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– Brian Wansink

The Daily Tonic is a two to five minute read sharing science backed healthnews and tips, all while getting you to crack a smile or even _ lol _onoccasion.

Friday. The most productive day of the week. Ok–maybe that’s not the casebut it could be. What is the key to increasing your productivity, and whatdoes being productive have to do with your health? Let’s dive in.

Work Less To Get More Done

We have said it plenty of times but it is always worth repeating–proper stressmanagement is an incredibly important and often overlooked component foroptimizing health. You can eat all the right things and exercise regularly,but if you are in a state of chronic stress, you are still putting yourselfat risk for some non-ideal healthoutcomes. Formany people work is a consistent and sometimes major source of stress. Tightdeadlines, back-to-back meetings, increasingly blurred lines between work andhome, and all of the other challenges of working from home can make a lot ofpeople’s jobs these days pretty stressful. One way to combat thatstress–increasing your productivity. It is safe to assume that the moreefficient you can become with your work, the less stressful it will feel. Thefirst step to increasing productivity is realizing that for most people, theability to focus may be limited to 4 or 5 hours aday. While thereis limited research on the topic, the four to five hour range is derived fromthis well known study. The 10,000 hour rule, popularized by writer Malcolm Gladwell,is also derived from this study and states that it takes about 10,000 hours ofdeliberate practice to become an expert at something. Four to five hours a daywas the range that the best students in the study tended to practice, hencethe determination of that being our “sweet spot.” According to a developmentalneuroscientist quoted in thisarticle, the 4to 5 hour sweet spot sounds about right. This “sweet spot” is recognized inprofessions where focus can be a matter of life or death. Air trafficcontrollers for example are only allowed to manage live traffic for an averageof four hours of their eight hour shifts. The solution? Forward this email toyour boss and tell them that you’ll be cutting your work day short movingforward because The Daily Tonic said so. In case that solution doesn’t work,you can also try working in chunks to give your brain a rest. Try the”Pomodoro technique” by setting a timer and deep diving into focused work for25 minutes and then taking a 5 minute break. Do that for 4 blocks and thentake a longer 30 minute break before deep diving in again. Make sure thatduring your breaks, you are actually giving your brain some rest. Scrollingthrough social media or checking out the latest news headlines doesn’t count.Go for an unplugged walk outside, do a little guided breathwork, or bust outthe foam roller for a little myofascial release.

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We May Have An Inbreeding Problem

As a country, we drink a lot of milk. We also eat a lot of cheese. I mean… whodoesn’t love cheese?! It’s no surprise, then, that we have a lot of dairycows. There are roughly 9 million Holstein dairy cows in the U.S. Just likeany other type of conventional animal production, the dairy industry is fullof issues. But one specific issue that is of concern lately is the fact thatthose 9 million dairy cows are all mostly inbred and come from just two bulls(males). Thisis a result of decades of selective breeding used to produce dairy cows withthe most favorable traits. However, geneticists say that so much inbreedingcan lead to the proliferation of diseases. Chalk that up as another reason whywe should all work to move away from conventional meat and dairy production.

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