{"id":278915,"date":"2020-10-06T10:42:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T14:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=278915"},"modified":"2020-10-06T10:44:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T14:44:59","slug":"freedom-from-physiological-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/06\/freedom-from-physiological-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom from Physiological Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First step: relieve yourself of all physiological pain. This means:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Optimize for sleep (8+ hours a night). Get into bed by 8pm. Get up around 6am. Optimize for our real human circadian rhythms (our wake\/sleep cycle dictated by our metabolism and the rising and setting of the sun) rather than trying to *overcome* our human physiology. More faith in our natural human physiological system than the trappings of modern society and modern desiderata (things to be desired).<\/li><li>Freedom from back, neck, hip, ankle, hand, carpal tunnel pain, etc. Start first from human physiology. Unnatural to sit; thus stand (in praise of standing desks). If you gotta &#8216;sit&#8217;, just do the &#8216;Asian squat&#8217; (ass to grass squatting). Perhaps do some form of daily yoga, weight lifting, or some cross-fit-esque or powerlifting styled workout. Uber-optimize and uber-ergonomize your computing setup (Kinesis keyboard, trackball mouse, standing desk, etc). <\/li><li>Figure out what substances you can tolerate and what you cannot. More faith in your stomach than your &#8216;rationality&#8217;. As an East Asian (I am Korean) I cannot tolerate alcohol, or lactose\/milk\/cheese\/butter products well. Rather than trying to &#8216;force&#8217; my genetics to adapt to these modern and exotic food-substances, why not optimize for my own DNA?<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First step: relieve yourself of all physiological pain. This means: Optimize for sleep (8+ hours a night). Get into bed by 8pm. Get up around 6am. Optimize for our real human circadian rhythms (our \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":278554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-wide.php","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/ggv4-22-of-303-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278915"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278921,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278915\/revisions\/278921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}