Research of the Week Higher free PUFA in the blood, lower cognitive function. London’s Black Cabbies have enlarged hippocampuses. Low protein intakes make nighttime light exposure even more detrimental. Essential oils show promise for improving ... [Continue Reading]
Is Soy Bad For You?
The Primal Blueprint classically recommends against legume consumption, but that stance has softened. Legumes aren’t bad in and of themselves. Many people have intolerance issues with them, and unresolved gut barrier leakiness or FODMAP ... [Continue Reading]
How to Eat Enough Protein
As I discussed in a recent post, my diet has been trending toward a higher protein intake than in years past. Rarely do I consume less than 100 grams of protein. Most days I’m considerably higher even eating only two meals. Those meals center ... [Continue Reading]
New and Noteworthy: What I Read This Week—Edition 149
Research of the Week The people who need the vaccine most of all—the metabolically unhealthy—have the lowest antibody response to vaccination. 100% of Spanish breastfeeding women have elevated levels of acrylamide, a toxin caused by heating vegetable ... [Continue Reading]
Why You Need to Believe It Before You Can See It
We all love a good success story, don’t we? Hearing how someone dropped 70 pounds. Or got super fit. Or ditched their meds. They make it look so easy. Heck, all you have to do is clear out the pantry and stock it with primal-friendly foods and you’re ... [Continue Reading]
A Visual Guide to Peppers
Eating spicy food is a lot like running a marathon. They both hurt while you’re doing them, and the next day can be pretty painful, too. You have to fight the urge to quit. Crying is par for the course. Yet you persevere, all the while knowing that ... [Continue Reading]
New and Noteworthy: What I Read This Week—Edition 148
Research of the Week Compared to vegetable fat high in artificial trans-fatty acids (and a control diet), ruminant fat high in natural trans-fatty acids improves liver health, gut biome, and inflammatory status of lab rats. Reasonable, accessible ... [Continue Reading]
6 Food Additives That Might Be Giving You Trouble
What’s a person to do when they’ve eliminated all the big allergens—gluten, dairy, eggs, nuts—and they’re still having mysterious symptoms that seem to be aggravated by their diet? Maybe you’re that person. You’ve tried Primal, AIP, and low-FODMAP ... [Continue Reading]
New and Noteworthy: What I Read This Week—Edition 147
Research of the Week Swearing makes you stronger. The aging (and young, for that matter) brain needs social interactions. Full-fat dairy wins again. There is very little evidence in favor of “as low as possible” salt intakes, and yet ... [Continue Reading]
5 Tips for Setting Better Boundaries (and Why You Want to)
The past 19+ months have provided us with more than a few challenges, but they’ve also allowed us to reflect on what’s working in our lives and what could use a major overhaul. An unexpected benefit of all the cancelled happy hours, closed gyms, and ... [Continue Reading]
Why Do I Get a Gluten Reaction from American Wheat but not Overseas?
Seems like every international traveler who normally follows a Primal way of eating has had the experience of splurging on pasta in Italy or baguettes in France or pita in Greece without any of the negative effects they normally experience back home. ... [Continue Reading]
How to Cope with Feeling Overwhelmed
“Some days you will feel like the ocean. Some days you will feel like you are drowning in it.” —Lora Mathis Ain’t that the truth. Life comes at you fast. You get laid off and don’t have enough money in savings, a family member gets sick, your car ... [Continue Reading]
Are Nightshades Bad for You?
If you’ve spent any amount of time here on Mark’s Daily Apple, you know we love our vegetables. Plant foods are powerhouses of nutrients and antioxidant action. They’re the backbone of a solid Primal diet, and the main event in my ... [Continue Reading]