Reduce Your Skin Tag Risk

Plus: anticholinergic drugs and dementia risk

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The 10almonds Team
February 16, 2024

Today’s almonds have been activated by:

Chewing gum after a meal really does improve oral health, notably by increased quantity and quality (higher pH) of saliva.

The gum doesn’t have to be special, but sugar-free of course (if the sugary kind is even still available in stores where you are?)

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  • Skin tags are harmless, but can be annoying. While genetics play a large part in getting them or not, they’re more common as we get older, and there are some things we can do to reduce our risk.

    • Chafing is a contributing factor, which is why they often appear in the groin and armpit regions

    • Obesity is another, along with certain cardiometabolic factors (see today’s main feature; this part matters for other reasons too!)

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❝As I get older, I seem to be increasingly prone to skin tags, which appear, seemingly out of nowhere, on my face, chest and back. My dermatologist happily burns them off - but is there anything I can do to prevent them?!❞

Not a lot! But, potentially something.

The main risk factor for skin tags is genetic, and you can’t change that in any easy way.

The other main risk factors are connected to each other:

Skin folds, and chafing

Skin tags mostly appear where chafing happens. This can be, for example:

  • Inside joint articulations (especially groin and armpits)

  • Between fat rolls (if you have them)

So, if you have fat rolls, then losing weight will also reduce the risk of skin tags.

Additionally, obesity and some often-related problems such as diabetes, hypertension, and an atherogenic lipid profile also increase the risk of skin tags (amongst other more serious things):

As for the chafing, this can be reduced in various ways, including:

  • losing weight if (and only if) you are carrying excess weight

  • dressing against chafing (consider your underwear choices, for example)

  • keeping hair in the armpits and groin (it’s part of what it’s there for)

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Science of HIIT: Understand the Anatomy and Physiology to Transform Your Body – by Ingrid Clay

We previously reviewed another book in this series, Science of Yoga. This one's about HIIT: High Intensity Interval Training!

We've written about HIIT before too, but our article doesn't have the same amount of room as a book, so...

This one lays out 90 key HIIT exercises that you can do at home without special equipment. By "without special equipment", we mean: there are a few exercises that use dumbbells, but if you don't want to get/use dumbbells, you can improvize (e.g. with water bottles as weights) or skip those. All the rest require just your body!

The illustrations are clear and the explanations excellent. The book also dives into (as the title promises) the science of HIIT, and why it works the way it does to give results that can't be achieved with other forms of exercise.

Bottom line: if you've been wanting to do HIIT but have not yet found a way of doing it that suits your lifestyle, this book gives many excellent options.

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