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In today’s email we cover CBD oil’s putative liver-protective properties, what to do in the event of a weight loss plateau, and how to improve shoulder mobility (without stretching!).
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Today’s Main Feature
Alcohol Harms The Liver; CBD Protects It?
Normally when we say “cannabis vs alcohol”, we’re talking about working out which is worse.
But this study shows how CBD appears to actually help protect the liver from the harms of alcohol:
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Hit A Weight Loss Plateau? Here’s What To Do
You can actually turn this into an advantage:
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Watch and Learn
Four Easy Ways To Better Shoulder Mobility
Shoulders are important, and often neglected by women who do not generally have the same social impetus to have large shoulders as men do.
But, size won't happen by accident, so please do train strength, because yes, strength is necessary for mobility. And why is strength necessary?
Think of it this way: if your car has wheels but no engine power, then it can be moved by outside forces yes, but it's not really fulfilling the job requirements of "automobile", is it?
Same deal with your shoulders. If your shoulders can be moved through a range of motion much further than they have the power to move themselves, then that's not mobility, that's hypermobility and it's a liability.
That's how you end up pulling a muscle while reaching something from a high shelf.
So instead...

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