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In forty years you would trade everything you own for one ordinary afternoon back.

Watching your kids run around the front yard. That is the afternoon.

Not the promotion, not the launch, not the number in the account. The afternoon you were half present for because your phone was in your hand.

He got a tattoo on his wrist when his son was born so he would see it constantly. It says be here now.

"It's about refusing to let your one precious life be reduced into just a giant blur."

What being present actually looks like:

- The exact curve of their cheek
- The precise sound of their giggle
- All five senses, burned in on purpose

You will not get the afternoon back. You can decide to be in this one.

— Rob Dial (@RobDial_) on The Mindset Mentor Podcast

[Dr. Brian Hoeflinger, MD @drhoeflinger]

I’m a retired brain surgeon and I wanna tell you why you feel like life is passing by. I just need one minute to explain this to you so hang in there.

Repetitive daily routines stop the brain from recording clear detailed memories. When every day looks the same, your brain does not track time the same as a clock does. It tracks change. If nothing new happens then days, months, and years start to blur together.

This is know as Time compression. When life lacks variety, your brain compresses past days together, making it feel like time is sped up.

To stop feeling like life is passing you by, add new experiences to your life. Break routine habits, like changing your daily home routine, taking a different route to work, or trying a new hobby.

Schedule small trips or plan new adventures so your days do not blend together.

Practice mindfulness by staying fully focused on what you are doing right now and not trying to race off to the next task.

Keep a journal and write down happy memories or memorable parts of the day before you go to sleep.

Take deep, calm breaths when you feel anxious or rushed to return your focus to the moment.

You can and you will retrain your brain to not feel like life is passing you by by following these few simple measures.

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Dr. Alexis Cowan says the "natural light" coming through your windows all day is nearly useless.

Standard window glass blocks almost all UVB light and most near-infrared light before it reaches you.

About 30% of UVA light gets through too, according to Cowan, which means you're left with a concentrated dose of blue light and almost none of the frequencies your mitochondria actually need to function well.

She says most people assume sitting near a window counts as getting sun.

It doesn't come close.

Real sunlight only starts once you step past the glass, Cowan says, since that's where the frequencies your body needs actually change.

— Dr. Alexis Cowan on Jesse Chappus's The Jesse Chappus Show

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Tired and gaining weight around your middle is a reason to get your testosterone checked.

Ben Bikman says men have their own version of menopause, more modest and called andropause, and almost nobody tells them.

Testosterone falls steadily with age, and low testosterone shows up as fatigue and weight gain.

His advice if the test comes back low is to lose some fat first, because the testosterone comes back up on its own.

He also points at cold water:

"I know guys who've doubled their testosterone levels by doing ice immersion, cold plunge, and then a workout after their cold plunge."

That is men he knows rather than a trial, so treat it as a lead:

• Get the blood test before the supplements
• Losing fat raises testosterone by itself
• Cold plunge, then train straight after

Most men assume it is age. Some of it is the belly.

— Ben Bikman (@BenBikmanPhD) on Diary of a CEO Podcast

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Dr. Benjamin Bikman studies insulin resistance. Asked what a 35 year old dad should do about the fat around his middle, he did not start with food.

On Steven Bartlett's podcast, he gave 8 truths about losing belly fat:

1. Cut the evening alcohol first

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Robert Kennedy Jr. runs the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He flipped the federal food pyramid and rewrote the childhood vaccine schedule in the same week.

He just revealed 10 surprising things on what's actually been happening to America's kids (THREAD):

1) Kids get way more shots now

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Robert Kennedy Jr. just revealed that Wi-Fi radiation causes cancer.

He said it on Joe Rogan and represents hundreds of patients who have brain tumors caused by it.

The tumors are glioblastomas—one of the deadliest forms of brain cancer.

Kennedy says they always appear on the same side of the head where the patient held their phone.

But cancer isn't even the worst effect.

Kennedy says Wi-Fi radiation opens up the blood-brain barrier, allowing every toxin already in your body to cross into brain tissue:

• Glyphosate from food
• Microplastics from water
• Flame retardants from furniture

Researchers who published these findings called it "leaky brain." The US government responded by suppressing the research and shutting down funding.

Kennedy says tens of thousands of studies document the danger.

Russia developed Wi-Fi radiation as a weapon. Russian schools ban cell phones. Their allowed radiation levels are a tiny fraction of what the US permits.

Kennedy sued the FCC over this. The court sided with him.

His recommendations:

• Never sleep with your phone nearby
• Never hold your phone against your head
• Never carry your phone in a breast pocket

The science exists. The government chose to bury it.

— Robert Kennedy Jr. (@RobertKennedyJr) on JRE (@joerogan)

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One day you wake up on top of a ladder you never wanted to climb.

"Then one day we wake up on top of the corporate ladder or some ladder in life and you realize that you're standing in a place that you never truly wanted to get to in the first place."

He says this is what a midlife crisis actually is. Not a car. A person looking around at a summit they never chose.

You do not notice the climb happening because you are moving too fast to look.

He watched a friend finish something that took ten years to build and feel almost nothing:

- Ten years of work, one milestone
- No reaction on his face at all
- Already talking about what comes next

Nobody asks whose ladder it is until they are standing on top of it.

— Rob Dial (@RobDial_) on The Mindset Mentor Podcast

[Dr. Brian Hoeflinger, MD @drhoeflinger]

I’m a retired brain surgeon and I wanna tell you why you feel like life is passing by. I just need one minute to explain this to you so hang in there.

Repetitive daily routines stop the brain from recording clear detailed memories. When every day looks the same, your brain does not track time the same as a clock does. It tracks change. If nothing new happens then days, months, and years start to blur together.

This is know as Time compression. When life lacks variety, your brain compresses past days together, making it feel like time is sped up.

To stop feeling like life is passing you by, add new experiences to your life. Break routine habits, like changing your daily home routine, taking a different route to work, or trying a new hobby.

Schedule small trips or plan new adventures so your days do not blend together.

Practice mindfulness by staying fully focused on what you are doing right now and not trying to race off to the next task.

Keep a journal and write down happy memories or memorable parts of the day before you go to sleep.

Take deep, calm breaths when you feel anxious or rushed to return your focus to the moment.

You can and you will retrain your brain to not feel like life is passing you by by following these few simple measures.

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Dr. Alexis Cowan says people of African descent essentially do not get Parkinson's disease.

She ties it directly to how their melanin holds up over a lifetime.

Parkinson's, Cowan adds, is driven by melanin loss deep in the brain, in a region called the substantia nigra where dopamine-producing cells live.

Melanin and dopamine share the same building block, an amino acid called tyrosine, and the body can break down melanin to keep making dopamine when production starts to fail.

Cowan says higher melanin levels appear to buy the brain more time before that system breaks down for good.

— Dr. Alexis Cowan on Jesse Chappus's The Jesse Chappus Show

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LOL...even getting burnt in the sun is NEGATIVELY associated with melanoma

everything is a lie