There are a lot of things that we can do that will manifest that strong body.

Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast by choosing exercises in a certain way.

From our studios in Malibu, California.

There are some things that we can do that take advantage of science.

Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast.

I'm host Brad Kearns here in the Malibu Studios with our guest Mark Sisson.

And today we're going to talk about supplements, nutritional supplements. And when you think about

what the primal blueprint means and going back to basics and living simply, the idea of supplements

could seem counterintuitive. So let's start from that point and wonder why, if you're living and eating primally,

would you want to explore the idea of taking a nutritional supplement?

Right.

And that's been a good question that people have asked over the years that we've been doing

the primal blueprint.

And going back to the original intent of the primal blueprint, which is to live an optimized life,

to be as healthy as you can be, to enjoy life, to live as long as you can to not get sick,

to have as much energy as you can possibly ever want to do the things that you want to do.

These are all the reasons that we engage in the recommendations and the activities in the primal blueprint.

So that's sort of informs the types of foods that we choose to eat, the types of exercise

we choose to do, sun exposure, sleep, things like that. All of which is contemplated to take

advantage of these gene switches in our bodies that turn on or off as a result of these

various inputs. So the idea behind the primal blueprint being one of harnessing the aspects

of evolution that we know would maybe benefit us individually in creating the leanest, strongest, happiest, healthy, productive

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