Bust the vice ring

G-morning 🌤️

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. Let's go picking. 

1. 🏋️ Bang some iron to help prevent Alzheimer's. You don't need arms that look like legs, but the stronger your muscles as you age, the less likely you are to develop Alzheimer's disease. If you're a straight millennial male (or older), this rule categorically applies to you. There is no excuse not to do barbell work 3x/week (squat, press, bench, deadlift, clean, at minimum). Conversely, if you're a zoomer male, perhaps crafting a svelte Timothée Chalamet figure or a druggy line cook vibe (Pete Davidson) will increase your odds of love in 2022, and you can skip this Apple. What do I know though, I'm 29 and have a bedtime.

2. 🙅‍♂️ The NO in granola. I was a nineties kid so I grew up on Lucky Charms, Reese's Puffs, and Crunch Berries. Like many, I survived. However I'll throw cereal makers a bone: At least they didn't overdo spinning their products as lifesavers; instead, the cereal commercials were usually about how some 'accidental explosion at a factory' led to unforeseen flavor innovation. Granola is less honest. Granola is bad for you: a dessert, period. Wild yet unsurprising that the quacks over at WebMD are still promoting its consumption.

3. ☕ Coffee make brain work good. Good just sounds better than well. Studies abound on why coffee improves brain health: Parkinson's, Alzheimers, dementia, and even short-term cognitive function like reaction time, verbal memory, and visuospatial reasoning. As I mentioned in Issue #003, cap caffeine intake by noon if you can. You'll sleep like a babe. Plus, coffee is cool like cigarettes are cool (not a health endorsement... more on nicotine in future Issues). Lights you up like a Christmas tree when done right. You know what is uncool, overrated and provides no productive high? Matcha.

4. 💍 Bust the vice ring. Hate to break it to young women steeped in early 00s nostalgia, but bellybutton rings prevent weight loss. They disrupt body composition by interfering with the acupuncture meridian (your body talks to itself a lot). Training legend Charles Poliquin wrote about how a Swedish woman lost 44% of her hamstring skinfold in 3 days just by removing the piercing. Bellybutton, chin, and tongue seem to be the worst locations for piercings in this regard. Earrings are fine and hot. ANECDOTAL INSIGHT: by and large, the women I've seen with bellybutton rings need to lose weight.

How do you like them Apples? Any bad ones? Suggestions? If you ever need anything, bang my line. 

Your friend, 

Andrew 🍎 

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