Sitting for eight hours and then going to the gym is not the same as moving throughout the day. Walking pads solve this problem quietly, cheaply, and more effectively than most people expect. The average desk worker sits for somewhere between nine and eleven hours a day. This number includes the commute, the workday, the meals, and the evening wind-down, and it has been … [Read more...] about The Best Walking Pad Treadmills for Working From Home
What to Do in the First 30 Days of a New Job
The first thirty days of a new job are unlike any other period in your professional life. You have more license to ask questions than you ever will again. You have less accountability than you ever will again. You are being watched closely by people who have not yet formed a fixed opinion of you, which means those opinions are still being written and you have more influence … [Read more...] about What to Do in the First 30 Days of a New Job
The Supplements That Are Actually Worth Taking
Walk into any pharmacy or health food store and the supplement aisle will present you with hundreds of products making claims that range from plausible to genuinely fantastical. Fat burners. Testosterone boosters. Brain enhancers. Immune system supporters. Most of them share two things in common: they are expensive, and the evidence for what they claim to do is thin to … [Read more...] about The Supplements That Are Actually Worth Taking
What GLP-1s Actually Are and How They Work
If you have paid any attention to health news in the last two years, you have encountered GLP-1s. Ozempic. Wegovy. Mounjaro. Zepbound. The drugs have been on magazine covers and in congressional hearings and on social media in a volume that makes them difficult to think about clearly. There is the breathless enthusiasm from people who have lost significant weight. There is the … [Read more...] about What GLP-1s Actually Are and How They Work
Things Worth Paying More For
Most consumer advice lives in a comfortable middle ground where everything is nuanced and every answer depends on your personal situation and your mileage may vary. That is often true and also often a way of not saying anything at all. This article says things. Some of them you will disagree with. That is fine. The goal is not consensus but usefulness, and a list of genuine … [Read more...] about Things Worth Paying More For