The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

Nine Trends of Primal Interest.

I get a lot of industry news.

I eat out a fair bit.

I talk to people whose job it is to spot and track health trends.

I'm privy to some of the greatest, most innovative minds in the alternative health community, my readers.

And you guys are always sending me interesting links. Today I'm going to discuss

some trends of primal interest. I might poke fun at some of them, and others might be relatively

small scale. But even the silly or minor ones point to interesting movements in the health and fitness

zeitgeist. So what are the nine I'm highlighting

today? Number one, experiences over things. In 2015, I wrote about the dichotomy of value

between experiences and things, pointing to research suggesting that buying experiences

brings more joy and meaning to a person's life than

buying material objects. I explained how our hunter-gatherer evolution probably wired us to get

more out of experiences and I dug a bit into my own opinion on the matter. People appear to be

agreeing with me. Millennials in particular are choosing things like travel and dining out over gear and gadgets.

And the material objects people are consuming enable experiential living,

smartphones, fitness trackers, and such.

Even media consumption is shifting away from ownership of music and movies to on-demand services like Spotify and Netflix.

Number two, eating root to leaf.

Nose to tail eating has taken off.

Previously arcane bits like sweetbreads, liver, tripe, marrow, and kidney are on menus everywhere, and few people bat an

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