New and Noteworthy: What I Read This Week—Edition 203

by Elizabeth

Research of the Week

Baking soda prevents performance declination during tennis matches.

Older people who stop lifting weight see their muscles gain intramuscular fat. Resuming training helps the muscles shed it.

Kombucha improves gut health and mitigates the damage of a lab diet in rodents.

High intensity aerobic training increases circulating levels of neuroprotective compounds.

Bad sleep, bad training.

New Primal Kitchen Podcasts

Primal Kitchen Podcast: The Link Between Dairy Intolerance and Dairy Genes with Alexandre Family Farm Founders Blake and Stephanie

Primal Health Coach Radio: Going Beyond “Feeling Fine” With Dr. Libby Wilson

Media, Schmedia

“Constant turmoil” at the FDA.

Interesting Blog Posts

Do kids compete too early in sports?

Revolution occurs when elites are discontent.

Social Notes

On heuristics.

Everything Else

AI creates horrific food.

I think this kind of thing is more common than we think in other countries too.

Things I’m Up to and Interested In

More of this: Florida Surgeon General asks people to grow their own food.

Concerning: Even taking COVID out of the equation, all-cause mortality exceeds 2019 levels.

Powerful phrase: Exercise as “metabolic shield” against cancer.

Interesting question: Did an older hominid use fire?

Finally: What have I been saying for years?

Question I’m Asking

How much water do you drink a day?

Recipe Corner

Time Capsule

One year ago (Dec 3 – Dec 9)

Comment of the Week

“My self improvement journey started around 2009. I was 29 years old and discovered @Mark_Sisson and @TheMinimalists and started to change my life. When/where did your self improvement journey begin?“

-Love to hear it, Mark.

Primal Kitchen Mayo


About the Author

Mark Sisson is the founder of Mark’s Daily Apple, godfather to the Primal food and lifestyle movement, and the New York Times bestselling author of The Keto Reset Diet. His latest book is Keto for Life, where he discusses how he combines the keto diet with a Primal lifestyle for optimal health and longevity. Mark is the author of numerous other books as well, including The Primal Blueprint, which was credited with turbocharging the growth of the primal/paleo movement back in 2009. After spending three decades researching and educating folks on why food is the key component to achieving and maintaining optimal wellness, Mark launched Primal Kitchen, a real-food company that creates Primal/paleo, keto, and Whole30-friendly kitchen staples.

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