Pieces of our Past
Blog Archive
Food Avoidance
Primal Primer 16 (Nutrition) Our ancestors and sapiens today use a combination of natural instincts, learned behavior, and trial and error, in efforts of avoiding poisonous or anti-nutrient foods. Layered approaches in consciously choosing the most nutrient and energy...
Systematize Goals
Primal Primer 16 (Mentality) Sapiens systematized hunting goals through a combination of planning, cooperation, and tool use. Using a general process emphasizing flexibility, strategic thinking, and efficient resource management, hunt success and dominance over...
Steady Progression
Primal Primer 16 (Fitness) Sapien global dominance is understood through the concept of subsequent loading; more specifically Steady Progression - a principle of physical and mental training where gradual and sustained challenge leads to adaptation and improvement...
Overcome Challenges and Transform Your Life with Simple Steps
My child, sitting in diapers on the kitchen tile in front of the dishwasher, eagerly grabs letters from a bucket of bold, colorful magnets, sticking them one by one to the magnetic front panel. "See!," she exclaims, eyes bright with pride, as the bucket empties. “Good...
Fasting
Primal Primer 15 (Nutrition) Fasting played crucial role in the longevity of ancient Homo sapiens by promoting adaptability, resilience, and physiological benefits in environments where food is not always available. Scarcity is a tool activating a cascade of genetic...
Commit To The Calendar
Primal Primer 15 (Mentality) The first known calendar used by humans dates back to ancient times, with earliest evidence from 10,000 year ago. Before the modern calendar, many proxies were used in efforts of tracking time and staying organized. Sun Dial - Dating back...
Make The World Your Gym
Primal Primer 15 (Fitness) Ancient sapiens used their environments as gym to naturally maintain physical conditioning and movement patterns necessary for survival. Their daily activities naturally provided wide ranges of physical conditioning and skill practice,...
Fueling Consistency
Primal Primer 14 (Nutrition) Our human ancestors were not particularly consistent with types, amounts, or times of food fueling. Largely due to the chaotic nature of the last thousands of years, nutrient consumption was highly varied and opportunistic; determined by...
Cave Daily Log
Unlock Your Primal Potential Cave Daily Log 2.0Download My fingers grasp at the thick, worn twine netting, pinching with my nails, tugging to loosen the knots tying the net to its metal scaffolding. The late afternoon California sun beats down, and my patience starts...
Time Awareness
Primal Primer 14 (Mentality) Ancient sapiens developed various methods for marking time's passing and organizing life amongst antiquity's chaos. Without clock or calendar, their using of natural cues and observations made time tracking from season to celestial cycle a...
Sweat Till You’re Wet
Primal Primer 14 (Fitness) Homo sapiens have a unique adaptation among mammals crucial in survival and success: the ability to sweat. This external climate controlled attribute plays role in thermoregulation, allowing humans to maintain stable core body temperature in...
Read Food Labels
Primal Primer 13 (Nutrition) Food fabrication has removed nutrition from its natural and pristine source. Our ancestors did not require food labels or badges on packaging to know if something was for human consumption or not. Meat hunted, berries picked, and tubers...
Mirror, Scale, & Self Awareness
Primal Primer 13 (Mentality) The discovery of using reflective properties of water was adapted long before the modern mirror. This ability to discern our self image as distinct and in arguably objective assessment provides insights and meditations on the connection of...
Anaerobic Training
Primal Primer 13 (Fitness) Anaerobic activity was a natural and essential part of the daily lives of past sapiens. While much of the focus on their physical activity is often endurance and aerobic (long distance walking, jogging, or rucking), anaerobic activities were...
Modern Hunting & Gathering
Primal Primer 12 (Nutrition) Agriculture and plant domestication plays pivotal role in the evolution of our species; fundamentally altering biology, culture, and social structure. Dietary Shifts - Transition from hunter gatherer to agricultural leads to significant...
The Armor of Truth
Using Numbers to Combat Life's Deceptions It’s a cool, late summer morning in Northern California. I’m sitting on my outdoor patio, overlooking the calm waters of my swimming pool. The sun has just broken through the delta fog, warming my skin and awakening my mind...
Alliance Development
Primal Primer 12 (Mentality) Forming alliances and forging strong social bonds plays a significant role in survival and advancement of human societies; creating the most advanced collective apex organism ever to grace this earth. Cooperative Hunting & Gathering -...
Time Under Tension
Primal Primer 12 (Fitness) Time under tension principle refers to the duration muscles are under contractive or isometric strain during exercise. While T.U.T. is a modern phrase, it's underlying principle was inherently utilized by early hunter and gatherer societies,...
Carbohydrate Intake
Primal Primer 11 (Nutrition) As our progenitor species transitioned from aboral and quadruped, diets also shifted from primarily bugs, fruits, and vegetation, to heavier concentrations of carbohydrates. ~10,000 years ago the Sapien's radii of hunting and gathering...
Path Finding
Primal Primer 11 (Mentality) Our human ancestors found purpose through a combination of survival instincts, social connections, and a deep relationship with environment. Their sense of purpose was rooted to activities essential for survival and well being of the self...