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Notes on knowing your body, written after living with it rather than reading about it.

How to run a one-page self-assessment: method, rhythm and limits
Knowing Your Body

How to run a one-page self-assessment: method, rhythm and limits

Advice on how to run a one-page self-assessment tends to split in two: impossibly complex, or sold as one click. Reality sits between. It needs some…

Amos ReillyAmos Reilly·June 20, 2026·4 min read
Cold hands and feet: which pattern fits: a version you can actually follow
Knowing Your Body

Cold hands and feet: which pattern fits: a version you can actually follow

Most people want cold hands and feet: which pattern fits to make things better. The workable version of that goal is steadier: a floor you can hit on…

Curtis ValeCurtis Vale·June 14, 2026·4 min read
Recurring mouth ulcers and body type: three things to understand first
Knowing Your Body

Recurring mouth ulcers and body type: three things to understand first

Most people want recurring mouth ulcers and body type to make things better. The workable version of that goal is steadier: a floor you can hit on a…

Verity LangVerity Lang·June 8, 2026·4 min read
Is constitution the same as personality: judging it before you start
Knowing Your Body

Is constitution the same as personality: judging it before you start

Advice on is constitution the same as personality tends to split in two: impossibly complex, or sold as one click. Reality sits between. It needs…

Roland PikeRoland Pike·June 2, 2026·4 min read
What to adjust first in spring: three things to understand first
Knowing Your Body

What to adjust first in spring: three things to understand first

If you only read one paragraph, read this: what to adjust first in spring depends on how the situation is set up, not on how you feel at the time.…

Amos ReillyAmos Reilly·May 27, 2026·4 min read
The most common misreading of body type: making the complicated part simple
Knowing Your Body

The most common misreading of body type: making the complicated part simple

Let us set the limits of the most common misreading of body type first: it reliably improves a working feel for your own baseline, and it does not…

Curtis ValeCurtis Vale·May 21, 2026·4 min read
How late nights change your baseline: method, rhythm and limits
Knowing Your Body

How late nights change your baseline: method, rhythm and limits

If you have already tried how late nights change your baseline and dropped it, the fault is usually in the setup: a starting point set too high, an…

Verity LangVerity Lang·May 15, 2026·4 min read
Matching exercise intensity to your pattern: a version you can actually follow
Knowing Your Body

Matching exercise intensity to your pattern: a version you can actually follow

If you only read one paragraph, read this: matching exercise intensity to your pattern depends on how the situation is set up, not on how you feel at…

Roland PikeRoland Pike·May 9, 2026·4 min read
Rebuilding after childbirth: the full sequence and where it drifts
Knowing Your Body

Rebuilding after childbirth: the full sequence and where it drifts

Put rebuilding after childbirth back into a real week, with overtime, travel and days you cannot be bothered. Any plan that only survives good months…

Amos ReillyAmos Reilly·May 3, 2026·4 min read
Why weight gathers after forty: what to do and what to skip
Knowing Your Body

Why weight gathers after forty: what to do and what to skip

Most people do not fail at why weight gathers after forty from misunderstanding it. They fail because understanding is not doing. What follows is the…

Curtis ValeCurtis Vale·April 27, 2026·4 min read
Eating through a humid week: a practical plan for ordinary weeks
Knowing Your Body

Eating through a humid week: a practical plan for ordinary weeks

Anyone who has spent time on eating through a humid week has a failure story: a strong start, a collapse in the middle, then silence. This is not…

Verity LangVerity Lang·April 21, 2026·4 min read
Cold drinks for a cold pattern: a version you can actually follow
Knowing Your Body

Cold drinks for a cold pattern: a version you can actually follow

Put cold drinks for a cold pattern back into a real week, with overtime, travel and days you cannot be bothered. Any plan that only survives good…

Roland PikeRoland Pike·April 15, 2026·4 min read
Building a body-type log that lasts: four details people skip
Knowing Your Body

Building a body-type log that lasts: four details people skip

Separate two things in building a body-type log that lasts: the outcome you want and the action you can sustain. When the gap is too wide, shrink the…

Amos ReillyAmos Reilly·April 9, 2026·4 min read
How long adjustment really takes: method, rhythm and limits
Knowing Your Body

How long adjustment really takes: method, rhythm and limits

Advice on how long adjustment really takes tends to split in two: impossibly complex, or sold as one click. Reality sits between. It needs some…

Curtis ValeCurtis Vale·April 3, 2026·4 min read
Stop confusing symptoms with constitution: a practical plan for ordinary weeks
Knowing Your Body

Stop confusing symptoms with constitution: a practical plan for ordinary weeks

Separate two things in stop confusing symptoms with constitution: the outcome you want and the action you can sustain. When the gap is too wide,…

Verity LangVerity Lang·March 28, 2026·4 min read
What a qi-deficiency pattern actually feels like: three things to understand first
Knowing Your Body

What a qi-deficiency pattern actually feels like: three things to understand first

Advice on what a qi-deficiency pattern actually feels like tends to split in two: impossibly complex, or sold as one click. Reality sits between. It…

Roland PikeRoland Pike·March 22, 2026·4 min read
Telling yang deficiency from yin deficiency: a practical plan for ordinary weeks
Knowing Your Body

Telling yang deficiency from yin deficiency: a practical plan for ordinary weeks

Put telling yang deficiency from yin deficiency back into a real week, with overtime, travel and days you cannot be bothered. Any plan that only…

Amos ReillyAmos Reilly·March 16, 2026·4 min read
Where damp-heat diets go wrong: the order that saves effort
Knowing Your Body

Where damp-heat diets go wrong: the order that saves effort

If you have already tried where damp-heat diets go wrong and dropped it, the fault is usually in the setup: a starting point set too high, an…

Curtis ValeCurtis Vale·March 10, 2026·4 min read
Why phlegm-damp bodies resist weight loss: what to do and what to skip
Knowing Your Body

Why phlegm-damp bodies resist weight loss: what to do and what to skip

If you only read one paragraph, read this: why phlegm-damp bodies resist weight loss depends on how the situation is set up, not on how you feel at…

Verity LangVerity Lang·March 4, 2026·4 min read
Small signs of blood stasis worth tracking: four details people skip
Knowing Your Body

Small signs of blood stasis worth tracking: four details people skip

Anyone who has spent time on small signs of blood stasis worth tracking has a failure story: a strong start, a collapse in the middle, then silence.…

Roland PikeRoland Pike·February 26, 2026·4 min read