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Oct 2026

01Healthy

Your body answers to what you feed it and how you move it, on a timescale of months rather than days. Most of what follows is me testing that on myself and writing down what happened.

  1. Hair loss Thinning hair, a daily pill, and the line I won’t cross.
  2. Meditation Meditation didn’t calm me down by emptying my head. It calmed me down by teaching me to come back, over and over. That one skill has done more for my temper and my stress levels than anything else I’ve tried.
  3. Cardio training How four minutes of controlled suffering, a lot of slow miles and a handful of treadmill sprints rebuilt my engine.
  4. Sardines The evidence for the fish is strong and the evidence for the fast is almost nonexistent, which are two very different claims that almost nobody bothers to separate.
  5. Creatine The most-studied supplement in sports nutrition turns out to be a brain supplement.
  6. Carbs How I went from zero carbs to some carbs, and why the choice of carb matters more than the amount.

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A letter, most Sundays

What I tried during the week, what it cost me, and whether it turned out to be worth doing. Usually a page. Occasionally two.