Vitamin D. Totally changed my life. Haven’t had a real bout of depression since I started taking it.
How much do you take per day?
5000 in the winter 3000 in the summer.
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#112For me, it was the VR game Beat Saber. I built my first desktop and got a VR headset just to be able to play it. I took 3 weeks off work December last year and lost ~10lbs (155lbs -> 145lbs) playing 2-3 hours every day. It's been great for me since I've been sitting in front of my computer all day for years and never really enjoyed exercising.
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#113Vitamin D. Totally changed my life. Haven’t had a real bout of depression since I started taking it.
Here are my Vitamin D links:
1. Vitamin D as a sunburn treatment https://newatlas.com/vitamin-d-sunburn/50394/?utm_source=Giz...
2. Vitamin D may reduce cancer risk https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/d...
3. We need more Vitamin D than previously thought https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28768407/
4. 4000 units of Vitamin D reduces arterial stiffness https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180102114147.h...
5. Could it be that Vitamin D is just a marker for sun exposure? https://www.outsideonline.com/2380751/sunscreen-sun-exposure...
6. Vitamin D reduces risk of acute respiratory infections https://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.i6583
7. High percentage of severe COVID-19 patients have Vitamin D insufficiency https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.24.20075838v...
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#114Alcohol. Not for the better.
It's never too late to change, man.
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#115Chair. Never understood why somebody would pay for a chair more than 50-60 bucks. Something you can get in staples/wallmart anywhere... My friend bought Herman Miller for ~$1000 and I called him a donkey. Then started a job where we had these chairs in the office. Noticed it. Even back when I was broke, rented a room and didn't want to buy anything that would be potentially a problem to move, I still decided to buy i…
> Herman Miller
I always see that brand mentioned in the comments but they have a lot of different models. Which one do you recommend?
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#116Yes to the air purifier. People living without them are insane. Also, buying and running an air purifier destroyed my marriage! My wife said she didn't like the sound of it. So I bough a new, super quite one. Then she said she didn't like the "frequency" not the volume of the machine. One day I came home and she had unplugged it and we got into an argument. I told her to please just "shut up" and that was when she at…
Such a touching story. What is it model please?
Most likely it was "do as I say" model.
Re: Ask HN: Most life changing things that you bought?
#117Yes to the air purifier. People living without them are insane. Also, buying and running an air purifier destroyed my marriage! My wife said she didn't like the sound of it. So I bough a new, super quite one. Then she said she didn't like the "frequency" not the volume of the machine. One day I came home and she had unplugged it and we got into an argument. I told her to please just "shut up" and that was when she at…
That escalated quickly
definitely on topic though
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#118A document scanner. I had many years of old paper tax returns, and I wanted them in PDF format. Paid $400 for an Fujitsu ScanSnap iX1500 and absolutely love it. Put a stack of documents in the top, hit "scan", and a PDF appears on my computer. Zero hassle. Anything that I get in paper form gets immediately scanned, backed up, and shredded.
I actually plan on getting a paper scanner too (aside from the slow, crappy multifunction printer thingamajig i got), however, the pricetag has scared me away until now - do you have any other recommendations for maybe cheaper options?
That being said, scanning stuff is only part of my plan - i also plan on putting things into Mayan EDMS or paperless, OCR'd up and searchable...
https://www.mayan-edms.com / https://github.com/the-paperless-project/paperless
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agree, the Sony WH-1000 are astonishing. I can use them for everything from video calls to airplane travel, to grocery shopping. https://remotivo.com/gear/product/headphones/
Not intended as a criticism, but since it’s not something you can really ask in person—- Doesn’t it get tiring to listen to music all the time? It’s not that I have anything against music, but I can’t imagine myself listening the majority of my days from waking to sleeping.
Yeah I think it would. I don’t use them literally all the time, but multiple times a day yes. Also, just having noise cancelling on with no music playing is a nice experience in the supermarket for example.
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#120Chair. Never understood why somebody would pay for a chair more than 50-60 bucks. Something you can get in staples/wallmart anywhere... My friend bought Herman Miller for ~$1000 and I called him a donkey. Then started a job where we had these chairs in the office. Noticed it. Even back when I was broke, rented a room and didn't want to buy anything that would be potentially a problem to move, I still decided to buy i…
> Herman Miller I always see that brand mentioned in the comments but they have a lot of different models. Which one do you recommend?
The Aeron is the tried and true classic. The Cosm is an 'updated' version with different back heights, and The Mira is an easier to clean plastic back version. I swear by my Aeron that I picked up at a used office supply store for $400 along with a new desk.