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Why Curcumin (Turmeric) Is Worth Its Weight In Gold
Plus: Western diet has officially been identified as risk factor for Alzheimer's disease
The 10almonds Team
May 15, 2023
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Today’s 30-Second Summary
If you don’t have time to read the whole email today, here are some key takeaways:
Your biological age, which differs from your chronological age, can be slowed and potentially even reversed
Curcumin (turmeric) is an incredibly potent spice/supplement, fighting all kinds of diseases (if we were to list them here, it’d take up more room than the intro has, so check out today’s main feature!)
Vegan food just got cheaper and easier, with these discount codes (see today’s sponsor, Vegan Members Club, for details)
Western diet has officially been identified as risk factor for Alzheimer's disease
Exercise can help your brain in far more ways than just boosting your mood (check out today’s one-minute book review for more on that!)
Read on to learn about these things and more…
👀 WATCH AND LEARN
You can slow down aging with zero weird tricks
Your biological may be a far more useful metric than your chronological age, for medical purposes:
❝Aging is starting at a molecular level, and over time this is going to give rise to all the functional changes and manifestations that we tend to see with aging❞
Unlike chronological age, your biological age is malleable: Scientists know that it’s possible to slow biological aging by maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
But is it possible to actually reverse the aging process? See what Dr. Levine has to say about the potential of anti-aging research:
💊 MAIN FEATURE
Curcumin (Turmeric) is worth its weight in gold
Not financially! But, this inexpensive golden spice has an impressive list of well-studied health benefits, for something so freely available in any supermarket, and there’s a reason it gets a place in “Dr. Greger’s Daily Dozen”, right up there with things like “leafy greens” and “berries” when it comes to superfoods.
Let’s do a quick run-down:
It fights inflammation, and thus helps fight many diseases where inflammation is a factor (ranging from atherosclerosis to arthritis to Alzheimer’s and more)
It has powerful antioxidant effects too
It boosts brain-derived neurotropic factor (BDNF) and thus improves memory and attention
It helps protect against heart disease…
…and can give a 65% decreased risk of experiencing a heart attack
It can help prevent cancer, and reduce cancerous lesions by 40%
It’s also good against depression
It even slows aging
In short, it’s—like we said—worth its weight in gold.
Quick advice though before we move on…
If you take curcumin with black pepper, it allows your body to use the curcumin around 2,000% better. This goes whether you’re cooking with both, or take them as a supplement (they’re commonly sold as a combo-capsule for this reason).
Want to get some?
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Basically, if you’re shopping (and we all need to eat, after all) it’ll be saving you money to do it with their discount codes.
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🌎 AROUND THE WEB
What’s happening in the health world…
More to come tomorrow!
📖 ONE-MINUTE BOOK REVIEW
Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain - by Dr. John Ratey
We all know that exercise is good for mental health as well as physical. So, what's so revolutionary about this "revolutionary new science of exercise and the brain"?
A lot of it has to do with the specific neuroscience of how exercise has not only a mood-boosting effect (endorphins) and neuroprotective effect (helping to guard against cognitive decline), but also promotes neuroplasticity... e.g., the creation and strengthening of neural pathways, as well as boosting the structure of the brain in some parts such as the cerebellum.
The book also covers not just "exercise has these benefits", but also the "how this works" of all kinds of brain benefits, including:
against Alzheimer's
mitigating ADHD
managing menopause
dealing with addiction
...and more. And once we understand how something works, we're far more likely to be motivated to actually do the kinds of exercises that give the specific benefits we want/need. Which is very much the important part!
In short: this book will tell you what you need to know to get you doing the exercises you need to enjoy those benefits—very much worth it!
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Wishing you long life and good health in every respect,
The 10almonds Team