Life Hacks

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…

First things first: arthritis is the umbrella term for a cluster of joint diseases involving inflammation of the joints, hence “arthr-” (joint) “-itis” (suffix used to denote inflammation). Arthritis is broadly divided into inflammatory arthritis and non-inflammatory arthritis. Some forms, such as rheumatoid arthritis, are of the inflammatory kind. We wrote about that previously: See:…

The idea of the ketogenic diet is to eat very-low-carb, moderate-to-high fat, force the body to switch to burning fat for energy, by starving it of carbs. On the one hand, it’s good against refractory epilepsy in children (this is actually what it was created for), and it can result in weight loss, which some…

When it comes to gaining or losing fat, then generally people focus a lot more on movement than on sleep. And movement is great! See for example: The Doctor Who Wants Us To Exercise Less, & Move More But it’s nothing without adequate sleep, because… You snooze, you lose (pounds) Researchers (Dr. Marie-Pierre St-Onge et…

First things first, let’s quickly cover that biological age is not one thing but quite a lot of things, each of which can age at different rates, for example: For what we can do about each of those other ones we mentioned, see: Age & Aging: What Can (And Can’t) We Do About It? So,…

Two facts worth considering: This much is not too tricky to reconcile. After all, your car might run on gasoline, but filling the tank to overflowing and dowsing your car in it will not improve its performance, to put it mildly. So, when it comes to blood glucose and the brain, where does the danger…