Hello, welcome to Age Better with me Liz Earle. Well, Monday's shows are of course all about you

and I would love to kick off today with an email from Sue and you write, Hi, Liz and team,

thank you for teaching me a new word, Hormesis. I am a regular sea dipper and I love the cold tub in my garden. I went

into my coldest tub yet at zero degrees and I had to break through really thick ice to get in.

Oh my, I felt blooming awesome after a minute or so in there. This morning I've managed two minutes

and still lots of ice in there. Thank you for spreading the word and for all the great knowledge and advice that you're able to share to enable me to age well. Thank you, Sue. Yeah, I'm not sure that we all need to be sitting in freezing tubs outside for two minutes, but well done. And if you feel good on it, you know,

that's the key thing, isn't it? We're all different. And yeah, Hormesis, that's a very interesting

word. And thank you for embracing it with such enthusiasm. So what it really means is that you give

your body a small amount of stress. You're just challenging it a little bit

and let the body rebound and respond from that to become stronger and more resilient. And that's

why things like cold dips or even just a cold shower, frankly, you don't have to do the sort of

icy plunge, just turning the tap down at the end of the shower, or even things like intermittent fasting, time restricted eating, where we place our body under

a small amount of stress. This can actually in the long term, if we're talking about health span

and longevity, be extremely good for us. Thank you for taking the time to write. And, you know,

messages like yours really do make what we do such a pleasure.

And if you have a question or indeed a comment for me, do get in touch all the details you will find at the end of the episode in the description and, of course, in the show notes.

Well, coming up today, I have some budget-friendly hydrogen water recommendations

for Ivana. Haley asks about the most important supplements to prioritise in midlife. Then I'll be

taking a look at blue light blocking glasses and whether they could help a listener with her husband's

sleep issues.

I'll also share some tips for hormonal breakouts.

And then lastly, Margaret wonders about perimenopause.

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