Let me introduce myself. My name is Mark Sisson. I’m 63 years young. I live and work in Malibu, California. In a past life I was a professional marathoner and triathlete. Now my life goal is to help 100 million people get healthy. I started this blog in 2006 to empower people to take full responsibility for their own health and enjoyment of life by investigating, discussing, and critically rethinking everything we’ve assumed to be true about health and wellness...
Episode #29 of The Primal Blueprint Podcast is now live. It’s a continuation of my essay on chronic cardio from last week, which was all about what not to do for cardio. This week, Brad and I discuss all the things you should do when putting together a cardio regimen. If you have any ideas for future podcasts, please let us know by using the blue “Submit a Question” button in the sidebar!
A team of researchers wants to conduct a study pitting the paleo diet against the diet recommended by the American Diabetes Association. If you’re interested in discovering which diet works best for treating PCOS, please contribute a few bucks a to the crowdfunding campaign.
Research of the Week
A large review of the evidence by a team of researchers has just concluded that dietary carbohydrate restriction represents the best “first approach” in treating diabetes.
Living near a mobile phone tower was associated with increased genetic damage in a recent study.
The New Yorker recently ran a nice piece on paleo from a writer whose family spent a week trying the diet. Best part was what the kids learned: “We should eat more liver.”
You might have heard about the Brazilian researchers contacting the previously uncontacted Amazonian tribe a week or so ago. Well, now they have the flu.
Sorry, guys. We installed a new server over the weekend and everything was loading fine, but then it really bogged down yesterday when we sent out the newsletter. We are trying to resolve. It might be an updated plugin not playing nice with WordPress. Very frustrating for me, since I try to always have more capacity than I need. Thanks for hanging in there with me!
– Yes, I chose my own comment for comment of the week, just in case anyone missed the message and was wondering why MDA has been slow loading this week. Fortunately, things appear to be back to normal!
Would be great to see a study study pitting the paleo diet against the diet recommended by the American Diabetes Association – Not that we need it, but the more research that’s done on the paleo diet, the better. More long-term randomized controlled trials would definitely help strengthen the message and get paleolithic nutrition into nutrition courses/studies.
Or… maybe the ones with power are more likely to think about more pleasant things than a foot standing on their neck. Totem pole analogy seems well placed.
Hi,
Good question ! When I was a kid (i am 46), my mum (here in France) used to make liver once a week (because it is cheap : pork or beef which are the stronger ones) and with plenty of cream, a bit of vinegar, and i grew to like it. Along with kidneys, pork feet, ox tongue, veal head, pork head etc… It is just a question of habit. We kids, ate what our parents ate, no question. If we didn’t like it, there were two options : “ok it is because you are still a kid, so it is difficult for you to eat it” (that was the answer for cooked cabbage or cooked endives (very bitter) or cooked tomatoes. For other things, the answer was “you are just making a fuss, so you ll have it for breakfast tomorrow morning”. It never went that far, though. Basically kids were considered adults when they could eat like an adult (everything), and we wanted to be considered like adults ! I know kids here nowadays who eat liver at 3, no problem. They just do like papa and mama.
Wow, we almost wiped out an isolated tribe and we didn’t even open a McDonald’s next to them or try to force feed them grain or anything rotten like that 🙂
Mark, when the site didn’t upload around 11 AM (My time, EST) I started frantically searching twitter for any news of your whereabouts. I was scared shirtless…
As an Australian livestock producer, I get very tired of being stereotyped according to the worst excesses of the livestock industry.
I don’t claim to be “organic” – a term that has very specific meanings and compliance standards in the industry – but my stock are only ever supplemented with grain at times that pasture is insufficient (drought) and neither hormones nor antibiotics are used.
Critics of the industry should also take note that animals that are stressed are neither as healthy, no grow as quickly or efficiently. We have a vested interest in looking after our livestock.
Signing off now, as I have a grass-fed hogget (sheep between 12and 24months) hanging in the killing shed after I butchered it last night. The kidney fat has already been rendered and the heart, kidneys and half the liver have been diced braised and are currently stewing of the wood stove. Now to cut and bag the carcass. It’s nice eating your own produce.
“Most of Buzzfeed’s 28 Delicious Ways to Use Leftover Bacon Fat aren’t very Primal, but there are a few notable exceptions (check #21!).”
While I understand the meaning of the words “leftover”, and “bacon”, I don’t really understand what the author meant when using them together like that in the same sentence.
Hi Mark! Thanks so much for sharing the link love! We love seeing paleo in the news! It’s been showcased a little this week in Australia too! See you at Oxnard! e + c
Hi Mark, I;m a T1D and I’m really interested in reading the article : Dietary gluten increases natural killer cell cytotoxicity and cytokine secretion. Do you happen to have a link for the full article by any chance?
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Good stuff as always!
Would be great to see a study study pitting the paleo diet against the diet recommended by the American Diabetes Association – Not that we need it, but the more research that’s done on the paleo diet, the better. More long-term randomized controlled trials would definitely help strengthen the message and get paleolithic nutrition into nutrition courses/studies.
People with more power perceive the passage of time more slowly, and as a result, feel less stress than people lower on the totem pole.
That’s because they’ve DELEGATED it all to those people lower on the totem pole!
Or… maybe the ones with power are more likely to think about more pleasant things than a foot standing on their neck. Totem pole analogy seems well placed.
“We should eat more liver,” one of them said. (New Yorker article).
You want to get an honest and unbiased answer to question? Ask a kid (;
Hi,
Good question ! When I was a kid (i am 46), my mum (here in France) used to make liver once a week (because it is cheap : pork or beef which are the stronger ones) and with plenty of cream, a bit of vinegar, and i grew to like it. Along with kidneys, pork feet, ox tongue, veal head, pork head etc… It is just a question of habit. We kids, ate what our parents ate, no question. If we didn’t like it, there were two options : “ok it is because you are still a kid, so it is difficult for you to eat it” (that was the answer for cooked cabbage or cooked endives (very bitter) or cooked tomatoes. For other things, the answer was “you are just making a fuss, so you ll have it for breakfast tomorrow morning”. It never went that far, though. Basically kids were considered adults when they could eat like an adult (everything), and we wanted to be considered like adults ! I know kids here nowadays who eat liver at 3, no problem. They just do like papa and mama.
The New Yorker’s piece was really interesting and thorough. I’m actually surprised at how much I learned.
On the down side, I live at 500 meters from two 2100 MHz cell towers. I totally didn’t know they hid them on churches steeples.
Wow, we almost wiped out an isolated tribe and we didn’t even open a McDonald’s next to them or try to force feed them grain or anything rotten like that 🙂
Mark, when the site didn’t upload around 11 AM (My time, EST) I started frantically searching twitter for any news of your whereabouts. I was scared shirtless…
Cuz I’m a primal swole boss 😉
Mark…..
THANKYOU.
As an Australian livestock producer, I get very tired of being stereotyped according to the worst excesses of the livestock industry.
I don’t claim to be “organic” – a term that has very specific meanings and compliance standards in the industry – but my stock are only ever supplemented with grain at times that pasture is insufficient (drought) and neither hormones nor antibiotics are used.
Critics of the industry should also take note that animals that are stressed are neither as healthy, no grow as quickly or efficiently. We have a vested interest in looking after our livestock.
Signing off now, as I have a grass-fed hogget (sheep between 12and 24months) hanging in the killing shed after I butchered it last night. The kidney fat has already been rendered and the heart, kidneys and half the liver have been diced braised and are currently stewing of the wood stove. Now to cut and bag the carcass. It’s nice eating your own produce.
Regards….. Peter
Living in Honolulu, I appreciate the high-quality Australian beef and mutton we can buy here. Keep up the good work.
“Most of Buzzfeed’s 28 Delicious Ways to Use Leftover Bacon Fat aren’t very Primal, but there are a few notable exceptions (check #21!).”
While I understand the meaning of the words “leftover”, and “bacon”, I don’t really understand what the author meant when using them together like that in the same sentence.
Agree. Perfect definition of Oxymoron?
Hi Mark! Thanks so much for sharing the link love! We love seeing paleo in the news! It’s been showcased a little this week in Australia too! See you at Oxnard! e + c
“Carbohydrate-free Paleo diet”… where do people GET this stuff? Sometimes, I hate people.
Hi Mark, I;m a T1D and I’m really interested in reading the article : Dietary gluten increases natural killer cell cytotoxicity and cytokine secretion. Do you happen to have a link for the full article by any chance?
Thank you.