Weekend Link Love – Edition 404

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Huge announcement this week. I just launched my Primal Health Coach program and I’m really excited about what’s to come. There’s also a new blog dedicated to Primal Health Coaching topics. Check it out.

Research of the Week

When you’re trying to improve aerobic capacity and mitochondrial function, should you run farther or faster? Yes.

Genes can predict professional success, income, personality, and even likability, but not happiness.

How different dietary fats affect alcoholic liver disease.

Everyone’s getting fatter, but some are getting fatter more slowly.

New Primal Blueprint Podcasts

Episode 123: Taylor Collins: Host Elle Russ hangs out with Taylor Collins, co-founder of Epic Provisions. If you want to hear how a vegan became the creator of the first grass-fed beef protein bar, why soil restoration is almost everything, and what else Epic has in store for us, listen to today’s episode.

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.

• 14 Ways to Help You Look Primal
• Why the Kind of Body Fat You Carry Matters
• 17 Activities for Primal Family Bonding
• Why You Still Probably Need More Rest (and 23 Ways to Get It)

Interesting Blog Posts

An update on the existence of Lamarckian evolution.

The no-label diet.

Is Alzheimer’s an infectious disease?

Which salad ingredients go best together? Solid list.

Media, Schmedia

The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine thinks we should hold off on releasing genetically engineered organisms into the wild.

Candy makers shape nutritional science.

Does weight loss lead to wrinkles?

Everything Else

Could turning the Galapagos Islands into a rat sausage fest save endangered species?

Fleeing spiders blanket a flooded town in silk.

Techno-optimism butts up against biology’s complexity.

Context, context, context.

Stuff just keeps getting older.

Do you qualify?

Before hobbits, there were smaller hobbits.

NBA teams are discovering the importance of sleep and hiring experts to help them get more of it.

What’s happening here? Fitnessing is happening.

Recipe Corner

• Dry-brining isn’t just for poultry.
• Pickled avocados.

Time Capsule

One year ago (June 15 – June 21)

• The Greatest Piece of Exercise Equipment Ever Invented – My love affair with the Versaclimber.
• The Definitive Guide to Napping –How to be an intermittent layabout.

Comment of the Week

It’s strange to think that when we lose body fat, that includes all the nooks and crannies you’ve described above. “My, Martha, what a slim epicardial, intramuscular, and intrahepatic figure you hold. How do you do it?”

– That Martha’s a real catch, ain’t she, Tina?

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