5 Easy Ways to Ruin Your Health & Happiness

Simple strategies to feel lousy, be unwell, and limit your time here

You can’t go online or open a social media app these days without being pestered by headlines promising sure-fire tips and tactics for better health and happiness. It might all sound good, but finding the time and energy to fully implement a serious wellness plan is hard! It’s a lot easier to run our minds and bodies into the ground, which is the strategy that the majority of people in modern Western societies lean into.

So rather than cajoling you into the titanic challenge of adopting healthy behaviors in exchange for the mere promise of longer life and a greater ability to enjoy it, I figured we could jump on the more popular bandwagon and take a serious look at the top ways to destroy your mind and body.

Full disclosure: It will take patience. Your self-destruction will occur bit-by-bit. The only near-term evidence the scheme is working will likely be low energy, poor concentration, plenty of anxiety and lousy moods. But if you stick with it, you can easily boost the odds of developing cancer, jack your chance of getting dementia, almost surely speed up the shrinking of your brain and, yes, you can even reduce the number of years you’re likely to spend on this planet being bombarded by all that wellness…