Author: tremendousblog
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After I finished a workout last night, I found myself chatting with the gym’s owner for the first time. He told me that some classes would be cancelled this week, due to both a lack of instructors and students. He hoped that it would be just this week. He also…
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Many people have experienced worsening mental health since the COVID pandemic began. Many others struggled even before. But I came across an interesting article today about a very innovative program in Zimbabwe that just might have the solution. It’s called the Friendship Bench: This is a community-based psychological treatment programme…
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+ Anxiety, BBC, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Depression, Mental health, Quarantine, Talk therapy, Therapy, Volunteering+
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I just listened to a fascinating discussion with Dr. David Sinclair, PhD, on his lab’s recent success in reversing aging in mouse eyes. Sinclair and his team damaged the optic nerves of mice and then, using Yamanaka factors, reprogrammed the cells to “remember” their youthful vitality and regenerate. The mice…
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+ Aging, David Sinclair, Exercise, Fasting, Intermittent fasting, Lifespan, Research, Science, Supplements, Vitamins+
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By Day 23, which is 2 days after the second shot, there is a 60% drop in hospitalizations among vaccinated people aged 60-plus, Maccabi revealed after monitoring 50,777 patients. Times of Israel Israel is already seeing its hard work pay off. It leads the world in COVID vaccination, and new…
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Find this and eat it! I celebrated my 35th birthday this weekend! My wife very kindly arranged for a hotel staycation in New York City, along with an outstanding meal. But there was one little problem. All indoor dining is closed in NYC. And it’s January. I used my winter…
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+ Birthdays, Burgers, Cheeseburgers, Eating out, Hamburgers, Memories, New York City, NYC, Outdoors, Restaurants, Special occasions+
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Yesterday, my wife gave me a gift that will keep on giving: a sleep mask. She recently started using one and noticed the quality of her sleep improved enormously. I observed her, intrigued. Just before dinner, she presented me with a sleep mask of my very own! I took it…
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+ Health+ Books, E-commerce, Healthy lifestyle, Lifehack, Online shopping, relaxation, Self-care, Self-improvement, Sleep+
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Above: Angel investor Jason Calacanis The angel investor Jason Calacanis got in on the ground floor of Uber, Thumbtack, and other highly successful software companies, multiplying his $100,000 investment into $100,000,000 in just 6 years. With results like that, you know I had to read his book! The idea of…
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+ Angel Investing, Future, Futurism, Investing, Non-fiction, Reading, Software, Startups, Tech, Technology, Venture Capital+
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Tell me why can’t this be love? This fall, I bought what might be the strangest anti-COVID device yet…a humidifier. Two, actually. I set them up in the living room and bed room and then went to work turning my dry apartment in the chilly New York area into a…
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+ Coronavirus, COVID-19, E-commerce, Essential oils, Home, Home goods, House, Humidity, Medicine, Online shopping, Research, Self-improvement, Sleep+
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Above: Me, an FDA Approved KN95, and a snowman. I am starting to see more and more people on the street wearing N95, KN95 and surgical masks, rather than cloth ones. That makes me really happy, because I know they’re a lot more effective. With a more contagious COVID variant…
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My main business is investment, and some recent developments have gotten me thinking about where markets are headed this year. An end to the pandemic by Q2 2021 is predicted by multiple models (here and here). We’ve seen a substantial increase in personal income in 2020, largely due to the…
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