- List of book recommendations for health, from Matthew Quinn: Eat Bacon, Don't Jog: A Contrarian's Guide to Diet, Exercise, and What Actually Works Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It The Paleo Solution: The Original Human Diet The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss Fast, Feast, Repeat: The Comprehensive Guide to Delay, Don't Deny® Intermittent Fasting Belly Fat Effect: The Real Secret About How Your Diet, Intestinal Health, and Gut Bacteria Help You Burn Fat Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health The Salt Fix: Why the Experts Got It All Wrong--And How Eating More Might Save Your Life Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease Life in the Fasting Lane: The Essential Guide to Making Intermittent Fasting Simple, Sustainable, and Enjoyable Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food Cows Save the Planet: And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth
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- "10 to 20 percent of lifelong smokers will actually develop lung cancer"
- "smoking leads to lung cancer by triggering DNA mutations"
- " the number of cell mutations was closely linked to the amount the person had smoked – but only up to a point - 23 pack years"
- "The study authors believe their bodies have some kind of system for repairing DNA damage or "detoxifying" smoke to make it less prone to causing mutations"
- "To follow up on this study, the team hopes to find out whether it’s possible to determine a person’s capacity for DNA repair or detoxification, thereby revealing the risk of them developing lung cancer from smoking"
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- Some non obvious takeaways - main one is that there’s big benefit in stretching without coming anywhere the point if pain
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- So interesting. Has had a real impact on my behaviours since I listened to it. Didn’t realise how fast alcohol passes the blood brain barrier and how the effects are akin to being moderately poisoned.
- Have listened to it three times - difficult to fully digest as it gets quite technical on the underlying mechanisms
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- "Exerts powerful additional biological effects via its impact on mitochondrial function, the release of chemical messengers induced by muscular activity, and its ability to reverse epigenetic alterations"
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- "You’re too concerned with calories and not enough with nutrition."
- "Even with a perfect diet and plenty of activity, if you aren’t getting enough Z’s or have chronically high-stress levels, your body may hold on to extra pounds and body fat instead of burning them"
- "Instead of simply getting on an elliptical and zoning out for 20 minutes, one needs to do intervals. With intervals, you alternate between bouts of high- and low-intensity training"
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