To breakfast or not?

GM 🦁 This is Andrew's Apples, the 2-min health email that's more fun than a barrel of monkeys! Let's go.

• 🍳 To breakfast or not? Grapehead fasting freaks swear by skipping the first meal, claiming that digestion is an energy intensive process which means you'll be a bit "slower" mentally afterward. They are not wrong. Meanwhile, the barefoot holistic hippies say that this totally ignores your circadian rhythm, and a meal (roughly) upon waking up is indeed the best way to wake up. They too are not wrong. The hippies would add that fasting is however a good thing... just in the evening. Aka skipping dinner or doing an early dinner/late lunch.

  • 🍎 Andrew's Take. Given what I know at the moment, I would only tell someone to skip breakfast regularly if (a) a morning meal of any kind makes their head feel heavy and less sharp and/or (b) they want to lose weight and maintaining a tighter eating window would assist in that effort. Otherwise, circadian biology has been practiced by human and god alike since the dawn of it all. By and large, there is little room in this fitness space for bizarre neurotic behavior when whatever your sweet grandma Joan told you will suffice. In the words of my friend Brad when I looked a bit gaunt many years ago: EAT SOMETHING!

• ⏩ SPEED. Running really fast - not jogging - is very good for you. It is no secret and it is responsible for most people's fitness peaking when they're in high school (last time they competed in sports, running around like little imps). Plus, it feels amazing - all muscle groups firing at once, generating an all-body rush one gets from a hard swim.

  • 🍎 Andrew's Take. I've been thinking about how speed applies not just to fitness but to things off the field. Wanna start a business? Ok, go. We tell ourselves certain things take time and then, well, they do. More often than not, the powers above reward those who move fast, picking up some cuts and nips along the way. Not the marathon, but the sprint.

• 🐒 Monkeypox is so... over. Cases in Europe and US both dipped ~25% in the past couple weeks. NYC (the once-epicenter of the virus in US) is also down.

  • 🍎 Andrew's Take. They tried to make it a thing, but nah. Noise about polio making a comeback, after being asleep for decades, has also quieted down. Still expecting some shenanigans between now and November midterms. The momentary peace will be punctured. Just how politicians never let a good crisis go to waste, same applies to times of calm waters.

• 🕊️ Tweet of the Day. Besides, the uberstrength $6 coffee these days doubles as cocaine. Drink responsibly 🌋🌋🌋

How about them Apples? Hit me with any comments or questions.

Your friend,

Andrew🍎

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