For me it was doing just a few minutes of HIIT a day. It boosted my energy levels a lot and reduced my blood pressure by about 5 points.
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Going for a walk. Trees have a positive effect on mood and you are out moving :)
I’m also a big tree-starer.
Good advice. Unless the trees are trying to kill you (pollen). Many of my friends/colleagues are avoiding trees ;-)
That’s fair
I can second the working out. Consistent steady training routine has been rather great for energy levels and mental well-being, even despite training sessions being exhausting.
Drinking a glass or two of water, stretching a couple times an hour if you sit most of the day and eating a vegetable at at least one of your meals. Also getting your face in sunlight for ~15 mins if you can manage it.
It’s not zomg-cure-your-chronic-illness levels of anything but it’s a small baseline buffer.
I became lactose intolerant recently and since cutting dairy out of my diet, I feel so much better. I have more energy, better eating habits, better dumps lol. And I feel much better mentally, too. My ADHD and anxiety have been much more manageable. I swear my gut biome just always hated dairy and made me feel like shit for it.
Good stuff! They say the gut is like a second brain or something like that. Pity I treat it like shit, and I have IBS too. 😭
Go for walks regularly.
Eat healthy.
Get 8 hours of sleep every night.
For me, getting more outside in nature, traveling more and improving my sleep schedule has tremendously boosted my mental (and overall) health. Also mostly overcoming my quarter-life crisis helped a lot (yes, that’s a thing apparently).
Having a good breakfast is always necessary for me when I’ve got a long day planned. 1/2 cup oatmeal with a couple of tablespoons of hemp seeds is 11 g of protein, nearly 20% of the recommended daily fiber, and around 250 calories before toppings. The hemp seeds add protein and healthy fats and the fiber from the oatmeal keeps you satisfied longer. Oatmeal is also supposed to be good for your cholesterol, too.
Chocolate chips, cream cheese, peanut butter, or jam each work great in it. If you’ve never had hemp seeds they’re slightly nutty, but it works well with oatmeal IMO. Don’t forget to add a few shakes of salt.
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I really appreciate you putting so much effort into writing such quality advice!
Masturbate.
A struggle cuddle with my cat seems to calm me down. I noticed myself doing it when stressed (it doesn’t happen often) and read about it and it seems to check out. 👍
Oh and a long lukewarm/hot shower always makes me feel better, and it’s very good at dealing with bloating.
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Exercise outdoors, eat healthier, limit sugar to 20 mg a day (less is ofc better), meditate, take time off, sit in silence and let your brain just rest for a while
My depression remains unaffected by any ordinary means, except for medication. My mood temporarily improves by exercise, the warmth or smell of some girls (sorry guys), being with a friend or family member, rewatching Stargate SG-1 for the XX’s time, playing a story driven PC game, very seldom listening to music and even more seldom a walkabout.
Metabolic health appears to be directly linked to both body health and mental health
Eating local whole foods, nothing from a factory or a box or a bag - is a great way to remove a bunch of junk from your diet.
Check out your tg/hdl ratio on your last lipid panel, if its less then 2 its a good indicator your metabolic health is doing well, if its less then 1 then your metabolic health is doing great. If you have room for improvement then you could consider doing whole food low carb diet, as carbohydrates are heavily implicated in many instances of impaired metabolism.
Incorporate exercise and movement into every aspect of your day, don’t stay indoors, get sunlight as much as you can, don’t sit to long in one position at the office, etc. Exercise snacks, even as simple as taking the stairs, helps.
Alcohol. For the second part, at least.
I realized a while back that Alcohol just steals joy from the future and uses it up in the present moment, but the way it does so is on a rising curve of what I liken to joy debt.
A beer in the evening after a hard day of work isn’t really going to accrue any joy debt. No hangover, no real long-term negative effects.
A night out with moderate drinking, not to the point of intoxication, incurs a joy debt that you’ll likely pay for in the morning in the form of a headache. A strong coffee and a good breakfast pays off most of the debt but you’re still in the hole for a couple hours after. Frequent repetition of this incurs a sneaky kind of joy debt that slowly accrues over time and if not controlled will fuck up your health as you age, but can be reversed if you get things under control.
Getting proper drunk fucks up the entire next day. Basically an entire day of joy debt. Your rager last night was paid for by both your wallet and your well being the next day. God forbid this becomes a regular thing for you. One of the worst examples of joy debt I can think of is liver cirrhosis.
So yeah I agree, alcohol can help mood if you’re not the kind of person that gets angry when they drink but it can also indebt you in some really fucked up ways that sneak up on you pretty quick.
Totally agree with you there, it was mainly just a joke. But I say this while paying off some debt today. Unfortunately, the more debt you take on, the more debt seems like a good idea.
