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Happy Friday 👋 

We made it to the end of the week, and for those who’ll be celebrating Christmas or Hanukkah (the first day of which is the same for each, this year), it’s now the last weekend before those… Are you ready?

In today’s email we cover selections from the week’s health news, back pain, and functional medicine.

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Recommended Reading

Watch and Learn

Fix Your Upper Back With These 3 Steps

When it comes to back pain, the lower back gets a lot of attention, but what about when it’s nearer the neck and shoulders?

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One-Minute Book Review

Just Be Well: A Book for Seekers of Vibrant Health – by Dr. Thomas Sult

Firstly, what this is not: a “think yourself well” book. It’s not about just deciding to be well.

Rather, it’s about ensuring the foundations of wellness, from which the rest of good health can spring, and notably, an absence of chronic illness. In essence: enjoying chronic good health.

The prescription here is functional medicine, which stands on the shoulders of lifestyle medicine. This latter is thus briefly covered and the basics presented, but most of the book is about identifying the root causes of disease and eliminating them one by one, by taking into account the functions of the body’s processes, both in terms of pathogenesis (and thus, seeking to undermine that) and in terms of correct functioning (i.e., good health).

While the main focus of the book is on health rather than disease, he does cover a number of very common chronic illnesses, and how even in those cases where they cannot yet be outright cured, there’s a lot more that can be done for them than “take two of these and call your insurance company in the morning”, when the goal is less about management of symptoms (though that is also covered) and more about undercutting causes, and ensuring that even if one thing goes wrong, it doesn’t bring the entire rest of the system down with it (something that often happens without functional medicine).

The style is clear, simple, and written for the layperson without unduly dumbing things down.

Bottom line: if you would like glowingly good health regardless of any potential setbacks, this book can help your body do what it needs to for you.

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Penny For Your Thoughts?

May today see you well-prepared for the coming weekend,

The 10almonds Team