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Many carnivores have begun adding fruit into their animal-based diets, transitioning from a carnivore diet to a meat and fruit diet. This is one of the most common diets I get asked about, in fact—is the meat and fruit diet a good idea? Does it make sense to add fruit to your meat? Is there anything absent from the strict carnivore diet that adding some fruit can help? I actually think it's a goo…

I've got a great sweepstakes for you guys leading into the New Year: 6 months worth of Primal Essentials. That's Primal Probiotics, Primal Omegas, and Primal Sun. These are our most essential supplements. Primal Probiotics is one of the most potent probiotics on the market. After several iterations, we settled on the four specific strains with the most support in the literature for promoting good…

Mark’s Daily Apple Primal Essentials Sweepstakes Official Rules NO PURCHASE TO ENTER TO WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. MARK’S DAILY APPLE PRIMAL ESSENTIALS SWEEPSTAKES (the “Promotion”) starts on December 19th, 2023 at 1pm Pacific Time (“PT”) and ends on December 31st, 2023 at 11:59pm PT (“Promotion Period”). ELIGIBILITY: Promotion is open to residents of the fifty (50…

Research of the Week Scythians made leather out of their enemies' skin. 5 liters of alkaline water a day is too much. Dialysis patients with lower potassium and magnesium levels have higher mortality. Neanderthals were morning people. Caffeine gum increases deadlift. New Primal Kitchen Podcasts Primal Kitchen Podcast: Get to Know Your Inner Parts with Richard Schwartz, PhD Primal Health Coach Rad…

In a busy world, efficiency is king. Everyone wants the most payoff for their efforts in the least amount of time—especially when it comes to fitness. That’s one of the reasons that high-intensity interval training, or HIIT, has become so popular. Workouts lasting just 20 or 30 minutes can deliver tremendous cardiovascular benefits, help you burn fat and lose weight, build stronger muscles and bo…

There are certain fundamental inputs every person needs to be healthy: nutritious food, plenty of sleep, social connection, and the one we’re talking about today, movement. Movement is an essential part of the Primal Blueprint master plan for crafting your strongest, fittest, most dynamic, most enjoyable life. That’s what I want for all my readers—a long life well lived until the end. To reach th…

Pre-workouts are supplements or combinations of supplements, often in powder form, that you take before a workout session in order to improve your performance and boost training adaptations. As fitness culture has exploded and grown by leaps and bounds, so have the available pre-workout products that promise to boost your workout performance. Some of the things that pre-workouts claim to do: Impr…

Humans are designed to live harmoniously with bugs. I don’t mean mosquitoes and houseflies and bees—although those, too. I mean the microbes that live on and inside us, the ones that help us digest our food, maintain a proper pH, and produce important immune system components, hormones, and neurotransmitters. Once, we humans would have encountered plenty of microbes on a daily basis because dirt …

Research of the Week Forest exposure improves quality of life in cancer patients. Powerlifting improves strength gains throughout almost all life stages, with strength losses of 0.35% per year occurring only after age 69. Outdoor training improves function and quality of life in older adults. High intensity interval training reduces sleep apnea severity. Blood flow restriction training with a wid…

Research of the Week The biggest explosion in intelligence occurred after the Gorilla line split from the Hominid line. Less testosterone, more arthritis. Obesity and sarcopenia are a lethal combo for fall risk in older adults. Physical activity reduces depressive symptoms in long-term caregivers of ill family members. Older heart disease patients are probably low in CoQ10. New Primal Kitchen Pod…