It’s Friday, everyone! And that means another Primal Blueprint Real Life Story from a Mark’s Daily Apple reader. If you have your own success story and would like to share it with me and the Mark’s Da

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Bill Lagakos: "the evidence that abstinence from alcohol is a cause of heart disease & early death is irrefutable" -@speele5 http://t.co/BqhDeG5uH7

Medicalskeptic: So how often does medical consensus turn out to be wrong? http://t.co/8KsFSeU9

SPECIAL EDITION Gut Reaction > Could food be making us sick - very sick? In this two-part special Graham Phillips reveals new research about the interplay between food and the bacteria deep inside our guts. Thursday 21 August 8.00pm on ABC 1 New research has linked the Western diet to asthma,…

November 29, 2011 Flatulence: Foes and Fixes By Mark Sisson Print Farting is universally hilarious. Across every culture, every religion, every language, the issuance of gas from a person’s posterior will – once the wrinkled noses have smoothed out – evoke laughter from just about everyone in…

September 05, 2012 How Common is Gluten Sensitivity? By Mark Sisson Print I’ve long suspected that everyone has some degree of sensitivity to gluten, even if they’ve never been formally diagnosed and even if they don’t notice any overt symptoms after eating it. Now we have concrete evidence that…

Beyond just being loaded with “artery-clogging saturated fat ” and sodium , bacon has been long considered unhealthy due to the use of nitrates and nitrites in the curing process. Many conventional do

While popular media coverage of people following a Primal way of eating tends to paint us as carnivorous meat enthusiasts gorging on steaks, bacon, bun-less hotdogs, and little else without regard for

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Drs. Tuveson and Chandel explain why eating foods rich in antioxidants, as well as taking antioxidant supplements, can actually promote cancer, rather than fight or prevent it, as conventional wisdom

Our culture’s obsessive attention to cleanliness, sanitation, and hygiene may actually be having unintended consequences on our immune system. While a sanitary environment may be crucial in areas such as hospitals or food production, our general avoidance of dirt, bacteria, and other infectious…

Shares For Alexander Griffin, the path to a long diabetes honeymoon has meant lots of exercise, no gluten, and not many carbs I first learned about Alexander’s diabetes honeymoon a day or two after our daughter, Bisi, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes . In those early rushed days of trying to find…

K ira Cochrane asks "why can't we give up the tan?" ( Going for the burn , G2, 7 July). The answer is simple: we are not convinced that the alleged harm outweighs the obvious benefits, and we dislike

Emotions like fear, anger, sadness, and joy enable people to adjust to their environment and react flexibly to stress and strain and are vital for cognitive processes, physiological reactions, and social behaviour. The processing of emotions is closely linked to structures in the brain, i.e. to what…

How does sun exposure relate to skin cancer risk? The simplistic, popular story is that sunlight exposure has a linear relationship with cancer, similar to how we view smoking. None is safest and each

This is a guest post by Laura Schoenfeld, a Registered Dietitian with a Master’s degree in Public Health, and staff nutritionist and content manager for ChrisKresser.com. You can learn more about Laura by checking out her popular blog or visiting her on Facebook . “That the birds of worry and care…

This is a guest post by Laura Schoenfeld, a Registered Dietitian with a Master’s degree in Public Health, and staff nutritionist and content manager for ChrisKresser.com. You can learn more about Laura by checking out her popular blog or visiting her on Facebook . “And which of you by being anxious…

Early hematopoietic stem cells (blue) in a blood vessel of a mouse embryo. Credit: Nancy Speck, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Genetic mutations are commonly studied because of links to diseases such as cancer; however, little is known about mutations occurring in healthy individuals.…

European Court of Justice. Gwenael Piaser While the United States continues to debate metadata collection conducted in secret by the National Security Agency, the European Union has been openly collec

Henry A. Kissinger was secretary of state from 1973 to 1977. Public discussion on Ukraine is all about confrontation. But do we know where we are going? In my life, I have seen four wars begun with great enthusiasm and public support, all of which we did not know how to end and from three of which…

Dr. Robert Lustig, professor of pediatrics at the University of California at San Francisco, is the star of the video above. While he presents some material that’s scientifically sound, he also makes enough errors to warrant a healthy dose of criticism. There’s a ton of material he goes over, so…

Perhaps the single most prominent, and telling, feature of bitcoin today is its massive controversy in the media. Not a single day goes by without an article or televised mention about its dangers, ri

February 12, 2014 Do You Really Need to Eat Vegetables to Be Healthy? By Mark Sisson Print The idea that vegetables are an essential part of a healthy diet has been hammered into our collective consciousness by every authority out there. Parents, teachers, scientists, government health “experts” all…

Your Computer To date the NSA’s and FBI’s primary attacks on Tor users have been MITM attacks (NSA) and hidden service web server compromises (FBI) which either sent tracking data to the Tor user’s computer, compromised it, or both. Thus you need a reasonably secure system from which you can use Tor…

Fred Benenson Forsome high-profile people who publicly told the government to go tohell, 2013 was, personally, a bit rough. Information freedomactivist Aaron Swartz took his own life under threat of a brutal prisonsentence. Revealer of inconvenient government secrets Bradley/Chelsea Manning actually…

I’ve just finished reading “Minding My Mitochondria: How I overcame secondary progressive multiple sclerosis” By Terry Wahls, MD If you haven’t already see the viral video of Dr Wahls talking about her reversal of Multiple Sclerosis, you must, it is inspiring. As a result of watching her talk I…

July 02, 2012 Dear Mark: How Much Glucose Does Your Brain Really Need? By Mark Sisson Print We now know that the oft-repeated “your brain only runs on glucose!” is wrong . I’ve mentioned it before , and anyone who’s taken the time to get fat-adapted on a low-carb Primal eating plan intuitively knows…

Swift’s sold-out performance at MetLife Stadium in July. Photo: Larry Busacca/TAS Taylor Swift worries a lot about security. It’s an understandable concern. This spring, a man was arrested in the wee

Discussion of the digital currency known as Bitcoin is divided into two camps. People who understand the currency well tend to be enthusiastic boosters. Those who are citical of Bitcoin tend not to un

The Apple chief executive, who died this month after a pancreatic tumour spread elsewhere, delayed having operations and chemotherapy for nine months after the disease was discovered in October 2003.