The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson.

And is narrated by Tina Lehman.

Twelve essential tips for primal women.

Look, I'm a man. I mean, obviously, I'm not a man, but you. Look, I'm a man.

I mean, obviously, I'm not a man, but you guys know what I'm doing here.

I've lived a different experience than the average woman, with totally different equipment

and different concentrations of hormones coursing through my body.

But I have a daughter and a wife and a good head on my shoulders that spent the last 30 years

thinking about health, nutrition, and fitness for humans.

So I have a few things to offer.

So let's get right down to today's post.

What follows are 12 tips for primal women, or any woman really?

Men too.

If some of the things mentioned in today's post aren't working

for you and the tips seem to apply, go for it. Number one, you don't have to fast and maybe

shouldn't. Amidst the growing acceptance of intermittent fasting as a legitimate tool for healthy

aging and weight loss, emerges the realization that men and women may

respond to it differently. Whereas in men, the response to fasting is usually positive,

it's more mixed in women. For instance, one study found that while IF improved insulin sensitivity

in male subjects, female subjects saw no such improvement and actually

experienced worse glucose tolerance. In another, obese men and women dropped body fat,

body weight, blood pressure, total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and triglycerides on a fasting

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