The Common Meds That Make You Much More Susceptible To Heatstroke

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In today’s email we cover common meds that mess with temperature regulation & thirst, 7 important protein hacks to know, and immune health mythbusting.

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7 Important Protein Hacks To Know

A lot of people can struggle to get the amount of protein they want, especially if they’re not going for protein shakes and the like.

However, it can be done quite easily, if you know how:

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One-Minute Book Review

Self-Defense: A Myth-Busting Guide to Immune Health – by Dr. Daniel Davis

The author, a professor of immunology, sets out to bust some immune health myths in a time when those myths are spreading even faster (and sometimes with more mutations along the way) than the latest flu or COVID variants.

Writing from a position of stable academia rather than the latest flashy platform, he covers many topics including the roles of vitamins (especially: what vitamins C and D can and can’t do for you), the gut microbiome, weight and adiposity, exercise (especially: the right kinds, and where the “sweet spot” is when it comes to amount, because yes, exercise is good in general, but too much of certain kinds can harm immune health), stress management, sleep, and aging (i.e. how immune health changes as we age).

You’ll notice that vaccines are conspicuous by their absence in that list; while these are touched on from time to time, the focus here is on immune health overall, which vaccines only meaningfully affect in one way: giving our immune systems advance knowledge of pathogens to come. So the position of this book on that is “yes, obviously get your vaccines, but that doesn’t take much explaining, and doesn’t merit an entire chapter just to say it”.

Dr. Davis does also indulge, at the end of the book, in something that a lot of other research scientists do too, which is: discussion of what’s in the pipeline in terms of research and development (in this case, in the field of immunology).

The style is polished pop-science in long-form prose; written for a lay audience, and/but with the steady tone of academia; no hype and little to nothing in the way of personal touches. So, we get very little jargon (which makes for easy reading), but it’s also a little dry (which makes it very put-downable, in the sense of being the opposite of a “couldn’t put it down” book). There is a respectable bibliography, plus a glossary at the back.

Bottom line: it’s not thrilling, but it is informative, and is a very good overview of immune health, while being written with a specific focus on fact-checking popular beliefs and examining what the evidence actually says.

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May today see you well-prepared for the coming weekend,

The 10almonds Team