Savage / Zen Newsletter No. 82

December 2023: Fear, Death, Sleep, Cholesterol, Testosterone, and Recovery.

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What I’m Reading:

• Reducing saturated fat intake lowers LDL-C but increases Lp(a) levels in African Americans

• Acute nasal breathing lowers diastolic blood pressure and increases parasympathetic contributions.

As with the notorious 100 Deadly Skills Series, this book continues the tradition of being an easy and entertaining read. You won’t be ready to join an Amish community afterwards, but there’s a plethora of information to get you started or at least peak an interest in everything from home-building to hunting, solar panels to emergency communication.

The book does a great jobs of recurrently reminding folks that living on/off grid isn’t a binary decision and highly circumstantial. Any or all of these ideas in the book can be applied in isolation or combination to, as the subtitle says, improve self-reliance and live a more simple — though rugged and difficult — existence.

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