The Painkiller That Increases Cognitive Impairment Risk By 85%

Happy Friday 👋 

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In today’s email we cover this week’s health news, including the painkiller that increases cognitive impairment risk by 85%, an early warning sign of physical decline, and anti-inflammatory cooking.

Gut health is so important for the rest of our health, making probiotics a powerful tool… When they actually work. The problem is, many commercial probiotics don’t make it past the stomach acid, and most don’t have anything to keep them alive long enough to reproduce.
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Today’s Main Feature

Remember When We Said…

It’s the final day of Amazon’s “Prime Day” today, which means big savings similar to Black Friday.

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Watch and Learn

Don’t Miss This Early Warning Sign Of Physical Decline (Better To Fix It Now)

This problem is not quite what it first looks like:

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One-Minute Book Review

The Anti-Inflammatory Diet: 6 Simple Steps To Live Disease Free – by Dale Pinnock

We previously reviewed this author’s “The Medicinal Chef”, which focus on a “eat this to improve that” approach on a system-by-system basis through the body. This time, it’s purely about fighting inflammation.

This is important, because inflammation is a root cause of many diseases, and the diseases it doesn’t outright cause, it makes nearly all of them worse.

Thus, Pinnock takes us through a simple explanation of the biology of inflammation, the impact of chronic inflammation on health, and non-dietary lifestyle drivers of such, plus the all-important gut-inflammation connection.

Thereafter, he presents dietary solutions: being aware of foods that “fuel the fire” of inflammation, to avoid or at least minimize those, and then how to “power your plate” with actively anti-inflammatory foods that stand a tier above the “well, at least they don’t make it worse” middle-range foods, to instead give your body everything it needs to dial down inflammation the most effectively. And yes, there are recipes (80 of them).

For those who like step-by-step “do this, do that” plans, that’s what the “6 simple steps” mentioned in the subtitle are (it’s a 6-week plan), and this is toward the end of the book, to bring together everything learned over the course of the book, and integrate those learnings into one’s kitchen and life.

The style is the lightest of light pop-science, which is what one might expect from a TV chef who isn’t a scientist or doctor, but the scientific content is nevertheless sound, and well-referenced.

Bottom line: if you’d like to reduce your inflammation in an easy, step-by-step fashion, this book can definitely help with that.

Click here to check out The Anti-Inflammatory Diet, and dial down your inflammation!

Penny For Your Thoughts?

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

The 10almonds Team