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Mandy Oaklander | August 04, 2026   Hi readers! Reset vibes are in the air. I was inspired by our health newsletter reboot this week to relaunch my fitness journey that has long been dormant. Well, maybe “fitness journey” is too lofty a description. It’s more like a personal mission to interrupt my long stretches of sitting. My daily goal is a walk around the neighborhood with my dog. But I don’t always have a spare 30 minutes. (Sorry, pup.) I wondered: what else can I do? A story we recently published offers some manageable ideas, like standing up and sitting down 10 times. Go ahead and try it. I feel the burn. TODAY’S TOPICS A troubling stat A nicer way to say “turn it down!” The downside of cold showers     BIG NUMBER 25% The amount by which international funding from governments to HIV/AIDS organizations dropped in 2025, according to a recent report released at the International AIDS Conference in Brazil. Drastic cuts in U.S. global health commitments are largely driving that decline. While new HIV/AIDS infections and deaths are now at 30-year lows, thanks to new treatments and prevention therapies, the funding drop threatens this progress. —Alice Park SOURCE: UNAIDS and KFF     PRESENTED BY Go from AI overwhelmed to AI savvy professional AI will eliminate 300 million jobs in the next 5 years. Yours doesn't have to be one of them. Here's how to future-proof your career: Join the Superhuman AI newsletter - read by 1M+ professionals Learn AI skills in 3 mins a day Become the AI expert on your team Start learning AI now     PLEASE ADVISE Here’s a great question we received from a reader: Q: I never know what to say to someone who is watching something loud on their phone without using headphones—in an airport, a cafe, anywhere. I chicken out every time. A: I love this question, mostly because I’ve chickened out too. I still remember sitting at an airport gate while someone watched video after video at full volume—and instead of asking them to turn it down, I silently stewed, then relocated with all my bags. So I called up Nicole Del Valle Rose, a Las Vegas etiquette consultant, who spends her days coaching people through exactly this kind of moment. Her first suggestion was two words I didn't expect: move seats. "Etiquette isn’t about correcting every behavior that bothers us," she says. If you're in a coffee shop and there's an open table across the room, taking it solves the problem in four seconds and spares everybody an awkward exchange. When you're stuck—like on a plane, in a waiting room, or on the train—she says a polite ask is completely fair, and short is better than righteous. Try something like this: "Excuse me. Would you mind using headphones if you have them? I'd really appreciate it." It works because it assumes the best about them, and most people truly have no idea how far the sound is carrying. If they say no, let it go. "Good etiquette isn’t about winning every interaction," she says. –Angela Haupt Got a social dilemma of your own? Send it our way to healthmatters@time.com, and we may tackle it in a future edition.     PRESENTED BY Clean Cookware for People Who Actually Cook You've probably seen Made In Cookware® by now. Used in 4,000+ professional kitchens and trusted by millions of home cooks, they also offer one of the largest PFAS-free cookware collections available. Shop Clean Cookware     WHAT WE’RE READING An ice-cold shower might make it harder—not easier—to cool down and fall asleep. For the Guardian, Kate Lloyd explains why tepid water is the better bedtime strategy. Lizzy Lawrence and Elaine Chen report for STAT News that Eli Lilly will let more people apply for early access to retatrutide, its experimental diabetes and obesity drug. Moderna has started testing an experimental Ebola vaccine in people that targets the Bundibugyo strain ravaging the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bloomberg reports.     PRESENTED BY Which Wealth Management Firms Ranked Highest in 2026? SmartAsset ranked the top 10 wealth management firms in the U.S. based on AUM, fees and more. See the List   EMAIL US: healthmatters@time.com   More Newsletters from Click to sign up. THE BRIEF +D.C. BRIEF +FUTURE PROOF +INSIDE TIME +IN THE LOOP +WORTH YOUR TIME +   TIME may receive compensation for some links to products and services in this email. Offers may be subject to change without notice. Connect with TIME: PRIVACY POLICY | YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS Questions? Contact healthmatters@time.com   © 2026 TIME USA, LLC. All rights reserved. TIME Customer Service, P.O. Box 37508 Boone, IA 50037-0508, United States Unsubscribe

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Mandy Oaklander | August 03, 2026   Good afternoon! There’s some bad news today about the ongoing outbreak of Cyclospora, a microscopic parasite that can contaminate fresh produce and cause days or weeks of severe diarrhea. Two people in Michigan have died from cyclosporiasis, reports Michigan’s health department. The disease is typically not fatal, but both people had “significant underlying health conditions,” and dehydration may have played a role. Bigger picture, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is continuing its investigation into the unusually large outbreak, with more than 6,700 confirmed cases in 45 states. TODAY’S TOPICS Rethinking protein Another reason to detest mosquitoes Email us Do flu shots work?     MORNING CHAT Should you be eating less protein? Protein is all the rage right now—but should you be eating less of it? Today, I wrote about a new scientific review finding that people and animals that ate moderate—not high—amounts of protein lived longer and were healthier than those that ate more. Other studies, however, have highlighted the health benefits of higher protein diets. So, how much protein should you eat? I chatted with Matt Kaeberlein, a longevity scientist and molecular biologist (who was not involved in the new research), to make sense of the conflicting data. —Dominique Mosbergen This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity. Javier Zayas Photography—Getty Images What is the evidence that protein restriction is beneficial for health? We know that protein restriction can increase lifespan quite robustly in mice and rats. That’s been shown over and over again. But we need to be really careful to not take what we see in rodents in the laboratory and assume it’s going to work the same way in people.  In people, our understanding of how to optimize protein for the population or even for an individual is still really early. How much protein would you recommend people eat, based on what the science says? Way before people start worrying about how much protein they're eating, they should focus on the quality of their diet: eating a lot of whole foods, a lot of vegetables. If you're a meat eater—and I am—eat quality meat. Cut out the highly-processed stuff. Cut out the simple sugars. Start there, and don’t worry about protein. Are there people who would benefit more from eating more protein than others?  It really depends on your goals, where you are in your life course, and what's going to be sustainable for you. Because we don't know what the optimum is for longevity or health, you should try to find a dietary pattern that first matches the goal of being high quality and then matches the goal of what keeps you satiated, what can you maintain, and what's sustainable.     PRESENTED BY 200+ Proven Ways to Make Money With AI in 2026 The next wave of millionaires will be people who figured out how to make AI work for them. The window to get ahead is still open. But not for long. Here are 200+ proven ways to make money with AI in 2026. Sign up for Superhuman AI, the free daily newsletter read by 1M+ professionals, and get instant access to all 200+ ways to profit from AI this year. Claim your free list     TODAY I LEARNED Mosquitoes can make your dog sick, too Leslie F. Miller—Getty Images In my new piece for TIME, I asked mosquito experts what they do in the summer to protect themselves from the pests. They were quick to mention their pets. Today I learned that mosquitoes can transmit heartworm, a potentially fatal parasite, to dogs. The monthly heartworm chew that you give your dog is protecting your pup from a disease that a single mosquito bite can set in motion. —Angela Haupt     PRESENTED BY Support Your Skin on Your Weight Loss Journey GLP-1s have transformed weight loss. But while you’re celebrating your progress, you may also notice changes to your skin, like volume loss and sagging. OneSkin’s OS-01 BODY MOISTURIZER is built to support skin resilience during GLP-1 use—smoothing skin, strengthening the barrier, and boosting resilience with the OS-01 Peptide™. Save 15% with code BODY15 Explore the claims at oneskin.co     PLEASE ADVISE Ask the health team Have a burning health or wellness question? Wondering how to handle a tricky social situation? 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