Hussein Naji, PhD (Healthcare Research)
Evidence-based breakdowns on which supplements matter (e.g., creatine, omega-3s, magnesium) and when to use them.
Empathy Matters: Deliver Science in a Nervous‑System Friendly Tone
As a research advisor & Head of Science I believe that: Health support should feel like someone finally understands why this is hard. Not like another person is disappointed in you. That matters a lot when you’re building for people with gut issues, anxiety, overwhelm, or old patterns around food. Because the wrong tone can make good advice useless. So a lot of my job isn't just validating science. It’s making sure the science reaches people in a way their nervous system can actually hear.
Schedule Tasks by Stimulation, Not Importance, Boosts ADHD Productivity
Productivity trick for ADHDs: Schedule tasks by stimulation, not importance. Most productivity advice tells you to organize your day by priority. Most ADHD brains don’t care about what’s “most important”. Their brains choose tasks based on stimulation, friction, dread, novelty, and whether the...
Support Over Advice: Reduce Friction, Offer Clear Steps
One thing I’ve learned from both research and personal experience: People rarely need more advice at the exact moment they are struggling. They need: - less friction - less shame - less cognitive load - a clearer next step That idea shapes a lot of my work...
Simplify Mornings: Stick to One Breakfast Weekly
One of the easiest ways to reduce morning friction is to eat the same breakfast most days. A repeat breakfast lowers cognitive load, reduces food indecision, and makes mornings feel less like project management. It can also help with steadier energy and...
Build Tools that Break Long‑term Habits, Not Fleeting Inspiration
I’m not interested in building a health app that makes people feel inspired for 6 min. I want it to help them interrupt a pattern that has been running for 6 years. That means we spend a lot of time behind the...
13 Subtle Signals Your Body Needs Support, Not Discipline
I’m neurodivergent and have a PhD in healthcare research. Here are 13 subtle signs your body needs support, not more discipline: (save this for the days when everything feels harder than it should)
Design Tools that Help in Messy, Real Moments
The product I’m helping build now is shaped by a very personal question: What would've helped me when I was lonely, stressed, and using food to get out of my own head? Not in theory. In real life. At 10:47pm. Alone. Overwhelmed. Already...
Quit Stress Eating Without Willpower: My 10‑Year Journey
I’m a neurodivergent health research advisor and used to struggle with stress & binge eating. It took me almost 10 years to beat it and I'm gonna tell you how in 2 min. Here’s how I stopped stress eating without relying on...
Design Health Tools for Bad Days, Not Just Good Ones
If a health product only works on good days, it doesn’t work. That sounds obvious. But most products are still built like everyone is calm, focused, and ready to optimize their life at 7:12am. That’s not how behavior change works. So a lot of...
Consistency Means Returning After Lapses, Not Perfection
"Consistency = never falling off" That definition isn't only wrong but it also ruins more progress than it helps. Consistency is mostly a return skill. Here are some simple return rules: - if I miss a workout, I still do the next one -...
Reached 50 Paid Subscribers—Grateful for Real Support
Just noticed we crossed 50 paid subscribers 🎉 Thank you guys. The fact that real people pay real money to read my work is still kind of surreal to me, and it means a lot 🙏🏾
Design Health Solutions That Empower Real, Neurodivergent Users
If you want to build health products or content that: - create real behavior change - reduce friction instead of demanding more discipline - get attention without fear-mongering - are designed for real humans, not ideal users - help neurodivergent (ADHD, AuDHD) people too - make...
Design Health Tools for Stressed Users, Not Ideal Cases
As a research advisor & Head of Science one of the questions I ask behind the scenes all the time is: Would this still help someone when they're having a bad day? Because that’s the real test. Not: Does this sound smart? Not: Is...
Your Nervous System Prefers Familiar Pain over New Safety
A lot of “self-sabotage” is just your nervous system picking familiar pain over unfamiliar safety. Familiar feels predictable. And predictable often feels safer than better. That's why people stay in chaotic relationships, overwork loops, food patterns, stress cycles, old identities. And in these...
Health Advice Must Work Even on Bad Days
The biggest misbelief in health is that knowing more automatically changes behavior. It doesn’t. That’s one of the main things I keep pressure-testing behind the scenes as the Head of Science at Your Daily. A lesson can be scientifically right and still fail...
Micro Reset Rituals Ease Task Switching for ADHD
For many people (especially ADHDs) the difficulty of a task isn't the task itsself, but the handover from one task to another. email → cooking work → shower errand → next errand texting → sleep As a neurodivergent, what I find useful is to do...
Speak Your Tasks: Calm Your Nervous System
I’m neurodivergent and have a PhD in healthcare research. Here are my 10 favorite nervous system regulation tricks that took me 17+ years to figure out: 1. Narrating tasks out loud while doing them (offloads working memory & reduces overwhelm).
Understanding Food as Emotional Relief Drives Better Health Design
One reason I care so much about making health support actually usable is because I know what it’s like when food becomes fast relief. When you’re not eating because you’re hungry. You’re eating because you want out of your own head...
Embrace Your Quirks: Dating Tips for Nerdy Neurodivergent Writers
Book title: "How to Date as a Nerdy, Neurodivergent Writer in His 30s Who Eats Kiwis With the Skin On"
When Multitasking Chaos Meets Self‑awareness, You’re Not Alone
If you're smart, self-aware, trying hard… and still somehow have 26 tabs open, no lunch, and one sock on... This page is for you🙌🏾
Building an App That Truly Understands Gut Anxiety
As a research advisor for a gut & anxiety relief app, I’m helping build the kind of health product I wish existed when I was struggling. Not another app that dumps information on you and calls it support. I mean something that...
Laziness Is Often Nervous System Overload, Not Sloth
I’m neurodivergent and have a PhD in healthcare research. Here are 12 things people call laziness that are often just nervous system overload: (save this post for bad days)
Health Isn’t About Pain: Stop Glorifying Self‑Punishment
The internet has confused health with self-punishment. If it hurts, it must be working. If it’s miserable, it must be discipline. If you hate it, it must be effective. That logic has done insane damage. A lot of “health” content is just socially approved self-aggression...
Productivity Tips Assume Stability Most Lack
Most productivity advice is written for people with stable energy, low ambiguity, and invisible support. That’s why so much of it feels fake when you try to use it in a real life. A color-coded routine is easy to preach when: - nobody...
Embrace Your Quiet Habits: They’re Strength, Not Weirdness
If you: - genuinely enjoy staying home all day, completely alone, and feel better after it - replay conversations in your head for hours - get irrationally attached to certain clothes, foods, or routines - feel physically drained by noise, crowds, or too much...
Stop Hoarding Health Tips; Reduce Stress, Find Clarity
If your neurospicy brain keeps saving health posts because you’re scared of missing the one thing that might finally help — but the pile of saved advice is now its own source of stress… this page is for you.
Dark Showers: Quick Calm for Overstimulated Nervous System
I'm neurodivergent and have a PhD in healthcare research. Here are 14 ways to regulate your nervous system you’ve probably never heard of: 1. Shower in the dark (reduces sensory input and is one of the fastest ways to calm your overstimulated...