Push Your Boundaries

 

This is my “Exit Stage Left” page where everything racing through my head could eventually land.

THE XYZ: My original articles and links to other websites covering politics, health and fitness, finance, and the latest in tech will go here. My imaginary writing partner, Jack Quill, told me I better cool it or my head’s going to explode. To prevent that from happening I sometimes wear my hat indoors. So for those who dare, here you go.

ORIGINAL ARTICLES:

• Sleep Is a Superpower: I was in my mid-60’s when I learned at an overnight sleep lab that I had sleep apnea and a neurological condition know as restless leg syndrome. Between the apnea and RLS episodes, my sleep could be disturbed as many as 35+ times an hour without me ever knowing it.
• The Nighttime Dip: Every night, while you sleep, your body quietly reveals important clues about your health. One of the most valuable – and often overlooked – is how much your blood pressure naturally falls during sleep. That nightly “dip” may be one of the clearest indicators of metabolic health.

 

BODY & MIND:

• Neuroplasticity is why the first weeks of breaking a habit feel so heavy. Your brain is building new pathways while the old ones still fire, so every craving you sit through without acting on it is part of that work. The tired, restless days are a sign the rewiring has started.
• Swapping oils doesn’t make a processed food healthy, Khoja said. Potato chips fried in avocado oil are still deep-fried, calorie-dense, and salty. What changes is the fat profile, and if a cheaper oil high in polyunsaturated omega-6 fat is substituted, even that selling point disappears.
• It’s a man’s duty to do his absolute best with what he has right now, and not with what he’ll have once life gets easier. Waiting for better conditions is how whole years disappear. Start with what’s in front of you today.
• A new study found that rates of dementia, Parkinson’s disease and stroke were 80% higher among people averaging fewer than 5,000 steps a day compared with those averaging more than 12,000.
• Your prefrontal cortex, the part of your brain that makes long-term decisions, gets weaker every time you act on impulse and stronger every time you make yourself wait. Even a ten-second delay counts as a rep, and every rep makes it easier to override the noise of a craving.

 

IN THE NEWS:

• An illegal immigrant pulled over for speeding in Nevada allegedly had enough fentanyl in his truck to kill millions, federal prosecutors say.
• Big Banks Cut Off Conservatives and Christian Groups: Many of America’s biggest banks waged a cancel culture war against conservatives and Christian groups over their politics and religious beliefs, a federal investigation revealed this week.
• What does the U.S. government actually know about UFOs or unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), and what aren’t they telling us? Have non-human intelligences visited Earth already? And what do we know about them?

 

IT’S ALL A SALES PITCH: They’ll sell you beauty you can’t attain, a better body, a better name. A better house, a better car, anything to make you hate where you are. They’ll sell you outrage by the pound, keep you angry, keep you around. Left hand points while the right hand takes, and every click is another mistake.

 

STRANGE & BIZARRE:

• Mysterious ‘humanoid predator’ lurking near US border could be from another dimension, UFO investigator claims. A mysterious creature has been caught on camera near the US-Mexico border, and researchers claim it is unlike any other predator from this planet.
• A gigantic great white shark decided to make a splash off the California coast, launching its massive body out of the ocean and turning a group of beachgoers’ innocent photo session into a scene straight out of “Jaws.”

 

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