Category: Health
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Night Owls: No Apologies (Part 1)
Embrace your nocturnal nature and stop apologizing for being a night owl; your unique rhythm is a gift, not a flaw. There are certain things in life that we shouldn’t have to apologize for, things that are simply part of who we are. For me, being a night owl is one of those things. I refuse to…
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Bed-Rotting as a Productivity Hack
Discover how the counterintuitive practice of bed-rotting can significantly enhance your productivity. Bed-rotting is not something I ever would have considered as a productivity hack. I wasn’t even aware of the term until this past year. Maybe it’s counterintuitive. Maybe it’s because it’s been drilled into me since I was a child that staying in…
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Biohacking: Saving My Own Life
I’ve been biohacking for over 14 years, and it’s saved my life several times. The year was 2010, and a past colleague had found me on a dating app. We were both trying to find our optimal fitness at the time and that was one of the ways we hit it off. We didn’t even…
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Those Things I Do to Be Healthy and Productive (Part 5)
Continued from previous post Electromagnetic Pulsing My most serious and, by far, most expensive foray into hacking my sleep has been a small box with a magnet attached called the EarthPulse Sleep-on-Demand unit. Although there’s a new version coming out, I bought the existing version from a dealer on eBay for $500 almost five months…
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Those Things I Do to be Healthy and Productive (Part 4)
Continued from a previous post Using electronics to go to sleep and wake up My old way–at least several years ago old–of going to sleep and staying asleep would have been to pop a pill. Most commonly, something non-prescription from the drug store or even grocery store. As I become more health conscious, I really…
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Those Things I Do to Be Healthy and Productive (Part 3)
Continued from previous post The sun wasn’t even up yet—though the deepening pink on the tall white clouds announced its arrival—and my Fitbit had just buzzed my 10,000thstep. I’d already said “Good Morning” to the usual dozen or so joggers and runners I see on my morning miles when I stopped at a little bridge…
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Those Things I Do to Be Healthy and Productive (Part 2)
Continued from previous post I start winding down around 9 PM, with plans to be in bed and falling asleep at 10PM. In other words, I start thinking about my sleep and the next day’s productivity and planning for it an hour before bedtime. This is really the best time for the ol’ beauty routine…
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Those Things I Do to Be Healthy and Productive (Part I)
My hairdresser suggested I write this for you. Really. Every time I see her–which isn’t nearly enough–she wants to know how my bio-hacking and health experimentation is going in my never-ending search for the right things to do to be at my optimum health–and no, I’m not there yet. I’m still trying. Still searching. Still…
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Boosting your Immunity Tip #3: Ergonomic Pooping
This week’s tip for boosting immunity–try the benefits of ergonomic pooping. Um. Really. Don’t you love that title? I can’t believe I’m going to go there but…okay, I’m going to go there. If you grew up visiting elderly relatives or neighbors–who had a far different definition of regular than you did and you felt…
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Boosting your Immunity Tip #2: Processed Foods
What’s missing? This week’s tip for boosting immunity–an awareness and reduction of processed foods–may be the hardest of them all if you’re used to eating the typical American diet. It’s just so easy and convenient to buy processed foods, isn’t it? Even “healthy ones.” The problem is that many have had the nutrition processed…