I am doing my best trying to convince myself that I lead an interesting life, but I am not 100% convinced. I started to learn Spanish some time ago, thinking about some future holidays in Argentina or Spain (Brazil is the one speaking Portuguese, right?) or some other Spanish-speaking countries (Cuba comes to my mind, which other countries are safe to travel to and so on?). After a bit more than two years, I am able to understand what people are talking about, and I can order food or sort out shopping or go to a hotel, but not much more. The statistics seem much more impressive with 6321 minutes spent learning, 1915 new words, and doing it daily for 700 days. Hope this will open my horizon, and take me to some impressive places. Wow, Peru, I was told that Peru is a place speaking Spanish, this is another country I want to visit.
Listened to some impressive insulin resistance newest theories, and not much went it, after more than 2 hours of high-quality research. I, trying to dumb it down so my brain will remember for a longer time:
- When insulin resistance increases, the fats accumulated from carbohydrates via lipogenesis will increase, leading to the bad cholesterol increase via the liver. The sugars transform into more fat, and all the problems of being fat will appear if you eat too many sugars.
- Interestingly enough, we start to become insulin resistant from age of 20 even when we are being lean, but we do not see the effects as the pancreatic cells will secrete 3 times more insulin and keep it under control, until they will not, hence the diabetic condition manifesting.
- Funny enough, only 45 minutes of moderate to intensive exercise are needed to see notable improvements. And, according to research, 3 sessions of 15 minutes are much better than one of 45, but even one session of 45 minutes is enough to improve the condition significantly (the condition being insulin resistance, leading to diabetes, which increases tenfold the risk of heart disease, cancer, and other illnesses, which eventually will kill you). So, keeping your insulin sensitivity for longer will increase not only your lifespan (how much you live) but also your healthspan (how much you live healthily).
- This leads to some of my questions, which I will research in-depth in the following days: How do you detect and measure insulin resistance? What are the ways to reduce and prevent it? What are the main causes? I know the answers, in general, but I want more details about it.
And just being a bit nostalgic, check this out, a few years ago, when all my portfolio kind of doubled its value. Just look at those wonderful prices. Compared to that, this bear market suddenly looks reasonable enough. And if you buy tokens from some good, hard-working projects right now, you may reap the rewards on the next bull market. It is all about positioning yourself into a winning potential future and then just waiting. Don't be greedy, just get as much as you can afford, and be prepared to wait, as the ancient wisdom will teach us: This too shall pass, which is in fact a Persian saying, often misquoted as from the Bible. By the way, my eyes these days are on Legion token, from @brofi, as they will pay Hive for its owners. And I want more Hive. But yeah, buy little, buy often, and decide what price you want to reach when you sell. And obviously, sell when you reach the price. Send half the profit in your bank account (or put it in stablecoins) and buy something else that looks good enough with the other half of the profit). Easy, as long as your feeling do not meddle with the plan. Hard, in the real life.
That's all for today, see you soon!
George
I will sell HIVE for HBD from 1 to 3$. I'll deposit HBD. Let the coins lie until the next bear market.