Weekend Link Love – Edition 363

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Don’t miss the brand new program I’ve put out with expert biomechanist Katy Bowman. It’s called Don’t Just Sit There and it teaches you how to sit and stand better, build a perfect workstation, and how to “work out” on company time, among many other things. A special promo is running through September 2nd. Learn all about it here.

Research of the Week

The effect of high-fat cheese intake on serum cholesterol levels? In people with metabolic syndrome, a reduction. In everyone else, no effect.

Intensive lipid-lowering therapy lowered cholesterol levels but significantly increased coronary arterial plaque in the process. Whoops.

People with a genetic predisposition toward low vitamin D levels are at greater risk for multiple sclerosis.

Men and people over 65 sleep better when close to nature.

New Primal Blueprint Podcasts

Episode 82: Dr. Loretta Breuning: If you’ve ever wondered how similar we are to other mammals and whether we can learn anything from them, this is the episode for you. Host Elle Russ sits down with Dr. Loretta Breuning, an expert on animal brain chemistry, emotions, and behavior.

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.

• Introducing Don’t Just Sit There!
• How to Create a String of Success
• What Screen Time Does to Our Kids (and What We Can Do About It)

Also, be sure to check out and subscribe to the (relatively) brand new Primal Endurance Podcast.

Weekly sweepstakes: Write a review for The Primal Blueprint Podcast or The Primal Endurance Podcast on iTunes and submit this form for a chance to win a Primal prize package. One new winner is chosen every week!

Interesting Blog Posts

After researchers began having to declare the primary endpoints of a trial before starting it, drug trial success rates (where an improvement in primary endpoint was observed) plummeted from 57% to 8%. Funny, that.

Paul Jaminet looks back on the first year with his new(ish) son, Luke.

Media, Schmedia

Washington DC is about to regulate its personal trainers. Will the rest of the nation follow?

A Virginia reader writes his story in the local paper.

Everything Else

Americans, your national parks await. Here are 99 ways to enjoy them.

Already having swum the Atlantic, Ben Lecomte plans to swim from Tokyo to San Francisco.

Vibram’s new wrapping sole.

Rhonda Patrick’s new podcast episode with Dr. Ron Krauss about saturated fat and refined carbs is worth a listen.

Quantified dog. Or you could just make sure to walk and run your dog.

A rare line of headless hominids was recently discovered in Kazakhstan. Gotta wonder how they ate, communicated, and perceived the world without eyes, mouths, noses, or ears.

Is food replacing music as the “heart of cultural conversation” due to its fleetingness? Plus other interesting discussions of food and some techno-future optimism that I don’t entirely agree with.

Recipe Corner

• How to smoke a brisket.
• Honey merlot crispy duck legs are really dang good. Even Paul Giamatti’s character from Sideways would agree.

Time Capsule

One year ago (Sep 1 – Sep 7)

• 11 Signs You’re Not As Healthy As You Think You Are – Don’t ignore these.
• Telecommuting: How and Why to Do It – The benefits of working from afar.

Comment of the Week

His previous 2 articles are about upside down ice cream cones and spaghetti in a cone, to which he gives good reviews.

Yeah, I’m not gonna take diet advise from that guy.

–Well said.

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