"Food neophobia" is a survival mechanism that psycho parents break by shoving

In 2023, I fell into a dark hole of depression and have been struggling to find my way out of it ever since. Although I was pushed into this hole by losing 24k to a scammy business coach, I have been…

Creatine not only helps you build muscle—new tests strongly suggest that it can help the body fight cancer cells. The tests are with mice, so there will need to be a lot of further research, but this…

Contact Us If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact us at info@liftosaur.com ! Summary Liftosaur is an app that combines both weightlifting programming part (that people sometimes use…

Daily ugliness quietly shapes how we see the world. Rediscovering beauty in everyday life restores our sense of care, harmony, and meaning. Beauty is not just decoration, it’s a psychological…

I have an addictive personality. This might be inherited - after all, my father was a raging alcoholic - but then, my sister doesn't seem to have this issue... for me though, addictions are part of…

I saw their faces when I told them the thing that made them ask if I had ever had thoughts of harming myself (they didn't say it like that). I knew the shift, I understood what was and what wasn't…

Every so often you find a fitness booklet that makes the modern gym look like it has lost its nerve. This one is Sig Klein’s Super Physique: Body-Building Bar-bell Course, sixth English edition…

Back in October, My close friend, Chelsea Matisz gave a wonderful TEDx Talk called, “How modern life could affect gut health”. Last fall, I had the opportunity to speak at TEDxCalgary…

Lately, the stories of athletes who took time off from competition and the competitive spotlight have been on my mind. Two in particular are the stories of Alysa Liu and Ai Mori . I think I may be…

Sunscreen sticks are really convenient, but it’s difficult to measure out how much you need to apply, or whether you’ve applied enough. So I decided to put them to the test!  I…

Time slips away and the hour I had set aside to exercise after work is now half an hour before I start and so this cheat day is cut short. Listening to an interview on Dialectic with Jasmine Sun and…

Yesterday, I sent a friend who works in a hospital in Scotland the Egyptian Ministry of Health's guidelines for managing psychiatric inpatients during heatwaves. These guidelines were developed and…

Most of us learned the Golden Rule as children: treat others the way you want to be treated. It's a simple, powerful idea, and I believe in it completely. Then I got diagnosed with ADHD at fifty and…

When the weight comes off fast, not all of it is fat. Some of it is muscle. That part doesn’t always make the brochure. Muscle mass isn’t just about how you look. It’s how you get…

Blowing bubbles : This is an S-tier coping skill honestly. My hands are occupied. Breathing in and out has a purpose. I watch the bubbles float away and pop! Going "Louis Theroux mode" : Louis'…

What if exercise wasn't the point?

On September 27, 2026 we are organising the first dedicated Backyard Ultra for Kids in Zollikon, Switzerland. The goal is to run for as long as possible (with a sensible upper ceiling in place). If…

Gerontophobia must die @keyframes flash { 0%, 50% { opacity: 1; } 51%, 100% { opacity: 0; } } Ageing need not be seen as declining but enriching. We grow old, not shrink old. There is a third way…

Content Warning: This post talks about injections in some detail. If you have an overactive imagination or are queasy about needles, feel free to skip this one. Yesterday, I had the pleasure of doing…

This is a rather baffling concept to me, even as I experience it. We all need water to survive. So far, I've succeeded in drinking enough water that I don't keel over and die. (Which is about 1-2…

Talking to people, friends and strangers alike, has always been its own kind of nightmare. My heart races if I even think about having to talk to someone. I lose courage before I’ve even started.…

Been a few weeks since the last update.

The simple meal plan and exercise routine I follow to stay reasonably lean, strong, and healthy while still enjoying life.

I went for a 9.39km run. It felt good. My average pace was 9 minutes 2 seconds per kilometre. In running terms that is quite slow but a huge improvement for me since starting this training journey…

Interesting: Study Finds Many Older Adults Will Improve Over Time–Depending on Their Mindset those with more positive age beliefs were significantly more likely to show improvements in both cognition…

Remember that one time I said this? And the first place every serious "evil scientist" must start is within themselves. Yeah that was 2 days ago. It was my favorite line of the article but little did…

Although our mom started the reminders about her Mother’s Day wishes at least a month in advance of the day, Father’s Day was never much of a “thing” in our family. As an immigrant/refugee with mixed…

Let’s just get right into it. The swim and bike were great. The run was not. And I think I learned my lesson with bicarb. The Mistake I Made Before the Race Even Started I took sodium…

Struggling with setbacks and difficulties

A semi-found poem about sanitized language.

I was writing in my annonymous blog and trying to fight my mind which was trying to convince me we're not good enough. I wrote how we changed our routines and we're in the best place we've ever been.…

This was me rucking with 80 lbs. I got home late. I was tired. The easy choice was obvious: eat, rest, and call it a day. But discipline rarely shows up when it is convenient. So I put the weight on…

Some skepticism of vitamin D skepticism

I created an extension of my indieBlog bundle for Pure Blog, to implement workout mapping, tracking and analytics on your own Pure Blog site. Demonstration indieFit project is here:…

Slowly, but surely...

As I write this, my fingers are not cooperating with me. I can’t count how many small objects I’ve fumbled in just the last hour, let alone the past few days. I can’t seem to hold…

Mental stamina is the quiet superpower behind almost every meaningful achievement. It is the reason some people can sit with a hard problem for two hours while others give up after fifteen minutes,…

Speaking of work units, Dr. Avery J. Knapp Jr. dreams of a different multi-parametric AI work unit for radiology, arguing that wRVUs (and even time-based units) just don’t cut it: There are at…

I’ve always liked to play. There’s this saying “We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” — if that’s true I’m…

There are not many things I am properly proud of, so writing this one down feels a little odd. I did my first triathlon on Sunday and came away with the win in my age category, and I have read that…

TRIGGER WARNING - Angry outburst. This story is about Intermittent Explosive Disorder, read more I am a self diagnosed IED person. I think I always had it since I was a kid. I still do, but I had it…

A personal essay about medical pain, self-harm, trans body shame and feeling responsible for making distress easy for everyone else

I started therapy seriously at age 28. I had been married for years and had a decent career and good health, but circumstances required I seek help. I’ll not go into details. I wanted to describe the…

Over recent years, we have become increasingly troubled by the direction of travel within counselling, psychotherapy and the wider mental health field. A profession that has historically sought to…

I have social anxiety that caused me to be a terminally online male-autistic introvert

The principles of strength are simple. Here are ten simple lessons I have learned from twenty years of training.

Jag anmälde mig till halvmaraton på Tromsø Midnight Sun Marathon i september 2025, innan jag ens hade klarat min första HM i Uppsala. Då visste jag inte att träningen skulle gå helt åt skogen under…

Why do we so frequently self-sabotage? The usual answers can’t be accurate. We’re far too good at it for that. Too consistent. Some part of us must be quietly invested in staying stuck. But…