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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 2601 The Running Boom Has Burst: Walk Instead, with Mark Sisson

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Mark Sisson makes a compelling case that the promises made about running have not only failed to materialize, but that in fact running is a net minus for human health and should be replaced by walking.

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Book Discussed: Born to Walk: The Broken Promises of the Running Boom, and How to Slow Down and Get Healthy--One Step at a Time

Guest's Twitter: @Mark_Sisson

Show notes for Ep. 2601

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0:00.0

Get ready to take a flamethrower to the official narrative and learn what the elites don't want you to know.

0:08.8

You're listening to The Tom Woods Show.

0:18.6

Hi everybody, Tom Woods here. It's episode 2,6001 of the Tom Wood Show. It's been a while

0:23.5

since you've been on, Mark, quite a few episodes since then. But I have gotten to know Mark Sisson

0:29.2

over the years ever since I first interviewed him when I was filling in as a fill-in host on the

0:35.0

Peter Schiff's show. And we talked about the primal blueprint.

0:38.4

And that was audio only because it was a terrestrial radio program.

0:42.5

But that audio interview got listened to many, many times, and I had many success stories

0:48.2

coming to me about that.

0:49.5

Well, Mark has continued to innovate in this area, and in particular, I want to talk about his book, Born to Walk, the Broken Promises of the Running Boom and How to Slow Down and Get Healthy One Step at a Time.

1:02.5

As I said, I got to know Mark because of the primal blueprint, which is an approach not just to eating, not just to, let's say, weight management, but to exercise, sleep. I mean,

1:12.4

really what it means to live a balanced life. And this is particularly interesting coming from Mark

1:17.1

because Mark was a long-distance runner. He did place fourth in the Iron Man World Championship.

1:24.8

So he's got a really unique perspective on all these sorts of things.

1:27.7

So, Mark, welcome back.

1:29.2

Great to be here, Tom.

1:31.0

2,601 episodes, man.

1:34.2

Wow.

1:35.0

Congratulations.

1:35.5

I'm trying to prove.

1:36.7

I don't know.

1:37.3

She's doing good so far.

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