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Testosterone, Tourette's, and Tickly Throats

Plus: the link between COVID-19 and Alzheimer's Disease

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The 10almonds Team
June 22, 2023

 

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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:

  • Running gets much, much easier if you breathe correctly (see today’s video for a quick how-to!)

  • Saw palmetto is a surprisingly effective supplement with good science to back its use in managing Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (as good as the most commonly-prescribed drug), without reducing overall testosterone levels

  • If you’re carrying extra weight around the middle, it could be that your cortisol levels are to blame (see today’s main feature for how to address such!)

  • Tourette’s is a much-misunderstood syndrome, and/but may be eased with such approaches as:

    • Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS)

    • Medications/ Pharmacology

    • Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics (CBIT)

    • Speech Therapies

  • Arthritis, osteo- or rheumatoid, affects many people and while it doesn’t have an outright cure, certain dietary changes can help manage its symptoms a lot (see today’s main feature for resources!)

  • Summer fun can mean much higher risks of germs and allergies

    • Today’s sponsor, Beekeeper’s Naturals, have a great extra line of defense to offer to keep you and your loved ones safe and comfortable

Read on to learn about these things and more…

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👀 WATCH AND LEARN

How To Breathe While Running For Immediate Improvement

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Have a question or a request? You can always hit “reply” to any of our emails, or use the feedback widget at the bottom!

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 😎 

❝Could you do a series on mens health? Testosterone boosters. Libido? What works what doesnt? Also could you discuss prostate health and what supplements, meds, foods or protocols work to relieve symptoms of bph❞

We could indeed! We’ll be sure to write more, but while you’re waiting, you might like to read our main feature from a while back:

…as it does include a lot about the use of a supplement that helps against Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia, with performance comparable to the most common drug prescribed for such.

And since (like that drug) it’s a 5α-reductase inhibitor (meaning it works by blocking the conversion of testosterone to DHT), this means it helps against prostate problems (and also, incidentally, male pattern hair loss) without reducing overall testosterone levels. In fact, because less testosterone will be converted to DHT, you’ll actually (all other things being equal) end up with slightly higher free testosterone levels.

❝My BMI is fine, but my waist is too big. What do I do about that? I am 5' 5" tall and 128 pounds and 72 years old.❞

It’s hard to say without knowing about your lifestyle (and hormones, for that matter)! But, extra weight around the middle in particular is often correlated with high levels of cortisol, so you might find this of benefit:

❝Is there anything special that might help someone with Tourette’s syndrome?❞

There are of course a lot of different manifestations of Tourette’s syndrome, and some people’s tics may be far more problematic to themselves and/or others, while some may be quite mild and just something to work around.

It’s an interesting topic for sure, so we’ll perhaps do a main feature (probably also covering the related-and-sometimes-overlapping OCD umbrella rather than making it hyperspecific to Tourette’s), but meanwhile, you might consider some of these options:

❝Natural solutions for osteoarthritis. Eg. Rosehip tea, dandelion root tea. Any others??? What foods should I absolutely leave alone?❞

We’ll do a main feature on arthritis (in both its main forms) someday soon, but meanwhile, we recommend eating for good bone/joint health and against inflammation. To that end, you might like these main features we did on those topics:

Of these, probably the last one is the most critical, and also will have the speediest effects if implemented.

We turn the tables and ask you a question!

We’ll then talk about this tomorrow:

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📖 ONE-MINUTE BOOK REVIEW

Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life - by Thich Nhat Hanh and Dr. Lilian Cheung

We've talked about mindful eating before at 10almonds, so here's a book about it. You may wonder how much there is to say!

As it happens, there's quite a bit. The authors, a Buddhist monk (Hanh) and a Harvard nutritionist (Dr. Cheung) explore the role of mindful eating in our life.

There is an expectation that we the reader want to lose weight. If we don't, those parts of the book will be a "miss" for us, but still contain plenty of other value.

Most of the same advices can be applied equally to other aspects of health, in any case. A lot of that comes from the book's Buddhist principles, including the notion that:

  1. We are experiencing suffering

  2. Suffering has a cause

  3. What has a cause can have an end

  4. The way to this end is mindfulness

As such, the process itself is also mindfulness all the way through:

  1. To be mindful of our suffering (and not let it become background noise to be ignored)

  2. To be mindful of the cause of our suffering (rather than dismissing it as just how things are)

  3. To be mindful of how to address that, and thus end the suffering (rather than despairing in inaction)

  4. To engage mindfully in the process of doing so (and thus not fall into the trap of thinking "job done")

And, as for Dr. Cheung? She also has input throughout, with practical advice about the more scientific side of rethinking one's diet.

Bottom line: this is an atypical book, and/but perhaps an important one. Certainly, at the very least it may be one to try if more conventional approaches have failed!

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