Happy Monday 👋
10almonds tip: if you’d like the micronutrients from your kale to be absorbed much better, dress it up in some olive oil!
Learn more: Culinary strategies for improving carotenoid bioaccessibility in kale: The role of thermal processing and excipient emulsions
Translations from sciencese: 1) “thermal processing” = cooking, which doesn’t make a meaningful difference by the way 2) “excipient emulsions” = adding oil or oil-containing sauces
In today’s email we cover exercise and sleep, reflexology, and the easy way to fix (most!) shoulder pain.
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Today’s Main Feature
Sleep & Exercise: A One-Way Relationship?
Generally thought that each helps the other, a large amount of evidence points to it being a bit one-sided:
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Cannabis: Relaxation Benefits Without The Alcohol?
Alcohol is bad for pretty much everything, from that frame of reference, THC starts to look a lot better.
It’s not without its drawbacks either, but can be a very reasonable alcohol alternative for many:
Reflexology: What Does The Science Say?
Can the health of other parts of the body be influenced from the feet?
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Watch and Learn
The Easy Way To Fix Shoulder Pain For Good
Will Harlow, over-50s specialist physio, shows us how.
And the good news is, you don’t even have to get out of bed:
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