Boron is the superhero mineral you're not getting enough of:
- helps bone mineralization
- improves vitamin D
- improves testosterone/estrogen status
- increases antioxidant defense
- reduces inflammation
- reduces calcium/magnesium loss
Boron is a trace element that is found in nature bound to oxygen and sodium
Boron is found in many foods, especially plants, as it's a structural component of plant cell walls, providing cell wall rigidity.
More than 90% of boron consumed is absorbed and distributed as boric acid
Boric acid forms ester complexes with many important sugars in energy production, such as ribose, and stabilizes them, helping to produce energy and combat fatigue (PMID: 24352855)
Green tea is one of the healthiest beverages in the world
- improves cardiovascular disease risk factors
- improves heart health
- improves metabolic health markers
- targets all hallmarks of aging
- reduces visceral fat
- is associated with lower mortality
Full thread on green tea benefits⬇️⬇️
Graph from: DOI:10.20944/preprints202309.0582.v1
Green tea contains many bioactive compounds that target all the hallmarks of aging:
- genomic instability
- telomere attrition
- epigenetic alterations
- loss of proteostasis
- impaired autophagy
- deregulated nutrient sensing
- mitochondrial dysfunction
- cellular senescence
- stem cell exhaustion
- altered intracellular communication
- chronic inflammation
- gut dysbiosis
Most of these effects are mediated by EGCG and other polyphenolic compounds in green tea
Graph: DOI: 10.14336/AD.2025.0398
A 2023 meta-analysis of 55 randomized controlled trials saw that green tea supplementation:
- lowers total cholesterol
- lowers LDL cholesterol
- raises HDL cholesterol
- lowers fasting blood sugar
- lowers HbA1c, a marker of long-term glucose levels
- lowers blood pressure
Ice baths are a very popular trend on social media
So are saunas but to a slightly lesser degree
But which one has more health benefits?⬇️⬇️
Sauna has many protective health benefits and appears to even offset the higher risk of all-cause mortality related to lower socioeconomic status, high blood pressure, and high inflammation levels
PMID: 37270272
Using the sauna >4x a week compared to 2-3x is associated with:
- 63% reduced heart disease mortality
- 50% lower fatal cardiovascular disease
- 46% lower risk of hypertension
- 40% reduced all-cause mortality