agree with or to them and build on them.

Our flashlight is what allows us to prioritize certain information over other information, zeroing in on it like a beam of light in the darkness. If you’re focused on reading a book, or on someone’s voice as they’re talking, or on a particular thought, that’s your flashlight system working.

Louis Pasteur’s germ theory: we still want to do our best to avoid the pathogenic bacteria, viruses, and fungi that can cause acute sickness. But we also want to do our best to avoid autoimmune reactions that lead to chronic sickness, which involves protecting our microbiomes when possible, and certainly avoiding needlessly destroying them.

ending my daily shower with two minutes of cold water is one of my favorite health practices.

The key is to simply do the same thing, night after night, so your body begins to associate those cues with feeling sleepy.

the “Life Is Never Boring” list.

habitual open-mindedness from famed psychologist and friendship expert Dr. Marisa G. Franco,

I ran the food section, and suddenly I had access to both the world’s best chefs and the world’s best doctors and could accumulate the cooking and health knowledge that began to make me feel less like an impostor in the food space.

For omega-3s, Dr. Means loves canned sardines and mackerel, or plant-based upstream sources of omegas like chia, basil seeds, flaxseeds, and walnuts