The basics of feeling better
Almost everybody who feels flat is missing one of five things, and none of them is a supplement. Here they are in the order they usually matter.
01
Sleep and rhythm
Your body runs on a clock, and the clock is set by light and by when you get up. Going to bed and waking at roughly the same time does more for how you feel than almost anything you could buy.
02
Nutrition
Enough protein, a wide range of whole foods, and the essential nutrients covered. Most tiredness that gets blamed on a missing vitamin is a diet that is thin rather than one that is deficient.
03
Movement
Walking every day and lifting something heavy twice a week. Not a training plan, a floor: it is the amount below which your body starts taking things away.
04
Stress and recovery
Stress is not the problem, stress with no recovery is. What matters is whether your day has anything in it that lets your system come back down.
05
Environment
Bright days, dark evenings, air worth breathing and something green to look at. The room you sit in for eight hours is a health decision you make once and then stop noticing.
Want to know where you stand?
Reading is one half. The other is a number you took yourself, and one measurement today is the start of a line you can actually follow.
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