Everything you do for your health requires you to show up and do it.

The workouts. The protein. The supplements you remember to take about four days out of seven. The labs you have to beg for.

Every single thing you do requires you to choose, every single day, to keep moving towards your health goals.

Your house is the exception to this rule.

Your house, on the other hand, works whether you participate or not.

Every night, all night, next week, and in eleven years. Right now, in fact, your home is working either for or against your health goals, whether you realize it or not.

And here's the thing. When you're 25, that doesn't usually matter all that much.

But when you hit your 40s, now just existing in your home can impact:

Thermoregulation.
Sleep architecture.
Cognition.
Bone.
Mood.
Vascular function.

Think about what that means arithmetically. A choice you make one time and then stop thinking about gets made again on your behalf a few thousand times over the next decade.

Effort is a finite resource.

So we have to leverage where we can.

Getting your house right is the fail-proof system you set up to account for those weeks where you're busy at work and the workouts slip, and the protein dips, and the supplements get forgotten.

Here's how to make sure each section of your home's all set up properly 👇

If you only do one thing from the list, pick one room and make it phone-free. It costs nothing, and it can revolutionize your family's life :)

Here's a job I'd hand to AI this week: asking it to predict how you'll quit.

Pick the thing you keep restarting. The supplement, the walk, the stretches.

Most people ask AI to build the plan. Asking it to break one is a different and easier question, and the answer usually lands somewhere specific and slightly embarrassing, which is how you know it's landed.

It's guessing, and it'll be wrong sometimes. It only has to be right about the one failure you recognize.

This is one of the things I take into account in my practice and my online coaching program. YOUR personality type. Because everyone's view of effort is different. Accounting for the way YOU work makes all the difference.

This fall I'm going to show you how to design your own wellness stack, working with your personality instead of against it. Wanna join the cool girls club (and finally start seeing results)? Join the waitlist here.

So, not too long ago I announced we were going to fully renovate our 1920s farmhouse, gut the entire thing, and rebuild with a lens towards longevity and wellness.

Plans have changed.

I'm still going to bring you in on the entire design-filled process, and walk you through every clinical choice I make, but we are going to move instead of renovate our existing home.

There was a lot tied up in this decision, but at the end of the day, choosing the path of least resistance and doing what's right for your family is the ultimate healthy choice.

I'm so excited to share the new place with you (it's a dream come true!) and I can't wait to show you the choices I'm making so the whole family is as safe and protected as I can possibly make them.

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Architectural Digest was the last place I thought I'd find an article about GLP1s, but I saw one this week, and it actually made me think.

Things like setting up your home to support your overall wellness (and with a couple more floor-length mirrors to catch your reflection in your new outfit) suddenly become joyful.

And, to reiterate what I was saying earlier about effort…designers are now putting things like small refrigerators in the bathroom and places for sharps…which makes all of us more likely to actually remember to take our meds.

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The ultimate workhorse of a low-lift healthy home is a high-quality HEPA air purifier.

You set it up once, and it works every night in the background, which is exactly the kind of leverage we need. You will buy filters roughly twice a year. Small price to pay for clean air your whole family (including pets!) is breathing.

What to look for on any brand: true HEPA (the phrase "HEPA-type" means it isn't), a CADR or room-size rating that matches the room you're actually putting it in, and replacement filters you can find at a price you'd be willing to pay again without resenting it. One unit goes wherever you spend the most hours. Skip anything selling an ionizer or an ozone feature.