The Primal Blueprint

Mark Sisson is uh, he's the guy from he wrote that book The Primal Blueprint and um, he's like a nutrition expert and he's a former endurance athlete but he's a giant believer of this thing where you put it as like a mattress pad and it chills your body to a certain temperature.

He said it's a game changer to cool your body down, you sleep way better.

If you can develop metabolic flexibility, if you can train your body through choices of food that you eat and types of exercise that you choose to do, if you can train your body to become metabolically flexible, you can train it to derive energy from whatever substrate happens to be available.

So metabolic flexibility is when you achieve kind of that state, you are now able to go longer periods of time without eating, which includes not needing to snack.

The good news is it's very easy if you know the right tools, if you have the right strategy.

The first thing that really I find disappears is this need to snack between meals.

It's not like I'm ever feeling like I'm sacrificing. I just choose foods that are a good for me and B I know I'm going to love and love the taste of.

one of the people who's been most responsible for sort of making it a big deal in the Internet age is a health grifter. He would call himself a health blogger named Mark Sisson.

as a set of rules to let you, quote, control how your genes express themselves in order to build the strongest, leanest, healthiest body possible.

Taking clues from evolutionary biology.

So I decided to write a book which I called The Primal Blueprint, and that came out in 2009 and was an immediate big seller. Now, when I say immediate big seller, I couldn't find a publisher for it, so I self-published it.

I was writing a lot about grains and I started to think maybe grains are kind of not good for your health.

My IBS went away, my gastroesophageal reflux went away, and it was like a light bulb went on.

So I did, and it transformed my life.

It started with just real food, but then sort of morphed into paleo and then primal blueprint and then keto and then intermittent fasting.

I've been at the forefront of a lot of these different modalities or these different ways of eating that manifest themselves in improvements in metabolic flexibility and metabolic efficiency.