Peter Attia· MD
And if you think about the early days, that was pretty important, right? Uh Europe couldn't reliably feed its population until two things were entered into Europe. One was guano, bat poop, fertilizer, and the other was potatoes. And when after the, you know, Columbus hit Hispanola and eventually what came back was, among other things, guano and potatoes, suddenly Europe could feed its population, but it took a while for the potatoes to catch on. Louis X 15th actually wore potato bineer to get people to think they were kind of safe. And a Polish group of two Polish scientists in 1928 published a paper in which they had two young people. They never said they were the young people, but I kind of suspected perhaps they were, one man, one woman. And for 6 months, they fed them nothing but potatoes, a little bit of fat to cook the potatoes in, and a little bit of fruit to avoid deficiencies. So the only source of protein for practical purposes was the potato. And what they showed was nitrogen balance was perfectly fine. And despite sort of this quote unquote bad carbohydrate, at least some people think it's a bad carbohydrate, no one got diabetes. They didn't get they didn't gain weight.