The Infection That Leads To Heart Failure

Happy Friday 👋 

Here we are, at the end of January! The end of a month is always a great time to do a “personal review”, i.e. look at how the past month has measured up to your expectations in terms of your lifestyle habits, and what you might want to double-down on (or do differently) in the coming month!

In today’s email we cover the week’s health news, blood pressure readings, and fighting inflammation.

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Watch and Learn

Wrong Arm Position = Wrong Measurement Of Blood Pressure

This is especially important to know if you measure your own blood pressure at home.

Even if you don’t, it’s still good to know this as healthcare providers also can (and often will) do it wrong, especially if they are under time pressure (e.g. they need to get you out of their office and the next person in):

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One-Minute Book Review

Reverse Inflammation Naturally: Alternative Treatments for Autoimmune Disorders, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, Metabolic Syndrome, Allergies, Thyroiditis, Eczema and more – by Dr. Michelle Honda

This book is in some ways not as marketable as some; it doesn’t have lots of colorful healthy food on the cover; it doesn’t even have a “woman laughing alone with salad” (you know the stock photo trope), let alone someone looking glamorous in a labcoat with a stethoscope draped over their shoulder despite listening to hearts not being a regular part of their job as an immunologist or such.

What it does have, instead, is a lot of very useful information, and much more than you’ll usually find in a book for laypeople.

For example, you probably know that for fighting inflammation, a green salad is better than a cheeseburger, say, and a black coffee is better than a glass of wine.

But do you know about the roles, for good or ill, of prostaglandins and linoleic fats vs dietary fats? How about delta-6-desaturase? Neu5Gc and arachidonic acid?

Dr. Honda demystifies all of these and more, as well as talking about the impacts of very many foods and related habits on various different inflammation-based disease. And of course, almost all disease involves some kind of inflammation (making fighting inflammation one of the best things you can do for your overall disease-avoidance strategy!), but she singles out some of the most relevant, as per the list on the front cover.

She also talks a lot of “pharmacy in your kitchen”, in other words, what herbs, spices, and plant extracts we can enjoy for (evidence-based!) benefits on top of our default healthy diet free (or at least mostly free, for surely none of us are perfect) from inflammatory agents.

Not content with merely giving a huge amount of information, she also gives recipes and a meal plan, but honestly, it’s the informational chapters that are the real value of the book.

Bottom line: if you’d like to reduce your body’s inflammation levels (and/or perhaps those of a loved one for whom you cook), then this book will be an invaluable resource.

Click here to check out Reverse Inflammation Naturally, and reverse inflammation naturally!

Penny For Your Thoughts?

May today see you well-prepared for the coming weekend and the new month ahead,

The 10almonds Team