I’m following the Wahls Protocol at the moment, a primarily dietary approach to treating intractable auto-immune problems. The basis of the protocol is the need to have about 12 servings of vegetables and berries a day and lots of healthy oils and no grains. That’s a lot of vegetables, especially...
As I emptied the recycling from the kitchen into the bin today I was struck by just how amazing the contents would have seemed only a few hundred years ago. The aluminium cans, the trays, the glass and plastic bottles would have been treasures, now they are rubbish. The seven...
Most retirement planners suggest that planning for retirement should start about 5 years before your target retirement date, I’m 4 years away now but forced retirement AKA redundancy is a possibility before then. I need to start planning, and there’s lots to think about. This post sketches out the topics...
In my reading I often come across the fact that hunter gatherer populations didn’t and still don’t suffer from many of the chronic health problems that we suffer from in the west. One of these conditions (or families of conditions) is Rheumatoid Arthritis, which Adult Onset Still’s Disease is part...
Although for short periods of time I can be content with just the pleasures of life, I’ve found that the only sustainable ‘good life’ comes from having a purpose as well. That purpose is ideally one that’s within my control as work as a source of purpose has become fickle...
In Buddhist philosophy one of the most important life ‘skills’ to develop is to loosen ones attachments. I’m not a Buddhist, but as an approach to life it has a lot to commend it but I’ve always struggled with this lack of attachment idea. It’s always seemed to me that...
For two years now I’ve been unable to cycle more than a couple of miles, every time I got on my bike it hurt and even those few miles took a week to recover from. I’d tried about 12 physiotherapy sessions last year and while I made some progress an...
As I’ve often said on this blog I only work a few hours a day, so what’s all this about ‘working all the time’ well I consider myself to have 3 main jobs in life. In no particular order these jobs are to earn a living, to live well and...
For hundreds of thousands of years humans must have been satisfied with a life with few if any processions, full of movement, unprocessed, simple foods, companionship, love [and war]. In the last few hundred years and especially the last few decades all of a sudden we have transitioned to a...
Less TV, more reading Less inside, more outside Less clutter, more simplicity Less rush, more slow Less time alone, more family Less consuming, more creating Less processed, more real food Less work, more impact Less multi, more single tasking Less driving, more cycling Less worry, more love and smiles Less...
