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Rosehip's Benefits, Inside & Out
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The 10almonds Team
June 10, 2024
Today’s almonds have been activated by:
Meal-planning (e.g. for the week in advance) means you’re making conscious healthy decisions and getting in the ingredients accordingly.
Meal-winging-it is definitely a fine skill to have in a pinch, but often results in much less healthy meals due to going with what’s available.
Which do you do most often? If it’s the latter, consider switching to the former, and make a note now to plan out this week’s meals!
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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:
Rosehip is often found as an extra added ingredient in many supplements and some herbal tea, but what is it and what does it actually do?
Today’s main feature looks at its benefits against inflammatory diseases, against skin aging, and for heart health!
Omega-3 fatty acids have a lot of health benefits—including for joints and for the brain—but not all sources are created equal
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Today’s featured recipe is great for your gut—and your joints! Check out this cooling Bulgarian tarator (cucumber soup, but to call it that doesn’t do it justice)
Read on to learn more about these things, or click here to visit our archive
A Word To The Wise
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Monday’s Research Review
It’s In The Hips
Rosehip (often also written: “rose hip”, “rosehips”, or “rose hips”, but we’ll use the singular compound here to cover its use as a supplement) is often found as an extra ingredient in various supplements, and also various herbal teas. But what is it and what does it actually do?
What it is: it’s the fruiting body that appears on rose plants underneath where the petals appear. They are seasonal.
As for what it does, read on…
Anti-inflammatory
Rosehip is widely sought for (and has been well-studied for) its anti-inflammatory powers.
Because osteoarthritis is one of the most common inflammatory chronic diseases around, a lot of the studies are about OA, but the mechanism of action is well-established as being antioxidant and anti-inflammatory in general:
❝Potent antioxidant radical scavenging effects are well documented for numerous rose hip constituents besides Vitamin C.
Furthermore, anti-inflammatory activities include the reduction of pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines, reduction of NF-kB signaling, inhibition of pro-inflammatory enzymes, including COX1/2, 5-LOX and iNOS, reduction of C-reactive protein levels, reduction of chemotaxis and chemoluminescence of PMNs, and an inhibition of pro-inflammatory metalloproteases.❞
Note that while rosehip significantly reduces inflammation, it doesn’t affect the range of movement in OA—further making clear its mechanism of action:
Anti-aging
This is partly about its antioxidant effect, but when it comes to skin, also partly its high vitamin C content. In this 8-week study, for example, taking 3mg/day resulted in significant reductions of many measures of skin aging:
Heart healthy
The dose required to achieve this benefit is much higher, but nonetheless its effectiveness is clear, for example:
❝Daily consumption of 40 g of rose hip powder for 6 weeks can significantly reduce cardiovascular risk in obese people through lowering of systolic blood pressure and plasma cholesterol levels. ❞
Want to try some?
We don’t sell it, but here for your convenience is an example product on Amazon 😎
Enjoy!
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Recipes Worth Sharing
Cooling Bulgarian Tarator
Today we have a very healthy (especially for your gut and, which you might not expect, your joints) deliciously cooling cucumber soup; it’s not very well-known outside of Bulgaria, but it should be, and with your help, it can be!
Click below for our full recipe, and learn its secrets:
One-Minute Book Review
Laziness Does Not Exist: A Defense of the Exhausted, Exploited, and Overworked – by Dr. Devon Price
Some cultures prize productivity as an ideal above most other things, and it’s certainly so in the US. Not only is this not great for mental health in general, but also—as Dr. Price explains—it’s based on a lie.
Generally speaking, when a person appears lazy there is something stopping them/you from doing better, and it’s not some mystical unseen force of laziness, not a set character trait, not a moral failing. Rather, the root cause may be physical, psychological, socioeconomic, or something else entirely.
Those causes can in some cases be overcome (for example, a little CBT can often set aside perfectionist anxiety that results in procrastination), and in some cases they can’t, at least on an individual level (disabilities often stubbornly remain disabling, and societal problems require societal solutions).
This matters for our mental health in areas well beyond the labor marketplace, of course, and these ideas extend to personal projects and even personal relationships. Whatever it is, if it’s leaving you exhausted, then probably something needs to be changed (even if the something is just “expectations”).
The book does offer practical solutions to all manner of such situations, improving what can be improved, making easier what can be made easier, and accepting what just needs to be accepted.
The style of this book is casual yet insightful and deep, easy-reading yet with all the acumen of an accomplished social psychologist.
Bottom line: if life leaves you exhausted, this book can be the antidote and cure
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