Saturday, January 10, 2026

TARABULL: Nearly 1/3 of gen Z has already passed away . . .

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SAMA HOOLE: Pemmican: 2 ingredients (meat and fat), lasts decades, provides stable energy for hours, requires no packaging beyond leather or wax paper. Fueled every major exploration and expansion in human history.

Pemmican wasn't invented in one place. It evolved independently across multiple continents wherever humans needed portable, shelf-stable, calorie-dense food for survival. North American Plains Indians: Pemmican. Dried lean meat pounded into powder, mixed with rendered fat 1:1 ratio, sometimes dried berries added. Stored in leather pouches. Shelf-stable for years. Primary food for long-distance travel. Arctic Inuit: Variations using seal fat and dried fish or caribou. Same principle - dried protein combined with concentrated fat. Essential for winter survival and long hunting expeditions. Mongolian steppes: Borts. Dried meat strips, sometimes mixed with dried dairy products and animal fat. Carried by warriors on campaign. Similar 1:1 lean-to-fat ratio. South African Khoekhoe: Biltong mixed with rendered fat. Sustained long-distance cattle drives and hunting expeditions. Tibetan highlands: Tsampa variations with yak butter and dried meat. High-altitude endurance food. The pattern is identical across cultures separated by thousands of miles and no contact. When humans needed maximum nutrition in minimum space, they arrived at the same formula: Dried lean protein + concentrated animal fat in roughly equal ratios. Why this specific ratio? Because lean protein alone causes rabbit starvation - your liver can't process excessive protein without fat. Pure fat is calorie-dense but doesn't provide enough protein for muscle maintenance during extreme activity. The 1:1 ratio solves both problems. The North American version became famous because European fur traders adopted it and documented it extensively. They tried bringing their own rations - hardtack, salted pork, flour. All of it failed in extreme conditions. Men weakened, got scurvy, couldn't maintain the pace. Then they tried pemmican. The difference was immediate. Same men, same conditions, but now they could travel 30-40 miles daily, maintain strength, avoid scurvy. The Hudson's Bay Company made pemmican their standard long-distance ration by the 1820s. Lewis and Clark expedition 1804-1806: Flour ran out multiple times. Men weakened. They purchased pemmican from Plains tribes and expedition performance improved immediately. Clark documents this repeatedly - when they had pemmican, progress was fast and men stayed healthy. When they relied on other rations, everything deteriorated. The North Pole expeditions provide even more dramatic evidence. Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole in 1911 using pemmican as primary ration. His men arrived healthy and well-fed. Robert Scott's expedition using British rations of biscuits and tinned meat? Everyone died. The difference was pemmican. Modern analysis shows why it worked. Pemmican averages 70-75% calories from fat, 25-30% from protein. This keeps you in ketosis - burning fat for fuel instead of glucose. In ketosis, you can access stored body fat efficiently and you don't need constant eating. Arctic explorers could go 10-12 hours between meals while traveling because ketosis provides stable energy. The shelf stability is remarkable. Pemmican stored properly (dry, cool conditions) lasts 10-20 years with no refrigeration. The fat doesn't go rancid because it's saturated fat from ruminants - extremely stable. Some pemmican recovered from failed polar expeditions was still edible after 50+ years. Compare this to modern energy bars. Clif Bar: 70% carbohydrates, 12% protein, 18% fat. Requires constant re-eating as blood sugar spikes and crashes. Contains 20+ ingredients including processed sugars and seed oils that go rancid within months. Wrapped in plastic that leeches chemicals. Pemmican: 2 ingredients (meat and fat), lasts decades, provides stable energy for hours, requires no packaging beyond leather or wax paper. Fueled every major exploration and expansion in human history. The modern food industry can't monetise pemmican. It's too simple. You can make it at home for pennies per pound. It doesn't require their processing plants or chemical stabilizers or fancy packaging. So they convinced you that you need specialized sports nutrition products with 40 ingredients and scientific-sounding names. Meanwhile your ancestors crossed continents eating dried meat and fat mixed together.

One built civilizations. One builds profit margins.  

Here is one place you can get it from, Grassland Beef.

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SAMA HOOLE: Alcohol is hepatotoxic (damages liver), neurotoxic (damages brain), and carcinogenic (causes cancer). These effects occur at any dose. The "moderate drinking is healthy" research has been thoroughly debunked.

Alcohol metabolism produces acetaldehyde, a toxic compound that damages DNA and proteins throughout your body. 
Your liver prioritizes alcohol detoxification over every other metabolic process because alcohol is literally poison and must be cleared immediately or you die.

While your liver is processing alcohol, it cannot effectively burn fat, regulate blood sugar, or perform normal detoxification of other compounds. --Sama Hoole

There is no safe dose of alcohol. Every drink causes cellular damage. Alcohol is hepatotoxic (damages liver), neurotoxic (damages brain), and carcinogenic (causes cancer). These effects occur at any dose. The "moderate drinking is healthy" research has been thoroughly debunked. Those studies were confounded by abstainers including former alcoholics with existing health problems. When you control for that: No benefit at any dose. Only dose-dependent harm. Alcohol metabolism produces acetaldehyde, a toxic compound that damages DNA and proteins throughout your body. Your liver prioritizes alcohol detoxification over every other metabolic process because alcohol is literally poison and must be cleared immediately or you die. While your liver is processing alcohol, it cannot effectively burn fat, regulate blood sugar, or perform normal detoxification of other compounds. This is why alcoholics develop fatty liver even when not consuming excess calories. The liver is overwhelmed processing ethanol and cannot process fat, so fat accumulates. "But red wine has antioxidants!" The alcohol negates any potential benefit. Drink grape juice if you want antioxidants. Or eat liver for 100x more antioxidants without the poison. Every "health benefit" attributed to moderate drinking exists in greater quantity in whole foods without the cellular damage. The alcohol industry has successfully marketed their product as health food. It's not. It's recreational poison. Enjoy it if you want, but don't pretend it's healthy.

Your body treats alcohol exactly like it treats other toxins: as something to detoxify and eliminate immediately. 

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CHASE HUGHES: NOREPINEPHRINE give you readiness, energy, and backbone

If Dopamine is low in the brain, shit feels pointless, a goal, or whatever feels really obvious. Planning replaces action. I'm going to do all these journals and one-year plans, little white boards. The word "tomorrow" becomes kind of a lifestyle for us.  --Chase Hughes


1:47  DOPAMINE.  People say that dopamine is pleasure.  That's a lie.  It's way completely false.  Dopamine dysregulation is the cause of Parkinson's.  It has nothing to do with pleasure.  So Dopamine is misunderstood.  Dopamine is the signal that something is worth moving toward.  So when dopamine is healthy, when I make some effort, it feels meaningful.  If I make some progress in my life, it feels real.  And the actions that I'm taking towards a goal or whatever, feel really obvious.  If Dopamine is low in the brain, shit feels pointless, a goal or whatever feel really obvious.  If Dopamine is low in the brain, shit feels pointless.  Planning replaces action.  I'm going to do all these journals and one-year plans, little white boards.  The word "tomorrow" becomes kind of a lifestyle for us.  

2:31  SEROTONIN.  The second neurotransmitter is serotonin.  
And the 3 words that I want you just to think about with Serotonin is control, stability, and restraint.  Serotonin is not happiness.  I want you to think of Serotonin as impulse control.  It's the chemical that lets you pause instead of just reacting to something.  It lets you delay gratification.  It lets you stick with something when it gets uncomfortable.  So when your serotonin is low, it looks like emotional volatility.  You have more anxiety.  You get pissed off more easily.  It's the "I know exactly what I should do, but I can't make myself do it."

3:10  NOREPINEPHRINE.  The 3rd chemical is norepinephrine.  Norepinephrine.  And the three words I want you to associate with this are readiness, energy, and backbone.  This is the one that people confuse with stress.  But if you look at norepinephrine, it's regulated intensity.  Healthy levels of norepinephrine feel like an alert sense of calm, like you're more resilient to stress and like a readiness to act if something happens.  Low norepinephrine is brain fog, avoidance, learned helplessness, fatigue that sleep won't fix.  And if your norepinephrine is too high, we have anxiety, and panic and burnout, and definitely, definitely going to get some insomnia there.  

Let me kill one more myth here, and this is a big one I had written down.  Vitamin  and mineral deficiencies don't just happen to malnourished kids in Somalia.  They happen to people that are stressed, that live a busy life, that are disciplined, people who push through stuff, people who skip meals, people who sleep like shit, people who live on a whole lot of caffeine, adrenaline.  I want you to write this one thing down: Stress burns nutrients.  And if I had [fewer] nutrients, I have inflammation.  And inflammation blocks the absorption even further, and then sleep deprivation wrecks our receptor sensitivity, the receptors that we need to absorb all this good stuff.  So you can eat the most perfect diet ever and still be super depleted.
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SCOTT JENNINGS: So basically we have numerous blue states that are, at a minimum, in a rhetorical state of secession from the Union. Wild. All because they don’t want to enforce federal immigration laws.

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