The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Marksissons and is narrated by Brock Armstrong.

Ten real life reasons why the primal blueprint works for me.

There's been a lot more talk in the mainstream recently about caveman diets and barefoot training.

Primal, paleo, Evo seems to be gaining in popularity and may be nearing the critical mass needed

to garner mainstream appreciation.

John Durant appeared on Stephen Colbert a while ago, and Art Devaney was

featured in Der Spiegel. Born to Run is a New York Times bestseller, and my book recently made

the top 10 health and fitness titles on Amazon. Even so, we primal types still get those occasional

looks of derision or incomprehension when we show up at the gym with our fives on and a bag of homemade jerky hanging off our belt to do a quick 15-minute hit session.

I think there's a sense among outsiders that the grok fairy tale trumps the science within the primal crowd, that the notion of living like a

caveman is a cute ideal, but irrelevant in a 21st century high-tech context. Of course, it's not true.

Science always leads the way here at Mark's Daily Apple and on most primal paleo-evo sites. But even with the science completely

supporting the idea that we ought to emulate our hunter-gatherer ancestors in many aspects of life,

I still hear things like, I trust my doctor too much to give up statins and start eating fats,

or, I'm lazy, undisciplined, and I love good food too much to give up statins and start eating fats. Or, I'm lazy, undisciplined, and I love

good food too much to be able to change this late in my life. Hey, me too. So for those folks who are

looking for more detailed rationale why living primal is best for everyone, including your

doubting spouse and your parents,

here are my 10 real life reasons why the primal blueprint works for me.

Number one, I'm lazy.

Ironically, I spent 25 years of my life pursuing high-level fitness and peak health through hard work,

discipline, sacrifice, and misery. That didn't work out for me. I'm over it. Now I just want

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