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pIt’s Friday, everyone! And that means another a title=”Success Stories” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/category/success-story-summaries/”Primal Blueprint Real Life Story/a from a Mark#8217;s Daily Apple reader. If you have your own success story and would like to share it with me and the Mark’s Daily Apple community please contact me a title=”Contact Me!” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-book/share-success-story/” target=”_self”here/a. I’ll continue to publish these each Friday as long as they keep coming in. Thank you for reading!/p
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pimg class=”alignright” title=”Primal Blueprint Real Life Story” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA2009/real_life_stories_stories-1-2.jpg” alt=”real life stories stories 1 2″ width=”320″ height=”240″ /Like many others who’ve jumped on the Paleo/Primal eating concept, I didn’t quite start following the regimen for weight loss. My issues stemmed from the life halting condition (which I believe to be an autoimmune condition) rosacea. For those who aren’t familiar with the condition, rosacea is an inflammatory skin disease known to have an effect on facial flushing and redness. In my case, it got […]

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pimg class=”alignright” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202012/routine.jpg” alt=”routine” width=”320″ height=”320″ title=”The Downside of Routine: When Trying Something New Is Exactly What You Need” /I’ll admit I’m a creature of habit in many ways. I tend to settle into routines that feel good, and I get pretty invested in them at times. (It amuses my wife.) It’s not that I don’t love to drop everything and travel to an exciting place or take a day off to do something totally out of the ordinary. In fact, my job requires me to do a lot outside of my routine, including a lot of travel and off the cuff events. All of it makes me more grateful, however, for the formula of a regular day in the a title=”How-to Guide: Standing at Work” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/standing-at-work/”home office/a or the traditional events around which we tend to anchor our calendar. When it comes to my Primal efforts, I likewise […]

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pimg class=”alignright” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202012/wheat8.jpg” alt=”wheat8″ width=”320″ height=”213″ title=”Does Gluten Have Any Effect on Non Celiacs?” /The a title=”Being gluten free is dumb—and gluten intolerance may not even exist” href=”http://sploid.gizmodo.com/being-gluten-free-is-dumb-because-gluten-insensitivity-1577178094″ target=”_blank”headlines are everywhere/a: gluten sensitivity doesn#8217;t actually exist, and anyone who thinks they have it is a liar, delusional, dumb, or all three. The a title=”This Gluten-Free Thing Is a Really Overblown Fad!” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/gluten-free-fad/”message isn#8217;t a new one/a, but the stories do point to a new a title=”No effects of gluten in patients with self-reported non-celiac gluten sensitivity after dietary reduction of fermentable, poorly absorbed, short-chain carbohydrates.” href=”http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23648697″ target=”_blank”study/a from a group of researchers who previously found that removing wheat from the diet improved symptoms in people with IBS. In the new paper, the researchers tested whether isolated gluten #8211; rather than a title=”The Problems with Modern Wheat” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-problems-with-modern-wheat/”wheat/a #8211; exacerbated IBS symptoms. It did not. The IBS patients in the latest […]

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pimg class=”alignright” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202012/wineglass.jpg” alt=”wineglass” width=”320″ height=”213″ title=”Self Experiment: No Alcohol for 45 Days and Counting” /I#8217;ve always had gut issues #8211; IBS and related challenges. In fact, the diarrhea, bloating, gut pain, gas, and the assorted other embarrassing IBS symptoms that make life truly difficult are what led me to this lifestyle. a title=”Top 8 Most Common Reactions to Your Grain-Free Diet (and How to Respond)” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/top-8-most-common-reactions-to-your-grain-free-diet-and-how-to-respond/”Getting rid of grains/a at age 47 was life-changing, and even as a title=”This Gluten-Free Thing Is a Really Overblown Fad!” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/gluten-free-fad/”gluten deniers are becoming more vocal/a I will adamantly stand by that shift as one of the most important Primal behaviors anyone can adopt. I went from waking up everyday in pain most of my life, having to be continuously aware that an episode might occur at any time, and planning my daily excursions away from home based on where I knew there […]

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pimg class=”alignright” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202012/vibramfivefingers.jpg” alt=”vibramfivefingers” width=”320″ height=”214″ title=”Dear Mark: Are My Vibram FiveFingers Dangerous?” /Today, I#8217;m answering one hot-topic question for this week#8217;s a title=”Dear Mark” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/category/dear-mark/”Dear Mark/a. It concerns an issue that#8217;s inspired several dozen emails from readers: the a title=”Vibram FiveFingers” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/vibram-fivefingers/”Vibram FiveFingers/a lawsuit and settlement. If you want to skip ahead to the take home point, it#8217;s that I#8217;m not getting rid of my Vibram FiveFingers anytime soon. Heck, I#8217;m wearing a pair as I type this. I may even be typing with my FiveFinger-clad toes. (It could happen#8230;) If you want my more extensive take on it, read on./p
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pI would love to hear your comments on the a title=”FiveFingers Still Stupid, Now Culpable” href=”http://fittish.deadspin.com/vibram-fivefingers-still-stupid-now-culpable-1572955736″FiveFingers lawsuit/a. I suspect many of your readers and listeners would be interested too. Possible blog post or podcast topic?/p
pIt seems to me that the #8220;science#8221; used to drive the lawsuit was a […]

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pimg class=”alignright” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202012/SmokedSalmon1.jpg” alt=”SmokedSalmon1″ width=”320″ height=”212″ title=”How to Hot Smoke Salmon (Without a Real Smoker)” /If you love hot a title=”Smoked Salmon” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/primal-paleo-smoked-salmon-nutritional-yeast-5-hour-energy-drinks-brine-kremelta/#axzz31iDyylaK”smoked salmon/a but don’t own a smoker, then this recipe for hot smoked salmon is for you. This method involves rigging up a smoker in your kitchen (on a gas stove) using wood chips, aluminum foil, a round cake rack and a wok. The salmon that emerges has a big, bold smoky flavor with a little bit of a sweet-salty thing going on too./p
pThe texture of salmon hot smoked this way, rather than in a real smoker, is moister and less flakey (expect the middle to look similar to what a fillet of regular cooked salmon looks like). So, it’s not exactly the same thing, but if you love a smoked flavor then you’ll love this salmon in its own right./p
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pIt’s Friday, everyone! And that means another a title=”Success Stories” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/category/success-story-summaries/”Primal Blueprint Real Life Story/a from a Mark#8217;s Daily Apple reader. If you have your own success story and would like to share it with me and the Mark’s Daily Apple community please contact me a title=”Contact Me!” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-book/share-success-story/” target=”_self”here/a. I’ll continue to publish these each Friday as long as they keep coming in. Thank you for reading!/p
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pimg class=”alignright” title=”Primal Blueprint Real Life Story” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA2009/real_life_stories_stories-1-2.jpg” alt=”real life stories stories 1 2″ width=”320″ height=”240″ /After just two months it may be a little soon to be sending you one of these, but I just had to share./p
pI am a 30 year old police officer in FL. Ever since middle school I have been the fat kid. No matter how hard I tried the conventional way, I could not lose any weight and just kept getting heavier. Even the police academy […]

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pimg class=”alignright” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202012/groupworkout.jpg” alt=”groupworkout” width=”320″ height=”202″ title=”Improve Your Workouts with This One Simple Trick” /Every once in a while I run across a study that makes me laugh even as it makes me think. Such was one in a gaming journal (admittedly unfamiliar territory to me). a title=”Cyber buddy is better than no buddy” href=”http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/g4h.2013.0088″ target=”_blank”The study/a assessed the comparative impact of varying degrees of “human-like, software-generated” workout partners (e.g. “a nearly-human-like, humanoid partner (NHP), a hardly human-like, software-generated partner (HHP),” against one another and a no partner control as well as a genuine hominid presented virtually. The concept made me chuckle as I pictured the potential animation, but the results gave me something to consider. Subjects’ motivation was higher and generally the same in any of the partnered conditions, no matter how “hardly human-like” the partner. Other factors like perceived exertion, enjoyment or self-efficacy were also relatively constant among […]

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