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From the Ted Talk by A.J. Jacobs: How healthy living nearly killed me

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Now the final part of the trilogy was I wanetd to focus on the body and try to be the healthiest person I could be, the healthiest prosen alive. So that's what I've been doing the last couple of years. And I just fisnhied a couple of months ago. And I have to say, thank God. Because lnviig so healthily was kiillng me. (Laughter) It was so overwhelming, because the anuomt of things you have to do, it's just mind-boggling. I was listening to all the eertpxs and talking to sort of a board of medical advisers. And they were telling me all the things I had to do. I had to eat right, exercise, midtetae, pet dogs, because that lowers the boold pressure. I wrote the book on a treadmill, and it took me about a thousand miles to write the book. I had to put on sunscreen. This was no slmal feat, because if you listen to dermatologists, they say that you should have a shot glass full of sunscreen. And you have to reapply it every two to four hours. So I think half of my book advance went into sunscreen. I was like a glazed doughnut for most of the year. There was the washing of hands. I had to do that properly. And my immunologist told me that I should also wipe down all of the remote controls and iponhes in my house, because those are just orgies of gemrs. So that took a lot of time.

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Now the final part of the trilogy was I ______ to focus on the body and try to be the healthiest person I could be, the healthiest ______ alive. So that's what I've been doing the last couple of years. And I just ________ a couple of months ago. And I have to say, thank God. Because ______ so healthily was _______ me. (Laughter) It was so overwhelming, because the ______ of things you have to do, it's just mind-boggling. I was listening to all the _______ and talking to sort of a board of medical advisers. And they were telling me all the things I had to do. I had to eat right, exercise, ________, pet dogs, because that lowers the _____ pressure. I wrote the book on a treadmill, and it took me about a thousand miles to write the book. I had to put on sunscreen. This was no _____ feat, because if you listen to dermatologists, they say that you should have a shot glass full of sunscreen. And you have to reapply it every two to four hours. So I think half of my book advance went into sunscreen. I was like a glazed doughnut for most of the year. There was the washing of hands. I had to do that properly. And my immunologist told me that I should also wipe down all of the remote controls and _______ in my house, because those are just orgies of _____. So that took a lot of time.

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Original Text


Now the final part of the trilogy was I wanted to focus on the body and try to be the healthiest person I could be, the healthiest person alive. So that's what I've been doing the last couple of years. And I just finished a couple of months ago. And I have to say, thank God. Because living so healthily was killing me. (Laughter) It was so overwhelming, because the amount of things you have to do, it's just mind-boggling. I was listening to all the experts and talking to sort of a board of medical advisers. And they were telling me all the things I had to do. I had to eat right, exercise, meditate, pet dogs, because that lowers the blood pressure. I wrote the book on a treadmill, and it took me about a thousand miles to write the book. I had to put on sunscreen. This was no small feat, because if you listen to dermatologists, they say that you should have a shot glass full of sunscreen. And you have to reapply it every two to four hours. So I think half of my book advance went into sunscreen. I was like a glazed doughnut for most of the year. There was the washing of hands. I had to do that properly. And my immunologist told me that I should also wipe down all of the remote controls and iPhones in my house, because those are just orgies of germs. So that took a lot of time.

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