What is Tan Land?
Health information for people who want to enjoy their lives.
If you’ve made it this far, you’re probably sick and tired of being sick and tired. You want to feel vibrant and look your best, but you don’t know where to start.
Most people today are deeply unhealthy, suffering from degenerative diseases and aesthetic abnormalities that are all too common — diabetes, cancer, obesity, acne, etc. — but you didn’t evolve to be sick like this.
How can you regain your birthright of health and vitality?
You might try to buy healthy food, but all the grocery stores are full of seed oils and processed junk that’s marketed as “diet friendly” and tastes terrible.
You might try to adopt a more disciplined fitness regimen, but many alternative health “gurus” preach a lifestyle that is so restrictive and miserable that being sick is almost as enjoyable. Even worse, this type of program rarely works.
And then there are your friends and family, who will likely not understand. “I’d rather just enjoy my life then go crazy trying to be healthy,” you’ll hear them say.
And they have a point, because health is hard.
Health is hard. But it doesn’t have to be.
Simply put, our society is not set up to make it easy to be healthy. And this leaves you with a sad choice, which both Big Food and the alternative health industry are eager to promote:
Choose an enjoyable life, and you’ll be sick and overweight.
Choose health, and live a miserable life.
Fortunately, you can have the best of both— you can be healthy while still enjoying your life.
Instead of cutting out all carbs, you can eat delicious foods made from natural ingredients
Instead of poisoning your skin with toxic plastic clothing, you can wear beautiful traditionally made garments from natural materials.
Instead of rubbing carcinogenic sunscreen into your pores, you can tan under the glorious rays of the sun
How? Tan Land is dedicated to helping you live such a life.
For paid subscribers
Every week, Tan Land publishes engaging articles full of æsthetic imagery that teach you in simple terms how to optimize your health without sacrificing the things that matter.
A few examples of the things you’ll learn:
Basically, it’s what the food, medical, and alternative health industries won’t teach you about health — from a food entrepreneur on a mission to make health easy and enjoyable.
Along with hundreds of paid subscribers, you can also to comment on all posts, and participate in exclusive monthly Q&As.
For free subscribers
There is also a free tier to Tan Land where, along with thousands of other subscribers, you’ll receive my essays on food anthropology, social commentaries, and general health resources, e.g.
In addition, you’ll receive free previews to many of my paid posts. These previews contain the core information from the post, but I will usually put the paywall before the most useful and actionable takeaways at the end.
I try to encourage paid subscriptions because without the paid tier on substack, I would be unable to justify the time I spend sharing my most valuable and helpful insights with you:
The “healthcare” industry charges thousands of dollars for misery-inducing chemical cocktails that barely even work.
But for the price of a bottle of sunscreen a month, you get the opposite on Tan Land.
If my mission and the solution I’m proposing resonate with you at all, please consider becoming a paid subscriber because people need to know about this healthier, tanner way to live.
About the Author
I am just a really tan man who is obsessed with making the world a healthier and more beautiful place.
An unhealthy childhood
As a kid, I suffered from innumerable chronic health issues. I accepted illness as an unchangeable part of my life.
But in college, I learned that fixing the food I ate allowed me to feel truly healthy for this first time in my life.
The knowledge that I could control my own health was empowering, and after years of studying modern and traditional diets, and countless hours of self-experimentation, I became convinced of two things:
It is possible for anyone to fix their health
If we want to address the problems that face our world for ourselves and for our kids, we need people to be healthy.
In 2021, 8 years after my initial realization, I decided to start sharing what I’d learned on social media and in this substack.
Knowledge is not enough
But I quickly realized that wasn’t enough. All the health knowledge in the world will do nothing if people don’t have access to the food they need to be healthy.
I am willing to drive to 5 grocery stores and 3 different farms every two weeks to fill my pantry because I know just how important it is.
But most people aren’t, and even if they were, they wouldn’t have the time.
Teaching people about the problem without providing a convenient solution simply doesn’t help.
And since the world keeps accelerating down a completely avoidable path of ugliness and bad health, and no one seems interested in doing anything about it, last year I decided to quit my job as a Big Tech software engineer and make it my mission to:
Help people learn how to be healthy
Make healthy food more easily available
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is that good men do nothing
Put another way, “The only thing necessary for sickness to triumph in the world is that healthy men do nothing”.
Yet all the people that could do something— many of them my former colleagues and classmates, with 135+ IQs and amazing career opportunities— would rather work for Big Tech building tools to sell ads or consult for bio-tech firms making fake food.
If I wanted to have a healthy world for my kids to grow up in, I realized I would have to take matters into my own hands.
Current projects
To that end, I am currently building a free tool called Shire to make it easy to find real food from local farms.
And I started a company called Ancient Crunch to make your favorite snacks, just with real ingredients.
Of course, I also write Tan Land and promote this message on twitter and instagram (@reallytanman).
And lastly, I’m engaged and about to start a family, and will raise my kids according to everything I teach as an example to the world of the importance of health and good food in building strong, happy families.
Tan Land is the best place for you to learn how to do the same, and to support my work of creating a healthier society where everyone is tan, healthy, and happy.
Thank you for joining me.
