Startling Thoughts on Antibiotics

Greetings and Belated Thanksgiving Well-Wishes I hope all of you spent quality time with your loved ones—friends and family alike. And I hope you scored some great deals out and about on Friday if you’re into that traditional shopping frenzy. Just one more word about Thanksgiving: In some families, it’s tradition right before the feast…...

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Paper Shuffle Chase

The Endless Bureaucratic Bullshit: Papers, Stamps, and Signatures Everywhere You Turn Humans have this sick obsession with papers and forms and stamps and signatures, and it seems to be never-ending. It’s everywhere—fucking everywhere around the world, at least in the Western world, and I live in Asia now where it’s even more pronounced, like a…...

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Snake Venom and Fountains of Youth

I’ve been in the doldrums for a while now, and that’s reflected in my production on this blog. Apologies to paying members, but along with that, I was always concerned about how I spike things up again. What happened is that I suddenly became, shall we say, financially independent. I don’t have to lift a…

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I’m Finished With The Diet Wars. Boring. Useless.

Well, it’s been a long damn time since I first dove into this whole thing via a low-carb Paleo diet back in 2007 or 2008, sometime around there. I did damn well with it. I lost about 50-60 pounds, and serendipitously, I became somewhat of a dietary influencer. My blog grew—this very blog, FreeTheAnimal.com—and it…

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Sizzler

As I continue to recover from my respiratory infection (whatever it was), now off OTCs entirely, I thought I would do a fun post about steaks. I credit my mom and dad for the introduction, sometime in the latter 1970s in Reno, Nevada. The Sizzler brand of steakhouse showed up, I believe, sometime in the…

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Unfixable

Hey folks, excuse my absence over the last week. I’m just coming down from a pretty uncomfortable respiratory infection. You know, back when I was a kid, we just called it a cold—or a bad cold. We didn’t really make a distinction between a cold and the flu. Never got specifically diagnosed. But since the…

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