Five of the fifty. One complaint each, four things in each, and the hour it works — because the same glass at the wrong hour does nothing at all.
The page these five come from. Number five, cold feet, is on the front page.
1 Your neck will not turn in the morning
a glass of tart cherry juice (250 ml), or two tablespoons of the concentrate in water
juice of half a lime
a slice of fresh ginger, about the size of your thumbnail
a teaspoon of honey
When one hour before bed. The night before, not the morning itself.
Cherries damp down the inflammation that rises while you sleep, and they carry their own melatonin, so you sleep deeper for it. Lime gives you the vitamin C your body builds connective tissue with — and the ligaments in your neck are made of exactly that. Ginger works on the same inflammation by a different road. Honey keeps your blood sugar level through the night so you do not jolt awake at three.
Avoid alcohol in the evening. It costs you the precise hours this works in.
Why your neck is stiff: the fluid in a joint thickens when nothing moves it, the same way ketchup sits solid in the bottle until you shake it. And in exactly those hours your body turns its inflammation up, while cortisol — your own brake — does not arrive until around eight. You wake up in the gap.
7 The three o'clock slump
a mug of green tea
a slice of lemon
a thin slice of ginger
half a teaspoon of honey
When early afternoon. And walk ten minutes with it.
Green tea carries something alongside its caffeine that takes the sharp edge off: you get the alertness without the drop afterwards. Lemon helps the absorption. Ginger keeps digestion moving so lunch does not flatten you. Honey is a floor, not a spike.
Avoid the heavy starchy lunch followed by sitting still. That is the slump.
13 Knees that hurt on the stairs
a thumb of fresh ginger, grated
a teaspoon of turmeric
a good grind of black pepper
a mug of warm milk or oat milk
When daily, in the evening. Give it six weeks.
Ginger and turmeric work on the same inflammatory pathway as the tablet in the cupboard — slower and weaker, but without the damage to your stomach lining. The black pepper is not for flavour: without it your body absorbs almost none of the turmeric. The fat in the milk does the same job.
Avoid judging it after three days. This is not a painkiller.
17 Awake at three and not going back
a mug of chamomile
a teaspoon of honey
half a teaspoon of cinnamon
a good splash of warm milk
When half an hour before bed.
A dip in blood sugar during the night sends your stress hormone up, and that is what wakes you. Honey keeps your liver's store topped up until morning. Cinnamon flattens the swing. Chamomile and warm milk do the rest.
Avoid alcohol as a sleeping aid. You fall asleep faster and you wake at three, reliably.
11 Ankles that are thick by evening
a glass of coconut water (250 ml)
a squeeze of lemon
a small handful of parsley
a third of a cucumber
When in the afternoon, not just before bed.
Coconut water is full of potassium, and potassium is the counterweight to the salt that holds water in your tissue. Parsley helps your kidneys let it go. Cucumber brings water with minerals rather than water alone. Lemon makes it drinkable.
Avoid making dinner the saltiest moment of your day. And eat pumpkin seeds alongside: short of magnesium, your kidneys leak that potassium straight back out.
Ten of them are free
I have fifty of these, one for every complaint after fifty, and they are going to be a book. Ten of them are free: the six on this site and four more — dizzy out of a chair, bloated after eating, heartburn lying down, up four times a night. Yours by email the minute you click the link.
What I send you
The ten glasses. One for every complaint: what goes in, and the hour it works.
The recipes. Bread, cookies, ice cream, jam. No flour, no refined sugar, nothing off a long list.
The supermarket list. What to leave on the shelf, what to take home instead, and how to read a label in the two seconds you actually spend looking.
The day each book is finished. You hear it here first, and pay less for it than anyone who comes after.
1,357 people are on the list.
One email now to check the address is really yours. Click the link in it and the glasses open straight away. After that, nothing until there is something worth telling you.
Nothing on this page is medical advice, and I am not your doctor. If you take medication — particularly for blood pressure, blood sugar or your heart — talk to whoever prescribed it before you change anything.
