Health

When you consume cannabis, the experience is markedly different due to its psychoactive effects, altering your perception of the world around you. In addition to its psychoactive properties, cannabis can trigger a release of dopamine, providing an extra rush of pleasure. As you indulge, you may find that all your…

Happy PRIDE, and happy lipedema awareness month — I have 38 cents in my bank account right now, and $6.42 in savings. So, that’s a grand total of $6.80. Saying that “out loud,” or simply typing it out feels wrong. It feels embarrassing. It feels like I’m saying, “Hey guys, look at me!” while standing beneath a neon…

Do I call 911 or a priest? — The other day, while walking along Rome’s River Tiber and enjoying a lovely Spring day, my hand started bleeding. Not just a little sprinkle of droplets, but a blowhole, a bloody geyser gushing into the air. The best I could do was turn my beige sweater into a tourniquet and…

Always expecting more, more, more, it fails to acknowledge the rest needed after hard workouts — Garmin monitors my heart rate, steps taken during the day, and workouts like swimming, biking or running via a watch linked to an app on my phone. It knows how much I move every day and how intensely I exercise. A few weeks ago, the app grew impatient, complaining that…

Making a new activity stick is the trick, and it doesn’t have to be complicated. — Fantastic, another post on how to create an exercise habit. There are already a bazillion blog posts on the internet on this topic. Many offer systems, psychological tricks, frameworks, tips, etc., to make physical activity a daily routine. A key to building an exercise habit is to start with walking…

But lost it all to find self-love — I put on 44 lbs. of muscle in 2 years — you can too. And I am no Arnie Schwarzenegger or blessed with “good genes.” I was a bag of bones. In high school, I was picked on for being skinny. Along with having the unwanted superpower of being able…

A lot of guys focus on working out in order to get their wives to be more attracted to them, but as I discuss here, this often backfires. Women can tend to think that an overfocus on working out is irritating for a number of reasons, but then again, some…

Atrial fibrillation is a common disorder that one-third of people don’t know they have. If you mention the words “silent killer” to many lay people and doctors, most would answer coronary heart disease (CAD), commonly known as the hardening of the arteries. Indeed CAD can cause heart attacks, sudden cardiac…