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What Your Metabolism Says About How Aggressive Breast Cancer Is Likely To Be For You
Plus: most knee pain won't improve until this thing is fixed first (not weight!)
The 10almonds Team
March 10, 2025
Happy Sunday đź‘‹
Want a sweet snack in the evening? Enjoy plums (or prunes, those being dried plums); they’re not only tasty and sweet, but also a top-tier source of magnesium, supporting healthy restful sleep.
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In today’s email we cover metabolism & breast cancer aggressiveness, knee pains that aren’t entirely about the knees, and defying aging with tips from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Aging.
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Today’s Main Feature
 | What Your Metabolism Says About How Aggressive Breast Cancer Is Likely To Be For YouIf you get it, there are big differences depending on your metabolism: |
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Watch and Learn
Knee Pain Won’t Get Better Unless You Fix This First
The problem with your knee is, for most people anyway, not entirely about your knee:
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One-Minute Book Review
Age Proof: The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life – by Dr. Rose Anne Kenny
We don’t generally include an author bio, but in this case it’s worth noting that Dr. Kenny, the Chair of Medical Gerontology at Trinity College Dublin, with over 300 staff under her, has 704 peer-reviewed publications to her name, and enough awards and honors and achievements to more than fill a page on her university’s website.
In short, she knows her stuff.
A lot of the material in this book will not be completely new to regular 10almonds readers; there’s a lot about Blue Zones supercentenarians, the usual qualities associated with healthy longevity in those places (diet, lifestyle, etc), as well as genetic factors and epigenetic, and so forth.
Some items are… Not new, but not so commonly focused on in such works; for example, Dr. Kenny devotes a chapter to sleep, a chapter to laughter, a chapter to hormesis, and a chapter to sexual activity, amongst others.
Another thing she delivers that a lot of books of this kind don’t is that she has a collection of “Test Yourself” appendices, so that you can establish where you are relative to various benchmarks of aging.
Dr. Kenny also references her own work especially with TILDA (The Irish Longitudinal Study on Aging) that she has directed for many years, which has a vast amount of data and many important findings, which adds another extra strength to this book often not found in others.
The style is surprisingly personal, making it an enjoyable read as well as an educational one, and yet with a lot of hard science throughout—explained well for the layperson though, and thoroughly referenced with an extensive bibliography.
Bottom line: if you’d like to be (and continue to be!) “young for your years”, then this is an excellent book to get (and/or keep) you on the right track.
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Wishing you a peaceful Sunday,
The 10almonds Team
