This is Primal Potential and I am your host, Elizabeth Benton.

Through education, motivation, and implementation, we will bridge the gap between knowing and

doing so we can master fat loss naturally and help you reach your highest potential.

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Hello everybody and welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast.

I am Elizabeth Benton and I apologize for the sketchy voice and any coughing.

I am a little bit under the weather but the show must go on and I'm excited regardless

to share my thoughts and a review of Rob Wolff's new book, Wired to Eat.

One of my favorite things about this book is that while his goal is to help us get healthier

and leaner, he tackles a couple of important things that most books like this don't cover and

that is number one that there is no one-size-fits-all. We are very individual and that is a theme that

runs throughout this book, our individuality and how some of us respond well to certain foods

and others of us don't and really catering to your own body instead of following some one-size-fits-all

blueprint. I love that. The other thing that I love is that he focuses as much on non-food

factors as he does on food factors. I've shared in the past few episodes that I really feel like

most of us, including myself, have paid or are paying a disproportionate amount of attention to

the food factors at the expense of overlooking some of the non-food factors and for me one of those

big things, those non-food factors has been sleep and hydration. Not only does he focus on

individuality with food but also the critical importance of sleep, of stress management,

of light exposure and connected relationships. He opens the book, actually, this isn't at the

beginning although I think it could be. There's a powerful and simple statement. I think I love it so

much. I think it's going to have to find its way onto a wall somewhere in my house but it says

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