One More Reason To Prioritize Sleep To Fight Cognitive Decline

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In today’s email we cover sleep and memory, a very gentle 7-minute morning routine to ward off stiffness, and “health shots” (the drinkable kind).

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The 7-Minute Morning Routine That Eliminates Stiffness

The forward bend, depicted in the thumbnail, is not one of the exercises!

In fact, 6/7 of them you can do without getting out of bed:

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One-Minute Book Review

Health Shots: 50 Simple Tonics To Help Improve Immunity, Ease Anxiety, Boost Energy, & More − by Toby Amidor

First a quick note on qualifications: while not a doctor, she’s a RD, CDN, FAND, and as such, this is a very nutrition-focused book.

As a general rule of thumb, juices are unhealthy because of being largely liquid sugar and no fiber, but in this case:

1. even the juice-based tonics are very small portions, so even if some have a high glycemic index, they’ll still have a low glycemic load, which means that having one is unlikely to spike blood glucose and thus insulin

2. many of the tonics have fiber in any case, due to how they are made.

The tonics are divided into sections per what one wants to focus on, e.g. anti-inflammatory, brain health, sleep, gut health, skin/nails/hair, etc.

That said, some of the recipes are a little optimistic about how much effect the dosage present will have. For example, we calculate an an average of 0.03mg of resveratrol in her grape-based shot boasting resveratrol benefits. For contrast, resveratrol supplements range from 500mg to 200mg. So, to get the equivalent of the least generous supplement, you’d need to drink 16,667 shots.

Bottom line: some of the the health claims in this book are overstated, but by and large, it’s hard to go wrong consuming more plants, and these “health shots” are not a bad way to get a good dose of phytonutrients without hitting glycemic problems.

Click here to check out Health Shots, and refresh yourself!

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

The 10almonds Team