CJ Hunt
The Primal Kitchen Podcast
Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti
4.4 • 717 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2021
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
Elle Russ chats with CJ Hunt - filmmaker and broadcast journalist, and the writer, co-executive producer and on-camera host of the documentary The Perfect Human Diet (and a companion book with the same name). This 2-hour podcast episode spans from discussions on ancestral history and findings to digging deep into debunked health studies, along with CJ's recent personal journey with hypothyroid issues that were solved through T3-only hormone treatment.
The film evolved from his true-life story, beginning in 1978 when paramedics brought Mr. Hunt back to life at the age of 24 after suffering a full cardiac arrest while jogging. That incident evoked an intense passion to find out how we can all achieve longer, healthier and happier lives and then share that information with others. CJ has over twenty years of experience in broadcasting, voiceovers, television and live events. He is the author of three books on diet and health.
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| 0:24.8 | If you're listening to this, this episode is also a video episode on YouTube on the Marks |
| 0:29.3 | Daily Apple channel. |
| 0:30.7 | Today we have a repeat offender and one of my favorite people, hands down in the paleo |
| 0:34.2 | world, probably the, gosh, I'd say like kind of one of the world's experts |
| 0:38.7 | and ancestral health hunter-gatherer experience. C.J. Hunt is the director and writer of my favorite |
| 0:46.5 | documentary called The Perfect Human Diet. If you haven't seen it, you need to. It is really just |
| 0:51.9 | explains paleo primal health in a way that sometimes you just can't |
| 0:55.6 | get from a book or it may not resonate as well. It's been out for many years. He's working on a sequel. |
| 1:01.1 | Welcome back, CJ. |
| 1:03.1 | Hey, Elle, good to see you again. So good to see you. For those wondering, we are actually going to |
| 1:08.1 | talk about thyroid too. C.. CJ had a thyroid experience and a |
| 1:11.0 | thyroid journey and ended up on the last resort choice of thyroid hormone T3 like myself. So we will |
| 1:17.1 | venture into a thyroid discussion later. So definitely stick around for that if that's interesting |
| 1:21.6 | to you. In the meantime, we are going to just get into some and have lots of questions. I'm sure |
| 1:26.6 | everyone else does and we all need |
| 1:27.9 | clarification. And CJ is the one that I call. If I see an article or I have a question about |
| 1:32.6 | hunter-gatherer life or existence or this kind of thing, I will call CJ. So for those that don't know |
| 1:38.3 | you, give us a quick synopsis because at the beginning of your documentary, we find out that |
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