(Though I wrote about this in my newsletter this week, I’m expanding it here.) I was recently listening to a Huberman podcast where he talked about stress, and how the normal response to stress is to stop eating. However, when you have chronic stress, your body rewires itself and you start wanting to eat when you’re stressed, […]
Essay – Sleep, the Final Frontier Though I am continually making tweaks to either help my health or improve it, I feel like that “country” has been better explored than the vast continent of sleep. However, I also believe that for the first time I’m making good headway, and am finally getting better sleep. It’s
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I’ve already written about my word count goals, as well as the movement changes I’m making for 2025. Now, I’m going to write about the diet and other changes I’m making. I need to lose weight. I’m a little below the heaviest I’ve ever been, but not by much. However, I tried not to stress
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2024 wasn’t the best year. Normally, I don’t make a lot of New Year’s resolutions. I’d much rather change things over time, implement a new way of doing things when the time is appropriate, and not just save it all up. However, given the nature of the previous year, tagging things to be changed for
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To recap: March 2023 I had cataract surgery done, replacing the lenses in both eyes. My eyes were naturally monofocal, before the surgery. My left eye needed no correction in terms of seeing things close up, and my right eye needed very little correction to see far. So I have monofocal lenses as well, now.
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As y’all may or may not recall, I had a full knee replacement done three years ago. I figured I’d report in about where I’m at with it. What I want to emphasize is that while the knee replacement isn’t all kittens and rainbows, it needed to be done. I was bad and my knee
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I take a lot (A LOT) of supplements. Some I take because I think they’re good for me. Others I take because they make a noticeable difference in my health. This list is current as of June 2024. I’m only listing the supplements that I take that make a difference in my health, as well
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As y’all may or may not know, I recently spent six weeks away from home, caring for my niece post-brain surgery. It was one of the most stressful things I’ve ever done in my life. Not the most stressful, but up in the top five. To start with, I was chronically sleep-deprived. She started out
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One year ago, I had cataract surgery. I had gone from being diagnosed with cataracts to being unable to see a screen thirty percent of the time over the course of nine months. At first, the new lenses were wonderful. Well, kind of. I still had issues with glare that just weren’t going away. Daytime
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Vertigo Last week, I got sick for a couple of days. A little sniffly, not too bad. Primarily just felt crappy. On Thursday, I woke up feeling better. Started doing some yoga. Quickly realized that inverting was dangerous. As in, okay, I need to get out of this position, sit on the floor for a