The Healthiest Bread Recipe You'll Probably Find

Today’s almonds have been activated by:

🧠 BRAINTEASER

Answer to yesterday’s brainteaser:

Yesterday, we asked a variation on the classic “two guards” puzzle

The correct answer was… Thursday:

• The only day they both tell the truth is Sunday

• But today can’t be Sunday because the lion also tells the truth on Saturday.

• So, they are not both telling the truth

• We also know that there is no day when both of them are lying. Which leaves…

• The only day one of them is lying and the other is telling the truth, with those two statements, is Thursday.

Only a fifth of subscribers who participated got it right! Meanwhile, the most popular answer was “Sunday”.

But! Whether you got it right or not, the point was the brain-stimulation, so, job done 😉

⏰ IN A RUSH?

Today’s 30-Second Summary

If you don’t have time to read the whole email today, here are some key takeaways:

• Flaxseeds and psyllium can make for an incredibly healthy bread that’s easy to make at home!

• Running cold water for 10mins is indeed really the best immediate treatment for most burns. No oils, lotions, etc, please!

• Monitoring one’s health is an important part of staying healthy (burying one’s head in the sand is no good!)

  • Today’s sponsor, Together by Renee, is a free app (free to download, free to use, free in all ways) that will monitor many aspects of your health, just by scanning your face and voice—and running these through powerful AI.

Read on to learn about these things and more…

👀 WATCH AND LEARN

This 3-Ingredient Bread Will Change Your Life! 0.6g Carbs! Keto, Vegan, Gluten-Free! (1:23)

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The "three" ingredients:

• 1 ½ cups (240 g) whole golden flaxseeds

• 4 tbsp (40 g) psyllium husk powder

• 2 tsp baking powder

• ½ tsp salt

• 1 ⅓ cups (320 ml) hot water

Want a text version of the recipe? Here you go 😎

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❓ MAIN FEATURE

It’s Q&A Day at 10almonds!

Have a question or a request? You can always hit “reply” to any of our emails, or use the feedback widget at the bottom!

In cases where we’ve already covered something, we might link to what we wrote before, but will always be happy to revisit any of our topics again in the future too—there’s always more to say!

As ever: if the question/request can be answered briefly, we’ll do it here in our Q&A Thursday edition. If not, we’ll make a main feature of it shortly afterwards!

So, no question/request too big or small 😎

❝[About accidental scalding with water] Is cold water actually the best immediate treatment for a burn? Maybe there is something better, or something I should apply after the cold water.❞

If this is a case of spilled tea or similar—as in your story, which (apologies) we clipped for brevity—indeed, cold running water is best, and nothing else should be needed. It’s up to you whether you want to invest the time based on the extent of the scalding, but 10 minutes is recommended to minimize tissue damage.

If it’s a more severe scalding or burning, seek medical attention immediately. If it’s a burn to anywhere other than the airway, cold running water is still best for 10 minutes, but if you have to choose between that and professional medical attention, don’t delay the help.

If it’s a burn you’ve given 10 minutes of cold running water and it still hurts and/or has blistered, cover it in a sterile, non-adhesive dressing that extends well beyond the visible burn (because the actual damage probably extends further, and you don’t want to find this out the hard way later). If the burn is to the face, do still irrigate but not cover it; wait for help.

Do not apply any kind of cream, lotion, oil, etc. No matter how tempting, no matter where the burn is.

All of the above also goes for splashed oil, chemical burns, and electrical burns too (but obviously, make sure to get away from the electricity first).

Source: this ex-military writer was trained for this sort of thing and, suffice it to say, has dealt with more serious things than spilled tea before now.

Take care!

📊 POLL

We turn the tables and ask you a question…

We’ll then talk about this tomorrow:

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🌏 AROUND THE WEB

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• AI-assisted smartphone app performs well in skin cancer diagnosis

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• The way you speak can reveal whether you have type 2 diabetes

More to come tomorrow!

📖 ONE-MINUTE BOOK REVIEW

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction – by Dr. Gabor Maté

We've reviewed books by Dr. Maté before, and this one's about addiction. We've reviewed books about addiction before too, so what makes this one different?

Wow, is this one so different. Most books about addiction are about "beating" it. Stop drinking, quit sugar, etc. And, that's all well and good. It is definitely good to do those things. But this one's about understanding it, deeply. Because, as Dr. Maté makes very clear, "there, but for the grace of epigenetics and environmental factors, go we".

Indeed, most of us will have addictions; they're (happily) just not too problematic for most of us, being either substances that are not too harmful (e.g. coffee), or behavioral addictions that aren't terribly impacting our lives (e.g. Dr. Maté's compulsion to keep buying more classical music, which he then tries to hide from his wife).

The book does also cover a lot of much more serious addictions, the kind that have ruined lives, and the kind that definitely didn't need to, if people had been given the right kind of help—instead of, all too often, they got the opposite.

Perhaps the greatest value of this book is that; understanding what creates addiction in the first place, what maintains it, and what help people actually need.

Bottom line: if you'd like more insight into the human aspect of addiction without getting remotely wishy-washy, this book is probably the best one out there.

Click here to check out In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, and learn about this much-misunderstood health condition!

Wishing you a good health in all ways great and small,

The 10almonds Team