Hi, it's Mark Sisson.

Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast.

It's time for another show dedicated to the world of keto.

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Hey, listeners. Welcome back.

Remember the last show when we talked about avoiding that OCD approach to keto and to health goals in general.

And now I'd like to pick up where we left off and discuss a way to straddle that line from avoiding that OCD approach,

but also keeping some firm commitments to health and living a healthy lifestyle

and not falling back on these excuses like everything in moderation

or making rationalizations every time you depart from

your plan for doing exercise, keeping active, or choosing healthy foods. Because right now what we

have is a modern life that is dangerously out of balance with the momentum pushing us toward

inactivity, long periods of

inactivity throughout the day, which are now validated to be extremely unhealthy, even for

devoted fitness enthusiasts that put their time in on the road or at the gym every single day.

But then if you go off into commuting mode and sitting at an office job and taking

your evening hours up with digital entertainment, you have this active couch potato syndrome

where your health is compromised and you can represent disease risk factors similar to that

of an inactive person. In other words, your hour a day or hour

and a half or whatever you're putting into fitness does not counteract the many, many hours of

inactivity. So we have all this momentum pushing us toward inactivity, pushing us toward overly

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