Millennials are getting boring

Life is movement.  Alexander Cortes, fitness teacher 

It's Friday Friends 🦁 This is Andrew's Apples, the lit email version of the Apple A Day proverb. Two minutes. Let's go. 

1. 🥱 Millennials are getting boring. A hot little piece dropped two weeks ago about why life as a millennial is so damn dull. The author cites that "this generation lacks the same social and cultural revolutions that rocked those that came before." The energy and sense of rebellion of previous decades has been supplanted with boredom: drinking less, optimizing health like sad sociopaths, staying home more... and generally, having less fun. In a nutshell, she argues that millennials maybe kinda sorta liked the pandemic because it gave them an official state-mandated reason to keep being boring.

   1. 🍎 Andrew's Take: First off, hermits will be hermits. Sadly, it does feel like being a hermit is more accepted than ever before. My defense of millennials: many are struggling to make ends meet unless they sign up for a soul-sucking job, teeming with meaningless meetings and siloed workstreams and relationships; esp. right now, with every asset class sucking wind and people's portfolios being freshly bombed daily. And yet my beef with millennials is: yeah, so fucking what? Earl Sweatshirt didn't go outside for years and I think it made him pretty sad. I would love to see 26-35 year olds debunk this lady's theory by going out every day and waving to strangers on the street like they're six. [below is a related tweet]

2. 👣 Losing your toes. One of the quickest ways to learn how Nike (and really modern footwear in general) has atrophied the natural strength of your feet is to (a) take a difficult yoga class and/or (b) go for a run either barefoot or with minimalist shoes on. Your dogs will be barking! Think about it: closed-toe footwear lock your toes in place like a straitjacket. No air to breathe and no room to stretch. I feel sorry for those little pups just thinking about it! Movement specialist Beth Lewis said: “People don’t think about their toes and their feet until there’s a problem. Above your waist is two-thirds of your mass. They’re basically supporting that mass all the time and pushing you through space.” It can be likened to sleeping in the nude vs. sleeping in a three-piece suit: you decide.

   1. 🍎 Andrew's Take: Don't be a beast, clean your feet. Lots of savagery out there in them streets. Once that's established, go barefoot (just socks is better than shoes) whenever and wherever you can. Over time, you will "wake up" all of the bones and muscle tissue that have been asleep since you got your first pair of Monarchs lol. A yogi said how do you anything is how you do everything, so if your tits look great but your feet look like a troll's, we got a problem straight up.

3. 🌞 More like vitamin D(ementia). So a new Australian study found a relationship between vitamin D deficiency and dementia (forgetting stuff, cognitive decline). Recall that vitamin D is found in foods such as citrus, salmon, and eggs. As I've said a million times now, it's very good for you (and cheap af). Not conclusive yet but, if true, it's a win for cheap medicine that literally everyone can afford and a loss for a disease that affects 6 million Americans.

   1. 🍎 Andrew's Take: Overwhelmingly, the cheapest things on earth are the best for us: vitamin D, sunlight, water w a squeeze of lemon and a dash of pink salt, 7-9 hours of masked sleep, a walk in the forest among sleeping witches and witty gnomes. Don't get it twisted - you can probably cancel 80% of your DTC food/bev subscriptions, dog. Mostly for the weak-minded who wear Reebok slides in public.

4. 🕊️ Tweet of the Day. This meatball in Miami is just that, but he ain't wrong. Even if you hate his face and what you think he represents. I'll find gold nuggets anywhere - at McDonald's, the local bodega - so long as if they're selling.

And a weekly recap because health news moves fast and I know you are busy as all hell: 

• Monday: Booze-free booze, most sunscreen sucks, hot sauce panic, and the hysterical food pyramid in American schools.

• Tuesday: Antibiotic resistance, food is damn expensive, salt is God, and something changed in the 1950s.

• Wednesday: Another heater of a guest post from our resident running rat, Alex.

• Thursday: High libido is good, inflammation leads to cancer, sleep like an ancient baby, and activities that de-stress your head.

We'll try something different this Sunday :-) Stay tuned. 

Your friend, 

Andrew🍎 

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