It's Time to Start Anti-Aging

Not Dying Is In

I’m two years in on “my Intermittent Fasting journey.” At least that’s how I’d refer to it if I were a B-rate writer/blogger trying to lure you into purchasing products at my shamelessly planted referral links.

In actuality, I’m on a diet that works for my lifestyle—not on a lifestyle diet. There’s a difference.

Lifestyle diets too often demand a transformation of your habits that, let’s face it, most of us will never successfully undergo. Nevertheless, there’s good reason to start doing something that falls in the bucket of “Anti-Aging.”

We’re not just talking slowing down the wrinkling process here. The umbrella is wide, and includes cancer-prevention and a broad range of health and fitness improvements. The big perk, of course, is NOT DYING.

Feeling good while you’re not dying is a nice perk, too.

It’s inevitable, but we can put it off as long as possible. There’s too much to do!

No matter who you are, I can guarantee there’s something you can be doing that fits your lazy, pathetic and procrastinatory lifestyle. ;-)

Serious writers can use emojis if they damned well feel like it.

For me, the lifestyle matching anti-aging regimen was Intermittent Fasting, because A: I loved to sleep in and B: breakfast, quite frankly, was more of a chore than an enjoyable part of my day. I also got to send out a big “Fuck You” to all those “breakfast is the most important meal of the day” schmucks. (Sorry if you’re one of them, but it turns out that the statement is not true. Them’s be the breaks, kid.)

So I did the 16/8 routine: 16 hours fasting, 8 hours eating. The cancer prevention benefits of this, according to a book I read (The Fast Diet), are tremendous. Or at least they are for mice.

I also liked this diet because legendary mixed martial artist Georges St-Pierre followed it.

Georges St. Pierre (Image courtesy of UFC.com)

You can eat anything you want on 16/8, you just got to eat it within your window. If you eat like a total moron—tons of processed trash and drinks filled with high fructose corn syrup, etc.—you’re gonna stay an unhealthy loser. But on any reasonable diet, even if you keep the buttered muffins, you’ll be better off doing it within a window of time.

Anyway, it’s supposed to keep me living longer.

You should do something to keep you living longer. It matters to somebody.

::cries::

Here’s a list of ideas I whole-heartedly endorse that might match your lifestyle, rather than attempt to transform it. I think that’s the secret to my success. I conform the world to me. I don’t do the whole square-peg/round-hole routine that so many unhappy people get after. The world is miraculously adaptable. You are not. You’re just a little hugh-man.

(Creative Commons, unknown photographer, National Cancer Institute, 1986)

The ideas:

• Fasting

• Consuming more Green Tea

• Walking regularly

• Monitoring Screen-time

• Supplementing with Vitamin D (especially if your genetics come from anywhere that isn’t entirely white or grey on the following map, and obviously becoming increasingly more important during winter, the darker your skin)

• Meditating now and again

• Getting a full night’s Sleep every night

• Hugging your close ones more often

• Ensuring you have a relaxing hobby in addition to your exciting hobbies

It’s not rocket science. Yet, it’s easy to slip. Try not to slip~

Best,

Dane Curley

P.S.: I’m your new motivational speaker.