How Old Is Too Old For HRT?

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In today’s email we cover HRT in old age, foot health, and gut health.

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Watch and Learn

3 Things Everyone Over 50 Must Do Daily for Healthy Feet

Our favorite over-50s specialist physio is back, and he wants you to be on a good footing:

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One-Minute Book Review

The Gut Revolution: Change Your Gut, Change Your Life – by Dr. Christine Bishara

You may be wondering: what sets this apart from other books about gut health?

And one answer is: the author discusses her own published study, with regard to the connection between a deficiency in Bifidobacterium sp., and COVID infection risk/severity. However, this is not an entire book to say “supplement Bifidobacterium sp.”; rather, there are many other things at hand too.

And indeed, supplementing with probiotics will be useless if your gut is not an environment conducive to them thriving. If you take probiotics on an otherwise “Standard American Diet”, then this is approximately the equivalent of paradropping firefighters naked into a raging fire. It will not help. It isn’t the thought that counts.

Instead, Dr. Bishara talks us through what is required for beneficial gut bacteria to thrive, and how to go about making our gut an ideal place for them. In return, they will produce important biochemical metabolites for us, they will improve our immune response, regulate our emotions, help us maintain a healthy weight, heal our skin, and make us smell nice too. In short, they’re a trillions-strong clean-up and maintenance team, if only we treat our workforce well.

Another thing that Dr. Bishara brings of value here that’s not found in a lot of gut health books is the benefits (for gut health) of intermittent fasting, and specifically, a very useful timeline of what happens when, to ensure we do not sabotage our efforts by breaking our fast too early or too late.

The style is easy-reading pop-science, albeit with scientific references throughout for those who want to delve deeper.

Bottom line: this is a gut health book that stands out from the crowd in several ways, and is well worth the investment of reading it!

Click here to check out Gut Revolution, and help yours to help you!

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Wishing you the best of health in all ways at all ages,

The 10almonds Team