Ben Greenfield
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So this is what I got to deal with.
um hydration yeah but if you have those like robust sodium conservation pathways because your your ancestors didn't have as much access to salts and then you get like isolated sodium chloride which is what you're going to find in table salt or processed foods you get the blood pressure effects and
It's kind of sad because I love salt, like good, like mineral-rich salt, you know, like whatever, red meat salt or kalima salt or Celtic salt or whatever.
And salt's kind of gotten a bad rap when it comes to the isolated sodium chloride.
That's the issue.
Yeah, which is kind of a myth.
People are like, oh, it's iodized.
At least I'm getting my iodine to do my thyroid a favor, and it's kind of like the opposite.
Yeah.
If you do that every day.
But you know, the thing is that it's important that- Drinking your neighbor's birth control pills.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And that's like, I think the coolest part about, um, having kids is, um, you don't necessarily want to, like, live vicariously through them and have your children fulfill the dreams that you never accomplished.
But at the same time, it's almost like this mild sense of immortality.
It's like, this is a young human being who I can equip to go and make the world a better place.
And...
This is, like, a tiny stamp of my legacy that if I do the right things, I can actually keep on helping the world after I die based on how I impress this young individual or what I impress upon them.
And so I think... I don't remember if we talked about this last time, Sean, but, like, the idea of systematizing that is such an important concept.
We have, like,