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15 Oct

For today’s edition of Dear Mark, I’m answering five questions taken from this Twitter thread. First, does collagen offer anything special above and beyond glycine? Second, what’s the relationship between keto and gallstones? Third, do I recommend eating raw liver, and why or why not? Fourth, why does one reader’s scalp itch when eating stevia?...

09:07 / cooking tips / dear mark / Diet & Nutrition / fasting / Fitness / injury/ailment / keto / Lift Heavy Things / Recent Articles / Weight Loss
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03 Oct

The fitness world is booming these days. You can see it in the popularity of CrossFit boxes, obstacle course and endurance events, and record-breaking gym construction. It’s encouraging. Inspiring even. But there’s also a downside to the rising gym memberships and event registrations. There are still too many people dealing with recurring patterns of breakdown,...

10:53 / Fitness / hormones / immune health / injury/ailment / mobility / Recent Articles / Sprint
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01 Oct

For today’s edition of Dear Mark, I’m answering another round of questions asked by Twitter followers. First up is a three-parter, including a query about extra virgin olive oil, one about supplements everyone should take, and one about autoimmune arthritis in an athlete. Second, I cover whether sauna is a hormetic stressor or a way...

09:38 / dear mark / Diet & Nutrition / injury/ailment / omega 3s / prevention / Primal Lifestyle / Recent Articles / Stress Management / Supplements
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22 Aug

For my entire athletic career, I considered the gold standard of recovery to be sleeping, resting on the couch watching T.V., and generally being still and inactive. Come on, what could be more effective than couch potato mode to recover from the hormonal and inflammatory stresses of marathon training runs or long days of extreme...

12:33 / Fitness / hormones / immune health / injury/ailment / mobility
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17 Jul

Collagen or whey. Which should you choose? For years, collagen/gelatin was maligned by bodybuilding enthusiasts as an “incomplete protein” because it doesn’t contain all the essential amino acids, nor does it contribute directly to muscle protein synthesis.  There’s definitely truth to this. If you ate nothing but gelatin for your protein, you’d get sick real quick....

11:42 / Aging / Diet & Nutrition / immune health / injury/ailment / Mens Health / prevention / women's health
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30 May

When you stop to think about it, mushrooms are remarkable. They’re closer to animals than plants on the tree of life. They can break down plastic and petroleum. The single largest organism on the planet is an underground honey fungus spanning almost 3 miles in the the state of Oregon. They carry messages along their underground fungal networks using...

08:58 / Diet & Nutrition / hormones / immune health / injury/ailment / Mens Health / Mental Health
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26 Mar

For today’s edition of Dear Mark, I’m answering three questions from readers. First, what’s the deal with exercise-induced asthma? Is there anything we can do to lessen its impact and incidence? Second, is CBD oil helpful for diabetics? And finally, do bodyweight exercises always require warm-ups? What about workouts in general—do you need to warm-up...

08:41 / CBD / Diet & Nutrition / Fitness / injury/ailment / mobility
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26 Feb

For today’s edition of Dear Mark, I’m answering a couple of questions from the comment sections of the last couple weeks. First, it’s been established that fasting and exercise both raise growth hormone. What about fasted exercise—does that have an even stronger effect? And what about continuing to fast after your fasted workout? Then, I...

07:14 / dear mark / Diet & Nutrition / fasting / Fitness / hormones / injury/ailment
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30 Jul

For today’s edition of Dear Mark, I’m answering six questions from readers. First, is funding from a biased source sufficient to negate a study’s results? Second, what are some good high intensity interval training workouts that people might not have considered? Third, what can someone recovering from an ACL tear do for HIIT without triggering...

08:00 / cooking tips / dear mark / Diet & Nutrition / Fitness / injury/ailment / mobility / Protein / research analysis / Sprint
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