Author

John C Harris

@theProudBoomer

articles: 32
total claps: 4,896
top claps: 487
avg read: 4.9 min
paywalled: 32
active: 2025-09-08 → 2026-07-19

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💪 · Fitness & Wellness · 26 PSY · Mental Health & Psychiatry · 4 📰 · Journalism & News · 3 BCH · Biochemistry · 3 🔒 · Cybersecurity · 3 EDU · Education & Learning · 3 ECO · Economy · General · 2 💭 · Philosophy of Spirit · 2

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#health ·23 #wellness ·13 #aging ·11 #longevity ·11 #fitness ·5 #weight-loss ·4 #over60fitness ·4 #mental-health ·3 #supplements ·3 #diet ·3

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JO John C Harris · ILLUMINATION

10 Fitness Rules to Follow After 50

A no-BS guide to staying strong, mobile, and harder to kill.

Jun 09, 2026 · 7 min read · 487 claps paywalled #fitness-over-50 #health #aging

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JO John C Harris · Crow’s Feet: Life As We Age

You Were Trained to Fear the One Nutrient that May Keep You Independent

The thing you quit eating in 1985 is wrecking you now

Jun 13, 2026 · 4 min read · 448 claps paywalled #health #nutrition #aging

You Were Trained to Fear the One Nutrient that May Keep You Independent

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JO John C Harris · Not Done Yet

The Fittest Sick Person in the Room

Why doing everything right in the gym still isn’t fixing how you feel

Jul 08, 2026 · 5 min read · 300 claps paywalled #stress #health #wellness

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JO John C Harris

You Don’t Need Less Food. You Need Food To Matter Less.

Why “Eat Less” Stops Working After 50 and What Actually Calms Hunger

Feb 19, 2026 · 6 min read · 296 claps paywalled #health #aging #life-lessons

You Don’t Need Less Food. You Need Food To Matter Less.

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Progressive Overload Is a Tool, Not a Religion

At some point, “add more weight” stops being wisdom and starts being a dare. Here’s what nobody in the fitness industry wants to admit.

Jun 05, 2026 · 5 min read · 231 claps paywalled #health #fitness #weight-training

Progressive Overload Is a Tool, Not a Religion

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JO John C Harris · Crow’s Feet: Life As We Age

Living Longer Isn’t the Point. Living Better Is

Adding years to your life is easy. Adding life to your years takes work.

May 22, 2026 · 4 min read · 231 claps paywalled #health #wellness #aging

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JO John C Harris · ILLUMINATION

Why You Hate Exercise (And Why It’s Not Really Your Fault)

We Were Taught to Move as a Consequence, Not a Choice

Jun 08, 2026 · 5 min read · 226 claps paywalled #reinforcement-learning #sports-psychology #mental-health

Why You Hate Exercise (And Why It’s Not Really Your Fault)

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JO John C Harris · Proud Boomer Health and Wellness

Mind-Muscle Connection and Why It Changes Everything After 50

Pay attention to what your muscles are telling you

May 20, 2026 · 7 min read · 215 claps paywalled #fitness #health #aging

Mind-Muscle Connection and Why It Changes Everything After 50

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JO John C Harris · Infinite Impulse

When Staying Is the Health Risk

Your Job Might Be the Reason Your Body Is Falling Apart

Jun 09, 2026 · 4 min read · 213 claps paywalled #mental-health #wellness #health

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JO John C Harris · Proud Boomer Health and Wellness

Berberine Is Being Called “Nature’s Ozempic.”

That's both true and wildly misleading.

May 26, 2026 · 4 min read · 203 claps paywalled #health #supplements #berberine

Berberine Is Being Called “Nature’s Ozempic.”

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JO John C Harris · Crow’s Feet: Life As We Age

You’re Not a Prisoner of Your Genes

The science of type 2 diabetes is clearer than the argument you keep having at Thanksgiving

Jun 01, 2026 · 5 min read · 192 claps paywalled #health #wellness #longevity

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JO John C Harris · ILLUMINATION

Citrulline Dosing After 50: How Much, When, and What to Skip

Most pre-workouts underdose the one ingredient you came for. Here is how to fix that.

Jun 17, 2026 · 5 min read · 188 claps paywalled #supplements #best-amino-acids #citrulline

Citrulline Dosing After 50: How Much, When, and What to Skip

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JO John C Harris · ILLUMINATION

All Hat and No Cattle: The Fitness Influencer Con

What real training results look like, and why most influencers never show it

Jul 19, 2026 · 4 min read · 174 claps paywalled #social-media #influencers #marketing

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JO John C Harris · Crow’s Feet: Life As We Age

The Quiet Humiliation of the Senior Fitness Class

The senior fitness industry sells softness and calls it care. Softness is what actually ages you.

Jun 12, 2026 · 5 min read · 167 claps paywalled #health #healthy-lifestyle #fitness

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Yes, I Write About Weight Loss. No, I Am Not Thin.

On being an overweight wellness coach with a NASM certification and a complicated relationship with the bathroom scale.

Apr 21, 2026 · 5 min read · 149 claps paywalled #health #wellness #coaching

Yes, I Write About Weight Loss. No, I Am Not Thin.

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Why Some Men Never Outgrow the Need to Prove They’re Men

Toxic masculinity doesn’t just hurt the loudest guys in the room. It quietly alienates the ones who never signed up for the performance

Feb 04, 2026 · 6 min read · 131 claps paywalled #toxic-masculinity #type-a #mental-health

Why Some Men Never Outgrow the Need to Prove They’re Men

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JO John C Harris · Not Done Yet

I Told You Seed Oils Were Bad For You. Seems I Was Wrong.

Diet dogma is mostly noise. Here’s proof I fell for it too.

Jul 07, 2026 · 4 min read · 123 claps paywalled #health #misinformation #diet

I Told You Seed Oils Were Bad For You. Seems I Was Wrong.

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JO John C Harris · Backyard Church

The Cross on the Wall Isn’t a Decoration

Jung’s line between a sign and a symbol, and why it matters more after sixty

Jun 27, 2026 · 4 min read · 119 claps paywalled #symbolism #carl-jung #psychology

The Cross on the Wall Isn’t a Decoration

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I Did This to Myself

Losing 120 Pounds, Gaining It Back, and Fighting the Part of Me That’s Afraid to Try Again

Jan 11, 2026 · 4 min read · 118 claps paywalled #weight-loss #depression #gaining-weight

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Intermittent Fasting and OMAD: What Actually Happens When You Stop Eating on a Schedule

One meal a day sounds extreme. Sometimes it is. Here’s when IF works and when it’s just expensive suffering.

Mar 27, 2026 · 6 min read · 105 claps paywalled #diet #health #intermittent-fasting

Intermittent Fasting and OMAD: What Actually Happens When You Stop Eating on a Schedule

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JO John C Harris · No Time

Fifty Years of Exercise and I Couldn’t Pick Up a Sock

I spent fifty years exercising the wrong way and didn’t find out until my back gave out picking up a sock.

Jun 16, 2026 · 5 min read · 98 claps paywalled #aging #fitness #longevity

Fifty Years of Exercise and I Couldn’t Pick Up a Sock

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JO John C Harris · Proud Boomer Health and Wellness

Your Body Is Reading What You Eat. The Question Is What It’s Learning.

What your diet is doing to your muscles at the cellular level, and what to do about it

May 29, 2026 · 4 min read · 77 claps paywalled #health #wellness #aging

Your Body Is Reading What You Eat. The Question Is What It’s Learning.

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The 5 Best Bodyweight Exercises for People Over 60 (And What to Do If Your Body Says No)

Strength doesn’t need a barbell to be real.

Mar 30, 2026 · 6 min read · 74 claps paywalled #over60fitness #bodyweight-exercise #healthy-aging

The 5 Best Bodyweight Exercises for People Over 60 (And What to Do If Your Body Says No)

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The Biohacker’s Delusion: 10 Popular Methods That Mostly Just Drain Your Wallet

Cold plunges, red light panels, NAD drips, and smart drugs. Biohacking promises to upgrade your biology. Your biology would like a word.

Mar 29, 2026 · 7 min read · 73 claps paywalled #health #wellness #biohacking

The Biohacker’s Delusion: 10 Popular Methods That Mostly Just Drain Your Wallet

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I’m 60-Something and I Outlifted a 25-Year-Old at the Gym. Here’s What He Got Wrong.

A short conversation at Planet Fitness that says everything about training, age, and ego

Apr 07, 2026 · 5 min read · 69 claps paywalled #over60fitness #health-and-wellness #strength-training