I'm Unremarkable

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Hey, welcome back.

Last week, I talked about the pros & cons of giving your brain to a machine. You can read that (and all past issues, here)

Today I want to tell you about a word I picked in January and what it made me do six months later.

I'm Unremarkable

I just got the results back from a preventative full-body MRI scan.

Both Melissa and I came back as "unremarkable." That's the actual medical terminology. It means nothing unusual found, nothing hiding, nothing to worry about.

I've never been so happy to be called unremarkable in my life.

An MRI can tell you things you may not want to know and can't change. I was very aware of that going in, which is why I waited until after my 40th and after my month of travels to do the scan. I didn't want a result, good or bad, ruining that milestone for me.

When I was ready, I did it. And we're both clear. We enter the rest of the year knowing that as far as what I can control, my stack is working wonders.

How I Ended Up In The Scanner

Regular readers will know that every January, instead of a resolution, I pick a word for the year. This year my word is "health."

A resolution is too specific and too fragile. Go to the gym four times a week. Cut out sugar. The moment you break it, the whole thing collapses and by February, you've moved on.

A word is a filter. It sits behind every decision all year and keeps asking the same question: Does this move me closer to health or further from it?

In January, that question led me to sign up to a service called CoreVitals. I booked two blood tests and one full-body MRI for both Melissa and me. I'd been meaning to do something like this for years. The word turned it from something I'd get around to into something I actually booked.

The bloods proved my supplement stack is immaculate. Of course, I expected that, but it's good to have it confirmed in data. All the key markers were on point too.

And now the MRI. Unremarkable. Six months of running every health decision through one word, and the data is telling me it's working.

What Health Means To Me

I want to do work I care about. I want to help others. I want to be a good role model for my kids. I want financial security for my family.

There are levels to all of this. But to give any of it the best chance of success, health is the foundation. And to me, health means investing in the basics. Sleep. Diet. Regular movement. High-quality supplements. Being strong and alert enough to keep up with my kids.

Health and wellness, to me, is about taking care of yourself while no one is forcing you to and no one is asking you to. It's what you do when there's no crisis. No scare. No doctor telling you something needs to change. Just you, making the choice to invest in yourself because you understand that everything else you care about sits on top of how you feel.

I believe prevention is the cure. It's why I'm obsessed with making the world's best supplements at Heights.

The Part I'm Dreading

The other side of "health" being the word of the year is that it forces me into the prevention of things I would rather avoid.

Later this month I'm booked in to have both my wisdom teeth out. I've heard it's one of the worst experiences of your life. Both of mine have been flagged as potential issues in the next one to three years and the surgery is probably unavoidable.

So I'm choosing to remove them on my own terms before it becomes an emergency. Both out in one go. I've planned a week off to recover, lie in bed on painkillers, and drown in Netflix.

That's what a word of the year actually looks like in practice. It leads you toward the MRI scanner and it also leads you toward the dentist's chair. The word doesn't care if the decision is pleasant. It just keeps asking the same question.

How Would You Rate Your Health Right Now?

I put together a quick health audit. Eight dimensions of health, each scored out of 10, with a prompt you can paste into Claude to turn your scores into a visual radar chart and get practical suggestions for your weakest areas.

It's free. It's here: Health Audit

If you've never actually looked at your health across every dimension that matters, this is five minutes well spent. We all feel our health. We notice the tired afternoons, the short fuse, the thing we keep meaning to do. But most of us never sit down and map the full picture honestly.

Pick your lowest score. Focus on that one area for the next month. Move it up by two points. That single shift will change how everything else feels.

To being unremarkable,

Dan

P.S. CoreVitals code: [INSERT CODE]. If you're looking for a supplement stack that actually shows up in your bloodwork, try Heights (use code 'SOSDMS' for 15% off your first month).

P.P.S. If you've been putting off a health check, a scan, a blood test, anything where you're avoiding information because you're not sure you want it, book it this week. The not knowing is always worse.

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