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Good morning 🦁 This is Andrew's Apples, the health email that's like a pack of Gushers: fucking delicious and gone in 60 seconds. Let's go.
🍓 Friendly fruity reminder. Whole fruits/veggies ≠ smoothies ≠ fruit juice ≠ powders. The powders to be fair are getting better - Organifi is a fairly esteemed brand in the holistic health community.
🍎 Andrew's Take. Smoothie is a fruit as much as a oat milk mocha frap is a black coffee. Ain't nothing like the real thing. But get a few mezcal drinks in me and I'll start welling up reminiscing about Capri Sun and Hi-C juice boxes. Peak pre-pubescent human hydration system, circa 1998 :'(
🍫 Cocoa decreases heart disease? A fresh study out of the AJCN looked at 21,000 subjects over 4 years to see whether cocoa extract supplementation decreases total cardiovascular disease (CVD) among older adults. Conclusions were that the supplementation did not significantly reduce total cardiovascular events but did reduce cardiovascular death by 27%. Overall: meh results. If you have a heart issue, cocoa probably will not stop said issue from surfacing, but it may be a little less severe.
🍎 Andrew's Take. Only in America do 13 PhDs spend god-knows-how-long determining if we can prevent strokes by eating chocolate. Same clowns that think the best way to get meaningful loads of the antioxidant resveratrol is to drink medieval amounts of red wine. Daily. You would have to eat obscene levels of chocolate and only the kind that doesn't taste like chocolate, too. The path to purity probably is not lined with peanut M&Ms (don't get it twisted, I rly fuck with PMMs). Eat chocolate, drink wine, and sparingly use slurs not because it's going to save your life - do it because it's fun and funny.
🛏️ Inclined bed therapy benefits. We talk often of the basics: getting sensible sun exposure and grounding (walking barefoot on sand, grass, or rock). Sleeping on an incline is another. "Raising the head of your bed 6 inches so that you’re sleeping on a 5-degree incline may improve your blood circulation, metabolism, respiratory, neurological and immune function," according to Andrew K. Fletcher, a British mechanical engineer who developed inclined bed therapy 20y ago. It is even suggested via archeological evidence that some Egyptians slept on inclined beds, the head about 6" higher than the foot. Finally, the new elevation will also decrease fluid retention so you will pee more at first too, removing lots of toxins.
🍎 Andrew's Take. Don't knock till you try it: sleep on your back, with a pillow to support your neck (not entire head), and adjust head of bedframe just 3 in, and work up to 6 in. Helpful video here. This may seem extreme - and relative to how little thought people put into how they sleep, it is - but sleep is when dreams come true and dreams are not something to be ignored.
🕊️ Tweet of the Day. Let's just say that, right now, I really appreciate seeing people on Instagram post stories about their actual life (hamsters, a selfie, their grandma), not venom and vitriol for "the other side." If you take a neutral stance (i.e. teamless) on something that the media needs you to take a stance on, it all gets pretty funny pretty fast. People wear cartoonish masks in public.
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