Weekend Link Love
Research of the Week
A race day high-fat meal resulted in better endurance performance than a race day high-carb meal following three days of carbohydrate loading.
Choline intake during pregnancy predicts the child’s epigenetic response to stress once born. Kids from moms who ate just 480 mg of choline a day during pregnancy (the recommended amount) secreted more cortisol in response to stress than kids from moms who ate 930 mg per day. All the more reason to eat your yolks!
Speaking of stress, it seems to shut off the parts of the brain that control goal-oriented behavior. So that kid with the excessive cortisol gene expression might be less likely to accomplish interesting, exciting things.
Caffeine appears to be helpful against Parkinson’s disease.
Interesting Blog Posts
Not technically a written blog, but Robb Wolf was recently on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. It’s a good listen (but not really safe for work).
Stephan Guyenet reviews a review paper in which he was one of the reviewers reviewing the health effects of high-fat dairy.
Everything Else
Witness the calm, cool, and collected visages of the world’s greatest athletes engaging in their life’s passion.
Why don’t we eat pig’s milk cheese, goat butter, and sheep milk?
Who’s up for some dragon eggs?
Recipe Corner
- Grab some sichuan peppercorns, a big slab of pig, and make yourself a sichuan pepper-rubbed pork roast.
- Watermelon and tomato gazpacho. It might sound weird, but just try it.
Time Capsule
One year ago (Aug 5 – August 11)
- How Many Calories Does Muscle Really Burn? (And Why It’s Not Really About Calories, Anyway) – How does the broscience measure up to reality?
- Human Interference Factor – What happens to food when humans get involved?
Comment of the Week
I only had time to skim this article.
- Nice one, Finnegan’s Wake.
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Posted By: Mark Sisson
“Why don’t we eat pig’s milk cheese, goat butter, and sheep milk”
Who are these crazy people? Sheep’s milk is delicious, as is mare’s milk. Unpalatable to whom? The Doritos crazed masses?
The real reason we don’t drink sheep’s milk is that it’s more valuable as fine cheese – I see nice French cheese fetch up to $40 a pound. Supply is limited and milk distribution’s a pain. Farmers are smart to go for the higher value product.
I just want to know why I can never find badger milk at the store…
Honey badger milk is NASTY, that’s why.
Honey badger milk is badass. Honey badger doesn’t care.
I make yogurt with raw sheep’s milk. It’s rich and delicious.
Never tried it. But my friend found this yogurt at like a Giant or something that was 10% fat and they said they were on a little fat-high from it.
Sheep’s milk blue cheese is way more delicious than already delicious cows milk blue cheese.
Haha! I can’t believe you linked to Fox News
I love to read these great things about coffee, but I would have loved it more 6 months ago, before my caffeine tolerance inexplicably plummeted. (What’s up with that, Mark?)
I just ordered my first pasteured pig, and I’m saving that pork recipe for when the butcher has it ready next week. Thanks!
Pardon me, Anne, but what’s wrong with Fox News?
You know the bloody answer to that…
No, actually, I don’t know the “bloody answer.”
Um, what’s wrong with linking to Fox News?
Well… Fox news is more like a conniving fox than a news station. They’re most often wrong or intentionally misleading with their information, and have had to backtrack on statements many times (like O’Reilly making things up about law and political rules that don’t actually exist). So Mark “Integrity” Sisson linking to Fox “Epic Fail” News is quite the irony, because Fox rarely gets anything right (I will grant that their articles are better than their TV)
+1 for funniest comment thus far!
Oh, okay, I get it now. View points differing from yours are biased. Got it.
FOX News published an article about Michael Phelps winning another gold. Those right-wing conspiracy nuts, always with that biased reporting…
If you can’t tell the difference between hard news and opinion (O’Reilly, Hannity), then you’re a bit dense.
Fox lies, plain and simple.
There’s an entire site devoted to documenting all their falsehoods.
http://mediamatters.org/
Media Matters? Aye caramba. Instantly discredited. Conversation over. Back to primal nutrition…
Come on, Anne, the article is on the Fox News site, but could be just about anywhere on the net. Everyday for the past ten or twelve years, I read LewRockwell.Com. I love Lew, and his group of columnists, but there isn’t a day that goes by where I find something that is objectionable from my point of view., and walk away with raised eyebrows. Doesn’t mean I fall into a pit of rage, and smash the hell out of my mouse, and keyboard. No, I simply disagree, as you do presumably with [all] of Fox News. The idea is to take what you find interesting, and agree with, and leave the rest. The content of this article may or may not be true. But it is silly to discount it for the mere reason it was posted on Fox. This reminds me of liberals who passionately agree with me, especially on civil liberties, until they find out I’m libertarian.
That’s just funny. I knew about the connection between caffeine and Parkinson’s ten years ago…”The idea is to take what you find interesting, and agree with, and leave the rest. The content of this article may or may not be true. But it is silly to discount it for the mere reason it was posted on Fox.” Exactly. I do this with my Paleo/Primal articles, too.
Oy vay, the connections of mothers and stress! lol
watermelon and tomato is an amazing combo. i favorite of mine for salads, with or without greens.
Yes and watermelon in hot summer is just heavenly
… No time for comments … too much Olympic excitement happening … !
Pig’s milk sounds gross…. lol I might grab some sichuan pepper corns to make some pork roast! thanks for the recipe!
“What we’ve discovered,” says Lee, “uh, what we’ve concluded, you know, is basically that the machine that would fit a pig’s teat is a human breast pump. It fits perfectly.”
Thank you for this link, Mark. It totally made my day.
Question: the high fat race day meal article said the people eating high fat + maltodextrin had the best response. I thought maltodextrin was basically just glucose? And isn’t ingesting that supposed to be a bad thing?
Love the caffeine news
I don’t find I need or want dairy product. I occasionally have babybel cheese but not often and milk makes my nose run. It’s not hard for me to manage without it. Never drunk or liked coffee either (although used to hvae a diet coke habit, 8 cans a day – well rid – I have very addictive genes).
So today I was really missing sugar and I had a small chocolate bar and it was of course increibly wonderful. All the feelings of being sad (sugar withdrawal) passed. It was as if someone had turned on the on but with acceleration button. I even did lots of invoices to customers really quickly. What a shame it has such an effect on me, so positive but that if I ever get back on it I cannot eat much else and I eat more and more and more of it as next time I have it the high is much less. Silly me. Better not tell the boyfriend.
Sheep and goat cheese is a-maaaaaa-zing.
We have a local company (Laloo) that makes goat milk ice cream. Wonderful stuff, better than cow milk and doesn’t disturb my lactose-intolerant innards.
Their black mission fig ice cream is insanely good! Hard to find, but so worth it.
“Frantically pinched at their tiny nipples, then ran away when they woke up and started to freak out”
Anything in the name of ricotta I guess
I wonder if Grok and his primal hottie had anything like coffee in their daily lives, to give a little turbo-boost when needed.
Very interesting about the Choline effects on infant stress…I have been reading about epigenetics a lot lately. The book “Deep Nutrition” is fantastic, if you haven’t read it!
Last week, Wegmans in Henrietta NY, had goat butter on their shelf. I was as surprised as you probably are. I had never heard of it before so, of course, I bought it. It is very good I have to say.
And then today, I bought buffalo milk cheese at a farmer’s market. I imagined in my head that it was an American buffalo which is actually a bison so maybe the milk came from a water buffalo. I was not specific enough in my questioning of the vendor. Haven’t tried the cheese yet.
Probably water buffalo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_mozzarella
I saw a picture of a pig with long fur, almost like a fleece that you could spin. I thought, “Wow, bacon and wool in one package. Can you MILK that pig?”
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Here’s a blog post on how vitamin K2 deficiency can account for statin side effects like memory loss and calcification of arteries:
http://hopefulgeranium.blogspot.co.nz/2012/08/why-might-statins-cause-memory-loss-and.html
Let’s just say that caffiene is NOT coffee. The high acrylamide levels in coffee may be irritating to people with parkinsons. There should be enough differences between the plant and the drug to make us wary. And what about black and green teas?
Tobacco will give you cancer, nicotine won’t.
Interesting that thing about acrylamide levels in coffee, did not know about it.
Do you happen to know if Guarana contains any negative ingredients or side effects?
i tried making an omelet with some dragon eggs the other day, but some blonde Targaryen chick showed up and two minutes later my apartment burned down.
+1 for the reference to Game of Thrones!
Well, now that we’ve considered the milk of so many different animals, maybe next week, Mark could lead us on a hunt from some truly primal (and paleo) fare that I expect many are anxious to try — all the animals that we can eat the eggs of.
Know anywhere I can pick up a dozen alligator eggs. They probably sell them in Florida, right? Collecting them directly is probably more dangerous than trying to milk a buffalo, I’ll bet.
. . . err. Just kidding about the alligator eggs. That sounds a bit unappetizing to me, but duck and goose eggs might even be better than chicken eggs and bigger too.
My mother makes cheese from raw milk. It taste great with some salt on it. I love the comments on these low carb blogs. A lot of these guys are creative and can give great ideas!
Thank you for featuring my sichuan pepper roast pork recipe, Mark! As a side note on Central Asian fare and the pig’s milk article…I had a small taste of that fermented mare’s milk they mention in China last month. It is clear and stinks of rotten milk – It does not go down easily. Legend has it, it was the drink of choice of Amazon women warriors for vision quests and post-battle celebration. Cheers!
I can’t believe they’re hating on Sheeps milk! I lived and worked on an organic sheep dairy farm (in France, where sheep dairy products are not as popular as goat but you CAN find it) where we made cheese and yogurt – it was so smooth and mild with a distinct and delicious flavor! I tried in vain to find it in America. The yogurt, especially, far surpasses that of cow’s or goats.
I have found a blue cheese made from raw sheep’s milk and it is the BEST blue cheese I have ever tasted – I’m sure there’s better, though. It’s not dry and crumbly (like the stuff I got at the Amish market). It’s moist and oh my so good.
I’m glad to see data supporting the pre-endurance event high fat meal. Through trial and error over the years I’ve found that eating a bunch of nuts or an avocado about 20 min prior to a long workout allows for more sustained energy than a high carb intake prior to the event.
Does eating a high carb diet 3 days prior really make that much difference? Can you get away with just eating primal as normal and sustain performance the day of with a pre-workout high fat meal?
This is good information to know as I training for the Sealfit.com Kokoro camp. Very much a long endurance event.
Thanks
Random poll:
If you were to eat solid foods in the middle of a long endurance event, what would you be your choice?
before I went primal I ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Nuts and honey?
My kids and are I allergic to cow’s milk so we eat goat milk butter instead. Yummy but expensive!
The Olympic divers were disturbing and cute all at once.
I don’t know if hiking and backpacking count as endurance exercise (I do it quite strenuously) but I manage much better performance with high fat foods than with high carb foods. I recently did a somewhat strenuous backpack trip, stepping into the middle of someone else’s thru-hike of the Continental Divide. I kept up with them even at high altitude. My meals were mainly high in fat and protein, things like pemmican, macadamias, wild greens and mushrooms, coconut oil, beef heart jerky and other dried meat and some carbs from dehydrated potatoes and dried fruit. I got to where I was fasting through first breakfast and eating pemmican for second breakfast. I was felt great and had no trouble keeping up on the pace and distance.