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Why Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Is Not Just Being Tired
Plus: 10 ways to progress your workout without adding weight
The 10almonds Team
June 20, 2025
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In today’s email we cover chronic fatigue syndrome & lower back pain, getting stronger without adding more weights to your workout, and a surprising approach to cancer treatment.
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Today’s Main Feature
 | Why Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Is Not Just Being Tired…and why your doctor may not have given you the best advice for your lower back pain: |
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Watch and Learn
10 Ways To Progress Your Workouts (Without Adding Weight)
If you don’t love heavy weights, there are still plenty of options to get stronger:
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One-Minute Book Review
Hope For Cancer: 7 Principles To Remove Fear & Empower Your Healing Journey – by Dr. Antonio Jimenez
We’ll not keep the 7 principles a mystery; they are:
Non-toxic cancer therapies
Immunomodulation
Full spectrum nutrition
Detoxification
Oxygenation
Restore the microbiome
Spiritual and emotional healing
When it comes to how these are covered in the book, they are often spread over chapters, often with testimonials, and you may notice that some chapters are not like others, for example:
The chapter “Tools that empower your immune system” is followed by a chapter on “Nutrition based on the Garden of Eden”
The chapter “Lifestyle tools for healing” is followed by a chapter on “Jesus, the Resurrection, the Life, and the Great Physician”
…and so forth.
Indeed, the first chapter alone, “Healing the whole person”, has many more Bible references than it has scientific references. So, all this to say, there is a lot of science in here, but there is also a remarkable amount of Christianity considering the lack of mentioning such in the title or subtitle or even anywhere the current blurb on Amazon.
As such, if you are a Christian, you’ll probably get a lot more out of this book than otherwise. For non-Christians, the book could have been half the size without losing any scientifically relevant content.
As for the science side of things, most of the lifestyle advice is good, integrative cancer therapies are great, the detoxification angle is perhaps a little overemphasized, and the oxygenation chapter is on shaky ground.
Bottom line: this book wasn’t quite what we signed up for. Now, we have nothing against books about Christianity (this reviewer can recommend some excellent ones), but when we pick up a book about cancer, we ideally want to hear more from doctors and less from apostles. Nevertheless! If you are a Christian, you might find more value in this one.
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Wishing you the very best of health every day, in every way,
The 10almonds Team
