mental health

Mental health and psychology are essential in life extension and leading a healthy and happy life.

Why I Stopped Telling My Patients They Were "Burnt Out"
A patient sat in my clinic last month, staring at the floor. She was a high-performing executive, and she told me she was completely burned out. She couldn't focus, she couldn't remember basic details, and she was sleeping ten hours a night without feeling rested.
By Josh Ores5 months ago in Longevity
The Science of Why We Cannot Just Turn Off Our Minds
I couldn't remember my own phone number last Tuesday. I was sitting in my living room, staring at a blank Word document, and my partner asked me to read a number off the fridge. I looked at it, looked away, and my mind was just... empty. Static.
By Josh Ores5 months ago in Longevity
Speculations on a Link between a Cosmetics Chemical and ADHD
What a Study Suggests Expecting mothers may have to be wary of the type of cosmetics they use, if a 2010 study on the link between a chemical found in beauty products and the prevalence of childhood behavioral disorders proves to be true.
By Dean Traylor5 months ago in Longevity
The Architecture of Change: Why Your Brain Fights New Habits
In my years of research into human performance, I have noticed a recurring frustration among the most ambitious people I work with. They blame themselves for a lack of "discipline" or "grit" when a new habit fails to stick. We have been socially conditioned to believe that willpower is a moral muscle—that if you just wanted it enough, you would simply do it. But biology tells a much different story. From a neuroscientific perspective, willpower isn't a character trait; it is a metabolic currency. When we try to force a change without understanding the physical architecture of our brain, we aren't just fighting our history—we are fighting our own biology.
By Josh Ores5 months ago in Longevity
What Living on an Island Taught Me About Longevity (And Why Science Agrees)
In September 2006, I moved to Cyprus with a one-way ticket, nervous energy, and more stress than I knew how to carry. I was 20 years old.
By Mohib Ullah 5 months ago in Longevity
As a Health Research Advisor, Here Are 4 Unknown but Simple Ways To Interrupt Catastrophizing
Most people think they’re “just overthinking.” But what if what’s actually happening is something deeper? You send a text.
By Mohib Ullah 5 months ago in Longevity
Somking. Content Warning. AI-Generated.
Smoking hooks people fast because it delivers a quick rush that feels like relief in a stressful world. You light up, inhale, and for a moment, everything sharpens—tension eases, focus returns. But this allure of cigarette dependence hides a trap: that "amazing" hit creates the very problems it seems to solve, pulling users into a cycle of need and regret.
By NGUYEN NGOC TRUNG5 months ago in Longevity
Bad Faith Does Not Deserve Comfort
There is a deeply ingrained belief in modern discourse that civility is always morally required, regardless of context. No matter how dishonest a question is, how manipulative the framing, or how distorted the premise, the expectation is that the response must remain gentle, patient, affirming, and emotionally managed. This belief is often treated as self-evident, as though politeness itself were synonymous with virtue.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast5 months ago in Longevity
Why Comfort Fails and Discipline Endures
Modern culture increasingly treats comfort as a moral guide. Ease is framed as wisdom. Emotional smoothness is treated as maturity. Difficulty is often interpreted as a sign that something is wrong, unfair, or unnecessary. When a task feels heavy, when a conversation feels uncomfortable, or when effort feels draining, the instinct is often to stop and reconsider rather than persist.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast5 months ago in Longevity
Truth Is Not Obligated to Conform to Your Comfort
Truth does not exist to regulate emotions. It does not exist to protect identity. It does not exist to maintain a person’s sense of safety. Truth describes reality as it is, whether that reality is welcomed, hated, resisted, misunderstood, or completely unprepared for. That is not cruelty. That is simply the nature of truth.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast5 months ago in Longevity
The Injection That Promises to Fix Your Weight, Your Heart, and Your Addiction — But Nobody Is Asking What It Costs Your Body
It starts with a photograph. A before-and-after. A celebrity who "got healthy." A social media thread where strangers describe not thinking about food for the first time in their adult lives. You've seen the posts — the ones where people say they finally feel free, finally feel in control, finally feel like the version of themselves they always knew existed somewhere underneath the hunger and the weight and the shame.
By Soibifaa5 months ago in Longevity
The Digital Burnout: Why Your Brain Is Losing the War Against Your Smartphone — and How to Actually Fight Back . AI-Generated.
The Digital Burnout: Why Your Brain Is Losing the War Against Your Smartphone — and How to Actually Fight Back It's 2 AM. Your neck is at an angle that would concern a chiropractor. Your thumb is moving on its own — scrolling, scrolling, scrolling — through content you won't remember in the morning. You're not even enjoying it anymore. You're just... doing it. Like breathing. Like a reflex nobody taught you but somehow you learned anyway. We've all been there. Most of us are there right now. Your Phone Isn't a Device. It's a Slot Machine. Let's be honest with ourselves for a second. We didn't get addicted to our phones because we lack willpower. We got addicted because some of the smartest engineers and behavioral psychologists on the planet spent years making sure we would. Every notification ping, every pull-to-refresh, every infinite scroll — designed. Deliberately. To trigger the same dopamine loop as a casino slot machine. The kicker? It works on everyone. CEOs. Therapists. People who know exactly what's happening to them and still can't stop. Because this isn't about discipline. It's about neuroscience being used against you at scale. Think about it like junk food. You know a bag of chips isn't good for you. You know it's engineered — the salt, the crunch, the exact amount of flavor that keeps you reaching in for one more. Your phone is the same thing. Except the bag never empties. And the factory is watching how fast you're eating so it can make the next chip even harder to put down. What It's Actually Doing to Your Head (It's Not Pretty) Here's the thing nobody really talks about in the "just put your phone down" conversation: chronic digital overstimulation isn't just tiring. It's restructuring how your brain operates. Shortened attention span. Disrupted sleep architecture. A baseline anxiety that hums underneath everything — that low-grade feeling that you might be missing something, even when nothing important is happening. Researchers have a name for it: Fear of Missing Out. But honestly, FOMO undersells it. This is closer to a nervous system that's been trained to expect constant input and starts panicking the moment things go quiet. Is it just me, or does sitting in silence feel genuinely uncomfortable now? Not peaceful. Uncomfortable. Like something's wrong. That's not a personality trait. That's a conditioned response. And it crept up on most of us without a single moment of conscious consent. The Leaky Faucet You've Been Ignoring Here's a metaphor that might land: imagine your mental energy is water in a tank. A leaky faucet drips slowly — you barely notice it. But run that leak for months and suddenly you're exhausted by noon, irritable for no clear reason, unable to focus on anything for longer than four minutes. That's what constant digital interruption does. Each notification, each quick check, each "I'll just look at this one thing" — drip, drip, drip. Anyway, the good news is that leaky faucets can be fixed. But you have to actually decide to fix them, which most people don't do because the leak is so normalized it doesn't feel like a problem anymore. So Here's What I Want You to Try — Genuinely Not a 30-day digital detox. Not throwing your phone in a lake. Real, sustainable things. Start with your mornings. Don't touch your phone for the first 30 minutes after you wake up. That's it. Just 30 minutes where your brain gets to boot up on its own terms, without being immediately hijacked by someone else's agenda. It'll feel strange at first. Do it anyway. Turn off every notification that doesn't require an immediate human response. Every single one. Your phone should be calling for your attention when you decide, not whenever an app feels lonely. And once a week — one hour, phone in another room, doing literally anything else — reading, walking, cooking, staring at a wall. Let your brain remember what boredom feels like. Boredom is not the enemy. Boredom is where creativity lives. Your attention is the most valuable thing you own. It's worth protecting like it.
By Ahmed Tolba5 months ago in Longevity