Is illness a signal?
I caught a cold and started wondering whether the body uses it to say: slow down and rest.
I caught a cold and started wondering whether the body uses it to say: slow down and rest.
I know I should be in bed by midnight, yet I sit on YouTube until 2 or 3 a.m. On the evening boundary for sleep and how the mind tops up its dopamine.
On 1 December 2006 I wrote a promise in my notebook: not a drop of alcohol, not a single cigarette. Seventeen years on, I've never regretted it.
The idea I wish I'd understood 15 years ago: when someone close to you gets seriously ill, it becomes your problem too.
Bloodwork, food, movement, sleep and the quiet killers of your resource — 7 places to start when you have nothing left in the tank.
Nastya and I tried one month without meat, keeping only fish. The experiment has been running for nearly three years and turned out to be a great investment in our health.