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    • resistance training
    • swimming
    • sauna daily
    • keto
    • carnivore (no carbs, no fibre)
    • reducing what you own to a minimum
      • moving is much easier, house is cleaner, you know what’s important
      • traveled the world for 2 years with one piece of luggage… Really removes gear fear and makes you very mindful about what you own
    • eye exercises, reducing my prescription slowly
    • EDC satchel (man purse if you like)
    • bum gun (toilet bidet sprayer)
    • learning its ok say no to people
    • being comfortable with myself
    • being comfortable alone
      • only once I found peace with my own demons was I ready to live with others
    • two monitors one vertical one horizontal
    • standing desk
    • using a kanban for personal life
    • travel router (share internet/VPN/wifi with all devices)
    • travel safe/lockable bag
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      Be careful with sauna daily. I saw an observational study a while back that showed that while sauna use was correlated with lower disease, that was only seen at around 3-4 times a week, and up to a certain temperature. More than time (frequency and temperature) and you no longer saw sauna benefits. I will see if I can find the paper later.

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        Yeah, I think I read the paper. No negative effects were seen, but there was a ceiling to dose dependent benefits. It was roughly 30m a session, at 4+ times per week.

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        One of my friends aunt’s runs a new age hippy eye clinic…they insisted I get my near sighted ass over there and try it out. Wikipedia is not kind to eye improvement methods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_therapy

        I checked with my opthalmologist and they said it couldn’t hurt… so I tried out the hippie approach to vision restoration.

        It’s a weird mix of indian meditation, massage, resting, eye exercises, motion exercises, focus exercises… I’m very incredulous, but I wanted to give it a fair shake… so like a asshole I’m tracing the imagined shape of a intricate pattern with my chin and eyes closed… And other things. After about a month I had to reduce the strength of my glasses a bit… And another month reduce a bit more.

        It could be placebo, it could be my nerdy lifestyle was holding me back and this program changed my environment… But I’ll take it.