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In every physical endeavor, there is what looks good in practice, what happens in real life, and the space between the two.

This is perhaps best exemplified in martial arts training. Martial artists practice movements like shadow boxing or grappling, drills on a dummy, and kata (choreographed sequences). These movements make martial arts look pretty. But then sparring happens, and things get ugly.

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Hamlet – Act 3, scene 1 (Original draft)¹:

“To flex or not to flex, that is the question” 

Reading between the lines, we can sense the troubling thought that concerned the Prince of Denmark, and has perplexed lifters ever since chalk met bar:

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Help make Mark’s Daily Apple and @primalkitchenfoods shine! Consider nominating us for Paleo Magazine’s Best of 2015 list!

If you could spare just a few moments, here are the categories the Worker Bees and I would like to be nominated for:

Best Blog (General Health/Wellness): Mark’s Daily Apple
Best Podcast (General Health/Wellness): The Primal Blueprint Podcast
Best Paleo Company (Food Related): PRIMAL KITCHEN™
Best New Packaged Product: PRIMAL KITCHEN™ Mayo
Best Thing to Always Have in Your Fridge: PRIMAL KITCHEN™ Mayo
Best Online Program: The Primal Blueprint Expert Certification
Best Book (Fitness Oriented): Primal Endurance
Best Book (General Health/Wellness): Fruit Belly
Best New eBook: The Primal Blueprint Definitive Guide to Troubleshooting Weight Loss
Best New Podcast: Primal Endurance Podcast
Health Hero of the Year: Mark Sisson
Best Paleo Supplement: Primal Probiotics

The nomination period ends today, January 10th, so copy/paste away! And thank you in advance for your votes. It’s very much appreciated.

Follow Primal Blueprint Publishing on Instagram and enter to win one of the 16 giveaways taking place daily from Jan 1-16 in the “16 in ’16 Giveaway!” Prizes include Primal Blueprint Publishing books, Primal Blueprint supplements, and Primal Kitchen products.

The Primal Blueprint audiobook is on sale ($4.95) until 11:59 PM PST tonight at Audible. If you’re an Audible member (or want to become one), check it out!

Research of the Week

For people with advanced illness, quitting statins may be a safe way to save money and improve quality of life.

Wearing blue lenses increases muscular endurance.

The insulin resistance and altered glucose homeostasis seen in shift workers may be caused by disordered light/dark cycles, not sleep deprivation alone.

“It isn’t that callings help you, so much that ignoring a calling hurts you.”

Only total and full-fat dairy intakes are linked to improved cardiometabolic health.

Fasting mice inhibited their acquisition of new fears and reduced anxiety from existing ones.

Heart failure patients are typically placed on low-salt diets, and it may be killing them.

New Primal Blueprint Podcasts

Episode 101: Martin Keen, CEO of Focal Upright Furniture: Host Brad Kearns chats with Martin Keen, CEO of the best functional furniture company in the world. All of Martin’s furniture is designed to optimize human health, performance, and structural soundness. In this podcast, you’ll learn about Focal Upright Furniture’s office setup (no chairs!), the specific negative effects extended sitting has on our physiology, and how forced sitting may be a way to domesticate otherwise unruly humans.

Each week, select Mark’s Daily Apple blog posts are prepared as Primal Blueprint Podcasts. Need to catch up on reading, but don’t have the time? Prefer to listen to articles while on the go? Check out the new blog post podcasts below, and subscribe to the Primal Blueprint Podcast here so you never miss an episode.

• End of the Year Review: What We Learned in 2015
• 7 Ways to Slow Down Your Perception of Time

Also, be sure to check out and subscribe to the Primal Endurance Podcast.

Interesting Blog Posts

Six seconds is all it takes.

An old Klamath Indian origin story about the creation of Oregon’s Crater Lake got it right.

Saturated fat is bad (if you ignore the raw data).

Old but good advice for anyone looking to declutter their way to abundance for the new year.

Media, Schmedia

The man who quantified himself before it was cool.

Despite a few improvements (eggs/cholesterol non-relationship, no soda for diabetics), the latest USDA dietary guidelines peddles primarily abject nonsense.

How the liver shuts down your sweet tooth.

Bread sales down in Britain.

Everything Else

Common junk foods, deconstructed.

A good overview of the problems with nutrition science, epidemiology, food frequency questionnaires, and calorie counting.

Hardy with a short growing season, millet was the perfect gateway grain for pre-agricultural Asian nomads.

Breathe into this device and find out how much fat you’re burning.

Tom Brady’s got a crazy diet. In other words, it’s a healthy one.

Recipe Corner

• I love a good “throw a bunch of stuff into a pan” stir fry, and Asian crack slaw is a perfect example.
• Gluten-free (potatoes instead of noodles) breakfast casserole.

Time Capsule

One year ago (Jan 12 – Jan 18)

• This One Simple Trick Will Make All Your Meals Taste Better – Improve your cooking instantly.
• It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way –A fun and helpful challenge.

Pic of the Week

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Mors is a tart, berry-based refresher that has a heck of a pedigree — it was first mentioned in the sixteenth-century Russian homemaking manual “Domostroy.” Although it’s frequently made from cranberries, mors can easily be made with just about any kind of wild or cultivated sour berries. And although modern-day mors is often sweetened with sugar, I prefer to use honey; it’s a nod to the origin of the word mors, which probably derives from the Latin mulsa, or “honey drink.”

Forget about the store-bought stuff that comes in cartons — thanks to the natural pectin in the berries, this juice has a velvety texture.

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Sesame Chicken Celery Root Salad

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Winter is the season to get a bit adventurous and embrace that strange-looking orb known as jicama, the faintly hairy bulb called celeriac, and the humbly earnest rutabaga. This week we turned them into inspired and luscious salad after salad. No lettuce required! Just peel, shred, chop, and roast and you can transform these storing veggies and random roots into no-wilt salads for tonight’s dinner and tomorrow’s lunch, too.

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Welcome to our brand new weekend roundup, Three of the Best! Every Sunday, we’ll post up Breaking Muscle’s top three articles of the week. These pieces have caught your attention throughout the last seven days. So here they are in one place for you to consume, digest, and enjoy.

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