's all these positive health benefits. And other people say, no, it dehydrates you.”
“And we're going to start looking at our relationship to it instead. And I think it's fundamentally your relationship to coffee that's going to— determine whether it's a health benefit or detrimental to who you are. There's been so many fad diets, so many fad moments.”
“You're not an isolated system. And so if coffee is part of a complex ecosystem of your microbiome, the soil systems of your body, then it's going to supercharge you into health. But if coffee sits there as a drug that is bypassing the felt sense of being human, then you're probably undermining your potential to be alive fully and it's becoming a distraction to life.”
“Genius. You know? Then he's Hunter S. Thompson. I think what you said about the relationship to coffee is really important because I think that could be the case with virtually everything in life. You know? Like, there's, you could get addicted to almost anything.”
“And that people who drink raw milk are like 860 percent more likely to get sick. But it's like versus people who drink homogenized milk.”
“I forget what it was. 13,000 a year feel bad because they drank bad milk. And out of those, how many of those were drinking raw milk? Well, it was like more likely that it was raw. So then it's still only a few thousand people. By the time you find something that actually got harmed by it, you're down to six people.”
“Instead of saying this. This is what's dangerous about raw milk. Don't drink it when it's spoiled. Don't drink it. But also that's yogurt. That's yogurt. And you should have yogurt because it's important to have good acidophilus and all the cultures, the live cultures.”
“It's probiotics. But don't drink raw milk because raw milk, you'll die. I've never heard of a fucking single person who drank raw milk. Who died? I had a joke about it in my act a long time ago. Like if milk takes you out.”
“actually an antenna. So this is the process that takes to great life. And 70 years ago, we started a new era of humanity called the antibiotic era. And it innovated with penicillin in the 1940s. But then it became herbicides and pesticides and took us into a massive journey of destroying biosis.”
“And so the 1950s, you'll remember we had penicillin in late World War II. So penicillin was the first direct antibiotic. And it was a revolution. It was so exciting. So kids in the 1940s and 50s were getting an injection in their butt for anything, common cold, sneeze, red eyes, penicillin.”
“And we would finally become healthy again. Right. But if people did get infected with syphilis back then, antibiotics like penicillin would cure them. It would. So it would eliminate the symptom of syphilis. But syphilis wasn't a disease. Syphilis was a symptom of a degradation of healthy biologic interconnected relationships.”
“That they've passed this idea that if you don't homogenize and pasteurize your milk, that you're in danger. And I don't know if you've ever seen some of these gaslighty articles, but some lady, I wish I saved it.”
“milk and soft cheeses. Dangerous. Yeah, those are dangerous. Serious. Look, serious pathogens, like listeria and salmonella. Okay.”
“the book is Biological Elegance and you're going to only find it there. We're not putting it on Amazon.”
“So they needed a different purpose for this stuff at lower concentrations and so they repatented in 1976 as a weed killer and rolled it out as Roundup, which would become the most successful weed killer in history.”
“When you read about the lost city of Z, you read about the initial European explorers who made their way into the Amazon. They found this thriving civilization. They went back 200 years ago.”
“Train by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day. I'll stick with the water for now. I've never figured out how to do the coffee thing. You never figured out coffee? No. Really? Do tea things.”
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“An incredible medical paper was published just recently in the Lancet. And it looked at the number of global deaths from just U.S. economic sanctions over the last 40 years. And the number was around 35 million people dead.”