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When you ask most people what it takes to be fit, you get some pretty wild answers. Hours on the treadmill or pounding pavement every day. Hours in the weight room. Obsessing over how to turn every moment of the day into an opportunity for some kind of workout move. I never liked what I heard,...

Research of the Week Under severe calorie restriction, exercise reduces muscle loss by inhibiting autophagy. Alcohol abstinence is a good idea for people with atrial fibrillation. Common pyrethroid pesticides, including anti-tick chemicals, linked to heart disease. The fungus linked to dandruff is also linked to pancreatic cancer. Mindfulness doesn’t seem to increase mental health when you control for personality. New Primal...

A little while back, Mark posted an article about 14 scenarios in which intermittent fasting (IF) might be just the ticket. We got some requests for a follow-up about times when IF might not be advised. Mark has already written about cautions for women and athletes specifically. I’ll link those at the bottom. More generally, it’s...

A big problem with New Year’s resolutions is not something intrinsic to the practice of resolving to make positive changes in the coming year—these can be beneficial forces in a person’s life—but with the way we word our resolutions. Word choice determines everything. Words mean things. The words we use determine everything that follows. With...

It’s Monday, everyone! And that means another Primal Blueprint Real Life Story from a Mark’s Daily Apple reader. If you have your own success story and would like to share it with me and the Mark’s Daily Apple community please contact me here. I’ll continue to publish these each Monday as long as they keep...

Research of the Week The French are eating more soy (and soy isoflavones, estrogen mimetics) than ever before. Not only does integrating livestock with organic crop rotation improve the health of the soil, it makes food safer. A systematic review of the health effects of intermittent fasting. Religiosity predicts cat ownership. New Primal Blueprint Podcasts Episode 395: Dr. Stephen Hussey MS,...