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Your listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey.

Today's cool fact of the day is that we just found the world's oldest cheese.

It was found in an ancient Egyptian tomb and it was made from cow milk and either sheep

or goat milk mixed together and it was found in a broken clay jar from the 13th century

BC in Egypt which is kind of cool as a city called Memphis.

And chemists at the University of Catania and it used mass spectrometry to analyze the

antique cheese which basically looks like a piece of soap that weighed several hundred grams.

So we have 3200 year old cheese.

And we actually figured out that their cheese had bacteria that caused an infection called

brusulosis in it.

So our cheese making has come a little bit further along.

We don't really have that disease in the US anymore but it affects hundreds of thousands

of people in animals worldwide today and it looks like the flu.

It's not that you really need to worry about that but it's kind of interesting to note

that we've been using dairy fat in our diet for a very very long time and we're still

around.

Today's guest is an amazing human being, a dear friend, a former guest on the show and

11 time New York Times best selling author and internationally recognized leader, speaker

and educator in the field of functional medicine.

He's the Pritzker Foundation Chair and Functional Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic and all

around just amazing helping human who has done more to change the face of modern Western

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