Pieces of our Past
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Avoid Added Sugar
Primal Primer 5 (Nutrition) Sugar in many processed forms are modernly engineered slow burn plagues; disguised as fun bubbly beverages, colorful packaged foods adorned with animals, and accompanied by brain washing slogans such as "part of a complete breakfast"....
Writing
Primal Primer 5 (Mentality) The first evidence of written language known as cuneiform dates back to over 5000 years ago in Mesopotamia; functioning as 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 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, today's...
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 (hip, knee, & ankle) when in action. Through a lifestyle of migration, hunting, gathering, and play, our ancestors...
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 (Homo Neanderthal, Homo Erectus, etc.), expansion from Africa to...
10,000 Daily Steps
Primal Primer 1 (Fitness) SStudies of modern day hunter and gathering tribes (Hadza & Tsimane) report daily step averages of 10-15K while participating in farming, fishing, and hunting. It can be surmised that these sample averages reflect similar movement and...
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,...