Pieces of our Past
Blog Archive
Content Consumption
Primal Primer 4 (Mentality) Digital screens and the content transmitted are relatively new inventions absent in most human history and prehistory. For past sapiens, information was spread solely through mediums of art, word, or oral story. The advent of screens and...
Get Up and Move (G.U.A.M.)
Primal Primer 4 (Fitness) During the last decade, 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 beat of the heart drove action—a footstep, a tree...
Daily 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 and in sufficient quantities. Sourcing being equally critical; water must be devoid of pernicious...
Align With Ailments
Primal Primer 3 (Mentality) In all epochs, humans have battled ailments to achieve optimal performance for thriving and surviving. From injuries caused by animals and foes, poisons from misidentified mushrooms to modern self-inflicted maladies of inactivity, chemical...
Kinetic Chain Alignment
Primal Primer 3 (Fitness) The supple sapien spent large proportions of time upright, seated in ground positions, and engaging in triple extension activity when in action (hip, knee, & ankle). Our ancestors, through a lifestyle of migration, hunting, gathering, and...
Intentional Eating
Primal Primer 2 (Nutrition) Scientifically defined: eating it the act of consuming organic material in exchange for energy, vitamins and minerals. Initiated from past conditions of abject scarcity, the success and careful engineering of modern times has jettisoned the...
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...
Sun Exposure
Primal Primer 2 (Fitness) Humans are, and always have been walking solar panels; skin the hardware receiving and processing sunlight. At definition, photons emitted from the sun are classified as electromagnetic radiation. Most notable is the concept of this energy...
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. Out of necessity, the sapien's brain evolved software (Wet-Ware), distorting reality in efforts of retaining...
The Journey Of 1,000 Miles Begins With A Single Step
Primal Primer 1 (Mentality) "A journey of 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 from Africa to global dominion, and current interplanetary...
10,000 Daily Steps
Primal Primer 1 (Fitness) A body in motion stays in motion; foot steps often and everyday is cornerstone activity supporting universal longevity, metabolism, immune function, and mental health. Break out from the contemporary mold encouraging a C-shaped seated...
Heat Exposure
Primal Primer 19 (Fitness) The human body adapts and thrives in conditions of heat; originally evolving to the climes of East Africa. Through these extended exposures and over spans of time, Homo sapien's eveloped mechanisms attenuating to extreme and fluctuating...
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...
Pressure Cooking For Increased Nutrition
Merging technologies of today with omnipresent vegetables and grains sprouting from earth, it has never been easier to consume the most bioavailable and varied nutritious fuels. Utilizing the capabilities of modern pressure cookers (LCC recommends the InstatPot), one...
Overnight Organic Oats
Oats originated in the fertile crescent of present day Turkey, Syria, and Iran, 4,000 years ago. Amongst the first cereals introduced into mass cultivation by ancient civilizations, due to their adaptability and nutritional value. Oats eventually became a staple in...