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Your glucose metabolism and aerobic fitness start impacting cognition long, long before officially crossing any diagnostic thresholds, and it's usually the middle age where our frequently poor lifestyles start impacting us.
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If you're male, you might want to check with your physician to see what your testosterone levels are like. You're at the age where it starts declining and it can have a really fatiguing effect.
I've gotten it tested. I am indeed on the lower end of the range. But there is nothing that can be done about it right? I do workout 6 times a week with 3 weight training, eat very decent diet. My weight, bodyfat and muscle tone are in good standing too. All That really hasn't raised my testosterone. I don't want to get on TRT.
But the reality is that what you're going through is probably more about a need to optimize for boosted cognitive function/ neuroplasticity / mental performance / healing at the cellular level. It's what a lot of us are dealing with as we approach or welcome the big 4-0 age. Me included.
Supplements, lifestyle modifications and behavioral changes are beneficial to help optimize for enhanced cognitive function. Here are some that have worked for me.
-15-30 min of sunlight + going for a walk every morning -Cold showers (can alternate hot + cold... or even better, 10 min sauna + 1 min cold shower cycles) -NMN/NAD -Creatine -Vitamin D3/K2 -Physical activity/exercise daily -- for me, weekly, it's 3 days of weight training, and 3-4 days of yoga/core work/rebounding/walking/etc. -Meditation/mindfullness -Social interaction (in person!) -Time-restricted eating/intermittent fasting
Hope this helps. It sounds like your programming skills are exactly where they need to be/up to par with industry standards, so focusing on the cognitive/mental performance area should help boost your workflow/output. Good luck! Really enjoyed reading this thread. A lot of gold in here.
It doesn't matter if you never look at your notes again, their use is the short time after you write them
Notion or Obsidian work for me.