Pieces of our Past
Blog Archive
Grounding
Primal Primer 5 (Modality) Chairs, car bucket seats, Lazy Boy Recliners (ironically prophetic), love seats, and beds are artificially separating us from natural posture and connection with earth. Our ancestor's intimate linkage to earth from birth, death, and...
Artificial Avoidance
Primal Primer 4 (Nutrition) For generations, the genus homo has feasted on organic fruits, vegetables, and grass fed animals; fueling evolutionary forces leading to the most sophisticated biological processing machine in our known universe: the human brain....
Content Consumption
Primal Primer 4 (Mentality) Content consumption has grown teeth and legs; and we have become its prey. We no longer gaze into the stars (partly because we can no longer see them), or observe nature with keen eyes searching for opportunity or simply peace from being a...
G.U.A.M
Primal Primer 4 (Modality) It is only within the last decade that the sapien has attenuated to a low demand, seated lifestyle. For thousands of years prior, movement was life. Much like a flowing steam, each elevated heartbeat was behind a foot step, tree climb, arrow...
Water
Primal Primer 3 (Nutrition) Water is unequivocally important and undoubtable life line that guided migration, hunting, exploration, and civilization planning. To this day, considerations of water are non negotiable and often the most common packed item for any...
Align With Ailments
Primal Primer 3 (Mentality) In both ancient and modern epochs, humans have always battled against ailments in efforts of optimal performance for thriving and surviving. From injurious interactions with animal and foe, poisons from ill identified mushrooms, to modern...
Kinetic Chain Alignment
Primal Primer 3 (Modality) The supple sapien spent large proportions of time upright, seated in ground positions, and with intermittent bouts of triple extension (hip, knee, & ankle) during intense activity. Due to mixed lifestyles of migration, hunting,...
Intentional Eating
Primal Primer 2 (Nutrition) Eating is the act of consuming organic material in exchange for energy, vitamins and minerals. All life consumes other life. Initiated from conditions of abject scarcity, the success and careful engineering of modern times has jettisoned...
Human Becoming
Primal Primer 2 (Mentality) 6-7 million years ago, a proto species split from our last common ancestor of chimpanzee. For reasons that can only be conjecture, this separation and continued evolving of species past seminal divergence is both unusual, distinct, and...
Sunlight
Primal Primer 2 (Modality) Humans are, and always have been walking solar panels. Skin being the hardware receiving and processing sunlight. At definition, photons emitted from the sun is classified as electromagnetic radiation represented as a quantum of light. And...
Know Thy Numbers
Primal Primer 1 (Nutrition) Life is hard. And it has been harder. Reality at times may have been unfathomably terrifying and unpleasant for our ancestors. It isn't hard to imagine the necessary software the brain evolved to distort reality in efforts of retaining some...
The Journey of 1,000 Miles Begins With A Single Step
Primal Primer 1 (Mentality) "A journey of a 1,000 miles begins with a single step." ~Laozi All great actions are the accumulation of smaller ones. Homo sapien's separation from past progenitor species, expansion out from Africa to global dominion, to current...
10,000 Steps
Primal Primer 1 (Fitness) A body in motion stays in motion; foot steps often and everyday is cornerstone activity supporting universal longevity, body composition, immune, mental, &, metabolic health. Break out from the contemporary moulding that encourages the...
Heat Exposure
Primal Primer 19 (Fitness) The human body thrived and adapted in conditions of East African heat, developing systems that not only thrived in extreme and fluctuating climates, but with ancillary benefits enhancing recovery and energetic systems. Our ancestors were...
Dangers of Genetically Modified (GMO) Wheat
Throughout time, bread has represented bountiful harvests and impetus behind advanced development of the homo sapien species. Arguably, the most impactful driver of behavior and genetic change is attributed to the introduction of organized agriculture. Starting with...
Consider Methyl Folate Supplementation
The depths one can go in choosing effective supplementation can be a similar experience to spelunking without a head light or map. Voyaging and lost through misleading labels and sensory appealing packaged claims at GNC to simply lost and led by algorithms of Amazon....
Mushrooms – Magical Nutrition & Arbiters of Progress
Earliest recorded uses of psychedelic mushrooms date back to 3,000 years ago in Mesoamerican cultures (Aztecs, Maya, & Mixtec). These early civilizations created ritual and rite by supplementing with psychedelic fungal types during spiritual ceremonies; Aztecs...
Urban Composting
What Is Compost? Composting is the process of engineering organic material decay (food scraps, yard waste, and paper products) into nutrient dense soil amendments called compost. The engine of compost is organic material, and it's fuel is bacteria, fungus, worms,...
Drink Clay Water
Water is life. The standard sapien is recommended at minimum, 8 glasses of clean organic water daily (glass = 8oz; totaling 64oz per day: ~2 liters). Often this recommendation being fulfilled in action outside of the home; and likely consumed via a composite container...
Spice Of Life: Salt
Be Worth Your Salt Salt is the most important spice on earth. Ranging from Sapien's first forays in cooking and trade, to modern man's pursuit of culinary prowess. Salt continues to be critical in aspirations of both taste and health. Although ubiquitous and...