Meet the Plastics

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Here's your daily dose of Andrew's Apples, a small white bag of four fresh *fruits* to nourish your soul and make you feel great. All in under 2 minutes. Let's go picking. 

1. 🍴 Say goodbye to privacy. This tweet, kid. It's got 22 likes and could save 22 lives this second. It's a wrap!

2. 🧴 Meet the Plastics. People consume (mostly through food, but also via drink and breathing) at least 50,000 plastic particles a year. It shows up in adult and baby feces. HOLY MOLY, gang! Standard PSA: As we've harped on before, the USDA and FDA suck as regulators and rulemakers, so do your best to eat local and organic. The other main culprit is drinking from plastic water bottles. Stop. The particles get lodged in your organs and course your blood. The jury is still out on what the long-term metabolic effects are, mostly due to this being a fairly recent phenomenon stemming from convenient food "innovation," but I'd bet it ain't good. When you can, drink from water fountains like a well-behaved elementary school student.

3. 📼 Keep the volume there. A January 2022 study out of Norway found that volume matters more than frequency w/r/t hypertrophy (PhD talk for increasing muscle size) and strength improvement. Some participants did XX reps over two training days while the others did the same amount of reps over four training days. The results were not statistically different. So what's the big deal, Uncle Andrew? Do not go authoritarian on me doing a specific workout every day if you can cluster days together, so long as you achieve the same total volume (i.e. total reps). For motivated and oiled Chad types, it's easy to slip into a never-miss-a-day mindset, but life gets nutty. I get it. Take an L here and there, and make up for it the next day in reps missed. Note: Overtraining is real and can be wicked.

4. ☕ Coffeeling it. New national polling finds coffee consumption to be at a 20-year high. "66% of Americans now drink coffee each day, more than any other beverage including tap water," claims the poll. The consensus recommendation is 2-3 cups/day (more than that you're probably jamming your sleep). The decades-old science says that coffee drinkers live longer, which makes sense because e.g. it means (a) you're by definition not instead drinking soda for caffeine rip, (b) your heart is kept guessing aka heart-rate-variability which is akin to a "heart workout" and (c) your appetite is staved off from wolfing down junk. And as anyone who's touched the stuff knows: coffee makes you po*p.

How do you like them Apples? Suggestions? Hate me? If you ever need anything, hit reply. 

Your friend, 

Andrew 🍎 

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