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Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

662 - Mark Sisson (Author of Born to Walk)

Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan

Chris Ryan

Society & Culture, Arts

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Mark Sisson is widely regarded as the founding father of the ancestral health movement. His number-one-ranked blog and Primal Health Coach Institute have paved the way for primal enthusiasts to take personal responsibility for their health.



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0:00.0

Radio Mano, Papa Chango

0:02.0

Radio Mano, Papachango. Welcome to another episode of a tangentially speaking.

0:31.0

I'm your host, Dr. Christopher Ryan.

0:33.3

I'm glad you're here, wherever here happens to be for you.

0:39.3

Sorry, my voice is getting a little low.

0:43.0

It must be that testosterone supplementation, ladies.

0:47.9

I'm on day four of that.

0:49.6

Don't feel anything yet.

0:51.6

Not feeling it.

0:52.4

I found a little weird yesterday, but I feel weird most days,

0:58.9

so that's not necessarily a sign of anything. Not sure about the segue here, but I'm going from

1:06.5

testosterone supplementation to today's guest, which is Mark Sisson, who's a guy who seems to

1:16.1

embody the positive qualities of testosterone. He's a manly man. He's a former endurance athlete,

1:24.8

long-distance runner, pretty much a badass, also very smart.

1:31.7

And he wrote a book years ago called The Primal Blueprint that was a huge hit.

1:37.3

He's sort of like a OG primal health expert, if you haven't heard of him. I think most of you have heard of him and are

1:48.9

familiar with his work. He had a blog for years. I'm not sure if he's still doing it called Mark's

1:54.1

Daily Apple. That was huge, widely read. He lived in Malibu, and you know, he was the sort of health consultant to the

2:03.7

stars there for a while, I think. And then he sold his company Primal Kitchen for

2:12.3

hundreds of millions of dollars and moved to Florida and is now living the good life down

2:19.5

there. We buy Mark's or primal kitchen products. I think he sold it to Kellogg, so it's no longer

2:29.0

going to Mark, alas. But, you know, they do things like salad dressings and mayo that doesn't have the nasty seed oils.

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