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In today’s email we cover managing antidepressant side effects, understanding your body’s pain when it’s not always obvious what it’s trying to say, and how to increase immune health measurably in 3 weeks.

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Pain In One Of These 10 Areas? Here's What Each Means

As we get older, it’s easy to think of pain as an inevitability, and especially if it’s chronic, get in the habit of doing our best to ignore it.

However, pain is first and foremost a messenger. Now, sometimes that message can be faulty, but it’s worth checking first whether your body’s “check engine” light is on because something actually needs your attention:

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One-Minute Book Review

The 21-Day Immunity Plan: How To Rapidly Improve Your Metabolic Health & Resilience To Fight Infection – by Dr. Aseem Malhotra

We previously reviewed Dr. Malhotra’s “A Statin-Free Life”, and this time he’s back with more lifestyle medicine to naturally improve an important system (or set of systems, depending on how we want to slice it) with our diet and other lifestyle factors.

This is not, however, an “appeal to nature” fallacy, and in fact Dr. Malhotra is a professor of evidence-based medicine (as well as being a cardiologist, not generally a field of the whimsical).

The main premise of the book is that while there are indeed foods that boost immunity per se, the immune system doesn’t exist in a vacuum and is inextricably linked to other systems, and the metabolism as a whole. Thus, the lifestyle approach here prioritizes immune-boosting things as a focus (and avoiding immune-harming things), while lifting overall health too.

The titular “21-day immunity plan” is, thus, largely dietary, but also addresses exercise, and stress management, amongst other factors.

The style is mostly quite light pop-science, with a lot of references to harder science for those who want it.

Bottom line: if you’d like to boost your immunity measurably in the next 21 days, this book is the one for you!

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Wishing you the very best of health every day, in every way,

The 10almonds Team