While it may be too easy to read this from the point of Nietzsche's sickness, it should be kept in mind. All of the stuff about eating healthy and exercising may be good advice but it is also obvious and basic. It is simply a return to the norm of life that anyone should know. One could ask naively, where was Nietzsche's father?
It is also like religion as faith alone, or simply more-than-atheism. But this is never the point. Religion is not secularism or economy of the best values, it is something else entirely. In the same way, a wealth of the body, a sort of divine health can never be approached from the point of physiology and measuring out quantities of improvement. This is counting up gold that has been earned desperately, and is seemingly spent as quickly as it is earned.
Christ's gifts at his birth were seemingly meagre, taken as material alone. What is much more significant is the world which comes along with these gifts. In his life did Christ ever count up gold? An abundance of life is something other than physiology, it must limit itself because it is too much. The ascetic wants life, in the same way as Midas, but he does not want the moment where he turns his daughter to gold.

Let's strip away the bullshit.
A hairless and near senseless animal has no fear-inducing physiological power. Being able to lift 10% of an ape and having 1% of its natural killing power will never be an achievement.

Take the Epimethean Pill.

Anyone who disputes this just needs to read the ancient training manuals for war. They trained through hunting because animals present natural danger, higher instincts. Man training against man can only be an art form or decadence.

"The state bears the expense of the hunting for the reason that the training it gives seems to be the best preparation for war itself. For it accustoms them to rise early in the morning and to endure both heat and cold, and it gives them practice in taking long tramps and runs, and they have to shoot or spear a wild beast whenever it comes in their way. And they must often whet their courage when one of the fierce beasts shows fight; for, of course, they must strike down the animal that comes to close quarters with them, and they must be on their guard against the one that threatens to attack them. In a word, it is not easy to find any quality required in war that is not required also in the chase."
~ Xenophon

2022 has been a busy year, but there was still time to get through a few books. Some of those books deserve recommendation:

Wisdom of The Ancient Seers; Mantras of the Rig Veda - David Frawley
The Vedic Way of Knowing God - Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya
The Agni and The Ecstacy - Steven J. Rosen
The Philosophy of Vishishtadvaita - P.N. Srinavasachari
Philosophy as a Rite of Rebirth - Algis Uzdavinys
Human Devolution: A Vedic Alternative to Darwin's Theory - Cremo
Mysteries of the Ancient Vedic Empire - Stephen Knapp
Principles of Perfect Leadership - Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya

"It has been told that there was seen a picture of two devout / ancient philosophers in a mosque. One of them (that is Plato) was holding a scroll in his hand on which it was written: “If you have mastered everything, do not think that you have mastered a thing, until you know God (may He be exalted!) and know that He is the Cause of causes and the Originator of all things”. And in the hand of the other (that is Aristotle) [there was a scroll]: “Before I knew God (may He be exalted!), I would drink and still be thirsty, until I came to know Him, and my thirst was quenched without drinking."

~ 𝑹𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝑺𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔, 𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝑰, 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑿𝑿𝑽𝑰𝑰, 𝒃𝒚 𝑨𝒍-𝑮𝒉𝒂𝒛𝒂𝒍𝒊

The most intelligent men like the strongest find their happiness where others would find only disaster, in the labyrinth in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort their delight is self-mastery, in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity an instinct.

- Freidrich Neitzsche

"What is the wisdom of a book compared with the wisdom of an angel?"
~ Friedrich Hölderlin

"The stars incline the will but in no wise necessitate it. Frequently it comes to pass that astrologers foretell truths concerning the manner of men by reason of their proneness to follow the sensitive appetite... By this means it comes to pass, that he who knows the virtues of the Signs and the Planets therein placed, may foretell, if he knows when any creature is born, of the whole life of it."

~ 𝑶𝒑𝒖𝒔 𝑶𝒙𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆𝒔, 𝒃𝒚 𝑩𝒍. 𝑱𝒐𝒉𝒏 𝑫𝒖𝒏𝒔 𝑺𝒄𝒐𝒕𝒖𝒔

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

"The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the Earth - the very thing the whole story has been about."

~C.S. Lewis

"See the Creator of man made man in order that he who governs the world of the stars might suck milk, that bread might be hungry, that the fount might be thirsty, that light might go to sleep, that the way might be tired by the trip, that Truth might be accused by false witnesses, and that the judge of the living and the dead might be examined by a temporal judge and that justice might be condemned by the unjust. That discipline might be lashed by a whip, that the bunch of grapes might be crowned with thorns, that the foundation stone might be hung on a tree, that virtue might become weak, health wounded, and life itself might die."

+Saint Augustine

"The peculiar quality of the ‘joy’ in successful Fantasy can thus be explained as a sudden glimpse of the underlying reality or truth…But in the “eucatastrophe” we see in a brief vision that the answer may be greater—it may be a far off gleam or echo of evangelium in the real world…it has long been my feeling (a joyous feeling) that God redeemed the corrupt making-creatures, men, in a way fitting to this aspect, as to others, of their strange nature. The Gospels contain a fairy-story, or a story of a larger kind which embraces all the essence of fairy-stories." - J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairystories.

"The Birth of Christ is the eucatastrophe of man’s history. The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnaton. This story begins and ends in joy." - J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairystories.

Taken from this article:
https://tifwe.org/tolkiens-christmas-joy-at-work/

Asha Logos highlights the work of the secret societies behind the most defining moment of the devolution into modernity. A small number of cosmopolitan figures coordinated behind the scenes to seize upon populist sentiments of the unwitting masses. Those peasants of the proud empire of the Franks, and most of the historical record with them, were convinced that they themselves overthrew the Ancien Régime of the Church and Crown and took its power for themselves. In reality what seized power was not merely democratic but downright demonic, and more deliberate than any mob could be. It cannot be understated how much this moment represents a complete break from the traditional world. One only need look at the current state of things to recognize what forces took power then and how well they have expanded their Régime Satanique since.

'The French Revolution represents at once a fundamental shift towards modernity and an irrevocable loss of medieval materiality. Mobs burst into the monastery, cathedral, parish church, castle, or palace, dragged the manuscripts out of the armoires where they had been stored for centuries, piled them in a mound in a public place, and lit the patrimony of the nation on fire. From the ashes modernity arose, but at a cost.'

https://odysee.com/@ashalogos:92/the-french-revolution-blood-in-the:3

You can't understand heaven if you haven't been through hell.
You can't be good if you don't know evil.

It's for those who have lost the most that victory tastes sweetest.
It's those who have worked the hardest that appreciate rest the best.

The branches of your tree will never reach heaven if you don't let your roots touch hell.