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There's no need to be an asshole, you're not in Brooklyn anymore
Good morning 🦁 This is Andrew's Apples, the email that you actually want to open. Because it tastes good. Gimme two min. Let's go.
🍌 Pee-pee no work. Erectile dysfunction (ED) has traditionally been something your Uncle Chet dealt with. Pops a pill and - voila - he's an athlete again. But, today ED in young men is an increasingly common condition. "Large multinational studies have estimated the prevalence of ED in young men to be as high as 30%." Researchers separate the likely causes into two camps: psychogenic and organic. Psychogenic includes depression and anxiety. Organic includes everything from blood flow and hormones to brain functioning.
🍎 Andrew's Take. Our heads are not on straight. Forget the PhD prattle. The mind (psychogenic) and the body (organic) are one, forever linked. I wrote in part about this yesterday, but historic low T-levels coupled with unfulfilling jobs and drugs/alc to mentally bury said unfulfilling jobs. Subtract steps, substract sunlight, add porn: that's a stiff cocktail. Except he's not stiff at all. In a word, what's the single missing component to why our dicks don't work on a post-pandemic planet? Movement.
🥤 Sweltering soda sports. Research shows the acute deleterious effects soda can have on kidney function when used to quench thirst on a hot day. You drink the soda (we call it "pop" in Michigan), get dehydrated, reduce blood flow to kidneys, which can causes acute damage. And poor kidney function is also associated with Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease.
🍎 Andrew's Take. Damn. I used to think Kobe Bryant literally glugged Sprite when he was down on the beachside blacktop in Venice. I was way off. Black coffee and cowboy cigarettes - the David Lynch diet - are way better addictions than soda, but yet I see scores of bad-BMI creatures crawl out of NYC bodegas every day the sun is out, double fisting the liquid death.
🥱 The only useless emotion. Indifference. Someone recently told me that ecstasy and depression can be equally useful, so long as one channels such energy into making something. If you think Hemingway was in a good frame of mind when he wrote his best works, watch the Ken Burns documentary on him: he was a total trainwreck. The high highs and lowest lows are blessings and lessons. But to feel nothing - apathy - is to dance with faceless bloodless pale purgatory state.
🍎 Andrew's Take. These days, the ONLY thing you should be apathetic toward is the moaning and wailing over the state of things that the media industry profits from. You know exactly what I'm talking about, friend. Don't cave. Your mission is way bigger than theirs, which is built on cinder-blocks of fear and hate.
🕊️ Tweet of the Day. Creatine is cheaper than dirt, no side effects, flavorless, looks like good cocaine, and comes in a huge nondescript bag that can ground even a flamboyantly decorated kitchenette.
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Andrew🍎
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