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My Experience with Celery Juice for Acne + Juicer Review

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As you guys might remember, I’ve been really into the whole celery juice craze. Truthfully, I’m a little nervous to publish this post because there are a lot of people who do not support it – and  I totally get that. Like a lot of people, I was super skeptical about the “healing powers” of celery juice – given that I’m not one to believe in magical “cure-all” solutions. I mean, I have a chronic autoimmune disease ( ulcerative colitis ), and I can’t tell you how many people have recommended that I try crazy things, like aloe juice, essential oils, yada yada, to cure myself. BUT I’ll also try just about anything once in the name of health – never say never! 😉 The guy who started the celery juice trend is Anthony William, better known as the “ Medical Medium” . He’s kind of nutty, claiming that he can diagnose diseases through communicating with spirits. Yep, I know, I know…. oooh, I know how insane it sounds. I hear ya loud and clear, people, it’s crazy. My husband still gives me

BREAKING: Roundup found in beer & wine samples (See the brands)

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We all know that alcoholic drinks are not a health food – and alcohol itself is linked to cancer. But, these new findings are just further evidence that this hazardous weed killer is ending up in almost everything that we eat and drink. How much weed killer are we each eating every day? Breaking new tests conducted by the consumer interest group U.S. PIRG finds that many popular beer and wine brands are contaminated with – glyphosate (the main ingredient in Roundup).  Roundup is the most widely used weed killer in the world. In 2015, the World Health Organization’s cancer arm declared glyphosate a  probable human carcinogen . Last year Monsanto lost a HUGE lawsuit filed by a California man with Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma – the jury decided that Roundup caused his cancer and awarded him millions. This was the first of thousands of lawsuits filed. U.S. PIRG tested 5 wines and 15 beers (some organic) and found glyphosate in 19 out of 20 of them.  The wine brands that tested positive fo

Falling Off the Mountain and Climbing Back Up

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It’s Monday, 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 Monday as long as they keep coming in. Thank you for reading! My primal story all started while hiking one day back in 2009. Hiking has always been more than exercise for me. It has always been a place to clear my thoughts and think of new ideas. On a late summer day when hiking one of my favorite trails, I asked myself the question. “What would I eat if I lived out here?” I took a mental inventory: pine nuts, rabbits, chipmunks, some berries, and a deer if I was lucky. I started thinking that nothing out in the wild really represented anything I would find at my local store. I would have a hard time finding rabbit and chipmunks at the Mega-Mart, if you know what I mean. This idea sparked my interest s

Reminder: Success Story Giveaway Closes March 8th!

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Last week I announced that the bees and are looking to share your stories of success in changing habits, losing weight, reclaiming your health, and enjoying more vitality with the help of Primal and/or Primal-keto living—and that I’m offering a giveaway to sweeten the pot: a $200 gift certificate  to PrimalKitchen.com for one lucky winner, plus a 5-book Primal library for two additional winners—all three randomly chosen among those who send in their success stories and photos by March 8th, 2019—as well as a 20% off discount to either PrimalBlueprint.com or PrimalKitchen.com for everyone who sends in a story and photos at any time. Remember, anyone in the world can enter . Additionally, everyone who has submitted a Success Story to Mark’s Daily Apple in the past is free to submit an updated story and new photos. Just submit your story along with pictures you feel are indicative of your journey and your current Primal life and success. Please use the subject heading “My Primal Story

Back Pain and Jedi Mind Tricks

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Hi, guys! Happy Monday to you! The 5-Day Macro Bootcamp kicked off today! If you didn’t sign up, there’s still time! You’ll receive 5 days of free macro education delivered right to your inbox. Did you have a nice weekend? Ours was pretty low-key. If you follow me on Instagram, you know that I hurt my back/hip about a week ago. I still have NO idea how I did it. I’m blaming a walking treadmill workout that I did the day before the pain started, but I’m sure it’s a cumulative injury – or maybe it’s all in my head! More on this in a minute! 😉 Here’s a photo of Murphy, looking pretty annoyed because that’s how I’ve felt for the past week. I ended up going to urgent care for drugs because the pain was so bad. I couldn’t even walk at the beginning of the week. Ughhh, it was awful. Back pain is truly the worst. I actually did this same thing to myself two Christmases ago, which was WAY worse ( I ended up in the emergency room ), but this “injury” lasted longer. I couldn’t do everyd

Instant Pot Egg Salad

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This Instant Pot egg salad is now a weekly staple in our house. It’s SO easy and inexpensive and versatile and delicious and good for ya and all those happy things! Instant Pot How-To To make the eggs, I use the recipe I wrote about in this post . Go there and link through for the detailed version. If you’re an Instapot pro, then this might be all you need to know: grease/spray an oven-safe dish, crack in 8 eggs, add 1 cup of water and place dish on the rack. Manual pressure cook 5 minutes and allow 5 minutes natural release and you’ll have the following egg “loaf” in your dish. Think of it as one giant hard-boiled egg with 8 yolks! Egg Salad Recipe You can then make the egg salad right in your bowl. We have been using Thomas’s fool proof recipe for fluffy, creamy egg salad: a potato masher and mayo. Also, Thomas will tell you not to use anything but Duke’s mayo. He’s hard-core about it: not negotiable. The other ingredients are simple: salt, pepper, and dried dill to taste.