Iâll be sharing detailed results of this important research with you in a series of upcoming letters, [Click here](1770d7/ct0_0/1/ms?sid=TV2%3Af1oFEipot) to view this message in your browser | [Click here](1770d7/l-002e/zout?sid=TV2%3Af1oFEipot) to stop receiving our messages [] [] Al Sears, MD
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Royal Palm Beach, FL 33411 [] July 4, 2023 [] Reader, I want to wish all my readers a happy Fourth of July today. As a proud American, I love taking the day to celebrate our great nationâs freedom and hope all my fellow patriots get the chance to do the same today. At the Sears household, the Fourth doubles as a family reunion â which comes with plenty of food. Burgers, ribs, steaks, hot dogsâ¦all grass-fed, of courseâ¦and all cooked on an open grill. And I know many of you practice a similar tradition to honor our nationâs birthday. What many may not know is that when we celebrate like this, weâre all observing a much older tradition â older than our country and even older than modern civilization itself. Cooking with fire. Studies suggest early humans were using fire to prepare their fat and protein-heavy meals at least 780,000 years ago â much earlier than scientists once believed. Homo sapiens, that is, modern humans, werenât even the first to do it. Ancient historians have found that Neanderthals and other human subspecies were doing the same.1 And that this practice was linked to healthy growth and success around the world. Cultures that didnât adopt the practice simply couldnât survive the brutal and unforgiving world they lived in. Thatâs because this practice produces important and far-reaching health benefits. Unfortunately, this tradition does not get the respect it deserves today. For the past 60 years, Americans have been getting twisted advice from a medical establishment that puts profits above health. And our modern diet is responsible for the epidemic of chronic diseases we currently face. If you follow the real research, itâs easy to connect almost every disease and disorder we face today to the unnatural foods that have been pushed on us for more than half a century by diet dictocrats at the highest levels. Diseases like diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and Alzheimerâs. [joel-salatin] Joel Salatin has been fighting Big Agraâs attacks on his family farm for decades. But our health depends on traditional farmers like him. Iâll be sharing detailed results of this important research with you in a series of upcoming letters, so be sure and stay tuned. In the meantime, I want to introduce you to my friend Joel Salatin. Joel is a family farmer who is simply trying to do what he loves â providing wholesome, nutritious food. When heâs not working the land, he travels the world teaching people how to recreate native methods of food production, including how to live off the land using agriculture and animal husbandry the same way our grandparents did. Heâs written more than 20 books. My favorite is Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front. My son Dylan and I spent a great weekend visiting Joel at his farm deep in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. After decades of modern farming practices destroyed his land, Joel described the property when he bought it as âabused.â Today, Polyface Farms is, in Joelâs words, âBack to being how the Creator created it.â But that doesnât mean his struggles are over. Joel continues to battle government officials â local and federal â so he can farm the way he wants to. In his book, Joel writes: âThe farm struggles with a labyrinth of government regulations and cultural perceptions that terrorize the antidote to mad cows, avian influenza, and food fears. âBut the solution is simple: Allow freedom for traditional food growing and choices.â Because he wants to farm in a manner that our current regulations prohibit, heâs come to be considered an outlaw by our government. Theyâve declared that his old-fashioned methods of producing food the way his ancestors did are against the law. And they labeled him a criminal because he dares to âgo againstâ Big Agra. Joel was a runaway hit speaker at my last health summit. His talk received a standing ovation. I think that what he has to say is so important that I want you to listen to it yourself. [Click this link](1770d7/ct1_0/1/lu?sid=TV2%3Af1oFEipot) and youâll hear his message in person. To Your Good Health, Al Sears, MD, CNS --------------------------------------------------------------- References: 1. Zohar I, et al. âEvidence for the cooking of fish 780,000 years ago at Gesher Benot Yaâaquov, Israel.â Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2022. alsearsmd@send.alsearsmd.com [Preferences | Unsubscribe](1770d7/l-002e/zout?sid=TV2%3Af1oFEipot) 11905 Southern Blvd., Royal Palm Beach, Florida 33411, United States