Trades & Careers

Electrician, lineman, welder, plumber. How to get in, get certified and get paid what the work is worth.

The BRO Code. What to do, what not to do, and a few laughs on the way.

Forty is a scheduling problem before it's a health problem

The screenings that start in your forties, what perimenopause actually does, and how to get taken seriously when you ask.

GuideDadsCal BrennanSep 23, 20266 min

Count The Breaths Before You Call The Nurse Line

A barking cough at 2 a.m. isn't the emergency. The chest, the belly and the breath count tell you what is.

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Plan a cook for eight people

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GuideBRO SeniorsMarcus ValeSep 23, 20266 min

Get the cataracts done before you stop driving at night

What actually tells you it's time, how to pick the lens, and why the two weeks of eye drops are harder than the fifteen minutes of surgery.

Delicious.com — Nine thousand recipes and a plan for tonight

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BRO for Her6 min read

Who to call when breastfeeding hurts and what it costs

Pain past the first few seconds isn't a phase you tough out. There's a credential to look for, free help that's genuinely good, and a bill your plan may already cover.

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Where does your phone charge overnight?

GuideFitnessCal BrennanSep 23, 20266 min

How much walking actually counts when you've got kids

The 10,000-step number came from a pedometer ad. Here's what a real walking habit looks like for someone with a job, a family and 40 spare minutes.

GuideBRO SeniorsMarcus ValeSep 23, 20266 min

The four places in your house where the fall happens

Most of the fix is a Saturday's work and under two hundred dollars, and the part almost nobody does is the one that matters.

CancerDefying.com — The research, protocols and reading in one place

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GuideBRO for HerNina CastellanSep 23, 20266 min

Third trimester signs that mean call now, not tomorrow

The symptoms worth waking someone up for, how to tell real labor from a long evening, and what to have settled before week 37.

Quiz

Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next two weeks.

GuideFitnessCal BrennanSep 23, 20266 min

Your first three weeks back after surgery should feel too easy

Come back from illness or an operation without blowing it up in week three, when you finally feel good and do something stupid.

GuideBRO SeniorsMarcus ValeSep 23, 20266 min

Your thirst gauge broke, and nobody told you

After sixty the thirst signal dulls, so you can be a quart low and feel nothing. Run fluids on a clock instead, and know which days actually put men in the hospital.

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Build me a 30-day training plan around two sessions a week

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GuideBRO for HerNina CastellanSep 23, 20266 min

Normal hemoglobin doesn't mean your iron is fine

The exhaustion that gets waved off as stress has a specific test, a specific number, and a correction that takes about three months.

Names.com — The name is the first thing you sell

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GuideFitnessCal BrennanSep 23, 20266 min

Five health checks worth doing before you turn 30

Your twenties are the cheapest decade of your life to find a problem, and most of what's worth checking fits in one blood draw and a thirty dollar cuff.

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What was your first ever job?

GuideBRO SeniorsMarcus ValeSep 23, 20266 min

What to ask at every health check after sixty-five

The Medicare wellness visit isn't a physical, nobody owns your medication list, and most of the useful information comes from questions you ask.

GuideBRO for HerNina CastellanSep 23, 20266 min

What the hormone therapy panic got wrong, and what it didn't

The 2002 study that scared a generation off estrogen enrolled women with an average age of 63. That detail changed everything about how this is prescribed now.

Coconut.com — Tell us when. We find where the sun is.

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$Shin splints or a stress fracture, and how to tell them apart$

GuideFitnessCal BrennanSep 23, 20265 min

Shin splints or a stress fracture, and how to tell them apart

One hurts along a stretch of bone and warms up as you run. The other hurts on a spot the size of a dime and gets worse. Learn the difference before you lose a season.

Quiz

Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

Food6 min

Pour more olive oil than feels right and the rest gets cheap

BRO for Her6 min

The autoimmune gap is real and it starts on the X chromosome

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Rewrite my résumé so it actually gets read

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GuideFitnessCal BrennanSep 23, 20266 min

Stretching feels great and it won't save your hamstring

Thirty seconds of toe-touching has never prevented a tear. Strength, a real warm-up and sane load management do. Stretching still earns six minutes a day.