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I’m Taking Patients Off More Medications Than I’m Prescribing

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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! In 2011 I was 80 lbs overweight, I was on 8 medications, I was sick, sad, and scared. As a doctor, I couldn’t understand how I’d ended up there. I “knew” what to do. I just had to eat less and exercise more, right? I’d done Weight Watchers (which worked for a while, until I gained all the weight, plus more, back), seen a nutritionist, a therapist, and even a hypnotist to control my lack of willpower. I was eating low-fat meat and dairy, whole grains, and tightly controlling my portions. I ate vegetarian meals frequently and snacked on pretzels and hummus, and chips and salsa. I went to the gym 3 times a week and did 30 minutes of cardio. I wa

Primal Action Point: 5 Fitness Recovery Techniques

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Fitness recovery isn’t only about rest. Certain techniques offer faster, more effective recovery after endurance or high intensity training—a big plus for those who compete or follow more intensive fitness programs like CrossFit. By the way, if you missed this week’s feature, Rest and Recovery: A Whole New Perspective , be sure to check it out. Now onto those techniques… Cold therapy can help speed recovery by delivering a refreshing psychological sensation and recalibrating the central nervous system and muscle metabolic activity back to calm, cool resting levels. Full body immersion into water at 50 ºF to 60 ºF (10 ºC to 15 ºC) for five to ten minutes, is believed to be the optimal strategy for post-exercise cold therapy. The old injury treatment protocol of RICE (Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation) is being replaced in the eyes of many experts with ECM (Elevate, Compress, Move). Icing of injuries can retard the natural healing process. Compression wraps or garments act like pum

What I’m Loving Lately 98

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  Hi, friends! Happy FRIDAY to you! I landed in Boston, safe and sound, early this morning. We ended up sitting on the plane for a solid 30 minutes before we were allowed to get off, which meant I didn’t get home until nearly 2:00 AM. Quinn was up and at ’em just after 5:00 AM, so, needless to say, I’m ALL about the CAFFEINATED iced coffee today. Pour me another already! 🙂 But, honestly, I’m just happy to be home. I missed my family so much. Since it’s Friday and all, I wanted to bring you the next edition of What I’m Loving Lately , which, I have to admit, I enjoy writing even more now that you guys have shared so much positive feedback about this blog feature. I’ll definitely keep it alive for ya! 🙂 Our 2017 Chatbook – You guys might remember be professing my love for Chatbooks on CNC in the past, and I’m even more in love with them after receiving this hardcover book of our family’s 2017 memories. Chatbooks has an option to load all of your Instagram photos right into thei

Easy Baked Eggs with Red Pepper, Power Greens and Cheese