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Plus: steps vs cardio—which is best for fat loss, health, & performance?
The 10almonds Team
February 03, 2025
Good afternoon 👋
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In today’s email we cover insulin sensitivity, step counts vs cardio, and reversing brain fog.
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Recommended Reading
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Steps vs Cardio | Which is Best for Fat Loss, Health, & Performance?
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One-Minute Book Review
The Brain Fog Fix: Reclaim Your Focus, Memory, and Joy in Just 3 Weeks – by Dr. Mike Dow
The three weeks mentioned in the subtitle is in fact a week-by-week plan:
Adjusting diet (inclusions and exclusions) and cognitive strategies
Focusing on sleep, exercise, and memory-boosting “brain games”
Bringing in the social aspect, and connection to something larger than oneself
In this reviewer’s opinion, a week is too short a time to completely overhaul one’s diet; most changes need to be gradual, so doing several at once in a week is quite extreme. But, even if it takes a month for each stage instead of a week, the method is reasonable.
The nutritional advice is good, and consistent with current best science on the topic. There’s a lot about keeping even blood sugars and improving insulin sensitivity, as well as doing what is best for the heart and blood in general (e.g. fiber, managing triglycerides, doing the right kinds of exercise, etc).
As a psychotherapist, he also talks a fair bit about neurotransmitters, and making sure one’s gut and brain are fed appropriately to keep the correct balance (remembering for example that serotonin is made in the gut, and dopamine is made in the brain). Unlike many of his colleagues, he’s not a fan of medicating beyond absolute necessity.
The style is a little salesy for this reviewer’s personal taste—but then again, perhaps he made the reasonable assumption that a person reading a book entitled “the brain fog fix” needs their attention grabbing and re-grabbing every paragraph or so. As such, maybe it’s not a bad call.
Bottom line: if you have brain fog and would like to not have brain fog, this book offers a scientifically sound, evidence-based, holistic approach that can certainly improve things.
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Wishing you a peaceful Sunday,
The 10almonds Team
