Tuesday, December 16, 2025

SAMA HOOLE: Meanwhile, fresh meat prevents scurvy perfectly. The Inuit never get scurvy eating seal and caribou. Arctic explorers who eat like the Inuit survive without any citrus.

1747: Royal Navy surgeon James Lind conducts the first controlled clinical trial in history. British sailors are dying of scurvy. Gums bleeding, teeth falling out, wounds not healing, death within weeks. Lind tests 6 treatments on 12 sailors. Two sailors get citrus fruits (lemons and oranges). They recover completely in 6 days. The other 10 continue deteriorating. The cure is proven. Published. Documented in clinical detail. Royal Navy response: Nothing. They ignore it for 40 years. 1795: Finally adopted. But they switch from lemons to limes (cheaper, less effective). Scurvy returns. 1875: Arctic expeditions are still dying of scurvy despite carrying lime juice. The juice is too diluted, improperly stored, vitamin C degraded. Multiple expeditions fail. Men die horrible deaths. All preventable. Meanwhile, fresh meat prevents scurvy perfectly. The Inuit never get scurvy eating seal and caribou. Arctic explorers who eat like the Inuit survive without any citrus. But the Royal Navy doesn't mandate fresh meat. They mandate inadequate lime juice. Why? Because fresh meat requires hunting, preserving, or keeping livestock. That's expensive and logistically complex. Lime juice is cheap. Ships can store it easily. Even if it doesn't work. The Navy chose convenient failure over effective solution. By 1900, scurvy is still killing sailors and explorers despite the cure being known for 150 years. The pattern: We find the cure. It's inconvenient or unprofitable. We implement a inferior substitute. People die. We blame the disease. Modern parallel: We know removing carbohydrates reverses diabetes. Instead we prescribe insulin and metformin while telling people to "eat balanced meals with whole grains." The convenient failure continues. The profitable failure continues. 350 years later, we're still choosing management over cure because cure doesn't generate revenue.

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SAMA HOOLE: Butchers historically priced kidney fat higher than muscle meat. Suet, the hard fat around kidneys and loins, commanded premium prices.

Butchers historically priced kidney fat higher than muscle meat. Suet, the hard fat around kidneys and loins, commanded premium prices. This wasn't arbitrary. This was market recognition of superior value. Kidney fat has a higher melting point than other animal fats, making it ideal for cooking and preservation. It's also more nutrient-dense than muscle meat. Victorian London: suet costs more per pound than decent cuts of beef. Poor families save to buy suet for Christmas pudding. Wealthy families use it liberally year-round. The market hierarchy reflected nutritional wisdom. Organ meats expensive. Kidney fat expensive. Lean muscle meat cheap. This is the opposite of modern pricing where lean cuts cost most and fat is trimmed and discarded. When did this flip? Mid-1900s as the lipid hypothesis gained traction. Suddenly fat became undesirable. Pricing inverted. Lean muscle meat became premium. Fat became waste product. But the original market pricing revealed knowledge that modern pricing obscures: fat is the valuable component.

The market knew this for centuries before nutritional science decided otherwise. 

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SAMA HOOLE: You're eating French fries cooked in week-old, continuously oxidized seed oil. You cannot avoid seed oils eating at restaurants.

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MARK GROUBERT: LA is now the only big city in America that does not have a homicide division they laid off over 1300 cops and the detectives left in homicide got rolled into a long standing division in Los Angeles Police Department called Robbery Homicide

I'll show you the other two clips in a second.  At this time, this is at 8:30 last night, the bodies are laying in there in the house for 5 hours.  [Alan Hamilton] will go on to say that he has no search warrant.  He will also go on to say that he can't enter the house.  He will also go on to say that they can't find the County Coroner, a guy who should be available 24/7, we covered the John Belushi situation at the Chateau Marmont in one of the early episodes.  The County Corner was there within 20 minutes as per crimes in LA.  This is now I want to say 5 hours, no search warrant, completely insane.  Why you need a search warrant in an active crime investigation is, of course, preposterous.  But there is more to this, and the situation is breaking news that nobody caught.  And one of the breaking news things that came out of this press conference, which he admits later at the end of the press conference, was that there was no longer any Homicide division in the city of Los Angeles.  LA is now the only big city in America that does not have a homicide division.  They laid off over 1300 cops and the detectives that were left in Homicide got rolled into a long-standing division in Los Angeles Police Department called Robbery Homicide.  So there's some confusion about that.  Robbery Homicide is a homicide that occurs during a robbery, separate division of LAPD. LAPD, like every other big city police force up until November 1st of this year, unannounced, not on their website, no press conference, no press release quietly, according to out of the mayor's office, quietly did away with LAPD Homicide.  So this guy has shown up from Robbery Homicide, now there is no robbery here, and he is saying that it's going to be handled by Robbery Homicide.  And to me, as a reporter in LA, this was a huge freaking story.  Nobody is picking up on this.  This is because of defunding the police.  They did away with 1,300 detectives and the gang squad and the entire division, and whoever survived got rolled into Robbery Homicide.  He explains this later on.  This press conference goes off the rails.  There's a lot of press, and he can't handle it and begins to talk down to the reporters who were merely asking normal questions about "Why he's not in the house?"  "Are there any suspects?"  He won't even acknowledge there were murders involved here.

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TOM LUONGO: Won't see the real world effects of the new procurement and contracting rules from the OBBB until Q1 and it won't be in full swing until Q2

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