Pieces of our Past
Blog Archive
Joint Health
Primal Primer 10 (Fitness) The joint system of Homo sapiens exhibits significant structural and functional differences through adaptive pressures of new environments and opportunities. These morphological differences separating our physiology from earlier hominid...
Fat as Fuel: How Our Ancestors Thrived
Primal Primer 9 (Nutrition) Past primordial hunters valued and revered animal fats. Large herbivores such as mammoths, bisons, or deer's fat resources ranged from 10-30% of total body mass (concentrated and highly valued in the brain, marrow, and internal organs). Not...
Honest Self Assessment
Primal Primer 9 (Mentality) Sapiens come equipped with self preserving programing that acutely blinds personal aberration; as objective truth from the abyss of chaos can be detrimental to long term survival when viewed in excessive granularity. There was and still are...
Functional Movement
Primal Primer 9 (Fitness) Functional training for early Homo sapiens centered around activities enhancing the body's ability to perform tasks essential for survival. These actions would have included hunting, gathering, building shelter, warfare, and farming. It is...
Macro Nutrients
Primal Primer 8 (Nutrition) Ancient humans did not measure macros, nor did they willingly "diet." The landscape of fueling was quite different as availability and reliability of food was highly dependent upon season, hunting success, and ability to generate and store...
Garbage In / Garbage Out
Primal Primer 8 (Mentality) The ancient detoxification practices of our ancestors spanned epochs and geographies, deeply embedding themselves in the cultural and spiritual lives of these civilizations. These practices were not solely focused on physical health; they...
Core Fitness
Primal Primer 8 (Fitness) Maintaining strong core strength is essential for overall fitness, rooted deeply in our evolutionary history. Our ancestors relied on robust trunk musculature to navigate the three-dimensional challenges of their environment. A...
Alcohol Consumption
Primal Primer 7 (Nutrition) Fermenting fruits and grains to produce alcohol has been in practice for more than 7,000 years. During the Neolithic period, flourishing agriculture led to intentional practices of fermentation for preserving foods and creating proto...
Fear Orientation
Primal Primer 7 (Mentality) Through thousands of years of evolution, the human fear response has been forged with the sole purpose of maximizing survival. An intricately systemic reflex involving coordination of brain, nervous system, and body; orchestrating...
Mobility & Flexibility
Primal Primer 7 (Fitness) Yoga like practices originate in Indus Valley civilizations dating back 5,000-3,500 years ago, whereby seals depicting figures in meditative postures suggest proto-yogic techniques. 2,500 years ago, the Bhagavad Gita presents yoga as a...
Caffeine Consumption
Primal Primer 6 (Nutrition) Earliest records of caffeine consumption dates back over 5,000 years in China, where fortuitous leaves from a wild tree blew into an emperor's boiling water, producing a revitalizing effect. In Ethiopia, a goat herder observed his flock...
Reading
Primal Primer 6 (Mentality) In ancient times, the ability to read was a privilege reserved for royalty and elite. Access to knowledge and skills to interpret, discern, and apply has long been regarded as one of humanity’s most valuable commodity. Reading shaped the...
Sleep
Primal Primer 6 (Fitness) Sleep may be one of the lesser optimized experiences of our ancestors as the world was once a more dangerous place. The inherent threat in any creaking branch, animal howl, or hominid shadow cast, created nightmares of real life consequence....
Avoid Added Sugar
Primal Primer 5 (Nutrition) Sugar in its many processed forms are modernly engineered slow burn plagues disguised as fun bubbly beverages and colorful packages adorned with animals accompanied by brain washing slogans such as "part of a complete breakfast".. Before...
Writing
Primal Primer 5 (Mentality) The first evidence of written language known as cuneiform dates back to over 5000 years ago in Mesopotamia in the function of accounting ledger. Going further back, proto attempts of communication through the use of art and symbolism appear...
Grounding
Primal Primer 5 (Fitness) Chairs, car 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 everything...
Avoid Artificial Ingredients
Primal Primer 4 (Nutrition) For generations, sapiens have 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. Conversely,...
Content Consumption
Primal Primer 4 (Mentality) Digital screens are a relatively new invention absent in most of our history and prehistory. For humans of the past, information was spread through art, word, or story. The advent of screens and the internet has removed the barrier to...
Get Up and Move (GUAM)
Primal Primer 4 (Fitness) It’s only within the last decade that homo sapiens have adapted to sedentary, low-demand lifestyles. For thousands of years prior, movement was synonymous with survival. Like a flowing stream, each elevated heartbeat drove action—a footstep,...
Water Intake
Primal Primer 3 (Nutrition) Water is unequivocally important and life line guiding human's past migration, hunting, and civilization planning. H20 is necessary daily in sufficient quantities, and sourced under relatively pristine circumstance: pH and solutes falling...