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You’ve probably seen all the stories we’ve been publishing about intermittent fasting. Now, Harvard is getting on board, publishing work that shows intermittent fasting appears to be THE way to safely increase lifespan. Be careful out there, and make sure to consult your doctor first… and tell them The Mission sent you 😂.
The University of Guelph recently published a paper that studies the cells that enable the Gecko’s to regrow its tail. These cells, are known as the radial glia:
“When the tail detaches, these cells jump into action by proliferating and making different proteins in response to the injury. The result is a brand new spinal cord. This finding has implications for developing a way to treat humans with spinal cord injuries.”
Here’s why you should eat more wild, and sustainably harvested salmon and krill… There is something inside both called, “Astaxanthin” a keto-carotenoid. But what it’s called isn’t as important as what it helps you do. And what it helps you do is increase the activation of what’s known as the longevity gene, Foxo3, by 90%. Long story short, eat more wild caught salmon and krill, and you’ll live longer.
If you do, be careful, you might end up like Don Celino. At 121 he’s (probably) the world’s oldest man.
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Book we’re reading- How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom
Since ideology, particularly in it’s shallower versions, is peculiarly destructive of the capacity to apprehend and appreciate irony, I suggest that the recovery of the ironic might be our fifth principle for the restoration of reading. … But with this principle, I am close to despair, since you can no more teach someone to be ironic than you can instruct them to become solitary. And yet the loss of irony is the death of reading, and of what had been civilized in our natures. –Harold Bloom
Yup, almost all of the book is like that.
Song we’re listening to- Little Dark Age by MGMT. If you liked, “Time to Pretend” this has similar vibes, with a dash of Stranger Things.
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“This is MUST know news to help protect the job of every single marketer. The FTC has modified its definition of what constitutes an ad, sponsored content, and a partnership. The updated rules aren’t that clear, and we’re not attorneys, but you might want to print them out, bookmark them, or send them to your general counsel and ask to translate into English. We just did all of the above.” — Ian Faison
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Q&A
Holly Hanson asks, “Can you address different reading speeds and reading styles? And merits of them all?”
Virginia Woolf has a terrific essay that partly answers your question called, How Should One Read a Book. She basically says that,
The only advice, indeed that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice.
I would add that personally, I’ve tried to explore many reading styles. I’ve experimented with speed reading, and found it wasn’t that effective. I do think that speed listening to audiobooks and podcasts is great, so I do that regularly. But for books, I find that I have the best time when I take my time and enjoy them at my own speed. So try out many approaches, and jot down some notes about each in your journal.
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