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For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, today is the longest day of the year, so take the opportunity to enjoy the sunshine and spend some time in nature, if you can!
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Today’s 30-Second Summary
If you don’t have time to read the whole email today, here are some key takeaways:
Restless Legs Syndrome is a neurological condition that has no established cure per se, but there’s plenty we can do to reduce its symptoms
Today’s main feature looks at lifestyle changes to consider (if you’re not already doing them), as well as supplements that may help keep your nerves healthy.
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Today’s featured recipe is lime-charred cauliflower popcorn—crispy, tasty, incredibly more-ish, and as ever, full of health-giving nutrients and phytochemicals; a great movie-watching snack, or a deliciously healthy appetizer. Check it out!
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The Easiest Way To Quit Sugar
Dr. Mike Hansen gives the 5-step process for becoming sugar-free:
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Thursday Q&A
It’s Q&A Day at 10almonds!
Have a question or a request? We love to hear from you!
In cases where we’ve already covered something, we might link to what we wrote before, but will always be happy to revisit any of our topics again in the future too—there’s always more to say!
As ever: if the question/request can be answered briefly, we’ll do it here in our Q&A Thursday edition. If not, we’ll make a main feature of it shortly afterwards!
So, no question/request too big or small 😎
❝Any tips for dealing with restless legs syndrome?❞
As a neurological disorder (Willis-Ekbom Disease, as it is also called by almost nobody outside of academia), there’s a lot that’s not known about its pathology, but we do know that looking after one’s nerves can help a lot.
This means:
Avoid alcohol, as this is bad for everything, including nerves
See also: How To Reduce Or Quit Alcohol
Don’t smoke, as this is bad for everything, including nerves
Do exercise those restless legs! It may sound funny, but in seriousness, movement promotes nerve health
See also: Walking... Better.
Take care of your blood sugars, because diabetic neuropathy can also cause this
See also: 10 Ways To Balance Blood Sugars
Massage your legs, and enjoy a hot bath/shower
You can also take into account the measures recommended for dealing with peripheral neuropathy, e.g:
There are also medication options for RLS; most of them are dopamine agonists, so if you want to try something yourself before going the pharmaceutical route, then things that improve your dopamine levels will probably be a worth checking out. In the category of supplements, you might enjoy:
Take care! And… Want something answered here? Send us your questions!
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Recipes Worth Sharing
Lime-Charred Cauliflower Popcorn
Called “popcorn” for its appearance and tasty-snackness, this one otherwise bears little relation to the usual movie theater snack, and it’s both tastier and healthier. All that said, it can be eaten on its own as a snack (even with a movie, if you so wish), or served as one part of a many-dish banquet, or (this writer’s favorite) as a delicious appetizer that also puts down a healthy bed of fiber ready for the main course to follow it.
Click below for our full recipe, and discover your new favorite snack/appetizer:
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One-Minute Book Review
Gut Renovation: Unlock the Age-Defying Power of the Microbiome to Remodel Your Health from the Inside Out – by Dr. Roshini Raj, with Sheila Buff
Unless we actually feel something going on down there, gut health is an oft-neglected part of overall health—which is unfortunate, because invisible as it may often be, it affects so much.
Gastroenterologist Dr. Roshini Raj gives us all the need-to-know information, explanations of why things happen the way they do with regard to the gut, and tips, tricks, and hacks to improve matters.
She also does some mythbusting along the way, and advises about what things don’t make a huge difference, including what medications don’t have a lot of evidence for their usefulness.
The style is easy-reading pop-science, with plenty of high-quality medical content.
Reading between the lines, a lot of the book as it stands was probably written by the co-author, Sheila Buff, who is a professional ghostwriter and specializes in working closely with doctors to produce works that are readable and informative to the layperson while still being full of the doctor's knowledge and expertise. So a reasonable scenario is that Dr. Raj gave her extensive notes, she took it from there, passed it back to her for medical corrections, and they had a little back and forth until it was done. Whatever their setup, the end result was definitely good!
Bottom line: if you’d like a guide to gut health that’s practical and easy to read, while being quite comprehensive and certainly a lot more than “eat probiotics and fiber”, then this book is a fine choice.
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