Biological Aging & The Octo Tool!

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Top tip: the steps you take don’t have to be big; they just have to be in the right direction!

In today’s email we cover the Health Octo Tool, sprinting, and neuroprotection strategies.

Getting a good amount of protein per day is important to maintain muscle mass, especially as we get older. Today’s sponsor is David, a protein bar made by people who actually care about health—it has a lot more protein than most protein bars, yet comes with only 150 calories and no sugar. Check it out!

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Watch and Learn

How Sprinting Changes Your Body (Once Per Week Is Sufficient)

Sprinting is often thought of as a pursuit of the young, but it can bring particularly important health benefits in later life:

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This Or That?

Vote on Which is Healthier

Yesterday we asked you to choose between macadamias and pecans—we picked the pecans (click here to read about why), as did 59% of you!

Now for today’s choice:

Click on whichever you think is better for you!

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One-Minute Book Review

The Ageless Brain: How to Sharpen and Protect Your Mind for a Lifetime – by Dr. Dale Bredesen

We previously reviewed this author’s groundbreaking “The End of Alzheimer’s”, and now in this volume he expands on the work done there, to focus on the practical aspect of, as the subtitle promises, how to sharpen and protect your mind for a lifetime.

When we say “groundbreaking”, this is because it’s not just the usual same old things (that are very important, and/but probably quite well-known to most 10almonds readers), but rather, 36 metabolic factors that are implicated in Alzheimer’s pathology, and the good news is, most of them are within our control.

He explores these, and how to tweak them to our advantage, through much of the first half of the book, before getting to more general advice—some of which is the “same old things”, but some are factors that at best, don’t get much attention: like the relationship between oral health and cognitive health, for example.

The style is more varied this time; sometimes once again on the hard end of pop science, since there’s a lot of technical clinical data and information in here, but he does explain everything as we go, making it still quite readable for the layperson; sometimes, on the other hand, it’s quite light and narrative in style. The author being a physician-scientist in his 70s, he has a lot of experience and that means a lot of stories to tell to illustrate his points.

Bottom line: if you’d like to protect your brain with the very latest science in a comprehensive fashion, this book will enable you to do just that.

Click here to check out The Ageless Brain, and defy brain aging!

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

The 10almonds Team