ITS OFFICIAL!
Stroke Patient -> Professional Boxer
I told @geoff20man 18 months ago that people thought I was crazy but I would tackle one hurdle at a time.
This is an accumulation of LOTS of hurdles jumped in the last 18months 👊💜👊
Most people don’t have a “sleep problem”.
They have a nervous system that never switches off.
Rejuvenation Retreat is a private 1 wk reset in France, built around deep sleep, recovery, and clearing your head.
If you’re tired all day but wired at night. This is for you 🫵🏽
There’s a difference between “relaxing” and recovering.
A break can distract you.
Recovery changes your baseline.
Rejuvenation Retreat is designed for the second one: sleep depth, calm nervous system, clear head.
Yet the contrary, I believe, will appear to be the fact… strength of mind has, in most cases, been accompanied by superior strength of body, - natural soundness of constitution, - not that robust tone of nerves and vigour of muscles
Mary Wollstonecraft
VRW
1792
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People of genius have… impaired their constitutions by… careless inattention to their health… and superficial observers have inferred… that men of genius have commonly weak, or… delicate constitutions.
Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
1792
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the latter, as it takes from their feminine graces, and from that lovely weakness the source of their undue power; and the former, because it appears inimical to the character of a gentleman.
- Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
1792
2/2
‘Bodily strength from being the distinction of heroes is now sunk into such unmerited contempt that men, as well as women, seem to think it unnecessary’
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‘Let all these heroes of science meet together…let them take…the food that forms the blood of man let them try all their arts… they shall not be able to produce a single drop of blood’
Dr. Herman Boerhaave
quoted by Dr. Samuel Johnson
1739
https://t.co/jj5kB0SvUQ
'”And I am quite convinced that your being with Mrs. Norris, will be as good for your mind, as riding has been for your health - and as much for your ultimate happiness, too.”'
- Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
1814
https://t.co/JKbc1aSDOP
My dear little creature, do not stay at Portsmouth to lose your pretty looks. Those vile sea-breezes are the ruin of beauty and health. My poor aunt always felt affected, if within ten miles of the sea, which the Admiral of course never believed
Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
1814
I am considering your sister's
health,' said he… She requires constant
air and exercise… she ought never to be long banished from the free air, and liberty of the country.
- Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
1814
https://t.co/6uxAC8f3Ve
Fanny was beginning to feel the effect of being debarred from her usual, regular exercise; she had lost ground as to health since her being in Portsmouth’
Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
1814
https://t.co/7YppqLo9Xz
‘Fanny’s rides recommenced the very next day, and… Edmund trusted that her losses both of health and pleasure would be soon made good.’
- Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
1814
https://t.co/E1GA543F1f
‘I cannot but think that good horsemanship has a great deal to do with the mind… I think Miss Crawford would be glad to have [the mare] for a longer time… But any morning will do for this… She rides only for pleasure, you for health.’
- Jane Austen
Mansfield Park
1814
‘As gout in age from pox in youth proceeds,
So wenching past, then jealousy succeeds;
The worst disease that love and wenching breeds.’
- William Wycherley
The Country Wife
1675
‘[John] Earle suggests that the physician's greatest success, and, by implication, his main concern, is in improving the condition of his purse.’
- John T. Gilmore
Satire
2018
https://t.co/S57KlnHQUs
‘[The 18th century]… medicinal reputation of [Bath] thermal springs drew together in the shared pursuit of health… a wide range of different… people who would not otherwise have associated with each other in the very class-conscious society’ 1/2
John T. Gilmore
Satire
2018
‘There was… an enormous disparity between the claims of eighteenth-century medicine, that the [Bath] spa waters were beneficial whether taken internally or externally, and the actual results.’ 2/2
- John T. Gilmore
Satire
2018
The fact… [17th-century uni] texts were in Greek gave physicians a reputation for learning, but [John] Earle suggests that… the physician paid as little attention to them as [they] generally did to the university statutes they swore to obey’ 1/2
- John T. Gilmore
Satire
2018
Insofar as the physician does understand Greek, the only use he makes of it is to baffle… patients into… expensive treatment which may make a minor ailment into… something genuinely serious which might even lead to the death of a patient. 2/2
- John T. Gilmore
Satire
2018