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How Being Diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes Improved My Entire Life!

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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 Daily Apple community please contact me here . I’ll continue to publish these each Friday as long as they keep coming in. Thank you for reading! If you’re reading this story in the hope of seeing drastic before and after photos, I’m afraid you’re going to be disappointed (unless of course I could wear my body inside-out, in which case the transformation would be pretty damn impressive!), but rather my story is about completely changing my life in every single aspect to become the healthiest and happiest version of myself. Here we go… I better start by introducing myself. My name is Drew Harrisburg, and I’m 28 years young. I’m from the beautiful Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. Ever since I was a young kid I’ve been intrigued with the human body, as well as had a keen interest in sci

Clearing Up the Confusion About Salt

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We consumers may find ourselves all shook up when it comes to salt — unsure about how to absorb the latest research, which can seem to conflict. One minute we are warned to be super-careful about our salt intake or hazard increasing our risk of a host of health woes, including high blood pressure — and are further cautioned that high sodium consumption could be raising our children’s risk of heart attack and stroke . The next minute we’re told our efforts to cut down on salt intake by easing up on our salt shakers is not going to help much — and that, in fact, consuming less sodium might not do much to lower blood pressure after all.   A recent New York Times headline seemed to sum up the current don’t-know-what-to-thinkness of it all: “ Why Everything We Know About Salt May Be Wrong .” Oof. The Times article beneath the headlined filled us in on two new studies of Russian cosmonauts that found that salt may not make us more thirsty, as is widely believed, but actually less so —

Friday Favs

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^^HAHAHA. I am so ready to put my resting beach face back on! We swapped out the rugs in the office so we could use one of Thomas’ family rugs from his old house. I love the look (and the light!). Also, we finally hung our height ruler. Newsflash: Mazen is taller! You know what’s missing from our house? The two living room armchairs. They are getting reupholstered in some Sunbrella fabric (did I write about this already?) that will hopefully repel everything that touches it and will last for 100 years, so we currently have limited seating upstairs. But you know what? I secretly LOVE the openness! Makes me want to rearrange the living room when the chairs return, but I’m not really sure what other arrangements would work. Perhaps chairs and couch facing each other coming out from the fireplace? But then it would be hard to watch the TV without a turned neck, so I don’t think Thomas would vote for that ; ) Remember when I wrote about that new app called Best Fiends ? We are totall

A Whole Week of Rest Days

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Hey, hey! Happy June 9th , friends! Today is our sweet boy’s 3rd birthday – and we are, of course, going to celebrate appropriately! I kept Qman home from preschool today, so we’re planning to go out for breakfast this morning and then Grandma, Aunt Steph, Cousin Matthew, and Karli are coming over to play. There are a few other fun surprises planned throughout the day with a big ol’ party on Sunday. I seriously can’t wait and hope he has the best time ever! I really love celebrating (other people’s) birthdays! So, the other morning, I woke up and laid in bed for quite awhile. Usually, I’m up and at ’em and thinking about my workout for the day. My go-to strategy is putting on my gear as soon as I wake up, so I make sure that I get my sweat on. This morning, though, I just wasn’t feeling it. I didn’t have the motivation to move my body… at all really. I did five intense workouts the week before, which is WAY more activity than I’m used to. I just felt like I needed a day off, so I de