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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. 🧠 Fatbrain. The mission of this newsletter is to look better naked, which mostly means getting less fat. But new research out of the 2021 Annual Review of Medicine says exercise may fatten your brain via adding new brain cells. It argues that exercise triggers the release of a protein (nerd note: brain-derived neurotrophic factor, BDNF), which also seems to help manage depression and anxiety. The list goes on: memory and learning enhancement, and reducing stress and inflammation. I am reclaiming the GFORCE-level insult: a fathead.

2. 📱 Your phone needs sleep. Guys, put it away. No, she isn't going to text you back - it's three in the morning on a school night. The best definition of sleep I've heard is: when you stop thinking. Addendum: when you're piss drunk. In my experience, nothing gets my thoughts thinking than looking at my phone. Which leads directly to poor sleep. Like a longtime couple working through some "issues", you and your phone should sleep in separate rooms. You'll miss her. Until you don't.

3. 📖 Fat facts. Even the gang over at the decorated Mayo Clinic is vilifying fat with a broad brush. Fat makes up 60% of your brain and every cell membrane in your body. Mainstream health outlets find it easier to call all fat bad. The keto diet, the popular high-fat-low-carb protocol, would therefore be bunk. It's not, and it works for many athletes and normies alike. What you really want to avoid is when fat meets sugar... bad news. Think donuts and ice cream or pineapple pizza, some of the worst culprits. Sugar tastes better when you add butter. Ok my mouth be watering!! It sends your brain into overdrive and makes you overeat. Once a week? All good. Once a day? Eeeek.

4. 🎣 Sardines make machines. I'll scream from the mountaintops on this one. Eat small fish, like sardines and mackerel. They are typically canned/tinned, last forever, taste good (unless you hate fish), and pack the ideal fat/protein profile. Never mind that this makes me a Joe Rogan fanboy... so be it! Canned fish qualifies as ITEOTWAWKI food, no doubt about it. And based on how things are going (inflation, supply chains, Pete Davidson biting back), small fish may not be an imprudent thing to stock up on. Blub blub blub!

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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