Antiviral Gum Gives Epidemiologists Something To Chew On

Good afternoon 👋 

❝Without brain health, you do not have health❞
~ Dr. Sandra Chapman

In today’s email we cover antiviral chewing gum (made from beans!), the procrastinating brain, and ending diabetes.

At 10almonds, we’ve written before about lycopene’s benefits for the gut, heart, brain, and more, so if you don’t eat several pounds of tomatoes every day, why not give your body a Mediterranean boost, with a supplement that delivers the equivalent amount of lycopene? Check it out here 😎

Today’s Main Feature

Recommended Reading

Watch and Learn

How Some Brains Are Hardwired For Procrastination

It has to do with faulty dopamine-signalling, and working around it can be tricky, but not impossible.

Dr Tracey Marks, psychiatrist, explains:

Prefer text? The above video will take you to a 10almonds page with a text-overview, as well as the video!

Our Sponsors Make This Publication Possible

Give Your Body A Mediterranean Boost

At 10almonds, we’ve written before about:

Lycopene’s Benefits For The Gut, Heart, Brain, & More

…and regular 10almonds readers know well the many benefits of a Mediterranean diet.

However, even the healthiest diet can benefit from a boost sometimes, and that’s why we recommend treating your body to a lycopene supplement that delivers the equivalent of an average of 3 lbs of tomatoes’ lycopene content per daily capsule:

Please do visit our sponsors—they help keep 10almonds free

This Or That?

Vote on Which is Healthier

Yesterday we asked you to choose between cherries and dates—both wonderful foods, but we picked the dates (click here to read about why), as did 54% of you!

Now for today’s choice:

Click on whichever you think is better for you!

Bonus (Sponsored) Recommendation

We know 10almonds readers love learning in a convenient, bite-size fashion. Check out this list of other newsletters our readers also enjoy!

One-Minute Book Review

The End Of Diabetes: The Eat to Live Plan to Prevent and Reverse Diabetes – by Dr. Joel Fuhrman

We’ve previously reviewed another of Dr. Fuhrman’s books, “Eat To Live”, and this time, he’s focusing specifically on preventing/reversing type 2 diabetes.

And yes, this is really only about type 2 diabetes. Type 1 diabetics can still benefit from this dietary approach (it won’t cure T1D but it will help manage it), as indeed can people with one of the rarer forms of diabetes or for that matter people with no diabetes at all (it’s great for all of us to avoid blood sugar spikes and improve insulin sensitivity)… But this book is written with the type diabetic firmly in mind.

The title “The End Of…” is fair, by the way—on an individual level, at the very least. While most doctors treat type 2 diabetes as a lifelong condition to be managed, the simple (well-evidenced and honestly uncontroversial at this point) truth is that it can be reversed. So, why not do that?

The dietary approach here is sensible: eat many plants, aim for high protein, high fiber, low carb, and limit animal products to just small portions of those that don’t spike insulin levels.

It’s worth noting that Dr. Fuhrman’s “Nutritarian Diet” (which works by assigning all foods a single numerical aggregate nutritional value) has been criticised as being pseudoscientific, and technically it is (there is no evidence-base that optimizing nutrients in this fashion is best; indeed, it could result in missing out on some nutrients that are critical but occur only in otherwise lower-scoring foods—see for example if someone notes how highly Brussels sprouts score and decides to eat only Brussels sprouts, thus missing out on nutrients that aren’t in this otherwise top-tier food), but in practical application, it clearly works well and helps people to eat more nutritionally-dense foods, on balance, which can only be a good thing.

The style of the book is information-dense pop-science (with more than 20 pages of bibliography to back it up), with also a recipe section (60 pages of that). The recipes are a touch on the basic side for this reviewer’s tastes, but perhaps that’s no bad thing—it provides a good “base” from which we can all personalize our recipes according to our preferences and local availability of ingredients.

Bottom line: whether or not you (and/or a loved one) are diabetic, this is a great book for understanding glycemic control and insulin sensitivity, and a great resource for improving those in one’s own life and one’s own body.

Click here to check out The End Of Diabetes, and put an end to diabetes!

Penny For Your Thoughts?

Wishing you a wonderfully restorative weekend,

The 10almonds Team