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19 Oct

For today’s edition of Dear Mark, I’m answering a reader question about beans. But it’s not just about beans. It’s about something called the Bean Protocol, a rather new dietary approach that many of my readers have expressed interest in. The Bean Protocol is supposed to improve the liver’s ability to clear out toxins, thereby...

09:00 / Diet & Nutrition / gut / gut health / Recent Articles / Resistant Starch / Self-Experimentation / toxins
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01 Jul

You can’t change your genes. But you can program them. The modern world presents a number of problems for our genes. The world we’ve constructed over the last 50 years is not the environment in which our genetic code evolved. Our genes don’t “expect” historically low magnesium levels in soil, spending all day indoors and all...

09:00 / Gene Expression / habits / Longevity / Recent Articles / Self-Experimentation
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01 Jan

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...

09:00 / Diet & Nutrition / Personal Improvement / Primal / Primal Lifestyle / Recent Articles / Self-Experimentation
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26 Nov

As we covered in Parts I and II of this series, during perimenopause and menopause women can experience a complex web of physical, psychological, and social symptoms. The treatment usually prescribed by doctors, hormone therapy (HT), is controversial and not appropriate for some women. I won’t get into the HT debate here—Mark did a great job...

08:58 / Aging / creativity / goals / habits / hormones / Longevity / Mental Health / mindfulness / Nature / Personal Improvement / Play / Primal Lifestyle / Recent Articles / Self-Experimentation / Stress Management / women's health
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05 Nov

There was a time when food tracking was treated like a given, a necessary tool for anyone wanting to lose weight or better their health. Thankfully, there’s more nuance to that conversation now. The fact is, tracking your food can be a useful exercise for gaining more insight into what you’re putting in your body....

08:00 / calories / Diet & Nutrition / habits / keto / motivation / Recent Articles / Self-Experimentation / Stumbling Blocks / Weight Loss
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20 Mar

Have you tried hemp oil? After almost a century of being outlawed, hemp—a form of cannabis with extremely low levels of psychoactive THC—is now legal in the United States. This is big news for people interested in the therapeutic effects of cannabidiol (or CBD) because—while hemp doesn’t contain enough THC, the compound that provides the “high”...

13:40 / Diet & Nutrition / Mental Health / research analysis / Self-Experimentation / sleep / Stress Management
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21 Aug

Next month, Primal Kitchen® will be teaming up with the Whole30® crew to help support people doing the Whole30 program. The guidelines complement the Primal Blueprint, after all, and the Primal Blueprint is a common after-Whole30 approach to long-term vitality for many folks. The Whole30 itself offers incredibly valuable feedback on the effects of certain...

08:56 / Diet & Nutrition / Personal Improvement / Self-Experimentation / Stumbling Blocks / whole30
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03 Jul

Primal is simple, but it’s not exactly easy. At every turn, detractors and temptations appear. We have health authorities telling us we’re killing ourselves. Worried friends and family sharing news articles decrying the consumption of fat and meat and promoting wholly plant-based diets. Food companies employ food chemists to engineer delicious processed junk that hijacks...

08:51 / habits / Personal Improvement / prevention / Self-Experimentation / Stumbling Blocks
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