Balancing Your Cells(and Sanity)Videos

And now, to my favorite subject: health and wellness.  

A wise woman once said that teaching about healthy habits is, "Building positive neural pathways—one video at a time—to break out of black-and-white thinking."

(Kidding, it was me.)

So, is protein good for you this week or bad? How much fiber? Or fats? Wait—healthy fats don't make you fat?  What about artificial sugar? Oh no, I wasn’t 100% healthy this week—will I die?! I need self-care, so that means… no care for anyone else! (Cue the overused “put your own oxygen mask on first” analogy.)

Okay, deep breath! (ha)!

I’ve been writing about sleep habits for years, and I just started a blog on perimenopause—because yes, these two are besties. Do I have a degree from a random company printing ‘certifications’ with their inkjet printer? No.
Do I walk the walk? Abso-freaking-lutely.
(and here’s the refreshing part, I hope —I’m not 100% healthy. Trust me, most purists are miserable… and that ain’t good for your cells either.). My rule? 90/10. Ninety percent good, ten percent… jeez, I’m human.

But on the serious:  Health isn’t just about food and movement. Whether you’re carrying too much anger, obsessing over the ‘noise’, or trying really hard not to let it get to you—it all keeps you in fight-or-flight. And that’s not great for your cellular health.  

And here’s another piece of the puzzle: your media diet. Oh no she didn’t??! But yes — the clips we scroll all day literally rewire our brains. Oh look, another person juggling fruit… wait, the next TikTok challenge… must do! But the more shallow content we consume, the more our brains crave it — and the more our capacity for independent thought shrinks. 

Yes, I get the irony—I’m making one-minute pieces about this very thing—but if short is the tool, I’ll use it. Because as journalists, we’re not only reporting the news to help shape independent thought, we’re shaping the brain health of our audiences. The good news is, the brain’s plastic, and what we scroll today shapes what we crave tomorrow.

So in other words, watch my quality content, produced for current brain wiring, then after watching go research, then verify, dig deeper — and then act.