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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. I'm like the friend who wants his friends to be hotter, thereby lifting the average hotness of the whole group. All this in under 2 minutes. Let's go picking.
🦎 Are you a lizard? This tweet. Friends complain all the time, dude I'm so tired. Ok: 25 push-ups, done; 25 bodyweight squats, full stop. If you're cranking on work, that's all you need. Just 30-60 seconds of all-out activity with no sweat broken, before getting back to work. Some NYC-native colleagues recently left Miami after "trying it out" for 1.5 years. What'd they say? "Everyone was lazy and had their t*ts done." Lol. I won't comment on the second point but the laziness point reminds me of an old Bill Hicks joke about L.A. weather: Every single day, hot and sunny. And they love it. What are you, a fucking lizard? Live where you want, gang, but know that lazy lizards lunch on gut-loaded crickets and then get lunched by the neighborhood hawk.
🍵 Green teatime. Around for almost 5,000 years, green tea remains a potent potion for many ailments. The research is thick. In the main, it counters the effects of xeno-estrogens (which we've discussed before here and here w/r/t plastics). Green tea detoxifies estrogen in the liver and also protects against free radicals/carcinogens tied to estrogen. It even acts to inhibit breast tumor growth. When we talk about xeno-estrogens, we are talking about your hormonal balance and your DNA. So, drooping manboob jokes aside, those are two things you'd rather not slap in the face.
😴 Magneasy Street. I've said to take a good daily multivitamin (most are trash fyi). Our food doesn't pack the same nutritional punch it used to, due to crop-spraying and less resilient soils, to name two. Add to your stack a magnesium supplement. Great for reducing stress hormones, deepening relaxation, and ultimately getting better sleep. There is a "widespread magnesium deficiency" in this country and the list of benefits goes on for miles. Look: You don't want to be deficient in a compound that's involved in 80% of your body's metabolic reactions. Magnesium is on the Mt. Rushmore of pills to take daily, and if it wasn't I wouldn't waste my breath on it. I'll leave the less practical, more *fringe content* to the all-but-extinct wonky health blog.
🎪 Playtime. Founded in 2012 by a sun-kissed cowgirl named Ty, Outdoor Voices promises to make athletic apparel that flies in the face of Nike's kill-or-be-killed competitive spirit. Exercise could be fun and did not have to feel like suicide. And while I do not think it is productive to conflate a vigorous workout with a chill walk around the block, I do promote exercise in whatever form its doer can muster. Legendary graphic designer Paula Scher said that one needs to be in a state of play to design well (e.g. she likes sitting in a taxicab). Going outside and running around like a tween is no different. I admit that I oft slip into gritty war-mode (it builds warm layers in a cold world), but on occasion all you need is a playdate.
How do you like them Apples? Suggestions? Hate me? If you ever need anything, hit reply.
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Andrew 🍎
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