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Good afternoon 👋 

Here we are, at the end of May! Which makes it a great time to consider what we want to do for our health in the coming month, and plan accordingly.
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In today’s email we cover good/bad cholesterol and Alzheimer’s risk, how to restart with intentional exercise after a break, and fighting diabetes with vitamins and antioxidants.

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7 Tips To Start Back In The Gym After A Break

Whether we had an injury or illness, or life just got in the way, we’ve all had breaks from dedicated exercise sometimes. So, how to restart best?

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One-Minute Book Review

Fight Diabetes With Vitamins & Antioxidants – by Dr. Kedar Prasad

You may be wondering what vitamins and antioxidants have to do with diabetes, which is primarily a metabolic disorder, and usually controlled (including: avoided/reversed) by macronutrient considerations, especially by adjusting the amounts of various kinds of carbs, fiber, and fats, and/or the patterns of eating those things.

Dr. Prasad makes the case that the proper combinations of vitamin and antioxidant supplements can greatly increase the effectiveness of standard medical treatments, to halt and reverse the progression of not only type 2 diabetes, but type 1, too.

Which is not to say that in the latter case your pancreas will perk up and stop fighting itself and start producing meaningful quantities of insulin—you’ll still need your insulin pump or injections—but it is to say that you can enjoy much more stable blood sugars and higher insulin sensitivity, which are of course both important things to have.

To demonstrate this, he reviews a lot of scientific literature for us, so much in fact that if you don’t love reading hard science, this book might be quite offputting for you, because the style is very academic, and while published to the wider public, most of the book reads like an extended scientific paper in book form, and indeed there are 23 pages of bibliography, which is quite a lot for a 240-page book.

While, as we say, most of the book is given over to hard science, on a practical note he does also give simple direct recommendations of how much to take of various supplements—and he does recommend supplementation, not relying on diet alone.

Bottom line: if you’d like a fresh take on diabetes avoidance/management that you probably haven’t read elsewhere, this book can provide that.

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Wishing you a wonderfully restorative weekend,

The 10almonds Team