Life Hacks

Some dementia-avoidance strategies are quite general, for example those we discussed in: How To Reduce Your Alzheimer’s Risk Some are quite specific, such as: The Other Alzheimer’s Risk Factor But, if you were to pick just 3 things to maximize your dementia-free years, what should those 3 things be? The most bang-for-buck things to avoid…

There are, of course, health risks that come with eating meat. See for example: The Whys and Hows of Cutting Meats Out Of Your Diet But, it’s very reasonable to be wary of making big changes! For this reason, we have previously asked (and answered) such questions as: Do We Need Animal Products To Be…

“Just lose weight” is advice that is not only usually unhelpful in and of itself, but it’s also a big vague. Weight can be a lot of things. Most of it isn’t even fat! See for example: When BMI Doesn’t Quite Measure Up ← for this and other flaws of the BMI system There are…

You probably know already that alcohol isn’t the best drink for liver. Even if you don’t drink enough for liver poisoning, there are still such issues as: Occasional Drinking? 3x Risk Of Liver Scarring It turns out that your poor liver cannot even catch a break with soft drinks: Soft Drinks & Your Liver: Sugar…

Cognitive decline is generally thought of as one of the most relevant-to-daily-life aspects of aging, and for that reason, combatting age-related cognitive decline is more important to a lot of people than, say, reducing wrinkles. Before we get into the main part of it today, let’s drop a quick recap for anyone not up-to-speed with…

Everyone “knows” that fat increases diabetes risk. Except when it doesn’t. And also except when it actively helps regulate energy metabolism. So the “one size fits all” advice of “lose fat”, really can sometimes be way off the mark. As a quick aside before we continue, body fat is often blamed for a lot of…

We’ve written before about arthritis management in general, so before we get into the main part today, let’s take a moment to drop some links for anyone who’d like a quick recap first: There are also lots of supplements that enjoy popular claims of helping vs arthritis; not all of them actually do, but here…

Walking is great! Except when it’s not. Which in many cases, as you’ll have gathered from the title today, is about one’s knees. See for example: Why 10,000 Steps Might Be Making Your Pain Worse (+ What To Do Instead) That’s not to say that there aren’t solutions, and often the problem with our knees…

First of all, let’s start by saying that for most people, moderate coffee consumption is a net positive for good health. See for example our mythbusting edition about this: The Bitter Truth About Coffee (or is it?) Regular 10almonds readers will remember when we wrote about how coffee appears to be protective against frailty in…

Long COVID is a persistent threat, and it’s something affecting many people long after the popular media has stopped talking about it so much. See for example: Long COVID Persistence and Surveillance Gaps Across 58 US Hospitals and, for that matter: Why Women Are 3x More Likely To Get Severe Long COVID. On which note,…

The core idea to understand first today is that of senolytics—compounds that destroy “zombie cells” while sparing healthy ones. For a refresher on what “zombie cells” are, the medical term is “senescent cells“, but actually the popular term is a little more accurate in this case, because they are not merely cells that are getting…

A lot of health advice aimed at people over the age of 65 is often focused on quite existentially critical things, such as blood pressure (especially for men), bone density (especially for women), and other things that make a very clear difference to mortality. In other words, the main focus is “don’t die”. Which is…