Trying New Things for One’s Health
Came across this list of health items. Got me thinking about two things.
- Is someone’s propensity to try new things based on their upbringing/environment and how risk avoidant vs. tolerant their experiences/family/friends are?
- Is this also related to how much information they have about the new thing they are trying?
Take this example. Here is a list of 17 “health” tips, initially advertised to all be additive to one’s health.
- Electrolytes w filtered water
- 30g protein in morning
- Ice rolling
- Tongue scraping
- Oil pulling
- Cold shower
- 15min direct sunlight in morning
- 30 min walk
- Ginger tea
- Magnesium at night
- Low impact workouts
- Red light therapy
- Apple cidar vinegar before meals
- Dry brushing
- Nervous system stimulation
- Lymph drainage
- Massages
After reading one could sort these into 4 buckets:
- I know the benefit of some of these clearly, either from personal experience or data points.
- I question some of the benefit from these.
- I don’t buy the benefit of some of these b/c I’ve tried them before (or heard enough data to suggest it is not additive).
- I don’t know enough to have an opinion but I either think it sounds reasonably additive or not.
Example: I am pretty positive on ginger tea, hear good things about apple cidar vinegar but have less personal experience, and not sure about nervous system stimulation. I already get enough of that in my day-to-day (half joking…).
Regardless this is a nice list of things to interrogate and incorporate if one feels it is additive to them. It is a nice exercise in evaluating someone’s framework:
- risk management: how open/likely is someone to try something new, involving input/effort with uncertain outcome
- decision making: making independent decision as to what to try and incorporate vs. not
- intuition: you can’t know if someone is additive ahead of time 100% of the time so just having a feel about what makes sense, what doesn’t, what is probably intuitive to think about, and what may not be intuitive
- judgement: 6-12 months later, what did you incorporate, did it help you, what didn’t you incorporate, what did you miss out on/avoid (ofc hard to know)
Published on June 15, 2024.
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