The following article was sponsored by Biology Boost.
Sometimes, the simple things in life work. While there are plenty of fancy products of both the physical and informational variety out there, all designed to better your life—the fact of the matter is that humans have survived for thousands of years without them.
While everyone is on a quest (well, except fat and ugly feminists) to become the best they can be from a physical and mental state, sometimes it’s easy to get overwhelmed with information. Sometimes you just need to get back to the basics.
Instead of relying on all of the fancy things to improve yourself, go back to the basics and then use the newer methods to boost yourself even further.
Here are 4 simple ways to improve both your physical and mental well-being that are easy to implement in your everyday life.
1. Move, Even If A Little
A refreshing morning walk, even if it’s only for 10 or 15 minutes, can wake you up and provide mental clarity for the remainder of your day. Doing 100 push-ups or a dozen pull-ups upon waking up will give you a great boost of energy.
Would a coffee company tell you this? Absolutely not.
Now, before I throw coffee under the bus, let me be clear—I love the stuff and drink it often. However, there are alternative methods.
Small amounts of exercise can give you the jump-start your day needs instead of relying on consumer products to get you going. Use those products to give you an additional boost on top of what nature has given you, instead of being 100% dependent on them.
2. Give Yoga Or Simple Stretching A Chance For Chronic Pain
If you’re suffering from chronic pain, simple stretches, taking up yoga can absolutely improve your life. Human beings were not meant to spend the majority of their days in front of a screen, sitting down and immobile.
It’s terrible for your neck, wrists, back, eyes, etc.—just about every part of your body. Hell, plenty of companies actually employ “ergonomic specialists” who come around and measure your desk height, wrist placement, and more. If you’re lucky, the company will pay for some nicer equipment (good chair, standing desk, etc.).
If you’re unlucky, you may be stuck dealing with the stiffness and/or pain on your own. I’ve known so many people who are just in an endless feedback loop with chronic pain, even if they’re totally healthy otherwise. They see multiple doctors and specialists, and yet nothing ever seems to get solved.
Of course, no professional medical provider would ever tell you something like this—they’d rather bill you for three sessions with a chiropractor every week. They’re the same people who recommend you buy the expensive, padded shoes instead of trying something minimalist.
Try downloading any random yoga or stretching app on your phone (or just browse YouTube).
3. Don’t Listen To Any Ads
The other day, I saw a commercial for Cheerios Protein and how good it was for you. I couldn’t help but chuckle. Here you have processed food, shoved into a box where it will last for longer than I’d care to know—and it’s recommended by all sorts of people as a healthy breakfast alternative.
Meanwhile, in recent years it’s been made to seem that your basic egg breakfast sound like the devil.
Cholesterol will kill you! Eggs cause cholesterol! Don’t eat them!
While the general message on eggs seems to be backtracking, almost anything can be spun to seem like a healthy alternative. You can apply this logic to just about any product on the market. It’s all in the ads.
A good rule of thumb to follow is this: does it come from the Earth, or from a factory?
It sounds hippy-ish, but it’s true. Look, if the workers in the plant have to wear a mask during production…
4. Recognize That One Size Does Not Fit All
The fitness and general self-improvement community goes through phases, depending on what’s new and of course—what’s actually putting money into people’s pockets.
Some fitness gurus, Instagram models, etc. change their diet, programs, and complete way of life on a month-to-month basis—depending on which company is paying their rent that month.
If you want to truly hit high levels of both athletic and mental performance, you’re going to have to try things out and see what works for you.
Some people love zero carb diets because it melts the fat away and they feel great. Other people on the same program end up lacking any punch in the gym from a lack of carbs.
Many entrepreneurs are huge fans of intermittent fasting combined with cognitive enhancers you see in the movies. Other people are conked out by 10am if they don’t get some breakfast into them.
The point is, you’re going to have to try things on your own, log the results, and experiment. The same applies to almost any walk of life—no two businesses are built the same—are they?
Or you could just ignore all of this and buy a ton of Kratom. (Couldn’t resist.)
Jokes aside, it’s going to mean being uncomfortable at points as you fine-tune both your body and mind. Accept it for what it is—part of the journey. Try some of these more “natural” methods of improving yourself, and then boost up with the help of supplements, nootropics, and higher-end programs. Click here if you’d like to boost your life.
Take your daily amount of Kratom.
damnit!
just beat me!!!!!
Beat me to it
uh…. electrolytes!
It’s what plants cra…
Kratom jokes aside, walking is such underrated exercise. I walk the dog for about 45 minutes every morning before work. I love it – wakes me up, clears my head, lets me plan my day, etc. Also, waking up by 5 a.m. every day will change your life. Give it a shot.
Cold Showers are also great.
Fuck you
Sex is fair exercise, but walking is better.
horizontal walking might be a compromise and less stressful on the joints
There’s a 5 a.m.? Wow
Best if you have a hill.
Screw waking at 0500. Did that for years and glad I don’t have to anymore. It killed my dating life.
Exactly
BRISK walking. Strolling, ambling, shuffling wont do it.
You’re doing it wrong. You need to pay good money for gym membership to walk on the spot like a rodent on a mouse wheel enjoying the potent smell of other peoples body odour and obnoxiously loud music blasted at you.
Nothing boost my mental and physical well being, than a tight, nice vagina.
Keeps you sane, keeps you motivated, great way to do cardio. 100% agree.
#3 Except Kratom Ads.
5. Avoid Haitian prostitutes and Spanish lesbians, especially while in the Ukraine.
Wow. I guess we now know the answer to the age old question of: is there anything more potent than kratom—-it’s Kernsey’s Aids.
Kersey was patient zero. Too much anal with gay Haitians in the Ukraine.
and that particular gay Haitian wouldn’t happen to be Rice Pubes would it?
To quote a elderly orthodox priest in a Woody Allen movie, “The secret to life is twelve year old girls. Two whenever possible.”
I get banned but all y’all are still here.
Dindu nuffin wrong!!!
You broke the ROK comments… I commend you sir
Thanks for this quick reminder article.. I’m about to embark on a campaign to undo the physical damage done to myself through the days of blue pills. Better days ahead!
#5
Don’t question the superiority of African cultures
Don’t get attacked by anyone wearing a French tickler and a space helmet
Don’t let your beard become entangled in the gears of a transcontinental bus and don’t get hit by a flying turd
Find a nymphomaniac coke connection who owns a Ferrari dealership
Don’t catch VD from a female welder
Don’t catch VD from a male welder!
Don’t get kicked in the face by any really big animal.
Etc. etc. etc.
~Shamelessly stolen from George Carlin.
Important stuff, this.
Ignore Cernovich’s article about how he had sex with a lady boy.
Unless you like taking advice from a homo!
It’s not gay if he didn’t swallow.
Pretty sure he put it in his mouth and described it as “chemical tasting”
Just reading that makes me want to saw open my skull, take my brain out, and wash it thoroughly it in bleach.
you forgot salty
makes me think of chef’s salty chocolate balls
It makes me wonder how this bi-curious? man got involved with the manosphere/alt right(if you can even call him that). Not to mention his admonishment of homophobia and racism. I mean come on, he might as well be a liberal as far as I am concerned.
Not drastic enough
That he should see fit to publish such a thing is itself astonishing
“I kept trying to move away from it, but I eventually just gave in and let it penetrate my mouth. I remember tears coming down my face a little when I vaguely realized what I was doing, it had this weird chemically, salty taste.”
He doesn’t say.
It’s not gay if he didn’t get AIDS.
It’s only gay if you kerseyed his dick
It worries me that we are a target audience for such absolute shite.
5. “Clear the cache” with vigorous banging. Repeat often. Deep REM sleep is then guaranteed for optimum mental and physical well-being.
Dude, if you bought a ton of Kratom, you run the risk of causing a timestream divergence back to hundreds of years before you bought a ton of Kratom. It is an alternate universe where France won the French and Indian War and enacted a Baguette Tax on the colonists, sparking the Boston Wine Tasting Event. This in turn led to increased bonding with the mother country and 200 years of tyrannical French rule, culminating with the USA surrendering to Austria-Hungary and Japan just after Pearl Harbor.
Just warning you: brush off your French dictionary if you go this route.
An advertisement that tells you not to listen to any advertisement?
I heard from a wise man ” if it comes in a plastic wrapper, it’s bad for you” to compound on that, when at the grocery store, stick to the perimeter of the store. Anything in the center isn’t real food
Wise.
Very wise indeed. Aside from the produce and meat/protein sections of a grocery store, there are only a handful of items (olive oil, spices, etc.) that would take up maybe 1/4 of an isle. Other than that, there is absolutely no reason to fill your cart with anything else.
I love people-watching, and what you witness in the grocery store is very telling… All you need to do is look at the person and then look at what’s in their shopping cart… The healthy/fit people have their carts filled with fresh produce, etc., while the fatties have everything from Dr. Pepper mounted around the top of the cart, boxed/frozen dinners piled high, candy for days and then there’s the obligatory tomato and onion, for whatever reason. Oh, and let’s not forget the line at the pharmacy!
great for a beginner on the subject of brain boosting but missing some more advanced measures such as nutritional supplements, diet changes and even nootropics. Great book on a fascinating subject.
Where is Kratom on the list!?
Walking. Taking warm lemon water with honey in the morning. Body weight exercises to supplement the non gym going days. Reading. Watching George Carlin specials if I’m having a shitty day. That’s worked for me.
The hippies were right about health and food, but wrong about peace and free love.
The labeling th for is a joke. So what they do now is if let’s say trans fat is under a certain percentage they can label it as Trans fat free. So what do they do? Make the serving size smaller. It’s all a joke. I honestly think that we should let farmers cut out the middleman and b allowed to see directly to consumers
Get some sunlight. Real sunlight – not indoors, filtered through glass which removes the vital UVB rays. It is only by being in the sun, with UVB, that your body will produce the vital Vitamin D. Having a sun bath, the sun warming bare skin, restores ones spirits and strengthens the bones. Vitamin D deficiency is also associated with obesity. It is bad news all around.
Current forms of work keep us indoors too much. Go and grab some sun.