A common theme you’ll see on Mudlife Crisis is that we need to do things as nature and evolution have molded us to do. I’m a firm believer that many, if not most, of the problems of the modern age can be solved with a mindset that thinks of how the problems go against nature and evolution. We evolved in nature, and have only been significantly removed from it for a few hundred to a few thousand years or so – not enough time to have developed real mutations to let us thrive in an artificial environment.
That is not to say that we can’t figure out better ways to combine the two, though – that’s what Return to Nature is all about.
In between listening to David Bowie songs today (he passed away last night, leaving a large hole in my musical life), I actually had time to listen to a couple of podcasts. One of those was Katy Bowman’s Nutritious Movement episode about movement in winter (here’s the transcript, and links to…
A common thread that I find among lots of health-minded people is that they don’t like to take in any food that has toxins in it, but that they don’t consider other means that toxins might enter the body. And it makes sense. The skin is supposed to be this…
A couple weeks ago, I mentioned that I was looking at getting myself a pair of amber glasses for wearing at night, to avoid the incursion of blue light into my eyes and shutting off my melatonin production. Well, I found a pair. I figured that they’d be easy to…
One of the overwhelming things I’ve seen happening in youth sports is that it’s become more dangerous for the kids. Yeah, that’s right, I said it. And I’m not talking about the typical helicopter parenting issues that you normally hear about, such as poor hockey pads or practice is too…
Many people who are extreme go-getters in life, and even a lot of people who aren’t, like to live their lives with the idea that sleep is a waste of time. They stay up late, get up early, power chug Monster and Red Bull drinks, joke about the coffee IV…
For the past few years, I’ve discovered that my vision has been slowly going downhill. I’m becoming farsighted to the point where I need glasses to read most books and stuff on my iPhone, and sometimes even just to work on my computer at my job. I’ve been attributing this…
