I imagine it must be tricky overcoming carbohydrate addiction if you have depression.
They don't make it easy, I had to wait for two weeks before I could, and had to run an unsigned binary to do it. Can not recommend buying one to unlock.
If I stare at this cold block for long enough, it disappears. It's a superpower.
Rice, disguised as a sausage, spelled like a dessert. Nice.
Unless your ISP won't support DHCPv6-PD until you pay them extra... want to guess how I know this?
Good health really is our greatest asset, and sleep's definitely a really important part of staying healthy!
If you don't mind I'll write down my habits too:
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Calisthenics : Birddog, Side Planks, Curl Ups, Pushups, Planks, and flexibility stretches every morning, for core strength.
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Cold showers: Lots of purported health benefits, nothing I can measure, but it improves my mood and I like how it feels now.
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Lots of walking, minimum 30 minutes or more a day: Some days I want to stay in and read / play video games but I'll still do shorter 10 minute walks in between that during breaks.
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Tied into the above: sun exposure: I try to get some sun in the morning before it gets too high in the sky, so I avoid the uv-b. If I don't manage this I try to do it in the evening. I've found that this helps me sleep. When the sun is high I don't wear sunscreen but use an umbrella instead, if I absolutely have to wear sunscreen I prefer mineral-based sunscreen.
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Tap water filter: I filter my tap water, the filter is rated to remove PFAS.
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Sauna: Thanks Jet for recommending this. Also a cold plunge after. Really helps me relax and sleep.
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Drink lots of water. Self explanatory, but also because I once dehydrated myself unintentionally and started cramping in my sleep.
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Intermittent fasting: I eat in a 6 hour window, with 18 hours in between. Recently, it's just been 1 meal a day, so it's been closer to a 20 hour window, if we also count milky drinks (kefir, lattes) since I've found that they do cause my blood glucose to go up. I'll also do a 72 hour fast once or twice a month.
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Cook at home more: I like cooking in general so this is also fun for me, something like a leisurely pasttime plus I get something tasty out of it. But it also is cheaper than eating out and I get to know exactly what's in my food.
Most things I figure out by watching how my body and mind respond. If I need precision, I’ll use a watch, scale, or blood tests.
Quantitative results really are useful. I do a health checkup every year, blood tests every three months or so or when I feel like I could use them, and also can recommend the use of a Continuous Glucose Monitor.
Thank you for recommending Cryochamber, I love it.
Nobody has any time for that, clean up your own mess.
They are, at the very least, likely to be endocrine disrupters in humans: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7926449/
The exposure to PFASs is known to cause liver toxicity, reproductive disorders, neurotoxicity and immunotoxicity (Table 2). Harmful health effects observed as a result of PFASs exposure could be highly associated with disturbance of hormone homeostasis. It has been reported that PFASs could interfere with molecular components of the endocrine system and modulate synthesis or secretions of selected hormones [27,28,29]. PFOA and PFOS act as endocrine disruptors mainly via effect on distribution of sex hormones, through mechanisms related to estrogen receptor activation and transcription of selected genes [29,30,31]. An in vivo and in vitro study conducted on animals have shown negative impact of two short-chain PFASs, i.e., PFBS and PFHxS on reproduction through the hypothalamus–pituitary–gonad axis [32], mainly due to deregulation of thyroid function [33,34,35,36]. Epidemiologic evidence of endocrine-disrupting activity of short-chain PFASs is limited and, similar to study on long-chain PFASs, in many cases inconsistent. As a result, none of PFASs has been categorized as EDCs by any legislative bodies up to these days. The main reason for considering these compounds to be endocrine-toxic was based on consistent reports, showing thyroid hormone level alterations and high risk of hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axis in animals exposed to PFOS [37,38,39,40].
Also see: https://www.endocrine.org/topics/edc/what-edcs-are/common-edcs/pfas
All three food-disease links received a two-star rating under the BoP system. This means: The evidence is statistically significant, but not very strong (due to inconsistent data or methodological limitations).
Good for earth.com to note that:
Observational data cannot prove causation, and dietary questionnaires can be imprecise, so caution is warranted when interpreting the size of the effects.
This is meta-analysis so it's likely inconsistent what counts as soda or hotdogs since they likely vary across each underlying study. I wonder if confounding factors include things like if the hotdogs come with bread and condiments, or size of a serving of soda. How often were the hotdogs consumed with soda? Were the results of the underlying studies adjusted with multivariate regression? To be on the safe side, best avoid all ultraprocessed foods altogether.
Paper is unfortunately paywalled: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-025-03775-8
Hamburg steak recipes, if Japanese, traditionally have breadcrumbs mixed into them too, to help hold the meat together. Supermarket ones can even have preservatives, I was going to buy them but after looking at the ingredient list decided against it.
For example, this popular recipe: https://cookpad.com/jp/recipes/19788495
パン粉 大さじ5（約カップ1/3)
calls for 1/3rd cup of breadcrumbs for every 250g of minced meat.
I think it's fair that this is posted annually, but I don't like that it is.