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Mount Shasta, CA, January 15, 2026: This is my pal. His name is “Mister Blue” or “Blue-Blue.”
Mister Blue has been with me all of my life, and still resides at my bedside, because we’re pals, been together ever since Artelle Loony, Mama’s friend, made Mister Blue for me when I was quite small.
Every morning, when I get up, I spend a moment feeling gratitude and expressing thanks to the Universe, for all the things I’ve been given: Roof, warmth, clothes, food, body, health, love, friends, long life.
And then, every morning, I give Mister Blue a pat and sincerely thank him for sticking with me all this time.
I think of that, and, while I’m thanking him, I remember all the kindness I’ve been given by the humans in my life, and of the life-force and body given me by my ancestors. Thank you Universe. Thank you, Mister Blue.
Gratitude or Grumpy. Whichever you choose, you create more.
I’ve decided gratitude is way better.
And Mister Blue agrees completely.
Mount Shasta, CA, December 31, 2025: In a recent move, researchers at Beth Israel Medical, Harvard, and Yale University have recommended adding the obvious waist circumference to the definition of “obese,” with good reason. But that also means that three-quarters of all U.S. adults are obese.
Here’s what happened: Over time, in this culture the food-sources have changed, and if you eat “normally,” your health goes downhill fast. But it’s actually not complicated to fix that.
Here’s the magic sequence. It can take some weeks or months, so be prepared for a slow marathon and not a wild sprint. Calm your mind to be patient and simply continue day after day. Weighing yourself every single day will aid your motivation. Yep, it will go up and down a bit, but there is learning to be found in that. 🙂 Here’s what to do …
Mount Shasta, November 1, 2025. When it comes to living long, it comes down to eating actual food (usually single ingredients), avoiding poison (unclean air and water and household “cleaners,” additives, fast carbs), and staying “active.” But not all “activities” are equal. For example:
So I fired up the Perplexity AI research tool, and with some questions, learned a lot, real quick, about which *TYPES* of exercise provide this benefit or that benefit. Now as you might expect, there’s certainly some overlap, but here’s a simplified summary of what I learned:
I’ve been using heavy-duty resistance bands–brand name is “X3 Bands”–for several years, and walking up the hill behind my house. Recently I’ve added some “taichi” exercises to improve my balance, and now I’m going to add just a couple of these isometrics. That should have pretty much the whole thing covered.
And if your work is largely sedentary like mine is, these are *excellent* things to do, to take a break by standing up and moving around. None require going to the gym; all are very quick. (They work as well done quickly as do some things that take a long time, and there’s no time-burden of going to a gym, where the machines there would provide LESS benefit than whole-body exercises at home.)
Please note that NONE of these are bogus tiny-weights, “chair” workouts, calisthenics, mickey-mouse gym-style bicycles or treadmills, or the make-believe exercises promoted in popular magazines. These are the real thing. You *will* start off kind of easy, but they’ll actually take you to becoming strong. The real thing.
You can download a copy of the research studies and the conclusions, with all details and references, using the button further down. Hope you find this useful!
Done in and around the home, increases strength, longevity, blood-pressure, cardiovascular health, and balance. Takes little time. Only 9 simple exercises. 🙂
Want to live longer? Want to be able to get around better? Have more strength? Sleep better? Feel better? Get the full details below, and give it a shot. It’s not difficult. The only key is being regular about it. I’ve done the research to uncover the scientific facts about what works best, and how to implement quick and easy. I’m happy to share. Click to download. You’re welcome! 🙂
CLICK BUTTON to download a concise research pdf
October 29, 2025, Mount Shasta, CA. When your brain runs low on energy, how can you charge it up again?
Well, turns out there is something you can do. Well-tested, non-toxic, inexpensive, and easy. This was explained by nutrition researchers presenting at the 2025 Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo. They say there’s one nutrient many of us could use: creatine.
[… this is an extract from MSN news article, 10/28/2025:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/what-happens-to-your-brain-when-you-take-creatine/ar-AA1PnGXS …]
Co-presenter Eric S. Rawson, Ph.D., FACSM, CSCS, adds, “We now have evidence that you can ingest creatine and increase the amount of creatine in your brain—just like you can with muscles—and it can provide more energy to your brain, especially during times when you need more energy.”
For decades now, we’ve mostly heard about creatine from muscle-building magazines, because bodybuilders take it to help build bigger muscles. But turns out, the way it works is super-effective for powering up your brain.
“Creatine helps to support the brain when the brain is under stress,” says Nguyen. “It helps to maintain that brain energy supply when the demand is elevated.”
For example, when a person experiences a traumatic brain injury, physicians have long known that brain-creatine levels often decrease, and that means that replacing it through food and supplementation becomes important. And research shows supplementing with creatine can support recovery after injury, and it may even have protective effects if taken before an injury occurs. In studies of people with such injuries, creatine supplementation reduced hospital duration, improved overall recovery, and reduced symptoms like headaches, dizziness and fatigue.
There’s no official guideline, but we know that a somewhat higher dosage is required to cross the blood-brain barrier so as to get in there and get to work. As little as 10mg a day *may* help, but more likely the best results will come from 20-30mg each day. I take this each day, split into two doses. It’s about 1.5 to 2 level teaspoons if you bought creatine monohydrate. (I get this on Amazon, from the Now supplement line. It’s tasteless, and I add my first dose to the morning coffee, and the second to a hot herbal/green-tea/cacao drink in the afternoon.)
SUMMARY: Creatine is a nutrient that offers more than just building muscle—it can provide significant benefits for the brain. Creatine may help the brain recover from traumatic brain injury, reduce risk of depression, support brain function even when sleep deprived and may improve memory. There’s no official dosage for brain benefits, experts and studies indicate something between 10 to 30 grams per day often works.
PS: And be sure to check out my triple-threat article, a surprising, longevity boost from three ingredients (caffeine, nicotine, & carnitine). Note that this article includes a link so you can download my research document showing what I uncovered about studies of these three.)
Several 2025 studies from Baylor College of Medicine and Emory University provide the first experimental evidence that psilocybin and its active metabolite, psilocin, can extend biological lifespan — at least in cells and animal models. These findings appear in the peer-reviewed journal npj Aging (a Nature Partner Journal) and several associated summaries.
Antidepressants often have “side-effects.” (This is BigPharma-talk for “poisoning.)
But the side-effect/poisoning/bullcrap varies hugely with the different pills. Details …
Realize that there are several things that often work as well, or better, than BigPharma pills. These include:
Of course, you gotta *learn* about these. Don’t just read adverts, because those are not to be trusted and will send you all over the place.
Here’s a simple way to find out, from actual studies, what’s true: Get a copy of Perplexity, an AI-research panel, and it comes with Comet, a clean and fast browser that’s very smart about finding things, because it uses Perplexity.
You can get it here: https://www.perplexity.ai/
Then ask it questions like, for example: What are the health benefits of exercise. (Get a list, then look at the list for the benefits most of interest to you.) Then ask “What kinds of exercise most provide [plug in benefits here]? Then, keep asking more-detailed questions from its answers until you now know exactly what kind of exercise, how long, how often, and what it will get you. This works amazingly well, you stop being a farm-animal belonging to BigPharma, and you can fix your problem, inexpensively. Try it and you’ll like it. 🙂
Then, do the same thing to find out what’s true about single-ingredient, non-poisoned foods for your body. Then do the same thing to find out what’s true about herbs and supplements. You can ask questions about what’s best for a male/female of your age and your weight. You can find out optimum dosages. You can find out which supplements on Amazon give the best result for the least money. You begin to be the boss of you. Finally. 🙂
Lastly, you can create a folder on your desktop. It might have sub-folders for exercise, food, and supplements.) And the Perplexity research tool will allow you to save each “thread” as a pdf, so you begin to have your very own, personalized, research on hand. Neatoid, Lloyd! 🙂
As kids, we’ve all been told that coffee would stunt our growth, and you’ve noticed it can give you the jitters. We’ve learned that cigarettes are bad, bad, bad for you (and they are). And we’ve seen creatine being promoted and sold for muscle-building in bodybuilder and men’s health magazines.
So the truth is that, done right, microdosing caffeine, nicotine, and creatine makes you live longer! That’s what the science says. I’ve attached a fast overview researching each of these and the studies are identified. You can download it below.
And when you try it … you will feel it! 🙂
I was dubious when I ran across this information, but it checks out. I’ve made a quick-read summary of what the studies say, complete with the citations, as a pdf document you can save if you wish. You try this unexpected approach, and you will like it!
CLICK BUTTON to download a concise research pdf