Folks, I've got some really exciting news.

My New Free Newsletter

First, I've launched a new, free email newsletter. You can subscribe by clicking on the purple button when you visit my home page, or by simply clicking here.

Once you subscribe and confirm, you will receive a series of several emails from me over the course of a few days that explains on both a personal and practical level what I am trying to do with my new web site, which I consider the launch of a completely new phase of my career where I hope to provide much more valuable content on a much more massive scale than ever before.

After that, I will email you once a week with a very brief email containing an important insight or practical trick I learned, and will very selectively send you additional emails either to notify you of time-sensitive events or of major new projects.

I won't email you about new blog posts, podcasts, and other such content just because I put it out or just because it's awesome. I would only do that if it were epic.

Please note that if you already receive an email every time I put out a post, that means you are subscribed by email to my RSS feed. This is a totally separate list. I will not post to my newsletter every time I put out content, and if you are subscribed by email to my RSS feed, you will not automatically get my newsletter. I have it this way so you only get the content you choose to get, so you can thereby choose whatever content you find most valuable.

Podcast Transcripts

Daily Lipid fan Cassandra Barns generously volunteered to transcribe my podcast. She has transcribed the first eight episodes.

In order to get the transcripts, go to the show notes for the episode of your choice, and click the button to get the transcript. It is located directly underneath the podcast streamer.

If you only want one transcript, submit your email but ignore the request to confirm you to my list. You will automatically get emailed a download link for the specific transcript you requested.

If you confirm your subscription to the list, you will get three things. First, you will immediately get an email that provides download links to every transcript available. Second, you will automatically get emailed each new transcript as it becomes available. Third, you will get my newsletter.

An easy way to get the transcripts is to use chrismasterjohnphd.com, a forward slash, and the episode number. For example, the first episode is found at chrismasterjohnphd.com/1 and the eigth episode is found at chrismasterjohnphd.com/8.

You can always use chrismasterjohnphd.com/podcast to find all of the podcasts listed in reverse chronological order.

Multiple Subscriptions — Don't Worry

Don't worry about multiple subscriptions. You should never get the same email twice.

Additionally, I will make it as easy as possible to handle subscriptions to several different types of content (e.g. RSS feed, newsletter, podcast transcripts, e-course) by placing links within each email that allow you to alter your subscription status without totally unsubscribing.

The Incredible, Edible Egg Yolk

One of my most popular articles has been one I wrote in July, 2005, years before I started my blog. It was titled The Incredible, Edible Egg Yolk.

I moved it over to my new site, and while doing so, substantially revised it to focus on vitamin K2, choline, and biotin as the most significant nutritional contributions of egg yolk. You can read the revised version here:

The Incredible, Edible Egg Yolk

Facebook Live — Tonight!

The next Facebook Live event is tonight (Tuesday) at 5:00 PM eastern time, and the theme is “Ask Chris Masterjohn, PhD, Anything About Health, Fitness, and Nutrition.” It is a free-for-all like the first episode. If you show up live (make sure to adjust your time zone if necessary), you can ask anything you like about health, fitness, or nutrition, and I will do my best to answer.

Just show up to my Facebook Page at the appropriate time and you'll see the video. If you don't, you probably got there just before I went live and all you have to do is refresh the screen until you see the video.

For the live videos, you can always click on the “subscribe” button on the live video or select subscribe from the arrow in the upper right corner if the video is no longer live, and this will give you notifications when I go live. However, it won't remind you in the time leading up to the event. If you want to be reminded before the event happens, you can subscribe to my Facebook Events, or to an individual Facebook Live episode listed within my Facebook Events.

That's it for now, enjoy!