Weekend Link Love – Edition 454
RESEARCH OF THE WEEK Statins don’t help older adults, and they may even lead to higher mortality . A 3-egg-a-day, low-carb diet helps older adults lose visceral fat, improve metabolic health, lower triglycerides, and raise HDL. Fennel is great for post-menopausal women ( PDF ). Physical strength predicts political leaning in men. Eating more salt causes you to preserve water and drink less. There’s no substitute for sunlight . Add black pepper to the list of spices that reduce high-heat carcinogen formation in meat. Gut bacteria imbalance linked to systemic sclerosis. Psilocybin mushrooms deemed the world’s safest recreational drug. NEW PRIMAL BLUEPRINT PODCASTS Episode 170: Sarah Ballantyne, PhD : I chat with Sarah Ballantyne, New York Times bestselling author of The Paleo Approach , The Paleo Approach Cookbook and The Healing Kitchen , and creator of the online program Go To Bed . Each week, select Mark’s Daily Apple blog posts are prepared as Primal Bluepri