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A new take on gratitude: while the “3–5 things per day” method is great, another way to do it is to keep a gratitude book, and simply add one new thing per day; keep it going for as long as you can!
See also: 9 Little Habits To Have A Better Day
In today’s email we cover a new, free solution for dry eyes, exercises you’ll wish you’d started sooner (but the next best time to start is now), and fitness with female hormones in mind.
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5 Exercises You'll Regret Ignoring In 10 Years!
Later, you’ll wish you’d started sooner. So, today’s a great day to learn these exercises and get the ball rolling:
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One-Minute Book Review
ROAR: Match Your Food and Fitness to Your Unique Female Physiology for Optimum Performance, Great Health, and a Strong Body for Life – by Dr. Stacy Sims
Most people know that testosterone boosts athletic performance in some ways (e.g. muscle mass, heart strength).
Most people don’t know that estrogen boosts athletic performance in other ways (e.g. energy metabolism, flexibility, muscle fiber stamina, recovery).
Dr. Sims dives into great detail discussing these differences and many more, and how we as women can get the most out of our estrogen-enriched metabolism, estrogen-guided body composition, and take advantage of the fact that estrogen is, gram for gram, hundreds of times more powerful than testosterone (this is why serum estrogen is usually measured in picograms per milliliter or picomols per liter, while testosterone is usually measured in nanograms per milliliter or nanomols per liter; T is nearly 1,000x less effective than E, so greater quantities are needed). And that’s before metabolism-boosting progesterone joins the party!
She advises about exercise, nutrition, and taking care of all the body’s systems with the context of our estrogenic physiology in mind throughout (something that’s often an afterthought in most exercise books, if it even gets any attention at all), and biohacking with HRT and more. She also shares recipes! But not many; this is mostly not a recipe book.
The style is middle-range pop-science, with various facts, statistics, charts, and the like peppered throughout. On which note, there are no citations while reading, but there is a bibliography at the back, arranged on a chapter-by-chapter basis.
Bottom line: if you have female hormones and would like to be stronger, fitter, faster, and so forth, then this book can be a great guide!
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Wishing you a peaceful Sunday,
The 10almonds Team
