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Ecstatic Economics: Money as a Horomone (Insuling, Mycelia, & Markets)

Ecstatic Economics: Money as a Horomone (Insuling, Mycelia, & Markets)

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There is a molecule in your body right now making decisions about your future.

It's not your brain — well, not exactly. It's a signaling molecule, a chemical courier, a tiny biological text message that gets fired into your bloodstream and changes the behavior of every cell it touches. It tells fat cells to store. It tells muscle cells to absorb. It tells your liver to stand down. It coordinates an entire metabolic civilization without holding a single committee meeting.

That molecule is insulin. And before you file this under "health stuff I already don't read," stay with me — because what insulin actually does has more to teach us about money than anything Milton Friedman ever wrote.

Money, it turns out, is a hormone...

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