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Really? Michael Pollan Says: Yep.

How about one more little +1 on Michael Pollan’s Food Rules? Here it is: “The forty-year-old campaign to create low- and nonfat versions of traditional food...

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vs. Edible Foodlike Substances

Let’s continue the Food Rule fun with one more +1 on Michael Pollan’s classic little food manual. Today we’ll explore Food Rule #1. It’s deceptively simple. Ready? Here it is: Rule #1: Eat Food. “Eat food”? That’s the best you go...

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And the One Thing You’ll Do About Them Today

In our last couple +1s, we had fun exploring some of Michael Pollan’s Food Rules. I highly recommend his little manifesto of practical food wisdom. Today I want to chat ...

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“Don’t Get Your Fuel from the Same Place Your Car Does”

In our last +1, we explored the relationship between our food rotting and us rotting. Recall: The longer the shelf life of the food we eat, the shorter our lives will be! That wisdom was from Michael Pollan’s

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Know This: Longer = Shorter

This morning as I was opening my bag of Keto Cups (which might be the most addictively tasty treat ever), I noticed the expiration date printed on the top of the bag. It wasn’t that far into the future, but as I did the math, I thought of some wisdom from Michael Pollan’s great lit...

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Medium vs. High Heat (You?)

Today we will officially wrap up our Science of Sleep series. (Before moving on to some Food Rules for some micro wins on another core fundamental: Nutrition!!) So… A lot of people say that they’re just too busy to sleep more. But… Research shows that sleep-deprived p...

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To Make Your Heart Skip a Beat

Wrapping up our tour through world-class sleep scientist Matthew Walker’s brain (and book ...

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Resetting vs Optimizing

One of the key themes we come back to in our Optimizing work together is the idea that we want to make our prior best our new baseline. Another key theme we revisit again and again is to MAKE ...

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Let’s Pop The Metaphorical Pills to Reduce the Real Ones

Why We Sleep is a life-changing kinda book. (You get it yet? Trust me, you’ll thank me!) We’re going to spend a few more days mining a few more of the many gems from Matt...

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Plus: One-Eyed-/Half-Brained-Bird Sleep

We’re on a roll with Optimizing our sleep so I say we continue our little series. Today we’ll look at some fun facts about the idiosyncratic universality of sleep. But first, let’s step back and remind ourselves just how fundamental sleep is to our Optimizing and well-being. This p...

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Your #1? (Tonight the Night?)

In our last several +1s, we’ve been having fun Optimizing our Z’s. Let’s continue. We wrapped up our last +1 with a quick inventory of our current sleep and simple question: What’s one thing you ALREADY know you could be doing to Optimize your sleep? To which we followed that up ...

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Science Says: Think Again (Struck by Lightning Lately?)

In our last couple +1s, we’ve had some fun hanging out with our suprachiasmatic nuclei and chatting about how to Optimize our sleep. Let’s continue that theme for a bit longer, shall we? First, stepping back for a moment. Let’s make sure you’re properly introduced to our sleep genius,

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A: Not a Lot!

In our last +1, we talked about some fascinating research from Matthew Walker’s BRILLIANT (!) book Why We Sleep. Recall that reading via iPad at night suppressed melat...

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Or To Read a Printed Book? ← That Is the Question

In our Optimize Coach certification program, we kick the party off by establishing the game we’re playing in Module I: Eudaimon-ology in which we connect ancient wisdom (Aristotle!) to modern...

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Fire Walking Our Way Through a Well-Organized #carpediem Day

Not too long ago, we had some fun hanging out on the hot coals of life as we walked to the wall of our potentials. We wrapped that +1 up with two questions. 1. What do you want? 2. How bad do you want it? Then I said that “One proxy to answer the second question: How commi...

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