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In today’s email we cover how to triple your chances of getting the “razorblade throat” COVID variant & long COVID, neck mobility fixes, and a celebrity-packed longevity guidebook.
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Today’s Main Feature
How To Triple Your Chances Of Getting The "Razorblade Throat" COVID Variant
Some factors make a big difference:
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Back Pain? Should You Consider Spinal Cord Stimulation?
On the one hand, it is very expensive.
On the other hand, the evidence suggests it doesn’t work better than placebo and certainly it can make things worse:
If You Want Better Cognitive Health Later, Improve/Protect These Things Now
…aside from the obvious “heart and brain”, there are 3 important (and often overlooked) considerations that were highlighted:
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Build Your Neck Mobility
The neck (so: the cervical spine) is, when healthy, the most mobile part of the spine.
It’s essential for everyday function and overhead lifts, and yet it’s often neglected in physical training, despite being strained by forward-facing habits like screen time and driving.
Here’s how to make it better:
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One-Minute Book Review
Longevity Guidebook: How to Slow, Stop, and Reverse Aging, and NOT Die from Something Stupid – by Dr. Peter Diamandis
The main goal of this book is extending healthspan by maintaining various bodily functions, most notably cardiac, neuromuscular, cognitive, metabolic, and respiratory.
His tools for this task are mostly the usual lifestyle considerations, since they account for most of our longevity, not genetics—though he does also discuss CRISPR, gene therapy, and cellular medicine.
There is also a chapter on, as the subtitle promises, how to not die from something stupid. This, however, is about lifesaving breakthroughs in technology—not, for example, things like “don’t hold a maskless superspreader event during a pandemic lockdown” (such as he famously did, and yes, a lot of people got sick).
The style is chatty and personal; Dr. Diamandis likes to tell stories, and name-drops celebrities at a remarkable rate, often recommending difficult-to-come-by (and expensive) therapies that they have enjoyed. While this may be a wearying habit socially, it’s actually a good habit scientifically (in the cases where the celebrities in question are famous doctors and scientists), because it means crediting everyone for what they did and said, and allowing for full traceability of ideas/information. Still, most of that is little more than informative gossip, but on a more formal level, there are citations for claims throughout, and a generous bibliography at the back, which we love to see.
Bottom line: there’s a lot of practical advice in here, most of it well-sourced (however, his 75 different supplements that he takes are a bit hit-and-miss in that regard). Aside from that, much of the book is a “who’s who” of the the longevity industry, which may or may not interest all readers.
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Wishing you a wonderful Wednesday full of wellness,
The 10almonds Team
