10almonds tip: live your life as though you died and negotiated a return to life on the condition that you’d appreciate it properly this time and do it right—with this perspective, a lot of the beauty of life becomes much more apparent, and you’ll tend to make better choices, too!
_{See also: Aging For Beginners ← a highly recommendable book}

In today’s email we cover soft drinks and your liver, surviving adverse cardiac events alone, and (as a rather lower-stakes challenge) how to quickly repair a broken skin barrier.

At 10almonds, we’ve written before about the importance of nitrates to maintain Nitric Oxide levels in our blood, which otherwise deplete with age (which is bad for many things).
Today’s sponsor, Berkeley Life, offers not just a clinically proven dietary nitrates supplement, but also an at-home saliva testing system (it takes 15 seconds, with a little strip), so you can track real results—not just guess. If you’re serious about aging healthily, a head-in-the-sand approach won’t work, so why not give your total-body health the support it deserves?
Bonus: 10almonds readers get 15% of your first purchase, with code ALMONDS15 😎

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Dr. Shereene Idris, dermatologist, shows us what we can do at home:

Prefer text? The above video will take you to a 10almonds page with a text overview, as well as the video!

Berkeley Life empowers people to take control of their health through Nitric Oxide (NO)—a molecule as essential as sunlight, exercise, and diet. NO levels begin to decline by age 30, and by 40, they’ve dropped nearly 50%. Fatigue, brain fog, and general sluggishness are often seen as a natural part of aging, but low NO may be the underlying cause.

You may be wondering: how much heavy lifting is “may be” doing here?

And the answer is: none

Unlike most supplements where you just guess at a deficiency and hope to top it up, Berkeley Life not only provides a clinically proven way to boost Nitric Oxide, trusted by thousands of healthcare practitioners, but also, the means to test your own levels. Instead of testing just once, you’ll periodically use a 15–second saliva test strip (you can get them with the supplement) to test your NO levels yourself, quickly and easily, at home.

You can additionally expect to see improvements to:

Or as one customer wrote in her review:

Bonus: there’s an exclusive offer just for 10almonds readers; use code ALMONDS15 at checkout 😎

^{PS: your regular 10almonds writer here; I just want to mention that when I was looking at their store last week while preparing for today’s sponsor slot, it was sold out at that time, so I know it’s cliché to say “act now while stocks last”, but in seriousness, do, because it’ll probably sell out quickly again! All this to say, I recommend getting yours now, not later!}

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Yesterday we asked you to choose between almonds and edamame—we picked the almonds (click here to read about why), as did 53% of you!

Now for today’s choice:

Click on whichever you think is better for you!

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

The 10almonds Team