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Keep Things Simple For A Healthy, Long Life
There are no shortcuts to a healthy life
You have to work on yourself:
- Get enough sleep.
- Move your body throughout the day.
- Eat well — a healthy assortment of foods. Mostly plants, and not too much.
- Interact socially. Isolation is not good for the body, soul or mind.
- Take some time to reflect on what you are grateful for.
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Detoxing is a hoax
There's no evidence that drinking a series of juices, teas, or any of other so-called 'detox' products does anything besides profit the people selling them.
Toxins and our urge to detoxify
A toxin is something that can be harmful to you, but this is about as broad a term as it gets. There's a spectrum; toxicity depends on what it is and how much you take in.
The urge to detoxify your body when a new year starts has nothing to do with a buildup of toxins. Feeling bloated and fatigued is the result of the all the holiday eating.
Your liver helps you detoxify
Everything you eat goes to your liver and it determines what to do with the components of what you've ingested:
If it's something useful the liver sends it out into circulation, but if it's not immediately usable or could be harmful, your liver has enzymes to neutralize it and send it off as waste to be removed from the body through urine, mostly. The best you can do to help your liver out is to hydrate and exercise.
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Exercise Defined
Exercise is a movement of the body to enhance physical fitness.
Most people know that exercise is important for the physical development of the self, yet a majority of them are sk...
Decrease in Human Strength
Historic evidence suggests that for many thousands of years, human beings were more active and stronger than today.
The early humans had increased movement and activity, like going for long and tiring hunts, walking long distances that took weeks, making the prehistoric humans fitter than the best athletes today.
Technology as the Culprit
Technological breakthroughs have reduced our activity to a great extent ( vacuum cleaners, washer-dryers, self-cleaning ovens, and even cars).
The rise of the internet gave us a whole lot of technology, curbing our need to move even more.
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Questions to ask before trying biohacking
- Is it scientifically sound?
- Is it logically sound? (i.e. is there a sound explanation behind the tactic?)
- Is the estimated cost (risk, money, time/energy) ...
Sleep Hygiene
Objective: Get plenty of restorative deep and REM sleep on a regular basis.
Key tactics:
- Measure the stages of your sleep
- Block blue light 3-4 hours before sleep
- Have your bedroom dark and humid
- Wake at exactly the same time each morning
- Evaluate things that seem to help or disrupt sleep.
Optimal nutrition
Objectives: Minimize insulin levels, maximize glucose disposal, optimize various growth factors towards things we want (e.g. muscle) and away from what we don’t want (e.g. cancer).
Key tactics:
- Do not eat sugar in any form. Sugar is poison
- Do not eat processed foods. Eat natural food instead
- Do not eat cheap industrially-farmed animal products
- Eat mostly plants
- Eat organic when possible, especially when discussing animal products
- Try keto diet.