3 Day Juice Fasting? Not So Fast!

Good afternoon 👋 

❝What most people don’t realize is that food is not just calories: It’s information. It actually contains messages that communicate to every cell in the body❞
~ Dr. Mark Hyman

In today’s email we cover juice fasts, death, and skincare.

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Signs That Are Present When Someone Is Dying

You’ve probably been there a few times, although given the emotional nature of the thing, it’s likely that you weren’t taking notes.

Hospice workers, on the other hand, do take notes, so here are some things you might want to know, and if anything makes the next time even a little easier, that’ll be good:

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One-Minute Book Review

Biohack Your Way to Healthy Skin: Inexpensive At-Home Solutions for Radiant Glowing Skin – by Jennifer Sun

The author, an aesthetician with a biotech background, explains about the overlap of skin health and skin beauty, making it better from the inside first (diet and other lifestyle factors), and then tweaking things as desired from the outside.

We previous reviewed another book of hers, “Unleashing Your Best Skin”, and this time the focus is on things you can do at home—not requiring expensive salon treatments (the other book covers both approaches; this one simply skips the clinic work and instead has a lot more detail in the at-home category).

As for what she covers, it comes in categories:

• Gadgets to consider investing in, how to pick good ones, and what gadgets to avoid

• Basic skincare knowledge and practice; here we’re talking cleaners, tonics, moisturizers, and so forth

• Best topical and oral ingredients for the skin (and in contrast, ingredients to be wary of)

• Nutrition for skincare; not just “your skin needs these ingredients”, but also…

• Gut health for skincare, which gets a whole chapter just for that

• Biohacking hormones for skincare, including in the cases of various common hormone imbalances (e.g. menopause, PCOS, etc) and other complications not generally thought of in terms of skincare, such as diabetes and hypo-/hyperthyroidism.

• Circulatory health for skincare (blood and lymph)

• Mental health techniques for skincare (including improving sleep, managing stress, supplements to consider, etc).

As with her other book that we reviewed, the book is broadly aimed at women, and the section on sex-hormonal considerations is completely aimed at women, but as for the rest of the book, there’s no pressing reason why this book couldn’t benefit men too. It also addresses considerations when it comes to darker skintones, something that a lot of similar books overlook.

The style is directly instructional, albeit light and conversational in tone, and still with 20+ pages of scientific references to show that she does indeed know her stuff.

Bottom line: if you’d like to improve your skin health, and/but aren’t a fan of going to the salon, then this book will be an invaluable resource.

Click here to check out Biohack Your Way To Healthy Skin, and biohack your way to healthy skin!

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Wishing you the very best of health every day, in every way,

The 10almonds Team