Justin Mares
@jwmares
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Founder @truemedpayments, @kettleandfire, @drinksurely, others. Venture partner @LongJourneyVC. Sign up for my newsletter on health and startups:
Austin, TX
Joined May 2010
Singapore created the world's most efficient healthcare system from scratch in one generation. They spend $4,000 per person on healthcare. We spend $15,000. Their secret?. The exact opposite of what American "experts" recommend: 🧵
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RT @SeedOilScout: The cleanest butcher in Texas tested every step of their supply chain to see where plastics are entering American beef @e….
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We are power users of Lindy at @TrueMedPayments, and are continuing to find new compelling use cases. Highly recommend checking this out.
Announcing Lindy Build: the new State Of The Art in vibe coding. Using a web browsing agent, it clicks around, finds issues, and fixes them, 100% autonomously. If you’ve tried vibe coding, the first 5 mins of going from prompt to prototype feel magical. What sucks is that you
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"We'd prefer to keep poisoning kids rather than buy new pumps.".- Kelloggs
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I continue to think that statins quite likely have a worse side effect profile than most believe.
Statins Slash GLP-1: (~10-minute Data Digest for @X). Human trial data published in a major journal show that statins cause insulin resistance and deplete GLP-1 levels in humans. This should have been breaking news. But no one talked about it. Why don’t doctors know? Why
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The man, the myth, the legend— at least, that’s what Kinta wants to be… . Catch the final arc of DAN DA DAN Season 2, now streaming!.
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Starbucks spends more on healthcare than it does on coffee beans. Healthcare is often the 2nd or 3rd largest expense in a company. How many products and services are more expensive *because* Americans are so sick. It feels like. a lot?.
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RT @JoinEdgeCity: We're selecting the next cohort of frontier builders (25 or under) to live & build in our popup village in Patagonia this….
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We can argue about causes, data, solutions, all of it. But I do think that MAHA is the first movement to correctly identify that Americans fundamentally need to get healthier if we are to made a dent in the chronic disease crisis.
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This isn't quite right. I think MAHA correctly identifies that today's environment has produced the sickest generation of Americans ever to exist. It's not anti-medicine, but it is focused on the core problem: that our American environment is making people sick.
There's a strand of the MAHA philosophy that's motivated in no small part by a bias against medicine—which often comes close to an aversion to illness, itself. In this philosophy, sunlight and exercise are good because they help healthy people stay healthy. Supplements are good.
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RT the thread if you found it valuable. A bit about me:. I founded @truemedpayments, @kettleandfire, and @drinksurely. Follow me to read more about health and startups.
Pesticide use has increased 105% over 30 years. Pests are still destroying 20-40% of our crops, exactly the same as before. An interesting theory talks about why:
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Francis Chaboussou figured this out in 1985, yet we're still dumping more chemicals on crops each year. Healthy plants reduce pest pressure, but even they can still face challenges. We need a holistic approach that goes beyond just fighting pests and addresses root causes.
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The Rodale Institute states that while yields may drop by 10-15% during the transition away from chemicals, they stabilize within five seasons. Many farmers report yields actually increase once natural pest-predator relationships are restored.
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Since the 1990s, we have seen a 48-55% global increase in yields due to irrigation, genetics, and fertilizers, not pesticides. We are using more pesticides to achieve mediocre pest control results, while the actual yield gains come from different technologies.
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Studies show organic management actually enhances natural pest control while healthier plants suffer fewer pest attacks. We're doing the opposite of what works ↓.
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com
Background Since the 1980s, soils in a 22-km2 area near Lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland have been recognized for their innate ability to suppress the black root rot plant disease caused by the fungal...
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The solutions that actually work focus on making plants healthy, not just killing bugs:. • Balance nitrogen inputs to reduce pest attraction.• Restore natural predator-prey dynamics for pest control.• Enhance plant defenses with better soil health and nutrition.
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The pests adapt faster than we can poison them. Field populations develop 150-fold resistance in 10 generations, while broad-spectrum pesticides kill insects that naturally control pests.
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This creates the "chemical treadmill" ↓. • Pesticides kill beneficial insects.• Pest populations explode without natural predators.• More pesticides needed, repeat
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2nd - The pesticides themselves are sabotaging plants. Pesticides mess up plants' ability to make proteins properly. This causes protein building blocks to pile up in plant tissues, which pests can easily digest (exactly what they need to multiply faster).
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1st - Nitrogen fertilizers force plants to grow too fast. Plants can't process all the nitrogen, so it builds up as simple compounds that aphids (tiny plant bugs) love to eat. Studies show aphid populations increase 30-50% on high-nitrogen crops.
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