Health isn’t a product. Listen to the wisdom of your body more and people like Gary Brecka and Dave Asprey less.
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The Enjoyment Factor (Roseto Effect)
Don’t bother with longevity hacks unless you take care of your social and emotional health. Those factors can supersede health behavior. Remember to bring a sense of connection and enjoyment to physical activity and meal time.
12.4 Extra Years of Awful
We are getting better and better at stopping death, but not at enhancing life. The gap between lifespan and healthspan has now grown to 12.4 years.
Mindset and Blood Flow
When challenged, your body either sends blood to your brain and muscles for action or keeps it in the chest for defeat. How you think and feel about meeting a challenge is what makes the difference.
The Fastest Way to Age Slower
Slow aging by moving faster. “Powerpenia” is the top predictor of falls.
Your Mood State Makes Your Workout Work (or Not)
Emotional state during exercise can affect benefits from it. Instead of embracing this four decades old discovery, the idiotic “rise & grind” culture of fitness where you must suffer to be buffer is doing no one any favors.
Can Your Fitness Outlast Your Folder?
Consistency despite massive challenges and 15 years later, she’s lasted longer than her folder did. An example of the freedom that consistent fitness can bring, even with two spinal discs removed.
Of Course There’s No Time to Exercise
We need fun. Desperately. We invent endless time and money sucking stuff like gender reveal parties, promposals, and smash cakes while lamenting the lack of time to exercise. Ideas to add fun to fitness instead of creating more nonsense that keeps us from it.
When Hard Things Are Good Things – RMT Rope
Learning the RMT Rope had the right amount of frustration and progress to make it irresistible. The fun and the benefit is in the right amount of struggle.
Set the Plant Eating High Score!
Getting the high score on a video game is a feeling you can now get by eating plants. See who can get plant-eating high score in your house!