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What Your Mucus Says About Your Health
Plus: what happens to your body if you do 100 glute bridges every day
The 10almonds Team
February 11, 2025
Happy Monday đź‘‹
Suffering from allergies while out and about? Sunglasses can help protect you; a fair amount of the pollen that bothers you arrives not just via your respiratory tract, but also via your eyes.
In today’s email we cover mucus, glute bridges, and what to do if you find yourself “accidentally overweight”.
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Today’s Main Feature
 | What Your Mucus Says About Your HealthThe nose knows what’s going on in your body, and now you can too: |
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Watch and Learn
What Happens To Your Body When You Do 100 Glute Bridges Every Day
Benefits beyond a beautiful butt:
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One-Minute Book Review
Accidentally Overweight: Solve Your Weight Loss Puzzle – by Dr. Libby Weaver
This book’s main premise is that for most people who become overweight especially in midlife or later, if there wasn’t an obvious lifestyle change to precipitate this (e.g. started living on fast food for some reason), then in most cases, what’s needed is not drastic action, so much as some metabolic tweaks to correct things that have gone off-piste a little in our physiology.
The book covers nine factors that make an impact, and how each can be managed. They are:
Insulin
Stress hormones
Calories
Thyroid function
Nervous system
Emotions
Sex hormones
Liver function
Gut bacteria
Some will be obvious, but as Dr. Weaver explains, are relative trivial compared to the others; “calories” in one such example of this “yes, it’s a factor, but very overrated” category.
Others are things that most people don’t think too much about, like liver function. And yet, it is indeed very much critical, and a major player in metabolism and adiposity.
The style is on the very light end of pop-science, but she does bring her professional knowledge to bear on topic (her doctorate is a PhD in biochemistry, so a lot of explanations come from that angle).
Bottom line: if you’ve found yourself “accidentally overweight”, and would like to tip the scales back in the other direction without doing anything extreme, then this book provides the tweaks that no amount of cardio or restrictive dieting will.
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Wishing you the most well-informed start to the week,
The 10almonds Team
