Snake Oil
Wellness trends, fads, and the eternal human hope that a routine will fix us.
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How to Start a Small Homestead With Almost No Money: An Honest Beginner's Field Guide
A gentleman-farmer's honest confession: the homestead you can afford is smaller, muddier, and far more rewarding than the one on the internet.
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How to Stop Overthinking at Night: A Field Guide to the Mind That Won't Clock Out
On racing thoughts at night, the tyranny of the horizontal position, and how to negotiate a ceasefire with your own head.
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What Vitamins Should I Actually Take? An Honest Guide for the Rest of Us
A wry field guide to the small handful of vitamins worth your money — and the many that are simply keeping expensive company in your bathroom cabinet.
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Do Supplements Actually Work? Which Ones Are Worth Your Money
A gentleman-farmer's honest field guide to which supplements earn their keep and which are simply expensive, brightly-labelled urine.
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How to Actually Fall Asleep: A Farmer's Honest Field Guide for the 3 A.M. Ceiling
A field guide for anyone who has ever negotiated with a ceiling at 3 a.m. and lost.
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Why You're Tired All the Time: A Farmer's Honest Field Guide to Low Energy
If you are always tired and can't work out why you have no energy, gather round the woodstove — I have been low on fuel too, and I took notes.
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Fibermaxxing: The Gloriously Unglamorous Science of Fiber — and the Farm I'm Going to Grow It On
The internet has discovered roughage and, being the internet, immediately made it a personality. But underneath the memes is a genuinely beautiful, genuinely proven science — soluble versus insoluble, the secret civilization in your gut that eats your vegetables for you, the coffee fact nobody told you, and the honest reason you should not, under any circumstances, go from zero to seventy grams overnight. Then, at the end, the dream all of this is quietly pointing me toward.