Behaviors

After a setback, reinterpret the experience by focusing on learning, progress, or broader goals; examples include asking yourself whether you made yourself better today or made someone else better today.

Maintain physical distance from people who are sneezing or coughing, and ask sick people to keep their distance or isolate if necessary; anyone actively sneezing or coughing should be treated as contagious, and closer proximity increases likelihood of contracting a cold or flu.

Keep the air you breathe sufficiently humidified, especially at night while sleeping; may also be beneficial during the day in office or home environments to support nasal passages and respiratory defenses.

Avoid sleep deprivation when fighting illness; poor sleep can worsen symptoms and likely reduce ability to ward off infection.

Ask people who wipe their nose to wash their hands afterward to reduce transmission risk.

If you are sneezing or coughing and do not have a tissue, use your elbow rather than your hand to reduce spread via surfaces and touch.

Continue exercising during winter months outdoors if it can be done safely; while doing so, try to nasal breathe unless mouth breathing is necessary.

After being outside in the cold, getting chilled, or after air passages dry out from hard breathing, take a hot shower or hot bath to heat back up and rehydrate nasal and oral passages; steam room or humidifier access was also mentioned as helpful.

Be cautious about taking medication to lower fever because fever is an adaptive response that helps combat viruses; however, dangerously high fevers still need treatment.

Back off from social media and external noise in order to notice what you actually like and dislike.

Parents of autistic children should discuss oxytocin treatment with their physician and may bring the relevant study. In the discussion, oxytocin appeared relatively safe and potentially helpful for a subset of children with low baseline oxytocin. The preferred use discussed was acute administration before a behavioral therapy session rather than chronic use, to reduce fear/anxiety and potentially enhance therapy effects.

Children should be screened for autism early, and intervention should begin as soon as autism is identified. Screening should be widely available and inexpensive, since early intervention during developmental windows may be especially important whether treatment is behavioral alone or combined with medication.

Do not try vasopressin on your own. It can affect blood pressure and other critical physiological systems, and dosing should be medically supervised in controlled settings due to risk of severe adverse effects.

Vaccinate children. Scientific and medical consensus does not support a causal link between vaccines and autism, and many scientists and physicians vaccinate their own children and recommend vaccination.

If shift work is a regular long-term pattern over months or years, get whatever sleep you can.

Learn an instrument, ideally early in life but even later if needed, as it can greatly improve the ability to learn many things.

Avoid social isolation.

Avoid overheating olive oil past its smoke point to prevent creating trans fats during cooking.

Prioritize lowering insulin rather than simply going low-carb; methods mentioned included removing refined carbohydrate and sugar, increasing fiber, and reducing branched-chain amino acids.

Address inflammation first, because vitamin D supplementation was described as less effective when inflammation remains unresolved.

Avoid liquid calories; this was emphasized in the context of soda and post-bariatric weight regain.

Check food labels for the 'added sugars' line as a practical starting point for identifying problematic foods.

Repeat four phrases: 'May I be filled with loving kindness; may I be well; may I be peaceful and at ease; may I be happy.' After about a year, expand from 'may I' to 'may we' for immediate family; later expand to community and eventually the planet.

Use phone accessibility settings at night to eliminate blue light completely and switch the phone to red-only, ideally with a triple-click shortcut. This is different from standard nighttime mode.

If feeling under the weather, take a hot shower, get in bed early around 6 PM, read, and go to sleep instead of training.

Track workouts and overall wellbeing on a calendar; note workout intensity on a 1–10 scale and review patterns if you get sick or fatigued.

Practice the Reveri falling-back-asleep hypnosis during the daytime so it works better when needed at night; choose the non-interactive version if preferred, especially if sleeping next to someone.

Do not go to bed overly full.

If inability to fall back asleep becomes chronic, consult a sleep specialist.

When using sleep or biometric devices, pay attention to trends and averages rather than any one night's score.