The Natural Life-stylist

29/11/2025

28/11/2025

What advice did I give?

Beyond my usual tips on ‘Primally Priming’ yourself for the next 50 years—like mobility and movement, nutrition and digestion, hormones, sleep, sunlight exposure, light therapy, hot and cold contrast therapy, and even embracing the less convenient and uncomfortable path—there’s a powerful concept I want to share: anticipated regret.

Imagine this: Picture your life 10 years from now. If you’re 30, see yourself at 40; if you’re 40, see yourself at 50; if you’re 50, envision 60, and so on…..What will you have regretted not doing?

By considering anticipated regret, you can paint a clear path for you to walk for the next decade.

Remember, you have the potential to build an incredible lighthouse in just ten years!

27/11/2025

The Need for Discomfort:

The brain benefits from exposure to manageable challenges: 
* Building Resilience: Engaging in activities that involve effort or mild, controlled discomfort (like running, learning a new skill, or even cold exposure) helps to build emotional and physical resilience.
* Regulating the Stress Response: Exposure to processive stressors (psychological challenges requiring cortical processing) at appropriate levels helps the brain develop functional adaptations, ensuring the stress response system works efficiently when needed and returns to a baseline state afterward.
In essence, a certain amount of manageable discomfort is necessary for the healthy development and regulation of our emotional processing systems. Without it, we risk becoming overly sensitive and ill-equipped to handle the normal range of life’s challenges. 

24/11/2025

If you spend the 1/3 of your day horizontal (asleep for 8 hours) and then sit down for the majority of the remaining hours of your day, standing up will feel like a threat to your limbic system, which will then find weird and wonderful ways of convincing you to sit back down again.

The limbic system responds to various physical stresses, including those associated with sudden changes in posture or activity levels. If someone is accustomed to sitting for extended periods, the simple act of standing up will be perceived as requiring a lot more energy, leading to discomfort or strain, which can then activate the body’s stress response.

In such cases, the limbic system might perceive the situation as a potential threat, particularly if it anticipates injury or excessive fatigue. This can trigger emotional responses such as anxiety or discomfort, influencing behavior by encouraging you to return to a more comfortable seated position.

This interplay between physical activity and the emotional responses governed by the limbic system highlights how our bodies are wired to maintain a balance between energy expenditure and comfort, which at some point would have served us well, but in the human zoo, where things are getting increasingly more comfortable and convenient this isn’t serving us well at all.

In summary, while standing up is generally healthy, however for someone unaccustomed to it, the limbic system (that isn’t interested in the truth btw) in response to the perceived discomfort will raise the desire for those chair sitters to sit back down.

24/11/2025

Lets Talk Legs

You’ll often hear in the longevity world about strength training and how we should be lifting weights for bone density and age related muscle loss.

It is correct that we need to lift weight for bone density and to maintain muscle mass - so yes to the longevity brigade - I agree that lifting weight is important for muscle mass and bone density, but the real key to longevity is not to become divorced from coordination, timing, rhythm, balance, elasticity and mobility, as thats where the real strong and capable human longevity is at. You might lift heavy or bench and look hench, but what does that mean if you’re stiff and can’t get up and down from the floor or crawl around with your kids or grandkids.

So yes to lifting more weight to get strong, maintain muscle mass, increase bone density and for the all important testosterone hormonal health, but don’t forget to build those earthquake-proof foundations and capable shock absorbing joint actions and how to you interact with your own bodyweight. There is huge strength in knowing that you’re capable, competent and good to go at any mo - and I mean mental and physical strength here.

You have to go there to grow there.

23/11/2025

Some sunday morning moves.

22/11/2025

Smile!

Introducing these beautiful hand dug clay tea bowls from my mate Chris’ farm in West Sussex.

This is not an AD, it’s simply an appreciation for a friend and his craftsmanship.

Thanks Chris appreciate you brother.

I’ll let you all know when the bars officially open. We’ll be serving bowls of Matcha and mugs of coffee and smoothies.

15/11/2025

I want to start BJJ when I’m 6.

Bowman age 6 now ticking the consistency over time box by smashing his homework in on the daily.

We couldn’t make it to this week as we had a house full of the dreaded lurgy. Luckily all 4 RiddleKids are resilient mofos and bounce back within 24 hours - all with a new upgrade. Oh, and just in time to hand over the lurgy relay baton for the next one to put in their 24 shift. Fingers crossed it’s only one lap 😂

I digress - back to BowMan and his BJJ…

Despite feeling like 💩 he’s been on top of his practice.

Always learning from the BowMan.

07/11/2025

If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it. John Irving

Love watching something unfurl from an initial conception that’s been under pinned with really good intentions.

You just know it’s got all the great foundations in place to grow into something extraordinary.

My mates Tom & Anna have just launched their ‘Wild Edges Tallow’. It’s a balm that smells phenomenally and feels GREAT on the skin.

The feedback they’d had from their first phase of samples all the way up to their launch and now beyond has been ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

FYI, I’m not getting paid for this, so don’t go bashing me in the comments about it being a paid AD.

I’m posting this from a real place of love and support for friends that have found a way of life they love, and have found the courage to live it.

Go give them a follow

06/11/2025

Barefoot Shoe Review - Part 2

Actions speak louder than words and so I had to take these Flamingos Life barefoot sneakers out for some 5k action.

As voiced (probably one too many times) these are a great entry sneaker for those who are looking to dip their baretoes in and transition into the hugely underrated barefoot footwear world.

As mentioned in Part 1, these do tick all the barefootwear boxes:

Wide Toe Box ✅
Zero Drop ✅
Flexible ✅
Minimal 5.5mm thick Sole ✅

If you want to transform your feet from shoe shaped to naturally foot shaped feet, these are great foot recovery footwear.

As also mentioned on Part 1…..they also tick the environmental box, as mission is to create biodegradable sneakers. So now we’re talking bonus ✅ for the personal and planetary health.

For me personally, I do feel that for running I’d need these to be much more minimal. But as I voiced in the review - I do run a lot of miles with nakedfeet - so minimal footwear needs to be SUPER MINIMAL for my 👣.

I will say however that I love wearing these as casual/fashion sneakers because they’ve nailed the look, they tick all the barefoot basic boxes and their intentions are 👌🏻.

Hope this feedback helps

03/11/2025

🦶🏻Barefoot Shoe Review - Part 1

They certainly tick all of these barefoot footwear boxes:

Wide Toe Box ✅
Zero Drop ✅
Flexible ✅
Minimal ✅

They also tick the environmental box, as mission is to create biodegradable sneakers. So now we’re talking personal and planetary health, which is a big bonus ✅ ✅

If you want to transform your feet from shoe shaped to naturally foot shaped, then all of the above are great foot recovery boxes to be ticking. And as our performance is only as good as our recovery, I’d say footwear that enables your feet to recovery is essential.

I’m heading out for a run now, so do tune back in if you want to see if the performance gets a big juicy ✅ or a big juicy ❌.

My Part 2 Barefoot Shoe Review Drops tomorrow.

27/10/2025

45 what a creation you have manifested.
Yes, you’ve been tested, but remained majestic. Divine womanly
archetypes eclectic, nurtured and embodied you spark like electric.
Powers of your femininity undoubtedly seen. With aura shining pristine, we feel so gifted with the more tangible beauty that smiles through each and every pore. wisdom you seek, although it obvious to we, that within you deep at core it is yours in abundance, you wait for the clunk clink code to unlock, thinking it need to be found, yet it is yours in a blink of an eyes time line and patiently ours when you’re ready for those wise words, that want to be heard, you’ll share underpinned so gracefully aware of all the above, it just hits deep and different, my love.


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