Your daily habits and rituals make you.

If you say you are working towards becoming a professional athlete or an entrepreneur, which rituals can make that happen? Which practices will bring you closer to your goal every single day?

Some rituals, like turning on the television or surfing Facebook, may be unhelpful for your mental and physical function. They definitely aren’t going to help you achieve your goals.

Forming Your Daily Rituals

There are a wide variety of habits and rituals to perform daily. These practices may seem like a waste of time in the modern world, but they can be far more enlightening, pleasurable, and useful for your long-term goals. [click to continue…]

Today, I could not turn the shower faucet to the right any further. Victory.

My first experience with cold showers was excited but short lived. Joel Runyon had a blog post and YouTube video discussing cold showers and how to begin. I was pumped and I gave it a try. I tried it, I yelped, I nearly peed myself, and then I stopped for a while.

It was too uncomfortable. I didn’t want to replace hot, enjoyable showers with frigid, painful experiences. Despite all of the health benefits, I now know that being uncomfortable is exactly what cold showers are all about. [click to continue…]

This is the second installment of The Unbalanced Brain, which is a series providing a guide to increase your mood and decrease chances of degenerative diseases through the use of a well rounded diet, exercise, and stress relieving practices. You can find the first part here.

As you saw in the first part of this series, many of the mood and degenerative diseases that humans face are caused by chemical / hormonal imbalances in the brain. In contrast to taking prescription drugs in order to balance our brains, it is important to search for and treat the root of the problem. Diet is one of the most important parts of maintaining a balanced brain, but I will also explore the ways exercise and stress management can help balance the chemicals in your brain. [click to continue…]

Compared to any other health supplement, research on intermittent fasting is scarce. After all, there is little money in telling people to eat less often. The bit of data that exists is very clear, however: intermittent fasting (IF) is extremely healthy no matter what your health goals.

Most people have found intermittent fasting as a method of losing fat and gaining muscle. Indeed, there are tremendous hormonal changes involved with intermittent fasting that can allow practitioners to gain lean mass, but the anti-aging and disease prevention aspects are as important if not more so. While there may be some other intermittent fasting guides, this is my ultimate guide to this practice.

First, I’ll explain how you can get started even if you have no experience. Then I’ll detail the scientific research to help you determine whether it is something you would like to pursue. This is going to be a long one so grab some…tea! [click to continue…]