Vol. 007: Want to stop your brain from shrinking as you age? Here's the diet.

1 actionable item

2 Useful web applications.

1 Physical item recommendation

1 Health tip

+/- 1 random tidbit

Actionable Item 📒

This tweet by Sahil Bloom on establishing “Anti-Goals” re-framed my thinking on how I set goals or try to accomplish projects. Try it out with one of your projects or current goals and let me know how it goes. ↓ is one example he uses for his fitness project. You can use this methodology for anything though. 

Useful web applications 🎊

Tineeye: Reverse image search. Have a picture or imagine but don’t know where it came from? just drop it on this website and it shows you its origin.

Cognitive Bias Codex: Beautiful displayed interactive codex for so many biases.

Physical item recommendation ⌛️

Wingman Mechanical Pencil: Expensive! but looks like its meticulously made. I wouldn’t want to lose this pencil if I owned it.

Health tip 💪

A recent study found that the Green Mediterranean had:

• reduced brain volume loss compared to participants on a standard Mediterranean diet or healthy diet.

• Lower risk of heart disease

• lower risk of stroke

• lower risk of diabetes

• more weight loss compared to the Mediterranean diet or healthy diet

• decreases the risk of the hippocampus (important for learning and memory) shrinking

One interesting thing I learned from reading these studies was mankai (Wolffia globasa), an aquatic plant food. I did some quick research on it and found one study showed it had bioactive B12  compounds that could serve as a B12 plant-based food source.

Go out and do great things,

Martin