Pacifiers for Adults? Dairy is the Devil?

Simple health adjustments for massive results

Pacifiers for Adults

The regression phenomenon among adults is overtaking our society, most notably with adult pacifiers flying off the shelves. This isn’t surprising given most people live in a constant state of FOMO and feel like they are not measuring up to societal ideals.

We are striving instead of resting and social media is a big part of the problem.

In fact, those with the highest social media use, reported a 66% increase in depression and anxiety scores. For every 3 hours of social media use, psychological illness doubles.

The dose makes the poison.

Jesus said, “My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” Social media does not sound like the yoke the Lord is recommending for us to carry.

I have no motivation, no libido, it is hard for me to make decisions.

My kids cry for no reason, they are not thankful, they don’t realize how good they have it.

Why can’t they be like these other kids?

What am I doing wrong as a parent?

My wife doesn’t understand my needs.

My husband is gone so much.

We haven’t gone on vacation in two years.

These people on Instagram are in Spain frolicking on the beach and it seems like last month they were skiing in Park City.

Give yourself a 30 day challenge - zero social media, zero news, zero scrolling on your phone…delete all the social apps for 30 days. Why not? You are currently underwater.

If not, you will likely find yourself searching for a pacifier.

Don’t blame the potatoes for what frying oils did to you

Eating three servings of French fries a week spiked diabetes risk by 20%. However, consuming baked or mashed potatoes did not (The British Medical Journal). Over and over, we are told to go low carb and carbs are bad for us. “I can’t eat that; there are too many carbs.” Did you know this is a myth?

Low carb eating is a term created for the purpose of marketing “low carb” processed foods to you.

The French fry study failed in one part, when people are consuming French fries multiple times per week, they are also likely consuming plenty of “fast food” or processed food ingredients throughout the week. So, let’s not blame the French fries. It isn’t the carbohydrates, it the lifestyle of using our body as a garbage disposal.

Grab a buddy

When I was a junior in college, a freshman came up to me in the dormitory and asked if he could start working out with me.

For the next two years we hit the gym week after week. I think about this often. I was a lot stronger, and a lot fitter than this kid, but he saw an opportunity to learn and gain accountability and took it. I wish I had more of that kid in me.

If you haven’t developed the habit of consistent fitness, you can drastically increase your likelihood of success by getting a workout buddy.

Even better, look for someone fitter than yourself and give yourself the opportunity for long-term success by humbling yourself and asking to join them. The worst thing that could happen is they say no.

A 2025 study in Management Science tested what happened when gym-goers were rewarded for exercising with a friend or going to the gym alone. The results— even though both groups were given a monetary reward for showing up at the gym, the group who exercised with a friend showed up to the gym 35% more.

Consider, if a person worked out on average every other day with a buddy, they would get in 60-70 extra workouts per year. Seventy extra workouts a year would be life changing, not to mention the benefits of the relationship that was built in the process.

If we are struggling to stick with a habit, maybe the best move isn’t to “try harder.” Maybe it’s to humble ourselves and invite someone else into the process.

Dairy is not just Dairy

The difference between beneficial dairy and inflammatory dairy, comes down to protein structure.

Organic, grass-fed, raw dairy (from a vetted source) is high value, but even with these measures in place, if the dairy product is from an A1 cow, an inflammatory response will ensue.

This is thought to be due to the A1 beta-casein protein getting broken down in digestion to the peptide BCM-7. BCM-7 promotes the inflammatory cascade, digestive discomfort and even symptoms like brain fog and excess mucous production.

The reason our food supply is overwhelmed with A1 dairy isn’t related to nutrition, but agricultural efficiency and economics.

Goat, sheep, water buffalo, human breast milk is all A2 beta-casein.

Interestingly, countless humans can consume milk products from these animals when they have all manner of side effect from cow dairy.

Dairy can be a super food that feeds an extraordinary amount of people for a very low price and carbon footprint compared to soy, wheat and corn products, but it needs to be the form designed for the body. That is A2.

Search it out and you may just see your dairy woes vanish.

Fiber may not be what you need

Fiber and protein tend to be two words naturopathic and allopathic medicine agree on. It is true, we definitely do not get enough fiber in our food routine in America.

However, the answer is not fiber powders. This may be shocking, but some fiber supplements when tested in placebo-controlled studies demonstrated very little to no health benefit.

We are not missing fiber. We are missing the real food that comes packaged with fiber. Consuming fiber apart from its real food container (apples, oats, beans) is like playing the drums with no drums, just a set of drumsticks, not much is going to happen.

Yes, hit your 35 grams of fiber per day, but do it via whole foods.

Eating whole foods ensures you are also getting the antioxidants, phytochemicals, enzymes and the fiber. This is health trajectory transformation.

It’s not easy being a health consumer. I hope to simplify health, so every day is another day of health accumulation for our community.