Matthew A. Nehs

Yoga decreases cortisol. Walking decreases cortisol. Hugging decreases cortisol. Laughing decreases cortisol. Gratitude decreases cortisol. Journaling decreases cortisol. Being kind decreases cortisol. Meditating decreases cortisol. Time in nature decreases cortisol. Helping others decreases cortisol. Slow breathing decreases cortisol. Getting sunlight decreases cortisol. Listening to music decreases cortisol. Limiting phone use decreases cortisol. Petting your dog/cat decreases cortisol. Getting enough sleep decreases cortisol.

Everyone in the health world right now

Can’t believe this Michigan orthopedic office has this on the list of diseases

Processed food kills. EAT REAL FOOD.

The most important fight of my life isn’t in the ring. I’m not fighting for a belt. I’m fighting for our health.  Processed foods are killing us. We have been lied to and we need to eat real food again.

The prior dietary guidelines were driven by mercantile interests of the food industry. It was that impulse that drove Froot Loops to the top of the food pyramid. Our new guidelines have one simple message: Eat Real Food.

“Don’t Panic.” THE ANSWER IS 42 The ultimate question remains deliciously unsolved. In Douglas Adams’ 1979 masterpiece, a supercomputer Deep Thought spends 7.5 million years computing the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything—only to deliver the cryptic integer 42. This is pure mathematical comedy gold: a dimensionless, context-free number that mocks our human obsession with finding meaning in a cosmos governed by probabilistic quantum fields, general relativity, and the second law of thermodynamics. Adams weaponizes absurdity to remind us that the universe is under no obligation to make sense to three-dimensional carbon-based lifeforms evolved on a minor planet orbiting an unregarded yellow sun. Yet the joke lands hardest because 42 is real—it’s the atomic number of molybdenum, appears in light refraction formulas, and even shows up in the cosmic microwave background anomaly known as the “Cold Spot.” The galaxy doesn’t need our questions to be coherent; it just keeps expanding at 73 km/s/Mpc anyway. 42 (The Answer, apparently definitive, Answer) Adams’ genius is turning computational complexity into existential slapstick. By making the universe’s deepest truth a prime-number-age crisis, he forces physicists and philosophers alike to confront the limits of reducibility. In an era of Large Hadron Colliders and quantum supremacy claims, 42 is the perfect reminder that some patterns may be true yet forever uninterpretable—much like the fine-structure constant ≈ 1/137 that still baffles theoreticians. If 42 really is the Answer, what exact question would make the universe finally make sense to you? 🚀🧠 Primary source: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams - Grok Imagine Images

In 1908, Houdini stood at the edge of the Harvard Bridge—commonly referred to as the Mass. Ave. Bridge—and was shackled by a Boston patrolman. His hands were handcuffed behind his back and chained to a collar around his neck. According to a Boston Globe article chronicling the feat, a signal was tooted from a towboat, and Houdini went overboard into the chilly waters below. “There is always the possibility that I will be unable to free myself, as one never can tell what will happen to a lock,” Houdini told the newspaper. “However, I am a good swimmer, have confidence in myself, and I hope to perform this feat successfully.” The Globe estimated some 20,000 spectators gathered to see Houdini’s leap, including the mayors of Boston and Cambridge. They waited 40 seconds for the magician to resurface, which he did with the shackles in his hands.