Anyone following this health idea? I am thinking about taking it on as I am STILL struggling to get rid of that high school football O-line weight. It looks like it's right up my alley as far as eating, working out and healthy living goes.
Primal Blueprint
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I've seen the jist of it, It sounds just like the plan called "Neanderthin" by Ray Audett. You will lose weight rapidly, but as with any diet, sticking with it is the hardest part.
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I agree with you 100%. I am pretty good with sticking with exercise plans because I actually like working out. I still haven't lost all of my weight do to injuries that were related to being flat footed and not having good hip-knee-ankle alignment.
I was concerned that is was a no/low carb diet like Atkins or South Beach, but after a lot of reading and probing this past weekend, it doesn't look like either of those besides the no/low carb idea.
In reality, I'm not a huge fan of bread or sugary stuff with the exception of pizza. I think I'm gonna give this a legitimate try for a month and see how it goes.
WHO'S WITH ME????!!!! (Looks around The Barber Shop eagerly, only to be answered by the sound of crickets chirping)
Anyone care to enlighten us on what the Primal Blueprint is?
It's a diet plan that suggests humans were meant to eat only things that were edible without the use of technology. In other words, if you can eat it in its naturally provided form its allowed. The other example is if your in the wild with a sharp stick, whatever you can catch, kill or forage would be considered acceptable foods on this plan.
Heck I'll do it again, as long as you understand that cavemen had the ability to produce bourbon and on occasion single malt scotch. This was recently discovered by a little known scientist from Kentucky, his name escapes me at the moment, but I'm sure it's true.
So its the atkins diet with lots of walking around, sun, sex, and occasional heavy lifting, or running?
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Heck I'll do it again, as long as you understand that cavemen had the ability to produce bourbon and on occasion single malt scotch. This was recently discovered by a little known scientist from Kentucky, his name escapes me at the moment, but I'm sure it's true.
Of course!!! Cavemen knew how to make some types of beer too! I thought everyone knew that!
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Mostly. It dictates that we are designed to eat everything except carbs ie wheat and grains. Those didn't really come around until humans began to farm and domesticate animals. If you think about it, carbohydrates are like a instant sugar source for your body. When you eat them, your body converts them to glucose which is then helped by insulin to enter cell to initiate energy conversion and usage. When we get too many carbs turning to sugar, it spike the insulin levels in the body, later resulting in a sugar crash. This yo-yo effect is what can eventually cause Type II diabetes. The explanation I just gave was overly simplified, but I think you can get the point. Carbohydrates, in extreme moderation, are okay, but people, especially Americans, it seems, over indulge and abuse carbohydrates.
A "paleo" diet says to eat fruits, veggies, meat and drink water, everything a cave man would encounter. Dairy and dark chocolate are OK once in a while, but not too often. What it doesn't say is to eat bacon wrapped steak (as much as I would like to). The exercise scheme is interesting as well. Jogging is discouraged as early man probably didn't jog too often. Instead, he definitely walked a lot and sprinted a lot too. Lifting heavy objects and compound movements are also part of the work outs.
One thing that will help is to stop looking at it as a "diet." It is a change in habits, or it needs to be if you expect to keep the results. For example, you wouldn't pay your bills on time only until they were caught up, then go back to paying them late, or missing payments. Same way you can't go on a "diet," reach your goal, then go back to the way you ate before. It doesn't work that way, at least not if you want consistent results.
Didn't even know about it until this thread; I'll look into it!
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You are absolutely right! Maybe that's why my parents looked like this when I told them what I was doing:
rubbish. Diets don't work. The stuff you see on T.V are designed to fail. As long as you have a diet mentality your licked before you begin. Unless you tackle it as a lifestyle change you have little chance of success. Sure you can lose the weight but once that happens it all goes back faster and you usually gain more. Look at people who lose serious weight and once they reach their goal look back 2 years later. The statistics are that way less than 10% have still kept it off.
Don't want to sound discouraging but if your really serious about losing weight you have to make major changes in your life.
Don't want to sound discouraging but if your really serious about losing weight you have to make major changes in your life.
Cavefolk also tended to die before they reached the age of 18 due to disease, malnutrition, and general suckage .
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I'm trying to get into this. I have the book (just paged through it so far) and it makes sense. Here is an introduction to Primal Blueprint on the author's blog, Mark's Daily Apple. I have loosely stuck to a "Grok" type diet and have lost 13 pounds in the last 3-4 weeks. I definitely feel better when I've limited carb intake to those with low glycemic indexes.
I'm way into a home renovation right now, so I'm not working out per se. I plan on getting into a HIT type of workout and plan on doing sprint traiing as well. The worst that can happen in that I tear some joints up while lifting and trip and skin my knees up while sprinting.
Here's the Primal Blueprint in a nutshell:
The Original Primal Blueprint® The Rules of Living 10,000 Years Ago:
1. Eat lots of animals, insects and plants.
This is the basic description of everything our ancestors ate to get the protein, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, phenols, fiber, water and other nutrients necessary to sustain life. But it was a huge list of individual foods some anthropologists say it may have been 200 or 300 food choices at a time depending upon the geographic area. The net result was a dietary breakdown of fat, protein and carbohydrate that was far different from what Conventional Wisdom considers optimum today. This diet provided all the necessary fuel and building blocks that, along with specific exercise, prompted their genes to create strong muscles, enabled them to expend lots of energy each day moving about, to maintain healthy immune systems, to evolve larger brains and to raise healthy children. They ate sporadically, too. When food was plentiful, they ate more than they needed (and stored the excess as fat). When times were scarce, they survived on fat stores. This random or non-linear eating pattern kept their bodies in a constant state of preparedness.
2. Move around a lot at a slow pace.
We know that our ancestors spent an average of several hours each day moving about at what todays exercise physiologists might describe as a low level aerobic pace. They hunted, gathered, foraged, wandered, scouted, migrated, climbed and crawled. This low level of activity prompted their genes to build a stronger capillary (blood vessel) network to fuel each muscle cell, to be able to store some excess food as fat, but also to be readily able to convert the stored fat back into energy. Of course, they did all this without the benefit of paved sidewalks or comfortable shoes. Because every footfall landed at a different angle, every muscle, tendon and ligament worked and became stronger together in balance. Note that they did NOT go out and jog at 80% of their MAX Heart Rate for long periods of time as Conventional Wisdom suggests today!
3. Lift heavy things.
The women carried their babies much of the time (hey, no babysitters in those days), as well as bundles of firewood, or whatever they had gathered, foraged or scavenged. The men carried heavy spears or other tools, they dragged heavy carcasses of animals they had hunted, and they moved large boulders or logs to build shelters. They also lifted themselves into trees or up onto higher ground when escaping from danger or to scout a new route. The biochemical signals created by these very brief but intense muscle contractions generated a slight surge in growth hormone and a reduction in myostatin gene expression, prompting an increase in muscle size and power; particularly fast twitch fibers.
4. Run really fast every once in a while.
In a world where danger lurked around every corner, your ability to run was a strong indicator of whether you would live long enough to pass your genes down to the next generation. (Note to Nietzsche: That which didnt kill Grok made him stronger). Avoiding a charging beast to save your life, or surging forward to catch a different beast for dinner, the net effect was still survival. A combination of the hormonal events that occurred simultaneously and the resultant gene expression within fast twitch muscle made sure that the next time this happened Grok could sprint a little faster.
5. Get lots of sleep.
Our ancestors got plenty of sleep. Even after the discovery of fire, it wasnt as if they stayed up all night partying. From sunset to sunrise it was safer to huddle together and rest. Long days of hunting and gathering and otherwise working hard for every bite of food also required sufficient time to repair and recover. Studies of modern hunter-gatherers suggest it wasnt necessarily always an uninterrupted nine or ten hours, either. Its likely that they slept together as families or as small tribes, keeping a watch out for predators, breast-feeding the baby or just dozing in and out throughout the night. Growth hormone and melatonin were the major hormonal players. Of course, the occasional afternoon nap was also available when the urge hit, with no guilt about what else they really should have been doing.
6. Play.
Just like in modern times, all work and no play made Grok a dull boy. Hunter-gatherers have always generally worked fewer hours and have had more leisure time than the average 40-hour-plus American worker. Once the days catch was complete or the roots, shoots, nuts and berries had been gathered, our ancestors spent hours involved in various forms of social interaction that we might categorize today as play. Young males would chase each other around and wrestle, vying for a place higher up in the tribe social strata. The males might also practice spear- or rock-throwing for accuracy or chase small animals just for sport. Young females might spend time grooming each other. To the extent that play was considered enjoyable, the net effect was to solidify social bonds and to prompt the release of endorphins (feel-good brain chemicals) and to mitigate any lingering stress effects of life-threatening situations.
7. Get some sunlight every day.
Cavemen werent really men (or women) who lived their lives in caves all the time. Most of the day, they were in the great outdoors pursuing their various survival tasks. Regular exposure to sun provided lots of vitamin D, an all-important vitamin which they could not easily obtain from food and which their bodies could not manufacture without direct sunlight.
8. Avoid trauma.
Our ancestors required an acute sense of self-preservation matched with a keen sense of observation. Always scanning, smelling, listening to the surroundings, on the watch for danger, aware of what immediate action needed to be taken, whether it was running from a saber-tooth tiger, dodging a falling rock, eluding a poisonous snake, or just avoiding a careless footfall. Remember that a twisted knee or a broken ankle could spell death to anyone who couldnt run away from danger. In fact, it was probably trauma (or a brief careless lapse in judgment) that was most responsible for the low average life expectancy of our ancestors, despite their otherwise robust good health. Avoid trauma and there was a very good chance you could live to be 60 or 70 and be extremely healthy and fit. Modern day hunter gatherers maintain strength and health often well into their 80s.
9. Avoid poisonous things.
Mans ability to exploit almost every corner of this earth was partly predicated on his ability to consume vastly different types of plant and animal life. But moving into a new environment and trying new foods posed a danger that the new food might contain potent toxins. Luckily, our liver and kidneys evolved to handle most brushes with novel-but-slightly-poisonous plant matter at least to keep us alive anyway if the stomach didnt regurgitate it first. Our keen senses of smell and taste also helped us sort out the good from the bad. The reason we have a sweet tooth today (dammit) is probably an evolved response to an almost universal truth in the plant world that just about anything that tastes sweet is safe to eat.
10. Use your mind.
Obviously, one of the most important things that separate man from all other animals is his intellectual ability. The rapid increase in the size of our brains over just a few thousand generations is the combined result of a high-fat, high protein diet (see rule #1) and a continued reliance on complex thought working the brain out just like a muscle. Hunter gatherers all around the world have developed language, tools and superior hunting methods independently. The fact that some havent entered the industrial age doesnt mean they dont possess the same ability to process information rapidly and effectively (try living in a jungle where you need to catalog thousands of different plant and animal species, knowing which can kill you and which can sustain you).
I'm way into a home renovation right now, so I'm not working out per se. I plan on getting into a HIT type of workout and plan on doing sprint traiing as well. The worst that can happen in that I tear some joints up while lifting and trip and skin my knees up while sprinting.
Here's the Primal Blueprint in a nutshell:
The Original Primal Blueprint® The Rules of Living 10,000 Years Ago:
1. Eat lots of animals, insects and plants.
This is the basic description of everything our ancestors ate to get the protein, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, phenols, fiber, water and other nutrients necessary to sustain life. But it was a huge list of individual foods some anthropologists say it may have been 200 or 300 food choices at a time depending upon the geographic area. The net result was a dietary breakdown of fat, protein and carbohydrate that was far different from what Conventional Wisdom considers optimum today. This diet provided all the necessary fuel and building blocks that, along with specific exercise, prompted their genes to create strong muscles, enabled them to expend lots of energy each day moving about, to maintain healthy immune systems, to evolve larger brains and to raise healthy children. They ate sporadically, too. When food was plentiful, they ate more than they needed (and stored the excess as fat). When times were scarce, they survived on fat stores. This random or non-linear eating pattern kept their bodies in a constant state of preparedness.
2. Move around a lot at a slow pace.
We know that our ancestors spent an average of several hours each day moving about at what todays exercise physiologists might describe as a low level aerobic pace. They hunted, gathered, foraged, wandered, scouted, migrated, climbed and crawled. This low level of activity prompted their genes to build a stronger capillary (blood vessel) network to fuel each muscle cell, to be able to store some excess food as fat, but also to be readily able to convert the stored fat back into energy. Of course, they did all this without the benefit of paved sidewalks or comfortable shoes. Because every footfall landed at a different angle, every muscle, tendon and ligament worked and became stronger together in balance. Note that they did NOT go out and jog at 80% of their MAX Heart Rate for long periods of time as Conventional Wisdom suggests today!
3. Lift heavy things.
The women carried their babies much of the time (hey, no babysitters in those days), as well as bundles of firewood, or whatever they had gathered, foraged or scavenged. The men carried heavy spears or other tools, they dragged heavy carcasses of animals they had hunted, and they moved large boulders or logs to build shelters. They also lifted themselves into trees or up onto higher ground when escaping from danger or to scout a new route. The biochemical signals created by these very brief but intense muscle contractions generated a slight surge in growth hormone and a reduction in myostatin gene expression, prompting an increase in muscle size and power; particularly fast twitch fibers.
4. Run really fast every once in a while.
In a world where danger lurked around every corner, your ability to run was a strong indicator of whether you would live long enough to pass your genes down to the next generation. (Note to Nietzsche: That which didnt kill Grok made him stronger). Avoiding a charging beast to save your life, or surging forward to catch a different beast for dinner, the net effect was still survival. A combination of the hormonal events that occurred simultaneously and the resultant gene expression within fast twitch muscle made sure that the next time this happened Grok could sprint a little faster.
5. Get lots of sleep.
Our ancestors got plenty of sleep. Even after the discovery of fire, it wasnt as if they stayed up all night partying. From sunset to sunrise it was safer to huddle together and rest. Long days of hunting and gathering and otherwise working hard for every bite of food also required sufficient time to repair and recover. Studies of modern hunter-gatherers suggest it wasnt necessarily always an uninterrupted nine or ten hours, either. Its likely that they slept together as families or as small tribes, keeping a watch out for predators, breast-feeding the baby or just dozing in and out throughout the night. Growth hormone and melatonin were the major hormonal players. Of course, the occasional afternoon nap was also available when the urge hit, with no guilt about what else they really should have been doing.
6. Play.
Just like in modern times, all work and no play made Grok a dull boy. Hunter-gatherers have always generally worked fewer hours and have had more leisure time than the average 40-hour-plus American worker. Once the days catch was complete or the roots, shoots, nuts and berries had been gathered, our ancestors spent hours involved in various forms of social interaction that we might categorize today as play. Young males would chase each other around and wrestle, vying for a place higher up in the tribe social strata. The males might also practice spear- or rock-throwing for accuracy or chase small animals just for sport. Young females might spend time grooming each other. To the extent that play was considered enjoyable, the net effect was to solidify social bonds and to prompt the release of endorphins (feel-good brain chemicals) and to mitigate any lingering stress effects of life-threatening situations.
7. Get some sunlight every day.
Cavemen werent really men (or women) who lived their lives in caves all the time. Most of the day, they were in the great outdoors pursuing their various survival tasks. Regular exposure to sun provided lots of vitamin D, an all-important vitamin which they could not easily obtain from food and which their bodies could not manufacture without direct sunlight.
8. Avoid trauma.
Our ancestors required an acute sense of self-preservation matched with a keen sense of observation. Always scanning, smelling, listening to the surroundings, on the watch for danger, aware of what immediate action needed to be taken, whether it was running from a saber-tooth tiger, dodging a falling rock, eluding a poisonous snake, or just avoiding a careless footfall. Remember that a twisted knee or a broken ankle could spell death to anyone who couldnt run away from danger. In fact, it was probably trauma (or a brief careless lapse in judgment) that was most responsible for the low average life expectancy of our ancestors, despite their otherwise robust good health. Avoid trauma and there was a very good chance you could live to be 60 or 70 and be extremely healthy and fit. Modern day hunter gatherers maintain strength and health often well into their 80s.
9. Avoid poisonous things.
Mans ability to exploit almost every corner of this earth was partly predicated on his ability to consume vastly different types of plant and animal life. But moving into a new environment and trying new foods posed a danger that the new food might contain potent toxins. Luckily, our liver and kidneys evolved to handle most brushes with novel-but-slightly-poisonous plant matter at least to keep us alive anyway if the stomach didnt regurgitate it first. Our keen senses of smell and taste also helped us sort out the good from the bad. The reason we have a sweet tooth today (dammit) is probably an evolved response to an almost universal truth in the plant world that just about anything that tastes sweet is safe to eat.
10. Use your mind.
Obviously, one of the most important things that separate man from all other animals is his intellectual ability. The rapid increase in the size of our brains over just a few thousand generations is the combined result of a high-fat, high protein diet (see rule #1) and a continued reliance on complex thought working the brain out just like a muscle. Hunter gatherers all around the world have developed language, tools and superior hunting methods independently. The fact that some havent entered the industrial age doesnt mean they dont possess the same ability to process information rapidly and effectively (try living in a jungle where you need to catalog thousands of different plant and animal species, knowing which can kill you and which can sustain you).
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Well, it's day 4 of living like a caveman.
This morning I had two egg whites with red onions and black pepper. I drank about 24 oz of water.
I then prepared some Caribbean jerk chicken from scratch and let that marinate until dinner time.
I found a place in Pontiac, MI that has some tractor tires. I went to rent a truck from Home Depot to go pick these tires up, but I realized that my Dad hadn't given me a new proof of insurance. So, I'll have to pick them up tomorrow.
After picking up a new sharpening steel and some beer mugs, I sharpened my knives and made myself a spinach salad with cucumbers, tomatoes and homemade dressing (balsamic vinegarette, apple cider vinegar, lemon juice, caramelized onions, olive oil).
I then took a 45 min walk outside.
Dinner consisted of the Caribbean jerk chicken, carrots and a beer (Ichabod from New Holland Brewery). The chicken was fantastic and I have enough for a couple days.
I felt a bit burned out from yesterday and the harrowing journey of finding my tractor tire, so the work out was less than I usually do.
This morning I had two egg whites with red onions and black pepper. I drank about 24 oz of water.
I then prepared some Caribbean jerk chicken from scratch and let that marinate until dinner time.
I found a place in Pontiac, MI that has some tractor tires. I went to rent a truck from Home Depot to go pick these tires up, but I realized that my Dad hadn't given me a new proof of insurance
. So, I'll have to pick them up tomorrow. After picking up a new sharpening steel and some beer mugs, I sharpened my knives and made myself a spinach salad with cucumbers, tomatoes and homemade dressing (balsamic vinegarette, apple cider vinegar, lemon juice, caramelized onions, olive oil).
I then took a 45 min walk outside.
Dinner consisted of the Caribbean jerk chicken, carrots and a beer (Ichabod from New Holland Brewery). The chicken was fantastic and I have enough for a couple days.
I felt a bit burned out from yesterday and the harrowing journey of finding my tractor tire, so the work out was less than I usually do.
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I'm trying to get into this. I have the book (just paged through it so far) and it makes sense. Here is an introduction to Primal Blueprint on the author's blog, Mark's Daily Apple. I have loosely stuck to a "Grok" type diet and have lost 13 pounds in the last 3-4 weeks. I definitely feel better when I've limited carb intake to those with low glycemic indexes.
I'm way into a home renovation right now, so I'm not working out per se. I plan on getting into a HIT type of workout and plan on doing sprint traiing as well. The worst that can happen in that I tear some joints up while lifting and trip and skin my knees up while sprinting.
Here's the Primal Blueprint in a nutshell:
The Original Primal Blueprint® The Rules of Living 10,000 Years Ago:
1. Eat lots of animals, insects and plants.
This is the basic description of everything our ancestors ate to get the protein, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, phenols, fiber, water and other nutrients necessary to sustain life. But it was a huge list of individual foods some anthropologists say it may have been 200 or 300 food choices at a time depending upon the geographic area. The net result was a dietary breakdown of fat, protein and carbohydrate that was far different from what Conventional Wisdom considers optimum today. This diet provided all the necessary fuel and building blocks that, along with specific exercise, prompted their genes to create strong muscles, enabled them to expend lots of energy each day moving about, to maintain healthy immune systems, to evolve larger brains and to raise healthy children. They ate sporadically, too. When food was plentiful, they ate more than they needed (and stored the excess as fat). When times were scarce, they survived on fat stores. This random or non-linear eating pattern kept their bodies in a constant state of preparedness.
2. Move around a lot at a slow pace.
We know that our ancestors spent an average of several hours each day moving about at what todays exercise physiologists might describe as a low level aerobic pace. They hunted, gathered, foraged, wandered, scouted, migrated, climbed and crawled. This low level of activity prompted their genes to build a stronger capillary (blood vessel) network to fuel each muscle cell, to be able to store some excess food as fat, but also to be readily able to convert the stored fat back into energy. Of course, they did all this without the benefit of paved sidewalks or comfortable shoes. Because every footfall landed at a different angle, every muscle, tendon and ligament worked and became stronger together in balance. Note that they did NOT go out and jog at 80% of their MAX Heart Rate for long periods of time as Conventional Wisdom suggests today!
3. Lift heavy things.
The women carried their babies much of the time (hey, no babysitters in those days), as well as bundles of firewood, or whatever they had gathered, foraged or scavenged. The men carried heavy spears or other tools, they dragged heavy carcasses of animals they had hunted, and they moved large boulders or logs to build shelters. They also lifted themselves into trees or up onto higher ground when escaping from danger or to scout a new route. The biochemical signals created by these very brief but intense muscle contractions generated a slight surge in growth hormone and a reduction in myostatin gene expression, prompting an increase in muscle size and power; particularly fast twitch fibers.
4. Run really fast every once in a while.
In a world where danger lurked around every corner, your ability to run was a strong indicator of whether you would live long enough to pass your genes down to the next generation. (Note to Nietzsche: That which didnt kill Grok made him stronger). Avoiding a charging beast to save your life, or surging forward to catch a different beast for dinner, the net effect was still survival. A combination of the hormonal events that occurred simultaneously and the resultant gene expression within fast twitch muscle made sure that the next time this happened Grok could sprint a little faster.
5. Get lots of sleep.
Our ancestors got plenty of sleep. Even after the discovery of fire, it wasnt as if they stayed up all night partying. From sunset to sunrise it was safer to huddle together and rest. Long days of hunting and gathering and otherwise working hard for every bite of food also required sufficient time to repair and recover. Studies of modern hunter-gatherers suggest it wasnt necessarily always an uninterrupted nine or ten hours, either. Its likely that they slept together as families or as small tribes, keeping a watch out for predators, breast-feeding the baby or just dozing in and out throughout the night. Growth hormone and melatonin were the major hormonal players. Of course, the occasional afternoon nap was also available when the urge hit, with no guilt about what else they really should have been doing.
6. Play.
Just like in modern times, all work and no play made Grok a dull boy. Hunter-gatherers have always generally worked fewer hours and have had more leisure time than the average 40-hour-plus American worker. Once the days catch was complete or the roots, shoots, nuts and berries had been gathered, our ancestors spent hours involved in various forms of social interaction that we might categorize today as play. Young males would chase each other around and wrestle, vying for a place higher up in the tribe social strata. The males might also practice spear- or rock-throwing for accuracy or chase small animals just for sport. Young females might spend time grooming each other. To the extent that play was considered enjoyable, the net effect was to solidify social bonds and to prompt the release of endorphins (feel-good brain chemicals) and to mitigate any lingering stress effects of life-threatening situations.
7. Get some sunlight every day.
Cavemen werent really men (or women) who lived their lives in caves all the time. Most of the day, they were in the great outdoors pursuing their various survival tasks. Regular exposure to sun provided lots of vitamin D, an all-important vitamin which they could not easily obtain from food and which their bodies could not manufacture without direct sunlight.
8. Avoid trauma.
Our ancestors required an acute sense of self-preservation matched with a keen sense of observation. Always scanning, smelling, listening to the surroundings, on the watch for danger, aware of what immediate action needed to be taken, whether it was running from a saber-tooth tiger, dodging a falling rock, eluding a poisonous snake, or just avoiding a careless footfall. Remember that a twisted knee or a broken ankle could spell death to anyone who couldnt run away from danger. In fact, it was probably trauma (or a brief careless lapse in judgment) that was most responsible for the low average life expectancy of our ancestors, despite their otherwise robust good health. Avoid trauma and there was a very good chance you could live to be 60 or 70 and be extremely healthy and fit. Modern day hunter gatherers maintain strength and health often well into their 80s.
9. Avoid poisonous things.
Mans ability to exploit almost every corner of this earth was partly predicated on his ability to consume vastly different types of plant and animal life. But moving into a new environment and trying new foods posed a danger that the new food might contain potent toxins. Luckily, our liver and kidneys evolved to handle most brushes with novel-but-slightly-poisonous plant matter at least to keep us alive anyway if the stomach didnt regurgitate it first. Our keen senses of smell and taste also helped us sort out the good from the bad. The reason we have a sweet tooth today (dammit) is probably an evolved response to an almost universal truth in the plant world that just about anything that tastes sweet is safe to eat.
10. Use your mind.
Obviously, one of the most important things that separate man from all other animals is his intellectual ability. The rapid increase in the size of our brains over just a few thousand generations is the combined result of a high-fat, high protein diet (see rule #1) and a continued reliance on complex thought working the brain out just like a muscle. Hunter gatherers all around the world have developed language, tools and superior hunting methods independently. The fact that some havent entered the industrial age doesnt mean they dont possess the same ability to process information rapidly and effectively (try living in a jungle where you need to catalog thousands of different plant and animal species, knowing which can kill you and which can sustain you).
Thanks for posting that! I don't have the book yet and have just been working off the website. Thanks for typing all of that out!
Obligatory comment: It's so easy, a caveman could do it!
No offense to cavemen
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Well, my parents denied me the opportunity to get that tractor tire for flipping/dragging/lifting. It would cost ~$60 to tow it once, then tow it again plus disposal cost.
I'm completely bummed out about this. Body weight exercises will work for a while, but not forever. I guess I'll suck it up until I get access to my university gym, but really POed that my parents were being so obtuse about this.
Ugh, I need to move out.
I'm completely bummed out about this. Body weight exercises will work for a while, but not forever. I guess I'll suck it up until I get access to my university gym, but really POed that my parents were being so obtuse about this.
Ugh, I need to move out.
Obtuse? I'll give you obtuse, two months in solitary!
Trust me unless you are trying for worlds strongest man or whatever that show was, tire flipping is way over rated. Not to mention you can really mess yourself up, if you screw up
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