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Weekend Link Love — Edition 474

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Research of the Week Men who receive blood donations from ever-pregnant women (women who have been pregnant at least once, not women who are perpetually with child) are at a higher risk of dying . “ Human faeces contain appreciable quantities of vitamin B12 or vitamin B12-like material presumably produced by bacteria in the colon, but this is unavailable to the non-coprophagic individual .” Cannabis users are more creative than non-users ( though the cannabis probably isn’t a causal factor ). Stress and junk food have similar effects on (mouse) gut bacteria. Healthy oldsters maintain the gut biomes  of 30-year-olds. New Primal Blueprint Podcasts Episode 191: Dr. Steven Gundry : Host Elle Russ chats with Dr. Steven Gundry, an accomplished surgeon whose current mission is to help patients avoid the operating table. Each week, select Mark’s Daily Apple blog posts are prepared as Primal Blueprint Podcasts. Need to catch up on reading, but don’t have the time? Prefer to liste...

THIS is the Banana Bread You Need to Make Next

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Happy Sunday, friends! If you have some brown bananas laying around, I have just the recipe for you! As you might remember, no food goes to waste in our house, so when we had two very sad bananas, dying a slow death, in our fruit bowl, I knew exactly how to save their lives: banana bread ! Mal and Quinn both lovvvveee banana bread, but not the “healthy” kind that I usually bake with almond flour, ground flax, chia seeds , coconut oil , yada yada. They like their banana bread, straight-up, no funny stuff, so that’s exactly what I gave them! And I know there are thousands of banana bread recipes on the internet, but THIS is the one you should try next. It’s soft and chewy, sweet and delicious, and I’m pretty sure it’s the best banana bread I’ve ever made. I hope you and your family love it as much as we do! Ingredients : 2 ripe medium-large bananas 2.5 tablespoon butter, softened 1 cup all-purpose flour 1/4 cup brown sugar 1/2 cup sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp baking s...

Primal/Paleo Brownies

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Serious chocolate lovers, this one’s for your. Dark chocolate + cacao powder deliver an intense dark chocolate flavor that puts these brownies over the top. Sweetened with dates and made with just a half cup of almond flour, these aren’t chewy, overly sweet brownies. Rather, they have pure bittersweet chocolate flavor and smooth truffle-like richness, thanks to butter and eggs. Choosing chocolate that has at least 70% cacao (but ideally, closer to the 85% range) for this recipe means you’ll enjoy brownies that are rich with antioxidants . Combining the melted dark chocolate with cacao powder boosts the antioxidant level even higher. So, relish every bite of these divine morsels. Primal brownies are so chocolately and so rich, even the most fanatical chocolate lover will be satisfied by a small square. Servings: 16 brownies Time in the Kitchen: 25 minutes, plus 20 minutes to bake Ingredients ½ cup unsalted butter (120 g) 6 ounces dark chocolate, coarsely chopped (170 g) 1 ...

Clean Eating Skillet Meatloaf Recipe

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Now that we’ve gotten settled in the new (and hopefully final!) house, I’m starting to get into a work routine again for the first time in about 3 years. It’s really pretty remarkable to feel this… Read more → from The Gracious Pantry http://ift.tt/2gqGNGi

Being Keto-Adapted Is One Helluva Ride!

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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! My name is Aaron. I’m 35-years-old. I live in the Lehigh Valley of PA where I am the only custom tailor. This is my story of how an innocent foray in LCHF (low carb, high fat) turned into a full blown keto lifestyle shift. What a journey it’s been and I’m only just getting started! Ok, so let’s get the junk out of the way first. Last summer, I was freshly divorced. I had to move into a shoebox sized apartment where I fed myself a steady diet of ramen noodles, Captain Crunch, heavy imperial stouts, and copious amounts of sour candy….usually fueled by alcohol driven hunger and a new little appetite tweaker I discovered…cannabis and the munchies....

Wedding: Eat Cake & Dance

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All of our photos were taken by Sarah Cramer Shields of Cramer Photo. Follow her online and on Instagram ! After dinner we had cake! The Clifton Inn’s pastry chef made our cake and designed the textured frosting look, and our florist decorated it with the flowers. I had hoped to use the wood slice I bought as the base, but when it arrived I knew it would be too small, so it held the servers instead! There were two flavors: vanilla with passionfruit curd and vanilla custard and chocolate with ganache. I tried both and they were both fab! We went right into our first dance to You Are The Best Thing by Ray Lamontagne. The lyrics fit us so perfectly. We did the father + daughter and mother + son dance to Kokomo by the Beach Boys! Thomas and his mom stole the show with their dolphin impressions! And finally, Mazen and I had a special dance to One Direction’s Infinity , which we love to dance to at home. Thomas LOVES to dance at weddings, and so having a good D...