My Experiment With DMSO for Plantar Fasciitis The FDA killed DMSO over 60 years ago. Today it's making a comeback. Plantar fasciitis can come for anyone, regardless of status. Tiger Woods withdrew mid-tournament from the 2023 Masters due to unbearable heel pain. NBA Center Joakim Noah, once awarded Defensive Player of the Year, had his electrifying career cut short because, he said, “It feels like you have needles underneath your foot while you’re playing.” Schlubs like me hobble through the...
12 days ago • 3 min read
10 Positives of the Coming Food Shortage – Oil Edition In March 2022, after President Biden warned that the war in Ukraine would cause food insecurity across the planet, I wrote a blog post about the upside of the coming food shortage. Well, here we go again. Logistics experts are sounding the alarm about energy shortages, particularly in diesel fuel. They point out that even if the Middle East conflict ends today, a significant lag exists before the world can return to normal energy...
23 days ago • 1 min read
Why Sweating Isn’t Detox Neither the gym nor the sauna offers any kind of genuine cleanse. One fascinating aspect of gym behavior is the effort people make to avoid doing the work. Take the elliptical machine … please. It’s not only that people congratulate themselves on a workout less demanding than a gentle walk, but also how some people add gimmicks to make the session even more meaningless. In particular, I’m thinking of this guy who puts in hours every week on the elliptical machine...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Why Jogging Makes Everything Worse One distinctly Miami phenomenon is young men on vacation who rent high-end supercars for their party weekend. Many of these cars use adjustable exhaust systems that make them painfully loud, even at low speeds. These dudes cruise through busy pedestrian areas while revving their engines and making a terrible racket, frightening the children and annoying the adults who actually live here. In response, police have begun deploying acoustic enforcement cameras —...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
The Routine That Keeps Me Young I have the dream and the drive, for now. I recently reached the 10-year anniversary milestone at my job. On my special day, the highest compliment I received was not about the quality of my work, but rather what the department head said: “Keva, you look exactly the same as when you started.” Let me tell you, stopping time between age 40 and 50 is no small feat. Still, freezing my prime has its drawbacks. For example, I recently matched on a dating app with a...
2 months ago • 2 min read
Why Modern Women Smell Terrible in Bed I had been scrolling my phone thinking about the challenges in the dating market when I came across a tweet that said it all. The author was a well-known internet personality and writer, who also holds PhD in Philosophy from Yale. He wrote that all year, he’d been having bad sexual experiences with women — because they smell terrible. This tweet hit home because it aligns with my own experience. I’m not going to comment on who or where, but I think the...
3 months ago • 2 min read
The Weight We Carry There are three movie lines from the last 25 years that continue to vex me daily. It’s been 9,131 straight days of limbo. Here’s my attempt to work through it. A Beautiful Mind (2002) A Beautiful Mind recounts the true story of math prodigy John Nash. The film opens in 1947 with Nash beginning his graduate studies at Princeton. Nash is locked in a fierce intellectual competition with fellow student Martin Hansen. Over the course of the film, Nash succumbs to severe mental...
3 months ago • 2 min read
Silencing The Sun Story The topic of my worst performing videos is not a coincidence. While Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter seems to have reduced censorship on that platform, I can tell you from personal experience it’s alive and well on YouTube. I’ve been posting short health and fitness videos on YouTube since 2022. Over the last year, I’ve been getting good traction, especially considering I’m an unknown that doesn’t have cleavage bouncing around. Even my throwaway videos get over 1,000...
3 months ago • 2 min read
You Can’t Handle The Truth Dating apps deliver keen insight into the way people really think. This week, a long article about the inevitability of AI took social media by storm. The prediction (and engagement farming) is that in short order AI will bring about the End Times. Nevertheless, in my experience, AI sometimes works, sometimes not. In the fields of law and medicine, AI botches answers all the time. In fact, AI platforms make significant disclaimers around these topics. Ironically,...
4 months ago • 2 min read