Questions to ask yourself to figure out what's wrong when you're not feeling good, and tips on what to do about each situation.

Nautilus has a great interview with David Samson, author of The Sleepless Ape. His claim: we are the shortest-sleeping primate on the planet, our sleep is mostly fine, and the eight-hour rule was…

After trying some pretty decent protein shake powders (currently unreviewed), I decided to get a powder with a much higher protein content and much lower calorie count. And that led me to The Naked…

Another habit added to the daily stack.

Man, the page really does feel like it's on fire today, so I better write fast. I felt myself getting manic again, which is typical just after a depressive slump. Thankfully the slumps have gotten…

After going for a swim with my Apple Watch on, it stopped working the following days. Already two years ago, when I went swimming in salt water, its function to blow out water stopped working. Now,…

Last week at the gym, I saw a guy jumping rope in the small dance studio. I used to jump rope a lot in the garage—back when we actually HAD a garage. It was my preferred form of cardio.…

This is a long piece I (Sarah) have written in response to Kathleen Stock's article Why Are Young Women Using Walking Sticks? in The Times newspaper. The article is behind a paywall. The gist of it…

Here is a great little book by W. John Wolfe about how he learned to NEVER get a poison rash again. His writing style is fun and exuberant and his method for preventing rashes make total sense. This…

This is one of the BAD ones! This person might have kneeled in a patch of poison ivy and ground the oil into the skin. As we often say, this is the reason for this website: if you can learn to…

A therapist's own words on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

I was never very active as a child, and I absolutely despised the weekly sport lessons we had each week, and yet, somehow, I'm now somebody who runs three times a week, and is training for his first…

Three races left this year: the MS Motion 10k, a 25k across the beach during the 11 Strandentocht, and the DSW Bruggenloop. How I'm training for them while keeping my injury at bay.

Crohn’s – can you eat that? Chronic Migraines – liar. Anxiety – just stop being anxious. Reply to this post. or don't.

It’s very common to see major trauma patients arriving in the trauma bay with a mechanical CPR device strapped to their chest, pounding away. How did this idea start? How effective are they? As…

We got these Early Ovulation Test Strips at Shop Rite. Tried it out yesterday and I wasn't ovulating yet so we'll keep doing it daily. :)

Last week I was chatting with two friends, one a medic the other a hospital manager, about the National Early Warning Score (NEWS). NEWS is a system that can remotely alert clinicians to the…

wholesome relaxation that won’t keep you up at night

There is a debate among colleagues in the cardiac OR about the safety of doing surgery on patients actively taking Plavix. Selective preop continuation of Plavix is useful to facilitate coronary…

Trigger Warning: suicide, self-harm, and mental-illness Over this past weekend I was able to reflect on how lucky I am to have the support that I now currently have and the support I had few years…

Geoff’s Translation The GIST   Back to the brain! Years ago, Andrew Lloyd of the Dubbo studies noted that the symptoms in ME/CFS were all symptoms produced by the brain – and we are…

Putting in the miles.

Nothing gives as much freedom as cycling. I have thought it every single time I have ridden a bike. The million stolen bikes that my friends and I had, and then the best one that got stolen from us.…

I've always thought the internet craze about "dopamine hacking" was overly reductive. I have read enough different theories of what brain chemicals actually do that I am skeptical that our…

A gonzo meet report. A friend invited me to their first powerlifting meet. It had been years since I, cloistered in the gorgeous Rocky Mountains, had witnessed this kind of spectacle. Years more…

It turns out that the real secret to longevity is to live in an area with poor record keeping. Something is very wrong with modern longevity is a nice New Yorker piece questioning the whole “Blue…

A couple weeks ago I was driving back from lunch on a Friday when something changed.I started feeling horrible. My stomach started churning. I got a fever. I tried to hold back my teeth from…

The Issue: In grocery stores, many snacks are sold in gigantic jumbo size packages. It can be hard to resist the compelling economic argument in favor of these snacks: you might get TEN TIMES as many…

For decades, diabetics have had to prick a finger to get a drop of blood on a test strip that is then inserted into a meter to quickly display a blood glucose reading. Then a CGM — a continuous…

  Consent to Waltz, Capacity to Tango, Connect to.. using statin and antihypertensive examples shows how we on one side and our doctors on the other can get blindsided by treatment and end up…

Neurodiversity is now considered a variation of human experience rather than a disability. Indeed, 20% of the workforce is neurodiverse including 50% of sales and technology professionals. That means…

Las Vegas, like everywhere else, is getting hotter. Here’s how to stay safe…

Abdominal Fat Predicts Heart Disease Risk Better Than BMI - American College of Cardiology — The number that stuck with me is that people classified as normal weight by BMI still carried 15 to 50%…

In a recent article, where I returned to the subject of (nonexistent) innovation in Athletics, I wrote that I had seen a steeplechase mile only once. My memory had played a trick on me. In fact, I…

I finished my first sprint triathlon on Toronto Island! Woohoo! TL;DR The event went well, a couple of surprises but nothing I couldn't handle. It was a gorgeous day on the island, and my family came…

I’ve been doing so much Emacs writing lately, so I guess it’s time I get my Emacs pinky (which is a form of RSI). I made a quick reference to it three days ago and got a lot of responses.…

Sort of a follow-up to my previous post: I went jogging for the first time in ten years . I mentioned at the end of that post that my knee was hurting the day after my first jog, but as the day went…

Another personal post, on being in hospital and suffering. And so, after a substantial wait, the IV feeding for which I had been waiting started. The feed itself looks like the worst kind of science…

It’s awesome and terrible at the same time in this day and age to be handed a medicine with a complicated protocol and given no ideal way to visualize or track the schedule and the feedback from the…

Poisoning Our Children draws on nearly a half million words of interviews with experts, advocates, and families. Many of these are already published, but it has been a while, so I have decided to…

Here’s a longish and intriguing article about how our meal schedules affect bodily health. There’s some evidence that morning people eat healthier than night people simply by eating meals earlier.…

Epic solo bike rides aren’t the only way to challenge yourself on two wheels.

I recently found myself in a debate about something that comes up more and more often in conversations about trauma: whether Borderline Personality Disorder is actually Complex PTSD. The conversation…

rereading my old text messages when i was extremely ill is so groundbreaking. i remember the nature of my messages but not the exact content, so going and reading back on what i was saying online is…

I did three laps on the little electric wedding train and explored the entire museum👍 Stats Distance 3.61 mi Moving time 18m 22s Elapsed time 19m 01s Elevation gain 85 ft Average speed 11.8 mph Route…

A colleague once told me she'd completed an Ironman. I had to ask what that actually meant. A 2.4-mile swim, 112 miles on the bike, and then a marathon — all in one day, all of it finished before…

Cupping the powdery, pretty flower, the trichomes sparkling on the stick, I can’t believe that, in the modern era, cannabis is seen as toxic, destructive, unwholesome. This glittery, sticky substance…