The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Marks Sisson.

And is narrated by Tina Lehman.

Blind spots even informed paleo enthusiasts often have.

You read Mark's Daily Apple every day.

Paleo Health, nutrition, and fitness folks populate your Twitter feed almost exclusively.

You've got several PubMed alerts set up, helping you stay on top of the emerging evidence. Everyone in your immediate circle

knows to come to you with questions about diet and exercise. You've been living like this

for the better part of a decade, and things are going well. But what if there were a few blind

spots you didn't know about, or assumed you didn't have to consider.

I've been doing this for a long time. Over the course of 10 odd years, I've realized that many primal and paleo enthusiasts have a few glaring blind spots. They may not be cataclysmic,

but addressing them or at least acknowledging their existence can

certainly improve your health and happiness.

Let's look at three of them.

Feeling their diet and lifestyle makes them immortal.

It's easy to get caught up in the rapidity of initial health improvements, accompanying a primal

lifestyle. You lose a dozen pounds

and several inches off your waist. You stop falling asleep at your desk once two o'clock

rolls around. You're no longer ravenously, constantly hungry. Foods that used to be pleasantly

sweet are now cloyingly so. You read about the relative

dearth of degenerative diseases in even long-lived hunter-gatherer peoples, figure you're eating

just like them, and assume you'll also live long and well without having to see a medical

professional or worry about cancer or heart disease.

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