Episode #12: Listener Questions & Answers with Mark Sisson
The Primal Kitchen Podcast
Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti
4.4 • 717 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2014
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Join Mark Sisson as he comments extensively on many of the most common challenges and confusions of living Primally. Topics covered include how to drop those final five or ten pounds of excess body fat when you have stalled at a certain level - through dialing in your appetite and sensible, intuitive eating, optimizing your carb intake level through personal experimentation, and adding sprint workouts to aggressively stimulate accelerated fat burning; eating in a compressed time window and how morning coffee intake affects that; experiencing nausea when eating high fat primal foods without anything else; the best way to read at night to not disturb your circadian rhythm. Mark also gives an overview of the forthcoming Primal Blueprint Expert Certification program, soon available online at PrimalBlueprint.com - a great resource for health/fitness professionals or devoted primal enthusiasts to deepen their education on primal principles and motivate others to live primally.
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| 0:00.0 | It's a constant battle with this ancient reptilian brain that we have. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | It's got to consume whatever's in front of us. |
| 0:08.0 | From our studios in Malibu, California. |
| 0:10.0 | And then my rational brain knows that there'll be food available when I'm hungry again. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast with Mark Sisson. |
| 0:19.0 | And here we are geared up for another question and answer session. |
| 0:23.7 | How you doing, Mark? I'm doing fantastic. How are you, Brad? |
| 0:26.7 | I'm great. We had a great show last week, and some of these questions are wonderful. And since then, |
| 0:32.8 | more have been flowing in through our speakpipe tool where you record the question and also some nice |
| 0:38.5 | ones that were written in. So how about if we jump right into it? Let's do it. Shelly record a |
| 0:45.3 | nice lengthy question I'm going to summarize in writing. And when you do record on speak pipe, |
| 0:49.9 | try to be concise and think of a question that's appealing to the general audience. That'd be |
| 0:54.8 | nice one for Mark to tackle. Well, Shelley's a 55-year-old female. She got into the primal paleo |
| 1:00.9 | scene through a boyfriend who's now out of the scene, and she reports that leaving her state |
| 1:07.1 | and moving on, she's gained 15 pounds in the past year. So now she's at a point where |
| 1:12.3 | she wants to lose 30 pounds of total excess body fat. She reports that she does not eat a lot of |
| 1:19.2 | carbohydrates. She likes her 90% dark chocolate, which is plenty high. She also reports that she has |
| 1:25.5 | some berries, some other fruits, and also is fond of having a sweet potato before she works out. |
| 1:33.4 | Mark, I want to get into ketosis, but I'm not sure how. |
| 1:37.0 | What can I do to lose this excess weight? |
| 1:39.9 | Well, there's a couple of things to look at in this question, one of which is ideal body |
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