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01 Jun

Cholesterol usually gets the gold for most demonized nutrient, and fats undoubtedly take the silver. It’s time to confront the misunderstandings around fats. When I switched from a high-carb, low-fat diet and started to eat healthy fat as a nutrient, my health rapidly transformed. As important as fat is to your body, the fact remains that...

09:00 / definitive guides / Diet & Nutrition / fats / monounsaturated fats / omega 3s / Recent Articles / saturated fats
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13 Nov

Cold season is upon us. Vitamin D levels are down. People are cloistered indoors. Kids are walking petri dishes. Drug stores are advertising free flu shots. It’s that time of year. I’m sure a few of you are even sniffling as you read this, or maybe trying to ignore the pain of swallowing with a...

11:21 / Diet & Nutrition / fasting / Hype / immune health / injury/ailment / omega 3s / Primal Lifestyle / Recent Articles / Supplements
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06 Nov

Inflammation gets a bad rap in the alternative health world: “Inflammation causes heart disease, cancer, and autoimmune disease! It’s at the root of depression.” These are all true—to some extent. Name a disease, and inflammation is involved. Crohn’s disease is inflammatory. Major depression is inflammatory. Heart disease is inflammatory. Autoimmune diseases, which involve an inflammatory response directed at your own...

13:13 / Aging / Diet & Nutrition / Fitness / Gene Expression / gluten / hormones / immune health / injury/ailment / Longevity / monounsaturated fats / omega 3s / prevention / Primal Lifestyle / Recent Articles / Weight Loss
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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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24 Sep

For today’s edition of Dear Mark, I’m answering six questions from some of my Twitter followers. Yesterday, I asked the community for questions and got some great ones in return. For instance, how much oily fish should one eat each week? And how does diet and nutrition influence posture and coordination? Third, how should a...

09:06 / dairy / dear mark / Diet & Nutrition / fasting / mobility / omega 3s / Primal Lifestyle / Protein / Recent Articles
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10 Sep

For today’s edition of Dear Mark, I’m answering a few questions. First came in from an email and regards a new study showing a link between chicken eating and several types of cancers (melanoma, prostate cancer, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma) among British adults. What do I think of the study? Second, did I really tell people not...

08:11 / dear mark / Diet & Nutrition / fasting / omega 3s / toxins
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21 Aug

In nutrition, there are very few universal consensuses. Conventional wisdom says that fat makes you fat and whole grains are essential, and millions of people agree, but the ancestral health and keto communities (and reality) disagree. Primal and keto folks don’t worry much about saturated fat and limit polyunsaturated fat; conventional health advocates do the...

13:29 / cooking tips / Diet & Nutrition / environmental concerns / omega 3s / prevention / toxins
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