Nothing wrong with wanting to look good. But even if you don’t care about how you look, it impacts how you feel.
Get leaner = more energy and libido.
Plenty of mental health benefits such as stress and anxiety reduction.
Longevity
You don’t get chronic disease. While you can’t put your risk of cancer at zero, type 2 diabetes and other metabolic conditions are completely avoidable. And they’re reversible.
You don’t see a lot of overweight people 70-80+ with good quality of life…
Muscle
No, you don’t need to be a bodybuilder. You don’t need to spend multiple hours in the gym. But know that we all lose muscle as we age… unless you’re strategic about it.
You don’t need big bulging biceps. But you want to be relatively muscular.
Cardio
Any exercise is better than no exercise.
The thing about cardio is that it’s inefficient, doesn’t build muscle, and tends to make you hungrier.
If you nail the muscle-building piece… you get the cardiovascular exercise with it
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The well-known negative correlation between water hardness and atherosclerotic heart disease can be explained almost entirely by lithium levels.
The inverse association of water hardness and cardiovascular disease has been found in many countries.
Psychiatric patients taking lithium had massively lower rates of seizures, AML, dementia, and heart attack, compared to psychiatric patients not taking lithium.
1. High blood pressure (without meds) 2. A1C over 5.6% without meds 3. HOMA-IR above 1.4 4. Triglycerides / HDL over 2 5. Overweight or obese BMI 6. High body fat % 7. Waistline > 50% of height
High blood pressure without meds:
While there is a genetic component, the root cause of high blood pressure is related to your weight and especially body fat %.
A1C higher than 5.6% without meds:
This one is easy to explain: once you get to an A1C of 5.7% or higher, you get into the pre-diabetic range.
Many psychiatric drug prescriptions must be driven by the profit motive, together with doctors wanting to treat patients in 10 minutes of office time, and the fact that people think of these as magic pills to cure the blues.