Happy Weekend 👋
Do you ever find yourself absent-mindedly opening Facebook for the eleventy-third time today, or rotating through the same three apps in fruitless search of dopamine? The app “One Sec” will invite you to do a breathing exercise (it can be just one breath; you choose in its settings page) whenever you open certain apps, and then give you the choice of proceeding or not. It also has the option of “reinterventions” to do that again if you stay in the app for longer than you planned to (in other words, it stops you getting lost in the eternal scroll, a fate that sounds a lot cooler than it is). It’s much more effective than screentime limits for actually ensuring mindful phone use!
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In today’s email we cover ketamine and the bladder, Botox, and unplanking your plank.
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Today’s Main Feature
Guess What Ketamine Does To Your Bladder
If you guessed “nothing good”, then you got that part right, but it can be rather more dramatic than you might think:
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How Safe Is Botox, Really?
Botox is the brand name of a drug made from botulinum toxin type A, which is made by the bacteria Clostridium botulinum.
This is the same toxin responsible for botulism, so the fact it even has a brand name might be considered a fun sign of where we are at as a species.
However! It’s certainly popular, so let’s examine the science:
Watch And Learn
The Most Underrated Plank Exercise For Best Benefits
It’s very simple, but makes a big difference:
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