We're good already? Damn I didn't even see a countdown. Jamie, you're so fast. Thanks

for doing this, Mark, appreciate it, man. Totally my pleasure. I've enjoyed your

tweets. I've checked out your website and Mark's Daily Apple and all of your

the different rules for the primal blueprint and I found it's really fascinating

because it seems really straightforward.

It seems like, oh, well this makes like eat lots of animals, insects and plants,

move around a lot at a slow pace lift heavy things run really fast but what

you've done essentially is created a guideline for optimizing your health and your body.

Yeah you know I've always wanted to be healthy from a really early age like 12 or 13 and

read a lot of books, wanted to do the right thing,

tried to figure out the hacks, before they were called hacks.

And I got to the point where I was, you know, I was doing a lot of running because aerobics was supposedly going to make you live longer.

I was eating complex carbohydrates and a ton of them in order to fuel the aerobics.

I became a pretty good endurance athlete, but I fell apart as a result of the training and the result it turns

out of the diet. So the diet was very pro-inflammatory as we say. So I started doing research

into the ways in which I could re-access this health that I was seeking from the early age and not fall apart and not be decrepit and beat up.

And this became my mantra is how can I be strong, lean, fit, and healthy with the least amount of pain, suffering, sacrifice,

discipline, calorie counting, portion control, and everything else.

And where it led me was down this path of looking at human evolution and how we got to where

we are today, how we derived this genetic recipe that we all have

that wants us to be strong and fit, combining the research only in the last 10 or 15 years with the modern genome and

sequencing the genome and figuring out the actual mechanism of how lifestyle

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