June 06 2011 - Hi again, everyone. Thanks for the comments and emails in response to my last post on menopause and hot flashes. I’m working on getting through your questions and hope to do several posts throughout...
February 02 2007 - Several Apples have written in wondering about MBT and other supposed jiggle-reducing shoe brands, so in the interest of truth and avoidance of unattractive footwear, let's set the record straight. Do...
February 13 2007 - The Tuesday 10: There are hundreds of scams for weight loss, health, disease cures, and fitness, but here are the current rotten stinkers: 10. Hoodia The only kind that works must be eaten fr...
November 14 2017 -
November 15 2006 - Ladies, I’m concerned about the skinny-fat among us. You know what I'm talking about. Skinny-fat women might look nice in a v-neck, but they’d sooner crawl into a hole than expose an upper arm or ...
December 06 2007 - Simple observation: As cosmetic procedures grow in both popularity and efficacy the number of people that look fit but are in fact unhealthy will rise. This is a version of the skinny-fat phenomenon. ...
October 12 2007 - There's always some new product anxious to help you part with your hard-earned cash. Some products are healthy or helpful, but some are downright dishonest scams. These three have become popular of la...
August 16 2007 - I got a question last week from reader Barbara about colloidal silver supplements. For the record, this alternative health remedy is both ineffective and unsafe. It's the latter that concerns me most,...
February 15 2017 - Here at Mark's Daily Apple, I avoid writing off anything without first investigating it. I keep one foot in the "alternative" health world and one in the "conventional" realm, making sure to maintain ...
January 22 2007 - Worker Bees' Daily Bites: News for the men, news for the women, news for the kidlets... 1) First there was cellulite cream...now this? This week in quackery: was it the metrosexual trend that...
June 06 2011 - Hi again, everyone. Thanks for the comments and emails in response to my last post on menopause and hot flashes. I’m working on getting through your questions and hope to do several posts throughout...
February 13 2007 - The Tuesday 10: There are hundreds of scams for weight loss, health, disease cures, and fitness, but here are the current rotten stinkers: 10. Hoodia The only kind that works must be eaten fr...
November 14 2017 -
August 16 2007 - I got a question last week from reader Barbara about colloidal silver supplements. For the record, this alternative health remedy is both ineffective and unsafe. It's the latter that concerns me most,...
February 15 2017 - Here at Mark's Daily Apple, I avoid writing off anything without first investigating it. I keep one foot in the "alternative" health world and one in the "conventional" realm, making sure to maintain ...
March 01 2007 - Worker Bees' Daily Bites The peanut butter scandal continues, ice cream supposedly boosts fertility, and a half glass of wine a day is the fountain of youth. Oh, and the FDA has created a hurricane...
March 02 2007 - Sara here, with some Big Moo musings for the girls. Dairy is one of those food debates that can go on ad infinitum, with plenty of good points on either side (much like vegetarianism). Raw vs. organic...
November 11 2013 - For today's edition of Dear Mark, we've got a three-parter. In the first section, I discuss the extremely hot (and then allowed to cool off) topic of resistant starch, explaining who might benefit fro...
May 13 2020 - For decades, the health community had written off collagen as a “useless” protein. It wasn’t essential, in that it contained no amino acids you couldn’t make yourself. It didn’t contribute d...
November 21 2011 - It's Monday, and that means it's time for another series of Dear Mark questions and answers. I think you'll find today's choices pretty interesting. First, I field a question from an apparently health...
June 06 2011 - Hi again, everyone. Thanks for the comments and emails in response to my last post on menopause and hot flashes. I’m working on getting through your questions and hope to do several posts throughout...
February 02 2007 - Several Apples have written in wondering about MBT and other supposed jiggle-reducing shoe brands, so in the interest of truth and avoidance of unattractive footwear, let's set the record straight. Do...
November 15 2006 - Ladies, I’m concerned about the skinny-fat among us. You know what I'm talking about. Skinny-fat women might look nice in a v-neck, but they’d sooner crawl into a hole than expose an upper arm or ...
February 15 2017 - Here at Mark's Daily Apple, I avoid writing off anything without first investigating it. I keep one foot in the "alternative" health world and one in the "conventional" realm, making sure to maintain ...
January 22 2007 - Worker Bees' Daily Bites: News for the men, news for the women, news for the kidlets... 1) First there was cellulite cream...now this? This week in quackery: was it the metrosexual trend that...
November 21 2011 - It's Monday, and that means it's time for another series of Dear Mark questions and answers. I think you'll find today's choices pretty interesting. First, I field a question from an apparently health...
October 03 2019 - The fitness world is booming these days. You can see it in the popularity of CrossFit boxes, obstacle course and endurance events, and record-breaking gym construction. It's encouraging. Inspiring eve...
January 05 2007 - Between bird flu, Rhode Island school closures, conjoined children, the new WHO director, an ethical debate about a disabled daughter, and the ruckus over human-animal DNA splicing, it's been quite a ...
August 07 2019 - The fitness industry is in the midst of a renaissance. Flawed and dated strategies like sedentary recovery practices or overly stressful HIIT workouts are being replaced with cutting-edge practices th...
February 26 2019 - For today's edition of Dear Mark, I'm answering a couple of questions from the comment sections of the last couple weeks. First, it's been established that fasting and exercise both raise growth hormo...
February 15 2017 - Here at Mark's Daily Apple, I avoid writing off anything without first investigating it. I keep one foot in the "alternative" health world and one in the "conventional" realm, making sure to maintain ...
June 25 2020 - How bad is working and eating late at night? Wondering why you’re not losing weight? And what if you don’t want to go back to the gym? In this week’s edition of Ask a Health Coach, Erin is back ...
November 14 2019 - For today's edition of Dear Mark, I'm answering a bunch of questions from readers. The first one concerns another inflammatory marker, homocysteine. How could CRP be low but homocysteine be high? What...
September 16 2015 - A couple months back, I gave you a list of Primal Laws that didn't quite make the cut, either because they weren't "big" enough or didn't apply to enough people. Turns out I was probably wrong: the r...
April 23 2018 - For today's edition of Dear Mark, I'm answering three questions from readers. I've come down hard against phones in bedrooms in the past. Is there a "good way" to use your phone in the bedroom? Reader...
February 19 2015 - Maybe it was running across the word Kummerspeck (literally translated from German as “grief bacon,” meaning weight put on through emotional eating). A strange term if there ever was one… The fa...
April 12 2011 - Hi folks! I'm Emily Deans, M.D., a psychiatrist who normally blogs over at Evolutionary Psychiatry and at Psychology Today. However, Mark Sisson was kind enough to ask me to do a guest blog for Mark...
December 11 2014 - We’ve probably all known it - or at least seen it. That bout of flu (or other "everyday" illness) with every imaginable and miserable symptom that seemingly comes out of nowhere and won’t release ...
November 03 2009 - A young planet sits in wobbly orbit, still a bit amorphous and unsure of its final shape. A gurgling, bubbling primordial soup simmers on the surface, stewing and brewing for millions upon millions of...
June 08 2021 - In part one of this series on improving vagal tone, I explained that the vagus nerve is the information superhighway of your autonomic nervous system. It connects your brain to organs and glands throu...
October 12 2007 - There's always some new product anxious to help you part with your hard-earned cash. Some products are healthy or helpful, but some are downright dishonest scams. These three have become popular of la...
February 15 2017 - Here at Mark's Daily Apple, I avoid writing off anything without first investigating it. I keep one foot in the "alternative" health world and one in the "conventional" realm, making sure to maintain ...
November 04 2010 - Vibram, Vivo Barefoot, Softstar, and the other shoe companies making an honest attempt at creating a viable shoe alternative aren’t the only entities capitalizing off the nascent barefoot trend swee...
July 27 2021 - As a devoted fan of skincare, at-home spa treatments, and, most recently, face yoga, I’m always on the lookout for new ways to pamper myself. Thus, I couldn’t help but notice the recent uptick in ...
November 14 2019 - For today's edition of Dear Mark, I'm answering a bunch of questions from readers. The first one concerns another inflammatory marker, homocysteine. How could CRP be low but homocysteine be high? What...
March 27 2019 - Autophagy, from the Greek for “self-eating,” is one of the most basic and most essential processes for maintaining cellular homeostasis. Although you probably don’t think about yourself as an am...
May 30 2012 - For years now, it's been said that telomeres - the tips of your chromosomes - are the key to cancer and aging. The shorter they are, the worse off you are - so the story goes. But what do we really kn...
August 07 2019 - The fitness industry is in the midst of a renaissance. Flawed and dated strategies like sedentary recovery practices or overly stressful HIIT workouts are being replaced with cutting-edge practices th...
July 12 2012 - You could say this post is a long time coming. In the last few years, I’ve lost count of the huge number of emails I get from parents with kids who have special needs either asking for advice or exp...
August 14 2017 - For today's edition of Dear Mark, I'm answering just one question. But it's a good (well, maybe not good, but certainly important) one: Why is male fertility on the rise and testosterone on the wane? ...
June 24 2017 - Today's awesome recipe post is served up by Certified Celebrity Health Coach and friend to Mark's Daily Apple, Kelly LeVeque. I'm thrilled she's with us today, and I hope you enjoy these four incredi...
February 25 2020 - Mark’s said it before: He advocates for collagen to become the fourth macronutrient. Collagen supports collagen-based structures in the body, such as fascia, ligaments, tendons, cartilage, skin, nai...
March 04 2011 - It's Friday, which means success story time. Today it is my pleasure to share Dorene's story. She went Primal on January 1st, not long ago, but as you'll see from her pictures, sometimes five weeks is...
October 07 2011 - 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’...
November 12 2010 - It's time for another healthy dose of inspiration from Mark's Daily Apple readers that took control of their health and turned their lives around. Many thanks to Jason, Marti and Dan for sharing their...
April 13 2022 - For today's edition of Dear Mark, I'm answering questions about a rather mysterious supplement called turkesterone. I've been getting questions about it lately, specifically regarding its promise for...
August 03 2018 - 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...
May 25 2020 - If you have your own success story and would like to share it with me and the Mark’s Daily Apple community please contact me here. I’ll continue to publish these as long as they keep coming in. Th...
July 01 2011 - 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’...
May 17 2010 - You asked for it, so here it is: another round of Primal Blueprint Success Stories. Emails like these are basically why I continue to run Mark's Daily Apple. It's all about giving people the tools and...
April 08 2019 - 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...
April 18 2014 - 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’...
November 15 2006 - Ladies, I’m concerned about the skinny-fat among us. You know what I'm talking about. Skinny-fat women might look nice in a v-neck, but they’d sooner crawl into a hole than expose an upper arm or ...
December 06 2007 - Simple observation: As cosmetic procedures grow in both popularity and efficacy the number of people that look fit but are in fact unhealthy will rise. This is a version of the skinny-fat phenomenon. ...
February 10 2015 - Although a few weeks ago I explained how "stop eating so much" is bad weight loss advice and how "calories in, calories out" tells us very little about the cause of obesity, the fact remains: for what...
March 27 2019 - Autophagy, from the Greek for “self-eating,” is one of the most basic and most essential processes for maintaining cellular homeostasis. Although you probably don’t think about yourself as an am...
April 17 2009 - Every day we run across research that further bolsters the logic of Primal living. However, once in a while we read something that just feels like a good pat on the back, the kind of news that makes u...
February 26 2019 - For today's edition of Dear Mark, I'm answering a couple of questions from the comment sections of the last couple weeks. First, it's been established that fasting and exercise both raise growth hormo...
May 24 2008 - If you’ve ever taken an intercontinental flight – or heck, jetted from coast to coast – chances are you’re probably no stranger to jet lag. Now, new research from Harvard University suggests t...
March 16 2016 - This isn't a Homeric epic. There are no oracles laying out our destiny and predicting our inevitable demise. But even if we can't know the precise date of our death, we can use certain biomarkers, me...
December 05 2018 - This is a surprisingly common question. To get it out of the way: Yes, it does. Bone broth contains calories, and true fasts do not allow calorie consumption. You eat calories, you break the fast. ...
March 20 2012 - "Everyone has a physician inside him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine...
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