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June 5 - June 25, 2022
That strange period where the beginning of the end of the workday has yet to begin, but you’re too far past the end of the beginning to think you can start fresh.
if most people snuck out after lunch and stopped working, it would have no visible impact on national productivity, because for so many people nothing gets done after lunch anyway.
Kris Kristofferson once said, “You don’t paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.” I take that to mean there is no shame in going with the flow and taking a nap.
2008 British experiment in which they compared a nap, a cup of coffee, and more nighttime sleep, to see what would happen to people’s afternoon energy levels and concentration. The nap—yes, the nap!—won.
controlled recovery period (CRP).
Brain waves are a physiological reaction to our environments.
There are five common brain-wave states—gamma, beta, alpha, theta, and delta—and
aubreymarcus.com/beats.
Life is push, pull. Gather, go. Exert, recover. So rest, Padawan, the Force needs you at 100 percent.
Ditch whatever you have been told about naps being for lazy people. Naps have been scientifically proven to be one of the most effective ways to stay alert and perform at a high level.
Healthy is sexy, and there is no single better thing you can do for your health than exercise.
What if I told you there was an actual miracle drug? It could make you skinny. It could make you sexier. It could build your muscles. It could relieve stress. It helps you live longer. It helps you sleep. It relieves depression. It alleviates pain. It can even help you remember things better. And the kicker? While you can pay for it if you want, you don’t have to. It’s totally free. It’s called exercise.
If you’re tired all the time or suffering from chronic fatigue, exercise can help you restore good energy levels.
If you’re down in the dumps, or downright depressed, it can improve your mood.
If you’re not sleeping well, it can dramatically improve your sleep quality, b...
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If you’re a healthy guy, training will help you perfo...
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I don’t care about your body mass index or whether you look like an Instagram model. Healthy is sexy.
as good as it feels to put your name on the board, it feels worse to put your name on the sign-in sheet at the ER and not be able to train for a while.
own the workout yourself. Listen to your body, do what you feel like you should do, and don’t get caught up and in over your head.
I don’t care how you motivate yourself to get your workout in, as long as you don’t use shame and self-judgment.
If you spend a day without laughter and a smile, you haven’t owned the day.
You are a human being, not a human doing.
The general rule with any intoxicating substance, particularly alcohol, is to use the least amount necessary to achieve the desired effect. This has a couple advantages: (1) it’s cost-effective, and (2) it limits any negative side effects like toxicity to the liver or lungs.
Research shows that if you act younger, your biological markers actually start to reverse.
If you believe you are too old to play, you will become too old to play. If you stay young in heart, spirit, and belief, you will stay young in body and mind as well.
Choose to be happy. Sometimes it comes wafting through the air like a unicorn’s fart. And sometimes you gotta go where the unicorns are eating their magical beans, and start sniffing.
modern food manufacturing has turned chocolate from a superfood into just another Trojan horse for pasteurized milk and sugar.
Chocolate is a heart-healthy food, and we should treat it as such.
Have you ever gotten up from the toilet after a bowel movement and inspected your work? Of course you have. Every guy has, and I’m betting some of you ladies get in on the action too. Have you ever been able to tell, by its contents, exactly what you ate a few hours earlier? Maybe some corn kernels. Some threads of spinach. Some almond slivers or carrot chunks. If you can see it, it means you didn’t digest it, which usually means you ate too fast.
fast eaters are up to 115 percent more likely to be obese.
overweight people chew less than normal-weight people, because when you chew more, you tend to eat less—15 percent less, in one study that used delicious pizza for its experiment.
People think when they have heartburn that it is caused by too much stomach acid. In actuality, it is often the opposite: there is not enough acid in their system to effectively break down the food, so it stays around longer, burning the inner lining.
Ginger has the ability to speed up the time it takes your stomach to pass food to your digestive tract by up to 50 percent.
Psyllium
Ceylon cinnamon and apple cider vinegar.
the last thing you want to do is feel like you’re owning this day at the expense of the next one. Then you’re not really owning the day at all, you’re overspending and borrowing from tomorrow.
We talk to psychiatrists and read books about restoring healthy relationships with our parents, with our friends, with our lovers, but perhaps the most dysfunctional relationship we have is with our bodies.
The key to restoring our relationship with our bodies is the way you maintain any good relationship: you learn and you listen.
When anything isn’t happening the way you want, first ask, “What is my body telling me?”
it’s not your body’s fault; it always speaks the truth.
If you’re going to own your life, you have to take responsibility for all the relationships in it. And there is perhaps none more important than the one with your body.
To optimize digestion, eat slow, chew hard, and increase levels of HCL and digestive enzymes.
Learning how to have mutually fulfilling sex by watching porn is like learning how to be a great boxer by watching Rocky films—it might be good for motivation, but the technique is wildly exaggerated, and the expectations are completely unrealistic.
sex is also important for our well-being. It relieves stress, stimulates endorphins and hormones, and is crucial for sexual health. Correlations also exist between improved aspects of mental health and immune function, and according to a recent report, frequent sex may help with depression, wound healing, aging, prostate health, and pain tolerance. It’s the next best miracle drug after exercise.
eating healthy fats won’t make you chubby, but it will definitely help you get one.
Research even shows that every additional hour of sleep you get bumps up testosterone levels 15 percent or more, while those who experience sleep disturbances tend to have curbed testosterone production.
larger muscles contribute to higher testosterone.
the key is all things in moderation, including moderation
the most important, game-changing, life-altering way you can use your tongue to improve your sex life. To make words. And use them to talk with your partner about sex.
