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Happy Monday 👋 

The true secret of beating aging at its own game is to be old when we are young (look after ourselves) and be young when we are old (stay curious, appreciate life in all its wonders, and embrace joy)!

In today’s email we cover age spots / liver spots, hyperthyroidism, and why doctors skip breakfast.

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Watch and Learn

Doctor Explains: 19 Signs Of Hyperthyroidism

We’ve talked before about the signs of hypothyroidism, but what about when it’s the other way, and the thyroid becomes overactive?

Dr. Siobhan Deshauer explains:

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This writer’s personal favorite of those is l-theanine and it’s the most consistent everpresent in her daily supplement stack ← regular readers may remember when I talked about my own daily health stuff, here! But I also do recommend all four from personal experience, and regular readers will know by now that I wouldn’t say that if I didn’t mean it 😉

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One-Minute Book Review

Why Doctors Skip Breakfast: Wellness Tips to Reverse Aging, Treat Depression, and Get a Good Night's Sleep – by Dr. Gregory Charlop

This book is what it claims to be in the subtitle: “[a collection of] wellness tips to reverse aging, treat depression, and get a good night’s sleep”. It’s not delivered quite like that though—one might expect this to be a page-a-day reader with one tip per page, for example, and it isn’t.

Instead, Dr. Charlop oscillates between telling stories (of the anecdotal variety, though they do come across as illustrative fictions rather than actual case studies with names changed) and sharing his thoughts on various topics, much as one might if talking to a friend or other small social audience in a casual manner.

As such, it’s very easy-reading, while at the same time not being necessarily conducive to skimming, as then one may miss the information buried in the text.

The knowledge itself is probably not anything that regular readers of 10almonds won’t have read before, but it can be good to have a reminder in any case; it’s easy to let things slip, get distracted from a good habit and then not reprise it, that sort of thing, so books like this can function as a timely prompt to make use of various wellness tools and techniques.

As for practicality, some things can be done quickly and easily (such as the intermittent fasting alluded to by the title, for example) whereas others will require investing more time and/or money, but all are at least worthy of consideration.

The style is, as we say, casual—but there is a bibliography and list of further references, so that’s a point in its favor, especially as the book itself is not very long or information-dense.

Bottom line: while there is nothing groundbreaking here, this book will provide a refresher on what for 10almonds readers might be considered the basics, plus some pet interests of the author’s (such as red light therapy and ketamine, which while they have their place, cannot be described as “the basics” of good health; the former is a very nice extra, and the latter has its pros and cons).

Click here to check out Why Doctors Skip Breakfast, and see how your health habits measure up!

Penny For Your Thoughts?

Wishing you the most well-informed start to the week,

The 10almonds Team