[watertom]

Dynamic body movement, dancing, running, jumping. Desk jobs force us to be static, the longer we are static the more accustomed our muscles, tendons, ligaments and nervous system become to being static. Stretching doesn’t overcome a lack of movement, movement overcomes a lack of movement.

Lifting heavy weights & body weight exercises, lifting and holding your own weight is very important.

A calorie maintained diet. I personally believe in keto, mostly because it keeps people away from simple carbs which the body treats as sugar, and sugar is a toxic substance, IMHO.

Enough water to maintain hydration, even a little bit of dehydration will rob you of both physical and mental capabilities.

Adequate sleep, varies from person to person, but it’s more than you are currently getting.

Sunshine, if you live in the northern or Southern Hemispheres it means supplementing your diet with Vitamin D & vitamin K, at lunch time, 8,000 IU of D is what most of the scientific community recommends, it’s easy enough to go Google.

Limit screen time outside of work, many geeks have hobbies that have us sit at in one place for long periods of time. Mind and body need to be in harmony.

Get air quality monitors for your work environment and for your home. I did this recently and was shocked at what I was subjecting my body to breathe, it was really hard at home to fix the problem, but once I did a lot of things started changing for me mentally.

Don’t smoke anything, or drink alcohol, avoid caffeine, and sugar (simple carbs), avoid all processed foods. Get checked for food sensitivities, many plants produce toxins to keep pests away, and those toxins can be problematic for some humans. Eat animals that are free range naturally foraging for food, avoid grain feed animals. You are what you eat, and drink.

[throwaway898989]

>8000 IU of vitamin D per day

Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for most adults of 600 IU of vitamin D a day

if anyone actually takes this much vitamin D eveyr day they will get kidney stones and hypercalcaemia... this is incredibly irresponsible advice.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h....

[schneidmaster]

> if you live in the northern or Southern Hemispheres

so... anywhere in the world?

[christophilus]

Except directly on the equator. Then, feel free to just sit on your ass all day.

[mark_l_watson]

+1 great list

I would like to add a few things: I like to use an every 20 minute “get up and walk around timer” that my wife refers to as the get up and go scratch the parrot’s head alarm (he makes a nice little noise when he hears the timer). I work in about 90 minute sprints, and a short stand-up does not interfere with being in the flow.

Also, I live next to a national forest area, a trailhead is 200 feet from my front door. I find that two 20 minute walks a day help.

You are right on about food. About six years ago I stopped eating processed food, and I felt like that made me feel ten years younger (I am an old man, BTW).

[kovek]

Wow! I really like lots of this, and I’ll look into air quality monitors.

The only exercise I recently had an urge to do was laying on the bed (diagonally) and lay my arms up near my head. I swim almost daily for 10mins and I do not know: how to incentive exercise?

[atatatat]

Vaporize some ground cannabis herb!

[reureu]

Can you talk more about the air quality situation? What'd you find from the monitors, what did you do to remedy it, and what changed once you fixed it?

[id]

A CO2 monitor is quite helpful with keeping a room properly ventilated. The CO2 levels found in many indoor spaces are high enough to cause drowsiness, headaches and poor concentration. Of course all you need to do is open a window, but you'd be surprised how fast levels rise again after you close the window. It's particularly bad in small rooms and cars.