Coffee until 15:00
Leave the last filter coffee for early afternoon. Caffeine is a diuretic and wrecks sleep, even if you “don’t feel it anymore”.
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A routine that holds in a normal week: a few minutes of pelvic floor work, a cup of infusion instead of the third coffee, and a plate that does not load the night. Last coffee by 15:00. Around 80% of water by 17:00. Salt and biltong, better at lunch than with the rugby. No big promises. Concrete hours.
80% of water by 17:00
This is not about drinking little. It is about timing: most fluids in the morning and at midday, quieter 2–3 hours before bed.
Salt at night
Biltong, chips and cheese with the game hold water. At night, when you lie down, some of it returns to circulation and wakes you before the alarm.
Products
Trainer, infusion and patches. The order request is filled in only on the product page.
How to keep daily comfort
Comfort after forty rarely returns with a single decision. It returns when several boring things happen in the same week: movement, pelvis, plate, sleep. You do not need to be a Comrades runner. You need to get out of the chair more often than every two hours.
Movement is circulation in the pelvis. A short walk after lunch, stairs instead of the lift, seven minutes of hip stretching at night. Sitting too long lowers blood flow and dulls the muscles that support the bladder. It is not “too much water”. It is hygiene of the working day — the N1, the desk, the stoep.
The pelvic floor likes short, regular sets: squeeze, hold, release. The seated Kegel trainer helps keep the rhythm, but it does not replace a physiotherapist if the groin hurts. If pain appears while you train, stop and ask; not “one more set”.
The plate: pumpkin seeds, tomatoes, olive oil, nuts, fish twice a week, less salt and biltong after dark. It is the diet the heart also likes. The prostate benefits from the same circuit. A cup of herbs after 16:00 instead of a cold drink. The last sip not just before bed.
Sleep starts before the pillow. Lower the light, put the phone down, go to the bathroom calmly, not at a run. If you get up three times every night, if prostate cancer ran in the family or you have blood in the urine, this is not an article: it is the doctor. Reading is for knowing what to ask, not for diagnosing yourself.
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The request is filled in on the product page. We confirm by email and you pay when the parcel arrives.
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We review the order on a working day and write to email or phone. The contract starts when we accept the request, not when you press send.
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Shipping R 99; free from R 1 199 of product. Cash on delivery R 59. Prices include 15% VAT. Usual delivery in 2–5 working days in South Africa.
You have 7 days to cool off without giving reasons. Detail in shipping and timelines, frequently asked questions and cooling-off right.
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Three products, request on the page. Herbal infusion R 419, if you want to change the third coffee.