4/ For decades, society has celebrated skinny, equating it with health and beauty. But evidence shows that being under-muscled creates health risks. Skeletal muscle improves metabolism, mental health, disease resistance, and overall quality of life.
4/ For decades, society has celebrated skinny, equating it with health and beauty. But evidence shows that being under-muscled creates health risks.
Skeletal muscle improves metabolism, mental health, disease resistance, and overall quality of life.
Skinny is not better. Muscle will help you live longer. A thread
Skinny is not better. Muscle will help you live longer.
A thread
1/ Why muscle matters Muscle Strength Predicts Longevity: A study (Warbutron, et. al., 2006) of over 1 million men found that low muscular strength in adolescence was associated with up to a 35% increased risk of dying young.
1/ Why muscle matters
Muscle Strength Predicts Longevity: A study (Warbutron, et. al., 2006) of over 1 million men found that low muscular strength in adolescence was associated with up to a 35% increased risk of dying young.
We do need a place to start.
Step 1: Identify the source of death Step 2. Create a quantified die score Step 3: Build systems to methodically lessen die This can be applied to the human body for health, planet earth for a sustainable biosphere, school lunch, AI, coral reef and anything else.
Step 1: Identify the source of death Step 2. Create a quantified die score Step 3: Build systems to methodically lessen die
This can be applied to the human body for health, planet earth for a sustainable biosphere, school lunch, AI, coral reef and anything else.
There is so much more I can share about Don't Die but I'll leave it here for now. The world is changing fast. Faster than we can understand. We need a plan when we can't plan. We need to know when we no longer know.
There is so much more I can share about Don't Die but I'll leave it here for now.
The world is changing fast. Faster than we can understand. We need a plan when we can't plan. We need to know when we no longer know.
Uniting around the one thing that 8+ billion of us already agree upon is possibly the only and best option we have.
When the U.S. determined it was finished with the monarchy and was set on trying this new thing democracy, no one had the answers. We've been fighting about democracy for 237 years and possibly now have more questions than when we started. The same is true with Don't Die.
When the U.S. determined it was finished with the monarchy and was set on trying this new thing democracy, no one had the answers. We've been fighting about democracy for 237 years and possibly now have more questions than when we started.
The same is true with Don't Die.
Our survival depends upon us uniting around Don't Die as our new economic, political, social, ethical, moral and religious systems. Our new purpose and new game is to eliminate all sources of death.
Our survival depends upon us uniting around Don't Die as our new economic, political, social, ethical, moral and religious systems.
Our new purpose and new game is to eliminate all sources of death.
What does this even mean? Three years ago I set out to embody Don't Die personally. Attempting to measure every way my body dies daily and then trying to slow that rate of death and reverse its effects.
What does this even mean?
Three years ago I set out to embody Don't Die personally. Attempting to measure every way my body dies daily and then trying to slow that rate of death and reverse its effects.
