It is a beautiful Sunday here in America’s Finest City of San Diego. I wish that the weather was better in Augusta Georgia for the Masters Tournament this weekend. Hail the size of golfballs in the Southeast?
Bryson DeChambeau is a ReebokTM athlete so our son (employed by Reebok) is definitely rooting for Bryson’s come-from-behind victory.
Today’s post doesn’t directly relate to golf’s good walks spoiled.
Parenthetically, we lost the author of that PGA story, John Feinstein, earlier this year (March 2025):
Yet this post does relate to Masters – as in those of us who are not Juniors.
Let’s consider what I call the capital “I” and capital “O” Nation.
Capital offenses
What does “I & O” stand for? That capital I stands for inflammation and the capital O stands for oxidation.
I acknowledge that the buzzphrase “Inflammation Nation” is the title of at least 2 health and wellness books. Those authorship efforts are laudatory if people take action!
As cited in The Great Cholesterol Myth by Bowden and Sinatra, Inflammation & Oxidation processes are two of the most “vicious processes” in our human bodies.
Please consider these two rogue undertakings as processed root causes of many maladies of slothful and gluttonous Americans. If we don’t get our arms around this “sick care” problem, undertakers will have a huge backlog!
I am now writing a book called Burden? or Banish! that shares the HOW we can get around this terrible Public Health crisis that is triggered by original sins of sloth and gluttony.
With inflammation as a byproduct of too much sugar ingested and too little insulin, we face a ginormous and growing crisis that our kids and grandkids cannot fund adequately.
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Generation of oxidative free radical or ROS compounds in our bodies do strange things – like worsening coronary artery calcification. Yup – sadly like this:
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. What are main causes of this oxidation (or rusting) process in our bodies?
Excessive exercise or physical/mental stress
Environmental toxins that overtask our livers
Too much sunlight as ultraviolet radiation
Smoking.
This image depicts what happens when we get “radicalized” by one or more of these “vicious” oxidative reactions:
Credit: Shutterstock
Doctor, Doctor
If I was an integrated medicine provider, I would prescribe these life-saving and Healthitude-promoting action steps for those in my care:
Eat more Vitamin “P”(lant) – daily! Essential Vitamins and micro-nutrients in colorful vegetables and fruits can stave off both “I” & “O”.
Do not smoke, get a bad Sunburn, or Stress about matters that you cannot control.
Exercise in a “right” zone between Benefit and Toxicity effects to create “good” inflammation to restore and rebuild tissue, without enabling chronic inflammation.
“Right” zones can be estimated in a Dose – Response table or graph, then followed in order to thrive and strive into your 90s:
Mickey Mantle once shared, “if I’d known I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.” The Mick passed at age 63 from liver cancer and cirrhosis, as an iconic athlete dying young.
(Bob Costas’ eulogy for the Mick in 1995 was one for the ages.)
Perhaps you have viewed, as have I, a relatively recent shift in the buzz about lifespans.
Have you read more about Healthspan than Longevity or Lifespan?
I was a bellwether in prose for this shift. As you may recall, my first (published in 2020) wellness and fitness primer, KABOOMER, provided many practical hacks for how committed folks can “thrive and strive into their nineties.”
That process of thriving and striving sets context for a vital life.
Have a very looong healthspan that is free of diseases and conditions, and then enter heaven’s gate quickly.
Live long, prosper, and avoid lengthy periods of palliative care before hospice help and the Grim Reaper. That’s Shangri-La living and dying, as suggested in this comparative Figure (1):
Sorry…
While I am not an apologetic Canadian, I am sorry to share recent study results for healthspans, and not just in the U S of A.
Yikes! An average American spends ~15% of her or his life in an unhealthy condition. This is not a typographical error. This 15% figure is a travesty for our sick care system and each of us.
Morbidity tables from our Center for Disease Control (CDC) and a bit of my algebra conclude that this 15 percent of a lifespan is TWELVE unhealthy years, approximately.
Ready for Our Punchline?
Many factors related to these dirty dozen years of elder sickness and compromised activities of daily life (ADL) are…drumroll… preventable.
I, as your KABOOMER Koach, know that America can do better. We must do better at our own personal level, and in scalar fashion at our great society’s strategic level for public health.
Ten plus one
Consistent with my body of work, I underscore the vital relationship between mind and body in my Healthitude model.
Figure 1 shows the acronym components of my HEALTHITUDE model to help you to thrive and strive toward centenarian status:
We’ll drill into these eleven components in our April Showers posts.
My musings this day are not about this Chinese Lunar New Year of the Snake; though that would be fun, as I’m classified as a Snake. A slithering (?) dude who will face challenges this lunar year. Yet my cosmic lucky stars offer opportunities for career and financial growth. That is, if I stay focused, take necessary precautions, and balance challenges with joyful events to make the most of this year. Note to self – take extra precautions for spinal health during joyful events!
Rather, I’m penning my newfound appreciation for spinal health. If we return or revert to our grade school science classes, we can honor the functions that place us atop Methuselah’s Zoo of animate creatures.
We mammals:
are warm-blooded.
we have backbones and skulls.
we have four bilateral limbs (as a rule).
we have fur or hair.
our females produce milk to feed our young.
we live in multiple environments.
As Neil Shubin summarized in a national best-seller, Your Inner Fish,
Multicellular animals that have a front and back, top and bottom, a left and right, skull and backbone, hands and feet, and a 3-boned middle ear, have bipedal gaits and enormous (relatively that is) brains are called people.
People, I betcha you see the interconnectedness of our central nervous system – from “enormous” brain to limbs and hundreds of our anatomical features and mammalian functions for Fight or Flight, and Feed and Frolic.
Descending from the base of the spine are seven smallish CERVICAL vertebra.Twelve larger THORACIC Vertebra link your Cervical and Lumbar vertebra.Five LUMBAR and five fused sacral vertebra are keys to Lumbo-Pelvic Hip Complex (LPHC) health. Finally, 4 fused bones of the spinal column form one’s Coccyx or tailbone.
And, it isn’t a leap of anatomical faith to agree that a human spine extends from that ginormous brain to our tailbone (coccyx). What is between brain and coccyx? Route 33 is the conduit. And elements of this “route” are bones, muscles, tendons, and other tissues. Let’s review the bony part of our spinal column.
33 Bones
Unless you are in a lizard crawl or a bear crawl or sleep position, your spinal column is vertical. Too often, a sedentary or inactive spinal column resembles this:
I’ve been there and experienced that nociceptor feedback as a injured lumbar jack! And, I’ve the 4 titanium screws of a MAS TLIF apparatus as proof if you have X-Ray vision…
Why did my L5-S1 disk, that shock absorber between key hip-hinging vertebra, slip then degenerate for me? Doctors don’t seem to know when slipped disks happen, though babies aren’t born with them.
Was it those 600-pound leg presses and heavy lifts of my college rowing days?
Or perhaps it originated from an accidental fall from a broken tree limb, or a youthful rough-housing slip on a stairs? I next broach a skeletal interpretation, rather than a Chester Molester variant of a term…
Degenerate
An old nautical poem included:
“on the strength of one link in the cable
dependeth the might of the chain.”
Even though my L5-S1 spinal fusion was a success after an 18 month post-habilitation [age 50] , I suspect that my next-in-line links became degenerate too. Note: Both Disc and Disk are accepted spellings of these vital shock absorbers.
And, yes aging contributes to disk wear and tear.
One reason is that our disks are not well-supplied with blood or hydration. Columbia University researchers suggest that one-third of all folks at age 35 have the beginnings of disk degeneration at one or more levels. By age 60, the incidence rate is about 90 percent. Now, that degeneration doesn’t always equate to disease, peripheral neural shortcomings or radiculitis*…Yet if it does lead to dis-ease, the symptoms can really, really affect one’s quality of life. Trust me.
Radiculitis is NOT ridiculous
Radiculitis describes the sensed symptoms from a pinched, irritated, or inflamed spinal nerve root.
Radiculitis is more prevalent in the lower back or in the neck region
Experts at the Atlantic Spine Center remind us, “Any condition that compresses a spinal nerve could cause of radiculitis. Disc herniations, bone spurs, and thickening of surrounding ligaments are common causes. Other conditions that may cause radiculitis include: spinal stenosis, damaged intervertebral discs, degeneration of the spine, and spinal instabilities such as spondylolisthesis or scoliosis.
I’m definitely not an orthopedist or chiropractor. And addressing most or all of these causes and effects would take volumes of scientific verbiage. Here are my ptractical, spine tingling basics.
I, as your baby boomer author accumulated multiple degenerative symptoms over my time on this zany planet. I contend that my degerative disk disease (DDD) is a combination of both my age and miles.
Pinched spinal nerve roots in my spine’s foraminal spaces assuredly explain many of the sensations and pains I have in my extremities.
My chronic Left Rower’s Elbow inflammation is a likely example.
Yes, there is marginal good news in that I don’t appear to have peripheral nerve damage in my left foot. Yet, my novocained Left foot, notably weaker left gluteals and upper/lower limbbs are facts of my boomer life.
Takeaways?
Do not let sensations of tingling, numbness or pain in a limb or extremity endure for too long. Why? Nerve routes are notorious slow healers!
If/when you sense something different – SAY SOMETHING!
Pursue second opinions before surgical intervention(s) – please!
If you are walking through your own neuromuscular purgatory or Hell – – – Keep walking!
Get your entire spine imaged at TBD intervals. Don’t be like me – too soon older, too late smarter.
Strive to find simple and cheap spinal realignment and decompression methods before committing to long and expensive Chiropractic methods.
Cervical, thoracic, and lumbar Dennerolls are working for me to stave off invasive surgery or lengthy “functional decompressions.”
The Cervical Denneroll is the only orthotic on the market that has been proven through numerous research studies including a randomized clinical trial to improve abnormal lordosis of the cervical spine.
My wrestler’s and football player’s cervical column is notably straight – diverging from a natural curve. Guess who has neck and jaw issues of my regional neuromuscular system?
Disks in my thoracic and lumbar regions need decompression and realignment – big time.
Onr definitely wants to avoid pinching a thoracic spinal nerve root that communicates qith your hear and lungs – right?
I recently learned that a yoga move – the upward dog or scorpion pose – was exacerbating the next link in my spinal chain while alleviating symptoms from the damaged sciatic nerve (L5-S1 origin).
I adapted, as I preach to my clients. I now use Jefferson Curls, dead bugs, adding frontal and transverse plan motions like side planks to plateau or impove my spinal health.
Read, heed, and proceed, please.
Stay well past forty.
Dave
As always, I encourage you to reach out if you think that my experienced and expertise might help you. Don’t be ridiculous or degenerate – right?
Tomorrow, January 10th, marks the annual recognition of Quitter’s Day.
Today, I rant from my personal soapbox to reframe thoughts and deeds that precede a Quit. I mutter about those Babylonians who conceived New Year’s Day in the first place and time (2,000 years before the Messiah.) Curses to whoever researched that 3/4ths of resolvers quit by the second Friday in January.
#$%&
You know, that 4-letter word, q-u-i-t, is not all bad. Take, for example, Dry January. What’s not to like about letting go of that adult beverage for a spell? Or, how about quitting an unhealthy NETFLIX binge, as far too many of us engaged in for the CoVid-19 pandemic?
You may know by now, that I am fascinated by word origins, whether the words are “4 letters” or otherwise… The Latin word QUIT – as in let go, release, or discharge – rooted its way into useful words like: quite, unrequited, and acquit. As in – Johnny Cochrane’s testimonial quip during the OJ Simpson murder trial- “if the glove doesn’t fit, you must acquit.”
Unrequited?
Discharging another example, most of us have heard of the phase, or experienced unrequited love. Unrequited love probably was the lyrical genesis of “LOVE HURTS” first performed by The Everly Brothers, and then by Nazareth. Don’t forget to work to sweat with your exertion if you find that your love is blue, or if you are hurtin’. Generate endophins, try to get quality sleep, and breathe, baby, breathe.
Reframe the Refrains
I implore you to invest less time on ” failure to achieve New Year’s goals” e around Quitter’s Day.
Rather, in a reframing sort of way, I ask you-if you are bummed by missing a Babylonian mark- to begin anew and to reinvest in your physical portfolio.
Shucks, I am pretty goal-oriented. Yet I miss a mark regularly. That’s life… Get back in the saddle. Get up again after you get knocked down, or after you miss the mark you set. As my Midshipmen’s Prayer went:
“if I miss the mark, give me the courage to try again.”
Please don’t dwell on a missed mark. Release it. Quit the look-back. Shift to adapt, learn, and advance.
Nunc Coepi
Whether you missed, or hit your bullseye – do remember this:
There is a reason why a minority of folks (~8-20 percent of us) will keep on keepin’ on after Quitters Day. Kudos to all who KEEP ON TRUCKIN’
Many in this minority, like me, plan their execution of small, realistic yet success-oriented goals that are timebound. They formalize or at least jot down a shorthand manifesto stating what they intend to achieve, by what date. They document and celebrate their successes.
If and when you journal (in some fashion) regularly, you won’t forget your demi-successes, or overlook their details. Trust me.
Bottom Line? Reframing can work for you, as it does for me, to meet or surpass most of your performance goals.
Adieu
Shifting from my soapbox, I close as we say goodbye to our 39th President, Jimmy Carter. He was known as a devoted volunteer, family man, and genteel Southerner. May he rest in peace.
Huzzah
Here’s to those magnificent fire crews and first responders who are saving what they can of Angelino neighborhoods and businesses as I type. They are STRONG to SAVE! They do not quit.
Before we reflect on our Christmases Past, have you been to your home-gym, or Big Box to work those sarcomeres?
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If you, dear Viewer, were like me in that latest Leap Year, you had both Highs and Not-so-High experiences.
These FROSTY post mortems are evidence of my fascination for a year’s worth of healthspan and vitae:
Our amazing bodies are prone to niggles, conditions, and injuries that come with ages and miles.
2. My unhealthy Kryptonite explains the coronary artery calcification of a 92-year-old male. (Spoiler alert: Lipoprotein(a))
3. God is great, Microbrews are very good, and some people are zany.
4. It Depends.
Eating my own V I T A* dog food, so to speak, my enduring quest to thrive and strive needs adaptations. [*V I T A represents Volume, Intensity, Tempo, and Adaptions in my STRONG to SAVE model.]
5. Researchers need more time, perhaps a decade, to better grasp the complexities of atherosclerosis cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) for 2024’s baby boomers and Kaboomers (like me.)
6. Lives, that can be terse, are enhanced by episodes and encounters.
7. Don’t take your body’s “shock absorbers“, like knee cartilage, for granted.
8. I have one or more healthspan/lifespan tomes left to launch.
Yes, my #3 libro – YOUR TICKER TAPE – may launch in the new year.
9. Comedy and death are easier than book branding and marketing 🙂
10. The Obstacle can be your better way , so man up, like Marcus Aurelius.
Thanks to author Ryan Holliday for coalescing stoical practices that I embrace.
Adieu 2024
We bid adieus to many good folks – like Toby Keith, centenarian Jimmy Carter, my college classmate, CC Adams, and these luminaries:
On this Thanksgiving for Americans, I offer my annual public service announcement about disciplined dieting and lifestyles for Holiday seasons.
Fact: An average American adult gains 2 pounds of white fat between Thanksgiving Day and the Twelfth Night of Christmas.
Do not be a FEASTy boy or girl too often, please!
Fact: Most folks do NOT shed that added 2 pounds of evil white fat after their Holiday eating and drinking merriment. Fast forward…in five years, that can amount to ten (10!) pounds of fat that is packed on or hidden in your viscera. You can do the scary calculation to foresee what can happen IF you let it. What size pants did you wear twenty years ago? Just asking.
As one energy equation benchmark, those two pounds of stored fatty calories are the equivalent of TWO completed Marathon Runs. That’s right – twenty six miles of roadwork are needed to shed a single pound of fat.
Measure Up
A pound of fat prevention or shedding assuredly enables a superior healthspan. There is no doubt that one’s Waist to Hip Ratio (WHR), and/or Waist to Height Ratios (WtHR) relate to healthspan and lifespan.
As hips do not lie, we gladly accept the differences between guideline WHRs of women and men here:
Health risk
Women
Men
Low
0.80 or lower
0.95 or lower
Moderate
0.81-0.85
0.96-1.0
High
0.86 or higher
1.0 or higher
Citation: Healthline
Americans have sadly become excellent 🙁 storage sheds for visceral and abdominal FAT. And, we are unsuccessful in trimming those storage areas. This fatty impact is documented in countless credible research studies and health proclamations.
Pears beat Apples (in profile)
I heartily endorse this healthline.com quote:
“people who carry more of their weight around their midsection (an apple-shaped body) may be at a higher risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and premature death than people who carry more of their weight in their hips and thighs (a pear-shaped body).
Even if your current WHR is in a moderate range, your risk of disease may be increased.
A moderate WHR is:
0.9 or less in men
0.85 or less for women
In both men and women, a WHR of 1.0 or higher increases the risk of heart disease and other conditions that are linked to being overweight.”
Gents – be very concerned if your wiast circumference is 37 inches or more. I mean that!
Ladies – be quite concerned if you waist is creeping to more than 31.5 inches.
(A process note: your true waist is measured around the uppermost point of your hips.)
Rx
What is my 3-step Rx prescription to improve your WHR and WtHR?
Shed stored fat around your middle, and hidden around your vital organs [this lowers the waist measure in the algorithm’s numerator]
Build powerful skeletal muscles in your Glutes and thights [this favorably boosts the size of the algorithm’s denominator.]
Develop functionally strong inner core muscles to lengthen your spine and tighten your Abs.
Losing an inch of waist circumference can LOWER your lifestyle risks for metabolic syndrome, Type II Diabetes, and ASCVD risk. Trust me.
In an “open kimono” case, with a pre-FEAST waist circumerence of 35 1/2 inches :(, and a Glute/Hip circumference of 41 inches, your CPT and aging athlete scribe has a WHR of 0.86.
That isn’t a young, studmuffin Hollywood actor’s ratio, yet it suggests that my statistical risks associated with higher WHRs aren’t all bad…
If and when I overcome the dietary odds to get down to a 34 1/2 inch wait and a bigger, stronger Glute Hip circumference of 41 1/2 inches – I get a wee bit of wiggle room for health and a possible trip to my tailor shop. My “to be” WHR would be a fair-to-middling 0.83. That 3 percent improvement in my WHR just might add years to my life, and life to my years.
Now, those prescripted ways to improve your and my WHR and WtHR are not easy. They ARE simple yet HARD.
Banishing belly fat, regaining lost height from skeletal muscle slump / spinal disc settling, and boosting your gluteals takes work. Why not start very soon?
That timely imperative is key as shedding dangerous white fat gets harder until one’s twilight years.
You may have read in my published works that is is acceptable, and may even be beneficial, to situationally stray from a strict eating-to-live lifestyle. It is well documented that strict dieting is hard, only marginally successful, and definitely not fun…
Go ahead and celebrate the harvest of your labors – OCCASIONALLY. Then get back to a flexible lifestyle diet that works for you. Don’t stress over a little pumpkin pie slice. Be grateful. Take a walk. Flex your nutrients and your muscles! And, consider how your an my forbears lived. They were hunters and harvesters before they were farmers and TV Dinner/processed food eaters. They situationally had to fast if they didn’t track down their next meal. So, let’s shift to FASTing…
Hunger Games are not bad.
Entire books are written about Fasting and Time-Restricted-Eating, or TRE. There are about as many variations of fasting and TRE as there are flavors of Baskin-Robbins ice cream. One healthline posting shares five (5) techniques of fasting that might be tried on for your size…
So, I’ll summarize key morsels for your to munch on. And, I’ll share with you my own trials with TRE…
This Aussie graphic nicely summarizes key credible benefits of meals versus time of day and night:
In full and open disclosure, I do not skip water and black coffee or tea when I am fasting or foregoing breakfast. That doesn’t work for observing Ramadan, yet it does work for me.
There is a trial and learn way for you to choose your lifestyle Game.
I find that a healthy dinner before 6 pm (note: no alcohol after that as a fyi), and breaking my fast with lunch at noon or later the next day works for me – on days that I do not Lift Heavy in the morning. A bonus is that I feel less “brain fog” as I celebrate my hormones at work the way my forebears did.
I strive to get two TRE days of 18 hours duration in weekly.
I feel energized, I celebrate my improved insulin sensitivity, and that I am avoiding fatty gains. Do I lose a lot of fat? NO. Do I embrace situational TRE? YES.
I may try more draconian fasting methods – like 2 or 3 day fasts -someday. Then I’ll be able to share those lessons with you. For now – these Feast and Fast takeways are experiential and trusty.
Yes, here is that important caveat for skipping sustenance:
“Before embarking on intermittent fasting or making any other drastic changes to your diet, consult a trusted healthcare professional to help you get started safely.”
As WebMd advises, “Studies have shown a strong link between abdominal obesity and a higher risk of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart disease, and type 2 diabetes. This was true even for people whose body mass index (BMI) was at a level considered healthy.”
Thanks to songwriter and performer, Billy Currington. With his lyrics, I now take my annual stand as an anti-Time Change guy.
Honest, I’m not in any way alluding to Election Tuesday with these first words of Currington’s quoted lyrical phrases:
“Talkin’ politics… Old dogs and new tricks and Habits we ain’t kicked.”
We ain’t kicked
In nearly all of our United States , we rely on “auto” smart devices or our manual dexterity to “Fall Back” our clocks and timekeepers for the perennial Time Change(s).
Why, why, a hundred times Why?
And a shoutout to those two states, five U.S. territories, and the Navajo Nation in our Union that opt to keep the same circadian rhythm year-round. Bravo, Hawaii, and Arizona who did kick the clock!
This man-made “daylight savings” has always confounded me. Sure, our one-time gain for a 25-hour day feels good for a very short time. Then, the Sunday, November 3rd sunset comes too early for me. And…drumroll… we lose an hour of sleep early next March 2025. That is a zero-sum game that makes nil sense to me. This is pointedly so when we consider the documental damages to the mental health of many!
So, how about a Sunshine Protection Act at the national level? That sounded very good to me, as did my state’s Californian initiative to end the crazy (imo) time changes. Our Congress hasn’t moved a draft Sunshine Protection Act to the President’s desk in two annual tries. Without “talkin’ politics” in excess, Senator Mark Rubio stated, ”stop enduring the ridiculous and antiquated practice of switching our clocks back and forth…”
I rhetorically ask, “what savings plan works in a zero-sum investment?”
I politely agree, yet disagree with the good Senator from the Sunshine state. As a rational man, I do want to bid adieu to the “ridiculous and antiquated.” Yet, I favor a STANDARD time all year, every year. Isn’t the definition and practice of standard good enough? I vote for Daylight STANDARD Time.
As one in the business of promoting healthspans and lifespans, I commend to you the salient observations of Doctor(PhD) Adam Spira, a sleep and mental health expert with the Johns Hopkins University –
“ about 63% of Americans would prefer to eliminate DST, and 55% experience tiredness following the switch. But the time transition does more than just inspire mixed opinions, grogginess, and foul moods. Researchers say that the change has long-term negative consequences for our bodies and minds.” Period.
Please invest some of your “extra hour” to consider these things to know about “our” savings — — —
Making the shift can increase your health risks.
Fatal traffic accidents occur by 6% after our “fall back” shift!
2. Daylight Savings Time may NOT save energy in current days –
“ extending … daylight hours encourages people to use more air conditioning and heating.
The Oxford Dictionary reminds us that a standard is “used or accepted as normal or average.” I like normal. How about you?
— Do Dairy Cows care what a timepiece shows for daylight or twilight?
Do “smart” energy-controlled offices care about abnormal sunshine or moonbeams?
The flip side to a sunny-side-up bus ride for schoolkids is that they have a dark bus ride home in our late autumn and winter months 🙁 That seems like another zero-sum game for those of us in the mid-latitudes of America…)
Didn’t we get along just fine in 1974, though there were, and always will be dissenters about time shifts? [Our Nation’s lawmakers suspected that the Energy Crises of those “dark” days might be mitigated by DST.] That was one half-century ago!
What do our economic competitors do about twice-yearly time shifts to “save” daylight?
I recall that Japan, India, and China do not observe daylight saving. These countries seem to be performing just fine without timefoolery.
And, according to Pew Research, “Europe and the United States are more the exception than the rule. Most countries do not observe daylight saving time — the practice of advancing and winding back clocks seasonally in the spring and fall.”
A hero of mine, namely Ben Franklin was the brain behind the “early to bed and early to rise” concept of Daylight Savings Time (DST) way back in 1784. Then, our nation hoped that DST might help with industrialization for World War I. Would you agree that times have changed with technology and travel?
My two or inflationary three-cent assertion is that YES we should! As we keep kickin’ around Sleep Protection Acts (or permanent standard time), please proactively educate yourself and use restorative sleep to counter this time-tinkering.
