I have been having a lot of fun co-writing a new newsletter called Health & Habits. You can subscribe to it here, but below I am going to share the first 3 posts all in one.
It is the only newsletter you need to become a healthy sovereign human. It’s curiosity-driven and has some humor in it to make deep dialogue more digestible haha.
I will still be writing about deep topics in this Health & Freedom Substack as well.
Here Is A Sneak Peek Into Next Week’s Issue
Welcome healthy friends,
There is no such thing as the limitless pill, but there is such a thing as the limitless drink. Unfortunately, as of today, it is blocked by the FDA.
And they are trying to stop its rise with fear of the Bird Flu pandemic propaganda.
But fortunately for us, our healthy hero of the week is gaining the power to end the corruption once and for all!
Here is what we will cover today:
The healthiest drink in the world
Bird flu? No fear
A big mission for our hero
The full issue comes out next Monday.
It All Starts Here
By here, we mean hero. wait no... habits... ah same thing.
Shaun Ziegler
June 10, 2024
Welcome friends,
This is the beginning of what we aim to be the most valuable once-a-week newsletter for your health & habits that you can find on this planet 🌎. It is written by me Chris and me Shaun, founders of the Upspace and SquadUp apps.
We want to hang out with some happy and healthy people so selfishly...
A Healthier You = A Happier Me (*We*...you get it)
So it is our pledge to you that we will do everything in our power ⚡ to help create a healthier you. But it's up to you. Take it or leave it. If you're interested, share the health with a friend! If not, all good... feel free to unsubscribe below.
Here is what we will cover today:
🐶 Why Habits Matter
📰 Camping With The Cows
🦸 Healthy Hero of the Week
50% of your daily actions are made up of habitual behavior. Think about that... half of everything you do each day is repetitive, unconscious, habitual actions. This makes your habits your ultimate superpower (or super-curse). Change them to be good and you become 50% [enter your favorite superhero]. Let them slip and you become your own villain.
3 Tips to Become a SuperHero (*Improve your habits)
Start easy - 1% improvement each day leads to a 37x improvement over a year.
Find a partner - checking in with an accountability partner routinely leads to a 90% increase in your habit-forming success rate.
Start with ONE - you master one habit and you build momentum to master them all. No need to start with radically changing everything in your life. Start with one habit.
If you could take one thing from this it would be this...
Make your habits your heroes. Turn your habits from super-curses to superpowers.
A few weeks ago, I, Shaun, went to this "Camping with the Cows" event hosted by Raw Farms USA in Fresno, California. It was an overnight event that I signed up for because I wanted to check out the farm that I get all of my raw milk from. To put it in perspective, this is a family farm in the middle of California. And California is big so it is a journey to get there.
So, I expected like 30-40 people. But when I got there, I was shocked. Guess how many people PAID and drove hours to go support a local family raw dairy farm and stay overnight???
1500+ people!
This gave me hope for humanity and the preservation and protection of local farms 🐄 🇺🇸.
3 Reasons To Support Local Farms (Especially Raw Dairy Farms)
America was founded on local. Local farms = local freedom. Local Futures Economics of Happiness has great information on this.
Local farmers care more about their community because they are a part of it! Bigger farms = bigger problems!
The benefits of raw milk are as powerful as your habits yet it is federally illegal!
The Healthy Hero of the Week goes to a local hero who is helping other locals be heroes in their communities...
Mark McAfee: Self-named 'Chief Excitement Officer' and Founder of Raw Farms USA.
Not all heroes wear capes but they do have a habit of drinking raw milk and the best of them feed it to their local communities! Mark and his family are the team behind the incredible Camping with the Cows event and are saving (*nourishing) California (which needs some saving!) through their 100% Raw Dairy Products.
More about Mark
Mark is also the founder of the Raw Milk Institute which helps farmers produce clean, safe raw milk.
Raw Farms is now the largest producer of raw milk in America: a true American hero. Watch this quick 1:40m video "Food Rebel: Mark McAfee."
Mark is friends with and has been behind the scenes supporting Amos Miller, owner of Amos Miller Farms, a Pennsylvania raw dairy and organic farm that has been under government attack recently this year and really for the past decade. Watch this quick 3:38m video "JUDGE RULES IN AMISH FARMER HEARING | Pennsylvania v Amos Miller Organic Farms."
That's all for today! Best of luck on your Hero's Habit Journey 🏳️.
Here's to your Health & Habits. Till next week 🫡.
🐶 Chris & Shaun 🐺
Hunter-Gatherers As A Business Model?
The ultimate health hack, news on a health victory, and our unique hero of the week.
Shaun Ziegler & Chris Putsch
June 18, 2024
Good morning healthy friends,
⚠️ Warning: The following might trigger you if you are an archaeologist.
Plot twist:
❝
Hunter-gatherers are more advanced than societies with agriculture.
Shaun
The food is certainly of higher quality. We will share more about this in the Healthy Hero section where we highlight one of the coolest companies on Earth.
Here is what we will cover today:
🙈 How to (un)Hack Your Health
🦹♂️ The fall of W.H.O.?
💡 Hunter-Gatherers as a business model
Hack Your Health convention took place in Austin, TX last week. Chris and I were invited as keynote speakers, but were uninvited when we told them our philosophy of ‘hacking your health.’
I know this is ironic for us to say this given we have animals as our alias, but…
Our philosophy: be more human.
This means being healthy is very simple and intuitive. It does not require any hacking or extra money but rather cutting most of that out.
It’s quite simple: Stop eating fake food, stop hiding from the sun, and stop sitting in a chair all day.
Here is how to truly “HACK YOUR HEALTH”
🥑 Eat real foods like a human being (supplements, protein powders, bars, etc. are not real food even if they say they are “healthy”)
☀️ Spend time in the Sun WITHOUT sunscreen - Vitamin D is essential for bone health, immune function, muscle strength, cardiovascular health, and overall well-being. It helps prevent chronic diseases, improves mental health, and supports metabolic processes. If you need to, start with early morning and late afternoon sun.
🕺 Move yo body - movement pumps the heart and promotes blood flow which distributes all the nutrients from the real food and Vitamin D from the sun throughout the entire body
If you do these three things, you will be ~ 90.36% healthier.
Note: Notice how 2 out of 3 of our suggestions are entirely free. If you only eat food that comes from nature, you will save money too. Even better, you can grow it yourself and it is also free!
Sub-note: Chris and Shaun were never invited as keynote speakers but they missed out!
Many did not know about this, but over the past two years, the World Health Organization attempted to pass The Pandemic Treaty.
The proposed radical changes would transform the WHO from an international institution with advisory functions into an agency issuing decisions binding on all Member States.
Lurie Roșca, Member of Parliament for four terms (1994-2009), Journalist
If passed, the Treaty would give WHO significant power over 194 nations, including the U.S., in the case of another Pandemic. The power would include or lead to things like increased surveillance, vaccine passports, and more.
Fortunately for the sovereignty of the U.S. and the world, on May 24, 2024, the negotiations for the draft were shut down.
To better understand this week’s Healthy Hero, we asked ChatGPT a very important question:
It is commonly understood that agriculture is the first sign of advanced civilizations. But recently, we have seen models that better match nature such as regenerative farming and wild hunting that seem to be showing otherwise.
It is reasonable to ask:
What if hunter-gatherers had it right all along?
Whether directly or indirectly, this is what our healthy hero of the week is proving. Shoutout to Maui Nui, the provider of ‘the healthiest red meat on the planet.’
Hunter-Gatherers as a Business Model?
Founded by Jake and Ku’ulani Muise in 2015, Maui Nui’s mission is to help manage the invasive Axis deer population on the Hawaiian islands by humanly harvesting and distributing the high-quality Axis deer meat.
Maui Nui goes to great lengths to ensure the Axis deer are harvested humanely, and that the meat remains as high quality as possible.
All harvesting is done entirely at night to make the process stress-free for the deer. They are never baited, fenced, penned, or corralled and remain wild until the moment of harvest.
~ Maui Nui
They don’t have sales goals. Their mission is to help restore the Hawaiian islands from the extensive damage done by these deer. Their mission is not about making money. They are driven to maintain and protect the character and sanctity of the Hawaiian islands and culture.
Maui Nui is helping to restore the environment of the Hawaiian islands back to what they once were, and feeding people with high-quality meat at the same time. #winwin
More information about the hero
What do you think?
🍻 Cheers to the curious ones.
Who was more advanced?
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That’s all for today! Best of luck on your health & habits journey 🏳️.
Till next week 🫡
🐶 Chris & Shaun 🐺
Free Dopamine!
Did you know that curiosity is a free source of dopamine?
Chris Putsch & Shaun Ziegler
July 01, 2024
Good morning healthy friends,
Welcome back to the only newsletter you need to become a healthy sovereign human. In return for today’s dose of dopamine (driven by your curiosity), all that we ask is that you share the dopamine with a friend.
To kick off the curiosity today, here is the transcript from a quick SNL skit done by our healthy hero of the week:
“The biggest drug cartels in the world get together and buy up all the media and all the politicians and force all the people in the world to stay locked in their homes and people can only come out if they take the cartel’s drugs and keep taking them over and over and over again. I through the script away. I mean, who is going to believe that crazy idea.”
Our Healthy Hero of The Week
Hmm. That is a crazy idea. But does it sound familiar to you?
Here is what we will cover today:
Is curiosity the cure?
What happened in 1910?
Our hero is saving us from the cartels!
What if there was a cure for all?
But to understand, it is going to require some curiosity.
Not so coincidentally, the cure for all might just be curiosity. The reason is that curiosity is the radical pursuit of truth. And to cure anything, you must understand the underlying truth of what is causing it… also known as the root cause.
Today’s health system is quick to diagnose our issues and disguise them with medicine.
It’s estimated that about 66% of the U.S. population takes one or more prescription drugs.
But if the medicine solved the problem, then the problem would no longer exist, right? If so, wouldn’t you be able to stop taking the medicine? So why is that so many people are stuck taking daily prescriptions?
You see, curiosity drives us to dive deeper.
Let's use the diagnosis of depression as an example. Roughly 20% of the U.S. is on an SSRI for their depression. The second you get off the SRRI, the depression comes right back and usually worse. So if depression comes back, is the SSRI solving the problem or hiding it?
Curiosity drives us to dive deeper into the root cause of the depression. What is causing the depression? Was there a significant emotional or physical traumatic event in your past that could have triggered it? Once we discover this, we can begin to cure the depression for good. Our curiosity becomes the cure for our depression.
And this same philosophy of curiosity can be used for anything else.
Curious about curiosity? Here is more:
If today’s newsletter sparks some curiosity in you, you can thank us later for the dopamine. Be a good friend and share the dopamine with them too.
To continue with the theme of curiosity as the cure, let’s ask a question about our curers, our healers, our “medical professionals:”
How are medical professionals being taught to heal?
Our Curiosity
To become a Doctor, you must go through extensive schooling. And many Doctors go into it for a beautiful reason: to learn how to heal others.
Unfortunately, with the Flexner Report in 1910, curiosity was stripped from the medical curriculum and replaced with what they call “evidence-based medicine,” or “the scientific approach to medicine.”
These are simply marketing phrases for the pharmaceutical industry that has successfully gotten 66% of Americans on their prescription medication.
The problem: who is providing “the evidence?” Who is doing “the science?”
Well, the same people providing the evidence and doing the science are the companies that are set to profit from it. More than 75% of clinical trials are funded by pharmaceutical companies. What is their motive? They are expected to generate $1.2T in 2024 alone.
So it makes sense to strip curiosity, aka the pursuit of the root cause, out of the curriculum and just teach Doctors how to diagnose and distribute their drugs based on their ‘evidence’ from their clinical trials.
Following the Flexner Report in 1910, schools that didn’t adopt this approach got defunded and shut down, and Doctors who didn’t follow it lost their licenses.
As seen during COVID, Doctors who use their curiosity to offer root-cause solutions are threatened with losing their licenses.
More on the Flexner Report and the incentives behind John D. Rockefeller funding it.
P.S. We have a tremendous amount of respect for Doctors. Most of them seek to heal. It is the system that has failed them and therefore us. We commend those who risk their licenses and continue to be curious and seek to find the root cause rather than simply the diagnosis.
This week’s hero is a movie star who has ironically played the villain a few times like in The War of The Planet Apes. He is also an enemy of the world’s legal cartels!
Unlike this movie, Woody Harrelson is a big supporter of all animals so much so that he is vegan. He is a true vegan who eats mostly raw, uncooked, and real vegan foods, not the toxic and fake plant-based meat, an industry perpetuated by control and greed.
Whereas the contributors to the plant-based meat agenda are aiming to end their competitor, the cow, Woody Harrelson is a big supporter of this animal. He was the narrator of the hit film Kiss The Ground which highlighted the harmonious benefit of regenerative farming in which cows and other nomadic animals play a big part.
Woody is a truth seeker. He was the one who shared the alternative perspective about the pharmaceutical companies as cartels in the SNL skit highlighted above. His charismatic and curiosity-driven way of seeking and sharing the truth is the reason he is the healthy hero of the week.
Enjoy these great short videos/reads with Woody
Woody Harrelson Says Climate Doc Common Ground Makes Him ‘No Longer Hopeless’ for the Future
Woody Harrelson shares new ‘proof’ that Matthew McConaughey could be his brother
That’s all for today! Best of luck on your health & habits journey 🏳️. Remember, the driver behind it all is your curiosity.
Till next week 🫡
🐶 Chris & Shaun 🐺
With Truth & Love,
Shaughnessy