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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Let's get right into it, man. What's some of your reflections about that?

Because I remember last, I think it was last summer when you were having that epiphany

that you film for Instagram, that you're not even connected to your own community, but

you're traveling around the world, being the, you know, you're not even connected to your own community, but you're

traveling around the world being the, you know, connecting on that level. And now everything's changed.

Well, look, I mean, we know that social ties and community, it's very, very important. You know,

those flesh and blood relationships and not only having a neighborhood

or a community in which you're helping people and people are helping you and you're looking

people in the eye and touching people and having dinner parties and, you know, and helping your

neighbors move and, you know, and being involved with supporting local restaurants and the local community

and having a place where your children can have friends and even having a local

envirobiome that really corresponds well to you and being able to, you know, eat foods that are

local and seasonal. You know, there's so many benefits to being connected to your community.

And there's a lot of dark sides to so-called hypermobility, you know, disruption of circadian rhythm

and, you know, loss of negative ions when we're disconnected from the planet Earth,

that affects our electrochemical balance of our cells, you know, the exposure to a lot of

evolutionary mismatches that you might be able to control in your own environment, right?

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