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Friends use Whoop and report the same thing about drinking, sleep, and Whoop catching it. Sounds like a good product. Wife and I use Oura. I don't drink but I can 100% see my sleep score affected and reflected in the app if I eat late. Even if I happen to sleep more hours, it's a less restful sleep and I see the difference in my heart rate, HRV, and the mix of sleep cycles....my score will reflect it. My wife can see the difference if she drinks, without fail, just like the above for me eating late. I've started double checking the accuracy each AM. I give myself 10-15 minutes to get my bearings and then decide if I feel rested or not, try to guess my score based on how I feel, and then open the app and let it calculate. It's as accurate as it can be.

Consider the Cleerly test if you're concerned about coronary artery disease, especially if there is history in your family or previous lifestyle choices might put you at risk. Calcium tests can be valuable as a baseline and for monitoring changes, but if you want to be sure and to strip out the uncertainty that still lies in the CACS, then it might be worth it. CACS is a general guideline of probable risk, but not a diagnosis either way - good or bad. CACS gives valuable data, but it can't tell you if there is actually a building blockage, where, or whether the plaque is calcified or not. Cleerly can.

My Oura ring provides a steady reminder of "Time to stretch your legs?" alarms /alerts after I've been sedentary at my desk for too long. As long as I take note and do something about it, there's a benefit. It is a little bothersome on long drives when I might not stop for a few hours and it wants me to. I guess I'd be heathier yet if I did pull over even if just to walk around the car, but especially at night that's a negative for me. I just want to get where I'm going.

I'm no big critic either because they do a ton of good in general, but you are 100% correct and most of those medicines are designed to alleviate symptoms of the underlying issue and not to correct the issue itself. I don't begrudge them b/c we all chase the money in our professions to one degree or another, but the pharmaceutical companies can make a hellua lot more money soothing chronic symptoms (and then the symptoms those meds cause, and those meds cause....) than they can fixing the problem. Back to my earlier post about chewing......The vast majority of the drugs (both prescription and OTC) in the digestive health space for fixing heartburn, acid reflux, gut problems, etc. are just soothing symptoms that could otherwise be resolved by fixing the underlying gut health issues and resetting the digestive process to its natural state. But, they can offer symptom-fixers to a generally lazy population that doesn't want to be disciplined in how they eat....who choose to pop a pill after eating rather than modify how, what, and when they consume food. That's just one example. I don't blame them, but I have a choice as to whether I participate in that cycle of commerce and lifestyle. The docs are especially in a bad spot b/c if they told patients the truth, they'd most likely be blasted on social media and otherwise labeled as uncaring, shaming and hurtful instead of "fixing" the problem.

Something everyone can do that costs zero dollars and takes no brain power - just discipline....is to chew your food. On average, we don't come close to properly chewing our food and it impacts gut health and nutritional absorption which leads to all kind of side effects. Digestion starts in the mouth and the digestive tract is a precision instrument that needs the proper input to function. If I haven't chewed my food properly, then I'm hitting my gut and those secretions with stuff it isn't built for or prepared to fully digest. It's like putting bad gas in a race car. It's going to backfire, belch, smoke, and run like shit. People see incredible benefit and resolution of GI issues, along with better health due to increased absorption of nutrients when they are intentional about chewing. Plus, there is also a beneficial psychological effect that takes place when we slow down, enjoy the food, and are mindful of eating...especially if they can conjure up some gratefulness about the food - again something that is common place in blue zones. It's a mini meditation in its own right to go through the full chewing process.

My guys is in lock step with Attia on most things and for good reason. Attia is on the Mount Rushmore of longevity clinicians. You can get into the weeds of why pretty fast with Attia's work. Lots of technical data. I mostly care about how. Don't need to know how the sausage is made. He's the goat for the foreseeable future for sure. Grip strength and the correlation to healthspan was one of the first things that struck me as how much of it is uncommon common sense. It doesn't take much to improve outcomes. A minor correction in course by one degree expands over time and becomes a big deal in the future. Even at the level when you're looking at oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction, minor things can impact the process positively, or to lessen the impact of negative influences. Focusing on living as if you were actually in a blue zone is a great overall strategy to mimic that lifestyle until it becomes ingrained.

Great topic. In the last year, I've started seeing a physician specifically targeting my longevity and quality of life in later years - as defined in a personal interview with the doc. My goals are to be able to travel and enjoy an active lifestyle later in life, and to ward off the preventable ailments and conditions....to age gracefully without contributing to my own demise, and to prevent anything that is within my control. Everything started with a baseline round of testing to determine from where we were starting. Large scale blood testing Infinite Allergy Testing for nutrition and inflammation Grail Muti Cancer Early Detection Test Genova NutrEval Plasma test (cellular health) Dutchtest Hormone Testing GI Map - DNA Stool Analysis BostonHeart Cholesterol Balance Test Cleerly Coronary Imaging Periodic composition tracking on InBody Most of the focus right now is on cellular health/rejuvenation, reducing inflammation, and keeping blood sugar optimized as those three go hand in hand. I track sleep, stress, activity, etc. Interestingly enough, I'm now taking fewer supplements because I'm only taking what I need. Previously I was scattershooting, but with the testing I only take what's indicated. Big ones that are more general would be a high quality Omega3, B-Complex, D3, turmeric, and a magnesium complex. Couple more specific to my needs. Using the Pure Encapsulation brand for most things. Supplement fiber with Tomorrow's Nutrition SubFiber

I've got another 1905 in .35win . Slick little guns. One of my biggest regrets is letting a 1907 (.351 SL) branded on the stock with markings from a Folsom Prison guard unit get away. I should have held my nose at the price and just kept bidding.

New addition....Win. Model 1905 Self Loading in .32 cal. Pretty little gun.

We have a lot of Oreo looking black and white or black and orange hogs. Maybe 10% or more of the general population....coloration seems to be just part of our genetic make-up as there are normally one or two in every brood. Been that way for 30 years in the part of the hill country we hunt.

.338 ARC Hornadys’ answer to the 8.6, but in a more compact package. Anyone diving into this rabbit hole yet?

Just roll in with a fully automatic SBR mounted with a can and a drum mag - That state's laws will be explained fully for you in no time - perfect clarity.

This was a huge topic of conversation in our community some years back. In fairly rapid succession, multiple estates were settled that involved 2nd wives, step-kids, biological kids, etc. Really covered the gamut - 2nd wives disinherited by biological kids, biological kids disinherited by 2nd wives, long term care chewing up assets for everyone.....lawyers ending up with more than anyone.....Multiple estates, multiple outcomes - all bad and with a lot of heartache. My wife was hot on the topic. She's smart and realized she couldn't keep me from spending on a 2nd wife, nor did she want to punish someone who might make me happy after she's gone, but at the same time, she was adamant that our kids be protected and have something. She didn't want "her (our) kids' money all spent on my next wife's face lift and new tits" as she eloquently put it. I told her "she's" already had those done and not to worry about it, which evidently wasn't as funny to her as it was in my head. We had some fairly robust planning already, but she was so bothered by all this I finally took her to our attorney and sat arms folded and told him to draft something so she is happy enough that she'll quit talking about it. After some time and some money well spent, she's content, and while nothing is perfect there's enough safeguards to cover everyone's interests. Like everything else, communication and then taking action is the key.

This above or Howa makes a M1500 Super Lite Short Rifle 7mm-08 Remington. I'm tempted to buy one for myself to have as a blind/truck rifle. If it's not loaned out (which it frequently is) my +50yr old cut down Rem. 788 in .243 is my favorite rifle to tote around. I might need a fill-in when my steady is on loan.

Yeah- he’s got a wonky blade looking thing coming out of his base. Wide and flat iirc. He’s a load body-wise. That mature, sway-back characteristic doesn’t show as much in our hill country bucks as it does further south.