Health

How you live affects how long and how happy you live. So, don’t maximize misery. Your health has an impact on everyone around you too. You get healthy, and more importantly stay healthy, by accumulating significant, but livable, [[Life Advice|improvements to your lifestyle over time]], and building on that.

• Run experiments and try new things. This will make you explore the world so you can exploit it later. Go for variety and surprise. Don’t keep doing the same thing. Most things in life have diminishing marginal utility, so maximizing utility implies doing a lot of things a bit.
• Algernon’s Law: your body is already mostly optimal, so adding more things is unlikely to have large positive effects unless there’s some really good reason.
• Although [[time]] is the ultimate resource, the lack of energy will always be the first limiting factor. Therefore prioritizing health (like it or not, you’re a physical object), [[Sleep]], [[Fitness|exercise]], and other such aspects will always pay off far more than what you sacrifice on them. These areas should take priority over anything else.
• Our bodies and minds are built to live in a tribe in 50,000BC, which leaves modern humans with a number of unfortunate traits (fixation with [[Social Media Issues|tribal-style social survival]], attracted to [[Nutrition|energy dense food]], …).
• Build [[Systems]] to take the right actions effortlessly through [[Habits]].

Blood Markers

• Cortisol: Stress marker.
• HbA1c: Glucose/diabetes marker.
• hsCRP: Inflammation marker.
• LDL: Bad cholesterol .
• HDL: Good cholesterol.
• AST: Liver function.
• Ferritin: Indicates inflammation, obesity, excess iron.
• Vitamin D.
• Vitamin B12.
• CK. Monitor for muscular injuries and diseases.
• Testosterone.
• SHBG: Sex hormone binding globulin.
• Sodium, magnesium, potassium, folate, blood cell counts.