About three years ago I read Longo’s Longevity Diet, and it helped me form a foundation about nutrition. Ever since reading it I have been wishing to do a FMD, but training, travel, or life always got in the way. I decided it might be a good match to try and eat slightly in surplus, and then do the fast once I hit the goal weight. Exactly as per the plan I added about 2.5kg by the end of June, so decided to go ahead with the fast. Coincidentally ProLon, the company that helps make FMD kits, had a 30% sale, so I got my kit and chose the week to give it a go.

A challenging quarter, as I spent three three weeks travelling; it took me at least a week to start feeling normal in each direction, and much longer to recover. Additionally, because I was leaving for such a long time, I think my work/life balance suffered prior to the trip. However, physical health isn’t the only thing that matters, and I think travelling helped me and my family grow. I finished some more Longevity-related books, like Longevity Leap, and then also The Art of Dying Well. I’ve also started learning more from Michael Lustgarten. In particular I like his minimalist approach and lifestyle, and that he prioritises whole foods over supplements.

I have a journal of all the travels I did when I was in my 20s, and sometimes it is enjoyable to re-read the various journeys that I went on. In those entries I could see my writing change, both in voice and theme, as I gained more life experience. Recently I wrote about my health journey in 2024, and I have a goal to write a quarterly entry. This is the first entry of what I hope to be many entries.

I started this website 20 years ago as a means to learn Django, which made sense, as at the time I wished to do everything myself: website and hosting, running my own mail server, dns server, and probably something else, too. Over time my desire to spend time on these activities dwindled, and I move my content to blogger. Year by year I wrote fewer articles, and then it became years since I wrote anything. Perhaps it was the UI for blogger or the niggling feeling that Google could kill it off at any time, or perhaps it was having a kid. Eventually the libraries were no longer maintained. This weekend I opted to:

A few years ago, probably in late 2022, I was doing some self-reflection and was pondering what the next constraint was for improving my health. Depending on whom you ask, there are generally several areas of focus when it comes to health: Exercise Nutrition Metabolic health Sleep Testing or screenings Supplementation or pharmacological interventions The conclusion I reached after some reflection was that nutrition was the next area for me to focus on. My approach has typically been to deep dive on reading books, and since then I’ve read the following books related to nutrition and longevity:

A short set from Kuala Lumpur.

A short set from Bangalore.

A short set from Gangtok and the mountains of Sikkim.

A short set from Agra.

A short set from Jaipur.