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Eh, I was tired and sad all the time as a kid too. At least now I have autonomy and don't have to live with crazy people.

Also, chips make you fat now.

It is my #2 priority as a dad that I impart upon them that they not rush into being an adult.

Don’t sleep on getting enough rest (if you can, obviously)

Sleep is your superpower | 21,818,283 views | Matt Walker | TED2019

You guys are sad all the time???

I know, I know okay that there are many people in bad situations or going through acute events that are terrible, and people with physiological depression but for many other people this negative malaise is self-inflicted. So many people who could be happy are focusing on and amplifying all negative parts of life, doomscrolling online, and then not taking the initiative to socialize or do things that would make them happy. This is reinforced by a culture where it is in vogue to play up your misery, and it turns into a game of one upsmanship.

The average person reading this can actually be happy, have friends, and do things instead of wallowing in a mental cage. I'm begging and pleading with people to make an effort to break out of this.

Used to be sad and tired as well.

Ditched unhealthy food. Started running. Started losing weight. Started being active.

I used to sleep 8 to 11 hrs. Anything less and I'd be a wreck. Now I sleep 6hrs a night, even on the weekends and I'm good to go at 6am. It drives my GF nuts.

For me it was literally that "easy".

Whoever invents a pill to stop physical aging at 25 will be increadibly rich

Some kids have 3 and 4.

1 and 2 may be causing 3 and 4 but I'm no doctor and all 5 apply to me so who am I to judge

I have celiac and it's amazing how big of a deal being low in one (or more) vitamins can be. I have gotten deficient often enough that I can almost recognize each type of tiredness from my most common deficiencies. Being tired from anemia/low iron is definitely different than being tired from a vitamin b deficiency, for instance. And being simultaneously deficient in vitamins that work together - like calcium and magnesium, or vitamins a, d, e, and k - also feels different than being deficient in just 1 of these vitamins.

When people tell me they crave a lot of certain foods, that's a sign that their body wants whatever vitamin is in that food. If your body hasn't tried a lot of other healthier foods, it won't have learned their nutritional content and won't crave it. Potatoes (in potato chips) contain small amounts of metals like copper, zinc, lithium, iron. Corn similarly has vitamins, I do not eat much corn so idk what all it has in it.

However, just because you're getting a tiny bit of zinc from a whole bag, doesn't make the chips good for you. They come with other nutrients including sodium which are excessive and should be balanced with a good potassium intake (like a bottle of coconut water). Your body isn't meant to process huge loads of wasteful food, and that comes at a price. Eating more efficiently with more nutrient dense foods is best (especially dark leafy greens which contain chlorophyll which can actually make ATP in your blood stream for basically "free" - free energy).

Last, we all have different genetics. Not all of us need the exact same diet or vitamins. Some of us literally need extra vitamin A (do you have genes from either the north or south pole, such as Russian or Native American? You might want to take slightly extra vitamin A along with other fat soluble vitamins like vitamin D). And every vitamin is like this, some being more serious than others. Some people can't eat much tyramine without developing possible life threatening brain bleeds and high blood pressure. Olives contain tyramine as does certain types of red wine - many cultures eat these in volume and have no problem but some people just can't.

"You are what you eat" ended up being real wisdom