What I Learned This Week – Carter Williams | 9.29.24

We’re excited to share that we will re-publish Carter Williams’ column – What I Learned This Week – here on Food Is Health. Carter is the Managing Director of iSelect Fund and also publishes the Creative Destruction newsletter. Make sure you check it out and subscribe.

What I learned this week…

Doctors, fitness trainers, and nutritionists who lost 50+ lbs, and transformed their health have a similar story. They listened to conventional standards of care, got nowhere, and fell upon Keto, Cross Fit, real food, etc. They transformed their health. They are what I would call the “Real Food” crowd. They are not into green smoothies, anti-vax, etc. They are the practitioners fixing the healthcare cost of poor nutrition. Part of this tribe held a X/Spaces worth a listen: https://lnkd.in/gCYYPu6e (Tro Kalayjian)

1) Doing nothing at times is doing a lot.

2) We are seeing some startups work on Nitrous Oxide detection. But I see no signs of Nitrous Oxide emissions being priced in inset/offset markets anytime soon. Could nitrous oxide flux reflect the health of ag microbiome applications?

3) A grocery in Berkley has 10 types of eggplant. Why is that? https://lnkd.in/gV4sNCN7

4) More Americans have peanut allergies today because in 2000, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a strict recommendation to avoid giving young children peanut products. Triggering intolerance with lack of early exposure. https://amzn.to/4dgOxEO

5) With recent reports in the venture world…. “We’ve lost several really good founders to ayahuasca. They came back and just didn’t care about much anymore.” iSelect Fund has added psychedelics profiles to our diligence list.

6) If you post a link into Google Notebook LM, then go to the Notebook Guide, and select “Generate Audio Overview”, it will crate a NPR like overview of the content.
https://lnkd.in/gPWTiiWv

7) As we approach AGI, it will most likely appear in financial markets first when investors find known strategies and trades no longer work. And someone else is on the winning side of the trade. https://lnkd.in/gxRacwag

8) The exits from OpenAI are like “Bitcoin Halving”. At every new evolution of its AI model. By the time of the singularity, Open AI will have one employee.

9) Different business models: Shackelton got every man home while the Donner party ate its own.

10) Cholesterol is essential to brain development and testosterone. Less heart disease, lower IQ, and fewer babies?

11) Giraffes have the highest blood pressure of any mammal to get blood to their brain. Nearly double that of humans. Yet, Humans and Giraffes have a high incidence of atherosclerosis, a disease from cholesterol. Did evolution get it right?

12) We can now gene-edit an embryo to reduce cholesterol levels. Should we?

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