Michael Kummer

Helping you improve your health with strategies that actually work | Founder of MK Supplements | Farmer | Blogger

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It's LIVE! Beef Protein + Creatine is finally out. 🙌🏼

This one took a while, and I'm proud of where it landed. Twenty-two grams of grass-fed beef protein isolate and three grams of creatine in every serving. Five ingredients — beef protein, creatine, real vanilla bean, pink salt, monk fruit. That's the whole label. Nothing to look up, nothing hiding behind "natural flavors."

The beef comes from cattle raised in the EU, where growth hormones are banned, and it's made from meaty bones and connective tissue rather than muscle trim alone. The creatine is made in Germany. The pouch is compostable kraft paper instead of a plastic tub.

I'm proud of this one. If you try it, I want to hear what you think!

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Full conversation on the Primal Shift podcast Ep 152:
https://t.co/aQF6KXUdxq

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In 1990, the average 13-year-old could recall about 13 phone numbers. Today the average adult recalls fewer than four. Dr. Rob Carter, an integrative physiologist who has spent 25 years studying humans under pressure, ran the assessment himself.

His point isn't that phones are bad. It's that every convenience replaces a capability, and capabilities you stop using fade. He's documented the same pattern in navigation, manual dexterity, emotional regulation and social skill. His research on heat stress shows the reverse also holds: the body adapts upward when you challenge it, which means the losses are reversible.

I pushed back on parts of his argument, because "modern life is making us weak" is one of those claims that feels so obviously true nobody checks whether the science holds up. Some of it does. Some of it needs more nuance.

For me the convenience was GPS. I stopped using it and my sense of direction came back.

What's yours?

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For years I read labels to find out whether food was allowed. Dropping that one question changed more than the food did. https://t.co/Fp8aKO8xnA

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Adding cattle to the homestead was never about nostalgia or having a 'farm feel.'

We brought in South Poll yearlings because they made practical sense for what we're trying to build — a system where the animals do the work.

Moving them every single day sounds like extra effort, but it's the opposite. It forces you to think in systems, not in routines.

The land responds fast, the animals are calmer, and you stop fighting nature and start using it.

We're still early, but what we've learned about rotational grazing in just a few months has changed how I think about the entire property.

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People will spend $10,000 trying to optimize their health…

Then spend the entire day indoors.

Don’t forget the basics.

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Primal Queen isn't what their ads say it is. I bought it, read their own study, pulled their own lab report and did the math on what you're actually paying for.

Full breakdown:

https://t.co/IjK4QJMixO

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Primal Queen is a ripoff and here's the math...

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Full episode: https://t.co/gOlWwYF4iq

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What's the actual downside of low testosterone?

I asked myself that this week after seeing 312 ng/dL on my labs at 44 years old.

I've run this experiment in both directions. Five years on TRT and hCG, peaked around 1,800 ng/dL. Then I tapered all the way off — and my resting heart rate, my HRV, and my food bill all told me something I wasn't expecting.

If you're on the fence about TRT, this episode is the conversation I wish someone had walked me through first.

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Well, that's me... Ranking bad habits 🤣

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I made a rookie fence mistake at 6 a.m.

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Most people grab beef jerky thinking they’re making a smart choice.

Flip it over and read the label.

Brown sugar, sodium nitrate, artificial flavors…None of that belongs in a “clean” snack.

What I keep on hand instead: the Carnivore Bar. Three ingredients. Grass-fed beef, tallow, salt. Fills you up and nothing in it you’d want to avoid.

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Mimi spent years as a clinical dental hygienist before she stumbled across a mushroom compound that changed the direction of her career entirely.

She wasn't looking for a new business. She was just trying to understand why a patient cleared HPV after taking something called AHCC. One conversation sent her down a rabbit hole she never came out of.

Nearly a decade later, she and her husband run The Medicin, dedicated entirely to educating people about Immune Intel AHCC and getting it into the hands of anyone who needs it. She has worked with thousands of people navigating everything from HPV and autoimmune conditions to eczema and chronic inflammation.

What I respect about Mimi is that she leads with the science, not the sales pitch. Over 100 published studies, used in more than 1,000 cancer clinics worldwide, and she still takes the time to answer every DM herself.

Full episode: https://t.co/j3PuD4eglC

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Houdini.

He’s been pulling the same disappearing trick ever since, but we’ve stopped looking.

Mom moos when she’s full, he comes back when he’s hungry, and he’s nursing well, growing fast, and clearly thriving.

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A few weeks ago, we walked out to check on the herd and found a wet, wobbly bull calf standing next to our South Poll heifer.

Still slick. Already on his feet. Mom had handled the whole thing while we slept.

That was the good part of the story. But then...

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I picked him up, carried him over to mom, and he latched on. So much for the no-intervention rule.