<ul><li>Lack interest in things you used to love</li><li>Change your friends a lot</li><li>Stop taking care of yourself</li><li>Spend more time alone than you used to</li><li>Eat more or less than normal</li><li>Sleep at odd hours</li><li>Have problems at work or with family</li><li>Switch quickly from feeling good and bad</li><li>Crave or strongly desire to use the substance</li></ul>

Signs of a Substance Abuse Problem

It’s not just about illegal drugs. Using pain meds, alcohol, and other legal substances the wrong way can also harm your health.   

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Mental Health

Substance Abuse: Know the Signs

Substance abuse isn't something you should take lightly. It occurs when you use alcohol, prescription medicine, and other legal and illegal substances too much or in the wrong way.

Substance Abuse

Substance abuse differs from addiction. Many people with substance abuse problems are able to quit or can change their unhealthy behavior. Addiction, on the other hand, is a disease. It means you can’t stop using even when your condition causes you harm.

Substance Abuse Vs Addiction

<ol><li>Alcohol</li><li>Prescription and Over-The-Counter (OTC) Medicine</li><li>Heroin</li><li>Cocaine</li><li>Marijuana</li><li>Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products</li></ol>

Commonly Abuse Drugs

Substance Abuse is one of the common social issues that require a great level of awareness as many young people find themselves using substances to repress themselves. 

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Which products work better refrigerated:“.. ingredients like vitamin C which is known to be unstable, and can oxidize when exposed to light, heat and air...” - “..some prescription skin care products . - Products that are preservative-free can also be placed in the refrigerator to help prevent bacterial overgrowth.” -Marisa Garshick leading N.York boardcertified dermatologist- “Green tea [also] works better if it is refrigerated--author, boardcertified dermatologist- Acne medications such as benzoyl peroxide or clindamycin will work better --author, boardcertified dermatologist Marie Jhin

1. Some ingredients just Work a lot better when refrigerated

- Storing products like sunscreens and retinols at a lower temperature can help extend their shelf life and prevent premature expiration-Jhin- Chilled hyaluronic acid serums may be able to reduce redness- “Often, eye creams can benefit from being refrigerated because when the product is cool, it offers an additional de-puffing benefit which can help to reduce under eye swelling..This also applies to eye masks and face masks which are often intended to calm and soothe the skin. The cooling benefit can be particularly soothing for many other facial products, particularly moisturizers,” Garshick

2. To Prolong Products' Shelf Life And For Some Added Benefits

As opposed to a kitchen refrigerator, which gets opened multiple times per day, exposing the products to more light and air, a dedicated skincare fridge is not opened as often.

A skincare fridge is not opened as often as a Kitchen F

Facial devices such as jade rollers and gua shas, as well as under-eye patches and masks stored in the fridge can provide additional soothing and de-puffing benefits- Garshick4. They ensure that you use your products regularlyRather than having to trek to the kitchen fridge, keeping your skincare products closer to where you apply them by means of a designated skin care fridge conveniently at arms’ reachwill ensure you use them regularly

3.You can store your skin care tools in the fridge

I think that people who are serious about skincare should consider getting one

Preserve the active ingredients in your serums, moisturizers and face masks for longer with these fridges made just for your skin care products

Why You Should Consider A Mini Fridge For Your Skin Care

Inspired by Thomas Edison, and Salvador Dalí who both allegedly claim that one will wake up at the most opportune moment for creativity if they nap while holding something, a team of French researchers showed over 100 participants math problems.Those who couldn't solve the problem were asked to take a 20-minute break in a dark room with their eyes closed, holding a water bottle that's supposed to fall to the floor as soon as they doze off consequently waking them up. All the while, the participant's brain activity was recorded.

Sleep Stage Linked to Creativity and Eureka Moments Pinpointed

The researchers found that after people spent at least 15 sec in sleep onset, their chances of figuring out the hidden trick to solving the math problem tripled. Sleep onset / stage 1 sleep is a stage when you're drifting into slumber, when we're not quite asleep but also not quite awake.This was not seen in subjects who didn't wake up and continued on to deeper sleep stages.This led the researchers to suspect that the brain activity during stage 1 sleep likely ignites creative sparks"; that achieving it requires a balance in falling asleep easily against falling asleep too deeply," - authors

Brain activity during sleep onset likely ignites creative spark

Knowing how sleep primes us for creativity in particular, might be able to use this trick to solve difficult problems and situations.

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Science & Nature

Sleep onset is a creative sweet spot

Our days can feel like a crazy sea of distraction, stress, busyness and overwhelm.We can get lost in that sea, and it’s hard to figure out how to find mindfulness and focus in the middle of it all.The answer, I’ve repeatedly found, is in the pure elegance of simplicity.Simplify to find focus. Simplify to find peace. Simplify to find a way through the sea of chaos.Let’s look at some things you can do today to create the elegance of simplicity and focus in your life.

A Crazy Sea Of Distractio

The distraction of multitasking and technology can be hard to overcome. But it drains away our mindfulness, effectiveness, and life energy. So let’s do something about it.Let’s start with the phone. Put all apps into one folder. I call mine “uncertainty” to remind me that everything lives in uncertainty.Keep the homescreen clear. No tempting apps to click on. I use the search function to open an app, requiring myself to type in the name, which makes me think about what I’m doing.Shut off almost all notifications.Choose a simple and beautiful background to remind me to be mindful.

Simplify to Clear Distractions

Let’s move on to the computer, which has some similar steps (these instructions are for a Mac but Windows/Linux users could use similar ideas):Clear your desktop (put all files into one folder, or several). Put a nice wallpaper in the background.Clear the dock. Instead, use a search app to open apps, such as Alfred, Spotlight or Launchbar.Turn off most notifications.Single-task. Close all apps but the one(s) you’re using.

Simplify Your Computer

Single tab. Close everything else. If it’s important, throw it into a read-later service, bookmark it, or put it into your todo manager.Close your email program. When you open it, open with intention, and clear out the inbox as much as you can. Then close it.Use the Momentum add-on to keep yourself focused and mindful.I like single-tasking apps, at full screen, like Ommwriter, when I’m writing or doing other work outside of the browser.Simplifying your physical and digital workspaces will help you be less distracted, and more able to focus on a single task.

Simplify Your Browser

As much as possible, it’s best to focus on a single task at a time. With intention.That means, instead of constantly switching around, it’s best to pick one thing and set aside some time (10 minutes, half an hour, etc.) to focus on just that thing. If it’s important enough to take up your attention and time, it’s important enough to give it the space for complete focus.When you clear everything aside, before you dive fullbore into the task, ask yourself, “What is my intention here?”

Simplify Your Focus

Perhaps the intention is just to learn to focus better. Maybe it’s to push into discomfort and uncertainty. Maybe it’s to be mindful and joyful as you work. Whatever your intention, set it consciously. Then get started, with focus. Don’t let yourself do anything else, even if you feel the urge to switch. At least for 10 minutes. Simplify by setting intention and keeping your focus on one thing at a time, as much as you’re able. This is a practice, which means you won’t be perfect at it, but daily practice helps you get better.

Simplify Your Intention

As you narrow your focus on fewer things, simplify your workspace so that there are fewer distractions, and practice single-minded focus with intention … things start to change.It’s like the reverse of how the distraction of technology and social media changes our brains. Our brains seem to become calmer, more at peace, when we find joy in the elegance of simplicity.It’s the pure elegance of simplicity, and it is found in the paring down.

The Elegance of Simplicity

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Mindfulness

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Eliminating sugary drinks, this includes sugar-sweetened beverages, sugary sodas, fruit juices, and various high sugar sports drinks.Keep in mind that none of this applies to whole fruit, which are extremely healthy and have plenty of fiber that mitigates the negative effects of fructose.(Sugar is half glucose and half fructose. When you eat a lot of added sugar, the liver gets overloaded with fructose and is forced to turn it into fat.)


1. Minimizing the amount of sugar in your diet 

Eating plenty of protein can boost your metabolism and reduce hunger levels, making it a very effective way to lose weight. Several studies suggest that protein is particularly effective against abdominal fat. They also provide for good calories.

2. Increase Protein intake

Just avoiding the refined carbs — like sugar, candy, and white bread — should be sufficient, especially if you keep your protein intake high. Low carb diets have many other <a href="https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/10-benefits-of-low-carb-ketogenic-diets">health benefits </a>besides just weight loss. For example, they can significantly improve health in people with type 2 diabetics.

3. Cut down on carbs

They dramatically slow the movement of food through your digestive system. They can also slow down the digestion and absorption of nutrients. The end result is a prolonged feeling of fullness and reduced appetite. The best way to get more fiber is to eat a lot of plant foods, including vegetables and fruit. Legumes are also a good source, as well as some cereals, such as whole oats.

4. Increased intake of soluble fibres

Weight training and cardiovascular exercise will reduce fat across the body.Aerobic exercise — like walking, running, and swimming — can allow major reductions in abdominal fat (<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3568069/">32</a>Exercise also leads to reduced inflammation, lower blood sugar levels, and improvements in other metabolic problems associated with excess abdominal fat<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3568069/"> </a>

5. Exercise

Tracking food intake doesn’t mean you need to weigh and measure everything you eat. Tracking intake every now and then for a few days in a row can help you realize the most important areas for change.Planning ahead can help you achieve specific goals, such as boosting your protein intake to 25–30% of calories or cutting down on unhealthy carbs.

6. Tracking your diet

Here are some tips to reduce abdominal fat, the accumulation of which is linked to life threatening cardiac diseases. Not only that, eating healthy always manifests itself with an overall improved mood.

Belly fat is the most harmful fat in your body, linked to many diseases. Here are 6 simple ways to lose belly fat that are supported by science.

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Exercise & Fitness

6 Simple Ways to Lose Belly Fat, Based on Science

<ol><li>Be consistent </li><li>Make it a part of your identity</li><li>Identify the cues which trigger your habit</li><li>Make it easy, make it attractive</li><li>Reward yourself </li></ol>A cue could be a specific time at which you start your habit or a particular location at which you perform your habit, etc.Make it so easy, you can't say noIf you miss, get back on track quicklyDon't forget to track your habits, for further improvements!!

Make a Habit in 5 Simple Steps

It's so simple, only if you are willing to do it

How do habits work? How do you change your habits? How do you hold yourself accountable? This complete habits guide contains everything you need to know.

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Habits

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Problem Solving

The Habits Guide: How to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones

People pay a lot of attention to physical cuts and injuries. But what about emotional ones? Though they don’t often get the care they deserve, they can be just as detrimental to you. motional harm, pain, and injury can lead to various mental health problems.It’s not always easy to reduce or prevent emotional harm, but it can be done. You can do this by articulating worries, filling time well, practicing mindfulness, listening to feedback, being socially connected, and fueling your body. These habits, while simple on the surface, will work wonders for your emotional wellbeing!

Emotional Wellbeing Comes First.

It is always wise to solve emotional crisis, rather than overlook it.

These six smart emotional and mental habits can helpyou prevent or reduce the likelihood of experiencing emotional harm.

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Communication

6 Habits That Help Prevent or Reduce Emotional Harm

2021 is almost over, as we head towards 2022. I want you all to focus on these key areas in 2022 that are (Yourself, Passive Income, Mental Health, and Health) lists are short in this article. And, I truly believe that this shortlist will be a guiding light towards a new you.

When you invest in yourself, it gives you the best return. Because no one can take away what you have learned. And more and more you invest in yourself. Whether, learning through courses or books, or mentorship, It not only compounds together, and brings the best return in the future. You can use it anytime, you want as it stays always at your disposal to be used anywhere you need.

Invest in yourself -

Until and unless if you don't have passive income. You will have to work till your last breath. When you earn money while you sleep is the beauty of passive income. You can make passive income, by investing in Stocks, doing Affiliate Marketing, selling courses, or selling eBooks. Or it could be Real estate. And the list goes on.

Learned, how passive income works

There is one beautiful line from a dying Entrepreneur " I have money, cars, and private planes and I can do and go anywhere I want. But, my health is not with me anymore " We neglect our health, and Then, one day it asked for a return through illness. So, invest in your health learn about nutrition, go to the gym, exercise regularly. So, that is after 20 years or 30 years from today. When your health asked for a return it should be good health.

Invest in your health and Mental Health 

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Money & Investments

BEST Investment  in 2022

<ul><li>Don’t let metrics you don’t control define you.</li><li>Ask yourself if you want the reward you’re seeking, in order to know when to quit something hard.</li><li>Be completely honest with yourself about the reasons behind the decisions you’re making. </li><li>Identify the stuff that you really enjoy.</li><li>Treat your audience as friends.</li></ul>

Key Insights

It made me focus on impact rather than vanity metrics 

Hey friends, in this weeks episode I chat to YouTuber and Ironman athlete @Natacha Océane. Natacha quit her PhD in Biophysics to start a YouTube channel that tests fitness theories and translates the science behind health and fitness to address information gaps. In our conversation we chat about her feelings around quitting academia, fears of putting herself on the internet and how she built mental resilience and self awareness through athletic performance. Season 1 Episode 10 First 200 get 20% off the annual premium subscription for Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/deepdive 00:00 Intro 1:30 Ironman Triathlon 12:42 Goals & Control 18:33 Unlocking performance & Resilience 23:40 Quitting 34:18 Starting YouTube & Misinformation 44:40 Content Creation 56:55 Self-awareness 1:10:27 Rapid Fire Questions 🔗 CONNECT WITH NATACHA 📹 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/NatachaOc%C3%A9anefit 📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/natacha.oceane/?hl=en 🏋🏻‍♀️ Website - https://natachaoceane.com/ 🔗 CONNECT WITH ALI 🎥 YouTube Channel - https://youtube.com/aliabdaal 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/aliabdaal 📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/aliabdaal 💻 Website - https://aliabdaal.com 👥 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-abdaal/ 📚 RESOURCES MENTIONED Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins - https://geni.us/fI9IM The One Thing by Gary W. Keller and Jay Papasan - https://geni.us/kAMgB Mastery by Robert Green - https://geni.us/MV8a Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain - https://geni.us/XuvdkP6 📄SHOW NOTES & TRANSCRIPT Visit the website for the transcript and highlights from the conversation - https://aliabdaal.com/podcast/ 🎙 ABOUT THE PODCAST Deep Dive is the podcast that delves into the minds of entrepreneurs, creators and other inspiring people to uncover their journey's towards finding joy and fulfilment at work and in life. In each episode our host Ali Abdaal talks to his guests about their philosophies, strategies and tools that have helped them along their personal path to living a life of happiness and meaning. There's no manual for living a happy life, but we hope that from these shared experiences you'll leave each episode with practical advice you can use to help you along the way. 🎧 LISTEN FOR FREE Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast... Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7gZkflC... RSS - https://feeds.transistor.fm/deep-dive 🙏 LEAVE A REVIEW If you enjoyed listening to the podcast, we'd love for you to leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts to help others discover the show :) https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast... 🧠 SPONSORED BY BRILLIANT This episode is kindly supported by Brilliant, the best way to learn maths, science and computer science online. Brilliant focuses on helping you learn through interactive courses that work to develop your intuition and first principles knowledge, rather than just memorising methods and facts. Sign up at https://brilliant.org/deepdive - the first 200 people will receive 20% off the annual premium subscription. 👋🏼 GET IN TOUCH You can also Tweet @AliAbdaal with any feedback, ideas or thoughts about the lessons you've learnt from the episodes and we can thank you personally for tuning in 🙏 PS: Some of the links in this description are affiliate links that I get a kickback from 😜

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Career

Hey friends, in this weeks episode I chat to YouTuber and Ironman athlete @natachaoceane. Natacha quit her PhD in Biophysics to start a YouTube channel that tests fitness theories and translates the science behind health and fitness to address information gaps. In our conversation we chat about her feelings around quitting academia, fears of putting herself on the internet and how she built mental resilience and self awareness through athletic performance. 

Season 1 Episode 10

First 200 get 20% off the annual premium subscription for Brilliant: https://brilliant.org/deepdive

00:00 Intro 
1:30 Ironman Triathlon
12:42 Goals & Control 
18:33 Unlocking performance & Resilience 
23:40 Quitting 
34:18 Starting YouTube & Misinformation
44:40 Content Creation
56:55 Self-awareness
1:10:27 Rapid Fire Questions

🔗 CONNECT WITH NATACHA 

📹 YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/c/NatachaOc%C3%A9anefit
📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/natacha.oceane/?hl=en
🏋🏻‍♀️ Website - https://natachaoceane.com/

🔗 CONNECT WITH ALI 

🎥 YouTube Channel - https://youtube.com/aliabdaal
🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/aliabdaal
📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/aliabdaal
💻 Website - https://aliabdaal.com
👥 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-abdaal/

📚 RESOURCES MENTIONED

Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins - https://geni.us/fI9IM
The One Thing by Gary W. Keller and Jay Papasan - https://geni.us/kAMgB
Mastery by Robert Green - https://geni.us/MV8a
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain - https://geni.us/XuvdkP6

📄SHOW NOTES & TRANSCRIPT

Visit the website for the transcript and highlights from the conversation - https://aliabdaal.com/podcast/

🎙 ABOUT THE PODCAST

Deep Dive is the podcast that delves into the minds of entrepreneurs, creators and other inspiring people to uncover their journey's towards finding joy and fulfilment at work and in life. In each episode our host Ali Abdaal talks to his guests about their philosophies, strategies and tools that have helped them along their personal path to living a life of happiness and meaning. There's no manual for living a happy life, but we hope that from these shared experiences you'll leave each episode with practical advice you can use to help you along the way. 

🎧 LISTEN FOR FREE 
Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast...
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RSS - https://feeds.transistor.fm/deep-dive

🙏 LEAVE A REVIEW 

If you enjoyed listening to the podcast, we'd love for you to leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts to help others discover the show :) https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast...

🧠 SPONSORED BY BRILLIANT

This episode is kindly supported by Brilliant, the best way to learn maths, science and computer science online. Brilliant focuses on helping you learn through interactive courses that work to develop your intuition and first principles knowledge, rather than just memorising methods and facts. Sign up at https://brilliant.org/deepdive - the first 200 people will receive 20% off the annual premium subscription.

👋🏼 GET IN TOUCH 

You can also Tweet @AliAbdaal with any feedback, ideas or thoughts about the lessons you've learnt from the episodes and we can thank you personally for tuning in 🙏

PS: Some of the links in this description are affiliate links that I get a kickback from 😜

The podcast that delves into the minds of entrepreneurs, creators and other inspiring people to uncover the philosophies, strategies and tools that help us live happier, healthier and more productive lives. In each episode, YouTuber, Podcaster and soon to be author Ali has conversations with guests from wide-ranging areas around the five pillars of a good life: health, wealth, love, happiness and impact - to empower you to live your best life. 

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