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Your Health Audit, From Head To Toe
Plus: know the 7 early warning signs of Alzheimer's: detect before it's too Late!
The 10almonds Team
May 06, 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:
Alzheimer’s has far more signs than just memory loss, and can be detected early if you’re paying attention and know what to watch out for (see today’s video for these)
In fact, it pays to be on top of at least these 6 key areas of health:
Mental Health
Brain Health
Heart Health
Gut Health
Hormonal Health
Bone/Joint Health
Obé Fitness can really help with the cardiovascular fitness and body mobility side of things! Check out today’s sponsor section for details.
Read on to learn about these things and more…
👀 WATCH AND LEARN
Know the 7 Signs of Alzheimer's: Detect Before It's Too Late!
It’s good to be aware of these seven early indicators of Alzheimer's disease, providing valuable insight into the onset of this life-changing condition. By understanding these early signs, you can take proactive steps to seek medical advice and early intervention:
We’ll not keep them a mystery from you; they are:
Memory loss (we know; you guessed that one!)
Difficulty planning & problem-solving
Difficulty completing familiar tasks
Confusion with time & place
Changes in vision & spatial relationships
Problems with speaking or writing
Changes in mood and personality
We recommend watching the video though, to understand and know how to spot each of these!
🔎 MAIN FEATURE
Health Audit Time
Here at 10almonds, we often cover quite specific things, ranging from “the effect of sodium on organs other than your heart” to “make this one small change to save your knees while driving”.
But, we’re each a whole person, and we need to take care of the whole organism that makes up the wonderful being that we each are. If we let one part of it drop in health too much, the others will soon follow suit because of the knock-on effects.
So, let’s do a quick self-check-up, and see what can be done for each! How’s your…
Mental Health
We’re doing this audit head-to-to, so let’s start it here, because mental health is also just health, and it’s difficult to tackle the others without having this one at least under control!
Are you experiencing chronic stress? Anxiety? Depression? Joy?
If you answered “no” to “joy” but also “no” to “depression”, you might want to rethink your answer to “depression”, by the way. Life should be a joyous thing!
Some resources to address your mental health:
Brain Health
Your brain is a big, powerful organ. It uses more of your daily energy (in the physiological sense of the word, we’re talking calories and mitochondria and ATP) than any other organ, by far.
And when it comes to organ failure, if your brain fails, then having the best joints in the world won’t help you, for example.
Some resources to address your brain health:
Heart Health
Everything depends on your heart, head to toe. Tirelessly pumping blood with oxygen, nutrients, and agents of your immune system all around your body, all day every day for your entire life.
What’s your resting heart rate like? How about your blood pressure? And while we’re on the topic of blood… how’s your blood sugar health?
These are all important things to a) know about and b) keep on top of!
Some resources to address your heart health:
Gut Health
By cell count, we’re about 10% human and 90% bacteria. By gene count, also. Pretty important, therefore, that we look after our trillions of tiny friends that keep our organism working.
Most people in N. America, for example, get vastly under the recommended daily amount of fiber, and that’s just the most basic courtesy we could do for these bugs that keep us alive (they need that fiber to live, and their process of consuming it is beneficial to us in a stack of ways).
Some resources to address your gut health:
Hormonal Health
Hormones are weird and wonderful and affect so much more than the obvious sex-related functions (but yes, those too). A lot of people don’t realize it, but having our hormones in good order or not can make the difference between abject misery and a happy, fulfilling life.
Some resources to address your hormonal health:
Bone/Joint Health
Fear nothing! For you are a ghost operating a skeleton clad in flesh. But also, you know, look after that skeleton; you only get one! Being animals, we’re all about movement, and being humans, we’ve ended up with some lifestyle situations that aren’t great for that mobility. We sit too much; we walk too little; we cramp ourselves into weird positions (driving, anyone?), and we forget the range of motion we’re supposed to have. But let’s remember…
Some resources to address your bone/joint health:
Lastly…
While it’s good to do a little self-audit like this every now and again, it’s even better to get a professional check-up!
As engineers say: if you don’t schedule time for maintenance, your equipment will schedule it for you.
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🌎 AROUND THE WEB
What’s happening in the health world…
More to come tomorrow!
📖 ONE-MINUTE BOOK REVIEW
How to Stop Negative Thinking: Proven Tactics to Eliminate Overthinking, Purge Stress, and Destroy the Spiral of Self-Doubt for a Better Life - by Daniel Paul
"Just think positive thoughts" is all well and good, but it doesn't get much mileage in the real world, does it?
What Daniel Paul offers is a lot better than that. Taking a CBT approach, he recommends tips and tricks, gives explanations and exercises, and in short, puts tools in the reader's toolbox.
But it doesn't stop at just stopping negative thinking. Rather, it takes a holistic approach to also improve your general life...
Bookending your day with a good start and finish
Scheduling a time for any negative thinking that does need to occur (again with the useful realism!)
Inviting the reader to take on small challenges, of the kind that'll have knock-on effects that add and multiply and compound as we go
The format is very easy-reading, and we love that there are clear section headings and chapter summaries, too.
Bottom line: definitely a book with the potential to improve your life from day one, and that'll keep you coming back to it as a cheatsheet and references source.
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Wishing you the best of health from top to toe,
The 10almonds Team