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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:

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.

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:

• Is curiosity also the cure to conflict?

• Can curiosity boost memory?

• The science of curiosity and its reward: dopamine

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:”

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.

1. How John D. Rockefeller Influenced Modern Medicine

2. “Evidence-Based Medicine” Spread Worldwide

3. 99% of pharmaceuticals are derived from petrochemicals

4. 8% of all global plastics are used in Health Care. Plastic is made from petrochemicals.

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's full SNL skit (6:57)

• Kiss The Ground Regenerative Farming Documentary (1:24:54)

• 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 🐺

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