Pieces of our Past
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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 (hip, knee, & ankle) during activity. Our ancestors, through a lifestyle of migration, hunting, gathering, and play,...
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 Your 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 evolved brain software (Wet-Ware) that distorts reality in efforts of...
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 from Africa to global dominion, and 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 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...
EDCC – Every Day Conditioning Carry
Every successive year for Apex Sapien engenders increased rigor and result if On Path. The January fast start undoubtably provides challenge to even the best of time managers. Despite your commitment to occupational craft and initiative, one must find hacks ensuring...
Benefits Of Deep Tissue Massage Therapy
The idea of detoxification is often over used and marketed; with most modern hunters and gatherer's finding physical and digital shelves full of supplements and protocols alleging degrees of efficacy in performance and supporting well being. Casting aside any of these...
ATG Zero Lite
Warm Up Reverse Out Knee Pain: Walk backwards with focus on knee over toe form. 10 min. Tibialis Raise: Lean against wall with glutes touching and walk legs a few steps away keeping the knees straight. Secure a position where one can comfortably flatten feet, pivot on...