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Augmenting acetylcholine through nicotine (not by smoking) is effective for enhancing concentration and focus.
On the list of things that you can do to make your brain a little more focused, this is infinitely safer than what a lot of people are doing, which is using stimulants.
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Smoking is approximately a 40% increase in the risk of ACM (all-cause mortality). It means at any point in time, there's a 40% greater risk that you're going to die relative to a non-smoker and a never-smoker.
It doesn't mean your lifespan is going to be 40% less. It means ...
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An annual DEXA scan is a more comprehensive measurement than BMI – but you certainly want to monitor weight.
A DEXA is a moving x-ray. So you lay down on a bed and it takes maybe 10 minutes and this little, very low power x-ray goes over your body. It measu...
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There's a group of people who think "if I could just fix my testosterone, everything will be better." But actually, that's not true at all.
The only purpose of fixing testosterone is to give you the capacity to work harder. It's really going to help you recover mo...
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Metabolomics is just the study of metabolites. Metabolites can be defined as endogenous compounds such as amino acids, lipids, sugars, organic acids, etc., which are routinely being formed in the anabolism or catabolism process.
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The 2 vectors of longevity: lifespan (whether you are alive and breathing) and healthspan (how many healthy years you live).
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A marginal decade is the last decade of your life. So everyone will have a marginal decade. And outside of people who die suddenly or through an accident, most of us know when we're in that marginal decade.
Until a person can tell you what it is that they want to be doing in that last decad...
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Doing a little consistently is always going to be more effective than doing a lot but inconsistently.
Inconsistency will most likely kill your confidence and your ability to succeed in a creative career or any creative endeavor.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), is a “problem-focused” approach to psychological therapy and is seen as very effective against depression, anxiety and every kind of unhelpful thinking.
Like stoicism, CBT encourages distinguishing between events and perceptions, and most CBT text...
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