New and Noteworthy: What I Read This Week — Edition 163

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2 min readFeb 4, 2022

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Research of the WeekHealthy forests need elder trees.Feelings of general fatigue predict death in older adults.Magnesium is important for immune function.Living filtration membranes are better at improving water quality than artificial, dead membranes.Bacteriophages are going to be important going forward.Vitamin D is still important against COVID.New Primal Kitchen Podcasts

Primal Kitchen Podcast, Episode 15: Heal and Hack Your Hormones with Health Coach Katie BressackPrimal Kitchen Podcast, Episode 16: Kanchan Koya’s Spicy Secret to Inspired HealthPrimal Health Coach Institute: Laura KrippnerPrimal Health Coach Institute: Ean Price Murphy

Media, Schmedia

Let’s hope Denmark succeeds and more follow.Beautiful photos of polar bears taking over an abandoned weather station.

Interesting Blog Posts

Of Norway, chickens, and DHA.Recommended coffee gear.

Social Notes

Why Belgium has such great fries.I have a dream.

Everything Else

People have always played and always will.Regenerative animal agriculture beats conventional cattle feeding operations.

Things I’m Up to and Interested In

Stupid move: Vegan Fridays at NY public schools.Interesting concept: Posture springs.Thanks a lot: Nice move, Balkan hunter gatherers.Not surprising: Vitamin D and omega-3s important against autoimmune disease.Interesting: Are mutations really random?

Question I’m Asking

How’s the new year been so far?

Recipe Corner Japchae: sweet potato (gluten free) glass noodles.

Skirt steak is one of the best steaks around. Even better with mango salsa.Time Capsule

One year ago (Jan 29 — Feb 4) The Art of Boredom: How to Do It Right — It’s an art.

How to Quit Sweets, For Real This Time — This is how to do it.Comment of the Week

I don’t catch colds. I haven’t had a cold in at least 15 years, whereas I used to get them 3 or 4 times every winter. Bad ones. Then years ago, an alternative healthcare provider told me, ‘Don’t medicate a cold. Let your immune system do its job without interfering.’

I took his advice. It was miserable at first because I took absolutely nothing, just drank a lot of hot tea with lemon. But I stopped getting sick so frequently. Eventually I stopped catching colds altogether.

There might be more to it than that, but I’m not aware of anything else I do or don’t do. Does anyone else “beat” colds by simply not getting them?-Important concept: do nothing.The post New and Noteworthy: What I Read This Week — Edition 163 appeared first on Mark’s Daily Apple

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