Category: Health

New posts coming regarding retail and other personal items.

Retail what?  Why bathrooms are dirty.  Why digital programs suck.  Why Chik-Filet – does anyone really know how to spell it?  I just had to double check.  Been spelling it wrong this whole time.  You know what I mean – why Chick-Fil-A (?) is so good – food, service, cleanliness, otherwise, etc.  Why Nordstrom is so much better than Macy’s.  Etc, etc, etc.

And other stuff.

I can’t figure out something to write about. Sometimes you just don’t have that…inspiration. That ‘something’. Often times for me that inspiration is delivered in the form of anger or frustration – you’re mad that something isn’t different or something could be better – so you write about it. Richard Branson mentions this – I’m not going to go fetch the comment – but that the best entrepreneurs or businesses are built on the anger and / or frustration around something that could be better or should exist – or should exist in the place of something that is lame. I think that makes perfect sense.

So anger in the form of road rage – not good. Not really helpful. Anger in the form of rage at your spouse or friends – yeah, complicated but also not good. Anger fueling change or business or creativity – probably better. And doable.

I just started writing this because i had no instinct or inclination to write about anything in particular, so I just started writing and voila, something happens.

Lesson in that? Just get going. Start. Action. It might look like dog shit when you’re done, but it was probably dog shit you needed to create anyway to get through to something more worth while.

I heard a good quote recently – something to the effect that people won’t remember the crap you put out. They’ll remember the good stuff. That may be true, I don’t know. Certainly in the form of the Grateful Dead or Picasso – grand scale creators, sure. And over wide swaths (relative I know) of time – but in other cases? I don’t know. Who knows. But that’s what inhibits us creatures – us humans – from ‘creating’ and certainly from ‘putting it out there’…I should put in quotations “out there”…ie on social media or on a blog, or trying to get more conventionally published, or on stage or to friends and family or whatever. You show it to people and its true – often times people will be like ‘eh’ or…they might even denigrate it.

Fuck ‘em. But that’s easier said than done. We all have this gooey, Cadberry easter egg centers in the middle of us – if you’re lucky – that get hurt. That get broken open. That sting or whatever. Especially if you’re a creative type. I have no idea what to tell you. Gotta..just put it out there. Slowly but surely.

So there you go. A riff. Let’s see if I put this…”out there”.

It’s funny.  I’m watching the broadcast of the New Orlean Saints v. New England Patriots which Tony Romo is calling – the former QB of the Dallas Cowboys.  They went down to their side line reporter and started talking about this ‘no gluten, dairy free’ diet that both Tom Brady of New England and Drew Brees of New Orleans are on in an effort to extend their longevity.  It’s not enough that Tom Brady is playing some of his best football at 39 and 40 when most QB’s are well out of the league, or if still in, are on a severe down slope, or that Drew Brees at 39 is also playing very competitively.  We can go back and listen to the specifics, but Tony Romo – who’s great by the way in this broadcast booth – he mentions yeah, maybe some of that stuff is ok, or works even – the gluten free or dairy free or whatever – but those guys were great when they came into the league, their great now etc, etc.  He said you know, if you believe that’s what makes you better when you’re under snap on Sunday’s, that’s fine, but I think a lot of that stuff…and he kind of trails off or I don’t remember, but he essentially says it’s bullshit.  It’s some sort of placebo effect, which is a whole other discussion in and of itself.

It’s amazing the continued laughing and resistance to the ideas promoted primarily by Tom Brady – ideas centered primarily around the idea that diet – and that the decrease and management of inflammation in the body – is the key to longevity in not only sports, but in being more comfortable as a human being later in life.  Tom promotes and practices some key ideas – sleep is massively important.  Diet – including the elimination of all foods they have determined to be ‘inflammatory producing’ including gluten, possibly most grain foods, and even tomatoes, etc.  No coffee or caffeine, very little to no alcohol, tons of vegetables, no refined sugars, etc, etc.  He also promotes the idea of pliability training over traditional strength or weight room training which has been the foundation of the NFL and a lot of sports for well over 50-60 years.

And yet he’s laughed at.  Or disregarded.  This is why I keep a pretty keen eye on the Patriots and Tom Brady.  He’s not just implementing these ideas on a grand scale, he’s a major test case.  Of course people won’t give his practices credit even if he’s throwing TD’s into his 60’s, but a lot more people will listen.  It’ll give people pause:  maybe this stuff does make a difference.

I know from my own experience it’s subtle and takes time, but when I add or remove gluten and dairy from my diet, when I get plenty of sleep etc….my body works better.  Smoother.  Less random aches and pains.

So there you have it.  Tom Brady’s diet.  Laughed at.  That’s fine.  As a Seahawk fan I’m hoping he continues to succeed and get better and better.  Of course that has a time limit.  And of course a more interesting question is why I want him to succeed.  I believe in this stuff – I think it’s purely logical.  I get it.  We want to be able to eat what we want to eat, and there’s a resistance on a grand and deep level to not associate diet with disease or our bodies and minds breaking down.  We want to believe it’s just age.  “I’m over 40…all down hill from here.”  Dementia is just…can’t do ‘nothin’ ’bout it…just an ‘age thing’, etc etc.  Just total bullshit.  I guess people refrain or resist responsibility.  I’m all for it.  Maybe it’s a control issue, but I think we have a lot more control and therefore responsibility in  how we age as humans, and how we ‘perform’ while we’re here.  And perform might just mean being happier doing whatever it is you’re choosing to do, or making better choices to begin with.

The end…