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You're listening to Bullet proof radio with Dave Asprey.

Today's cool fact of the day is that the industrial revolution changed more than 10,000 years

of human grain consumption.

In the 1870s, we invented the modern steel roller mill, which completely changed how

we milled grain.

Compared to the old stone methods, it was really fast and efficient and gave you really

fine control over different parts of the kernel.

So instead of just mashing it all together, you could separate the parts, allowing the

purest and finest of white flour to come out at a very low cost.

And that meant that people with almost the very lowest levels of income could still afford

the fancy flour.

And the good thing about white flour is, well, ships better, stores better, allows for

long distribution chain.

In fact, you could keep it almost forever because it seems like nothing wants to eat it,

except for humans.

And we now know that it was stripped of nutrients and pets, pest problems were less of an issue

because, well, bugs and rodents didn't want to eat it.

The problem was that, well, grains, even if they're not treated that way, are not particularly

good for humans because before the endoster revolution, we had the agricultural revolution,

which is when humans dropped a foot in height in some places and we started getting cavities

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