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Downsides of ashwagandha including acting like an SSRI: https://twitter.com/drcamrx/status/1667999241212686337
PeterAttiaMD: …his physical training program gives him a great VO2 max, his topical treatments give him much-better-than-his-genetics hair and skin, and his NAD+ precursor supplementation improves his rate of DNA repair.
Since at least the time of peripatetic Greek philosophers, many other writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing. (In fact, Adam Gopnik wrote about walking in The New Yorker just two weeks ago.) “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live!” Henry David Thoreau penned in his journal. “Methinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.” Thomas DeQuincey has calculated that William Wordsworth—whose poetry is filled with tramps up mountains, through forests, and along public roads—walked as many as a hundred and eighty thousand miles in his lifetime, which comes to an average of six and a half miles a day starting from age five
New study found that tea consumption is associated with attenuation of biological aging.
People who consistently drank >4 cups a day aged 40% slower than those who drank none.
Some studies suggest that people who cook more often, rather than get take-out, have an overall healthier diet. These studies also show that restaurant meals typically contain higher amounts of sodium, saturated fat, total fat, and overall calories than home-cooked meals
Anterior Mid-Cingulate Cortex (aMCC): When you do something you don’t want to do, this brain area gets bigger
aMCC is smaller in obese people, it gets bigger when they diet
aMCC is potentially the “seat” of willpower and will to live
Walnuts are great for the liver — helping with fatty liver diseases due to antioxidants and fatty acid content (omega-3 and omega-6)
Gut Microbiome/Immune Health: consume 2-4 servings low sugar-fermented foods per day such as yogurt, refrigerated sauerkraut, and pickles, kombucha with low sugar
This replicated the encoding benefit and showed that it was predicted by time spent in slow-wave sleep. Our findings suggest that wearing an eye mask during overnight sleep can improve episodic encoding and alertness the next day
Going to the gym when you don’t feel like it gives you the greatest high
Cancer hates mushrooms — 2/3 an ounce a day = 45% lower risk of cancer
Cancer Absolutely Hates Mushrooms.
Pennsylvania State University researchers analyzed mushroom consumption on cancer risk, involving 19,500 patients.
The subjects in the highest-consumption – 2/3 of an ounce of mushrooms daily – had a 45% lower risk of developing cancer. pic.twitter.com/13PEJyKffC
— Lori Shemek, PhD (@LoriShemek) January 22, 2024
“Mushrooms are like the swiss army knife for treating diseases.”
I’ll always remember what Synthesis founder Chrisman Frank told me: “Still haven’t met anyone who has quit drinking and regretted it.”