More Things Dopamine Does For Us

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The eyes have it… Or do they? Pick one object close by in your vision, and one far away, and switch between looking at one and the other. Is it easy to re-focus quickly at the different distances? If not, practice a little bit each day until it is.
See also: Could my glasses be making my eyesight worse?

In today’s email we cover more things dopamine does for us, sleep sabotage mistakes, and “the gift of aging”.

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How To Sabotage Your Sleep By Using Magnesium Incorrectly

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One-Minute Book Review

The Gift Of Aging − by Dr. Elizabeth Eckstrom & Marcy Houle

This is, as you may gather from the title, a book about getting the most out of growing older, and doing it well.

Not all of it is positive though; some of it really is about avoiding, mitigating, or coping with the negatives that tend to come with aging.

The book is full of many (38) small self-contained chapters, so it’s well-suited to reading bit-by-bit, if so inclined. Essentially, it’s a collection of essays by the two authors, arranged into categories:

1. Caring for your mind

2. Caring for your body

3. Caring for yourself and your family

4. Caring for your soul

The first two sections are mostly self-explanatory; the third is largely about estate-planning of various kinds. The fourth is highly subjective, and/but not particularly religious, by the way. It’s largely an add-on to the “caring for your mind” mental health section, but now more specifically dealing with heavy topics such as the emotional side of mortality (as opposed to the previous section’s practical considerations of same), loss, and grief.

The style is the very low end of pop-science; facts (probably true ones; nothing seemed very contentious objectively) are stated with no sources, and there is no medical jargon that’s anything more complicated than you might find on a leaflet in a doctor’s waiting room.

Bottom line: this is a very opinion-filled book, so it’s worth reading with that in mind (i.e. their opinions may differ wildly from yours in some cases), but it’s largely informed opinions, so worth at least considering even in those cases. If nothing else, this book is certainly thought-provoking.

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

The 10almonds Team