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In yesterday’s “This or That” section, we asked you to choose between kombucha and kimchi. We picked the kombucha (click here to read about why), as did 36% of you!
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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:
Today’s featured expert, Dr. Jaime Seeman, is here to offer her 5 Pillars of being “Hard to Kill”
They are nutrition, movement, sleep, mindset, and environment
Check out today’s main feature, as not all may be so obvious as the titles seem!
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How to Make Bryan Johnson’s Anti-Aging Dessert (1:56)
Popularly known as "that guy who's investing millions to reverse aging and tries everything out himself", he's picked up a thing or two along the way.
Here he explains the rationale (and how-to) of his anti-aging dessert:
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Shedding Some Obesity Myths
How Likely Are You To Live To 100?
❓ MYSTERY ITEM
Get Unstuck
Hint: today’s mystery item can be used to separate the layers inside your body
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Three Critical Kitchen Prescriptions
Turn Back The Clock On Insulin Resistance
🤸♀️ MAIN FEATURE
Dr. Jaime Seeman: Hard To Kill?
This is Dr. Jaime Seeman. She’s a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist with a background in nutrition, exercise, and health science. She’s also a Fellow in Integrative Medicine, and a board-certified nutrition specialist.
However, her biggest focus is preventative medicine.
What does she want us to know?
The Five Pillars of being “Hard to Kill”!
As an athlete when she was younger, she got away with poor nutrition habits with good exercise, but pregnancy (thrice) brought her poor thyroid function, other hormonal imbalances, and pre-diabetes.
So, she set about getting better—not something the general medical establishment focuses on a lot! Doctors are pressured to manage symptoms, but are under no expectation to actually help people get better.
So, what are her five pillars?
Nutrition
Dr. Seeman unsurprisingly recommends a whole-foods diet with lots of plants, but unlike many plant-enjoyers, she is also an enjoyer of the ketogenic diet.
While keto-enthusiasts say “carbs are bad” and vegans say “meat is bad”, the reality is: both of those things can be bad, and in both cases, avoiding the most harmful varieties is a very good first step:
Movement
This is in two parts:
get your 150 minutes of moderate exercise per week
keep your body mobile!
See also:
Sleep
This one’s quite straightforward, and Dr. Seeman uncontroversially recommends getting 7–9 hours per night; yes, even you:
Mindset
This is key to Dr. Seeman’s approach, and it is about not settling for average, because the average is undernourished, overmedicated, sedentary, and suffering.
She encourages us all to keep working for better health, wherever we’re at. To not “go gentle into that good night”, to get stronger whatever our age, to showcase increasingly robust vitality as we go.
To believe we can, and then to do it.
Environment
That previous item usually won’t last beyond a 10-day health-kick without the correct environment.
As for how to make sure we have that? Check out:
Want more?
She does offer coaching:
Take care!
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📖 ONE-MINUTE BOOK REVIEW
Science of Stretch: Reach Your Flexible Potential, Stay Active, Maximize Mobility – by Dr. Leada Malek
This book is part of a “Science of…” series, of which we’ve reviewed some others before (Yoga | HIIT | Pilates), and needless to say, we like them.
You may be wondering: is this just that thing where a brand releases the same content under multiple names to get more sales, and no, it’s not (long-time 10almonds readers will know: if it were, we’d say so!).
While flexibility and mobility are indeed key benefits in yoga and Pilates, they looked into the science of what was going on in yoga asanas and Pilates exercises, stretchy or otherwise, so the stretching element was not nearly so deep as in this book.
In this one, Dr. Malek takes us on a wonderful tour of (relevant) human anatomy and physiology, far deeper than most pop-science books go into when it comes to stretching, so that the reader can really understand every aspect of what’s going on in there.
This is important, because it means busting a lot of myths (instead of busting tendons and ligaments and things), understanding why certain things work and (critically!) why certain things don’t, how certain stretching practices will sabotage our progress, things like that.
It’s also beautifully clearly illustrated! The cover art is a fair representation of the illustrations inside.
Bottom line: if you want to get serious about stretching, this is a top-tier book and you won’t regret it.
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Wishing you all manner of healthy vitality,
The 10almonds Team
