There's some nuance here. If you soak your meat in lime juice for several hours, the acid is going to penetrate deep into the meat. It doesn't do nothing.
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This is very much like the "is electronic music real music?" debates when people can quickly throw together some presets and hit play.
People borrow to avoid triggering capital gains, or to gain leverage or to short.
Works of art that require thousands of lifetimes to complete. Deep understanding of the physical world. Exploring the universe. Much more.
This seems very subjective, I don't agree at all.
This is not what an index is. You are describing a fund, but an index fund explicitly does not evaluate PE ratios, profitability, and financial statements, they buy everything in the index according to the market cap. Some proprietary indices are privately curated in the way you describe, but in common use the "index" means all of the companies, rather than a curated subset.
That said, there are a lot of useful optimizations and hacks out there. OP says exercise is almost irrelevant, but I can say that training up the ability for endurance exercise is really effective for me personally. During quarantine I've gone from sedentary to completing 10 mile runs, which have noticeably helped me lose fat. In the past I've also had successful experiments with restrictive diets like paleo, keto, and intermittent fasting. YMMV; experiment with optimizations, but never forget about total calories.
I've noticed training cardio helps me handle anxiety better, both because I can better handle the physical effects when they arise, and the training itself removes anxiety I'm feeling at that moment.