Episode #9: Guest Steve Levine Discusses Everyday Primal Blueprint Success Principles
The Primal Kitchen Podcast
Mark Sisson & Morgan Zanotti
4.4 • 717 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Steve Levine is an ordinary guy with an extraordinary passion for primal living. A voracious consumer of all available written and audio material in the primal/paleo/ancestral health community, Steve joins the Primal Blueprint podcast to discuss his personal journey and success with transitioning out of the Standard American Diet into a primal lifestyle. Steve, an attorney by trade, has a refreshing and passionate perspective that will be helpful for both newcomers to primal living and reaffirming and enlightening to hard-core primal folks. He has taken a methodical, critical thinking approach to all aspects of the movement to create a personal success formula that he has followed for nearly a decade. Give it a listen and hang on for a fun ride with Primal Blueprint enthusiast Steve Levine!
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| 0:00.0 | One of the great things about the internet. |
| 0:03.8 | Welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast. |
| 0:06.0 | This is a tremendous source of information. |
| 0:08.1 | From our studios in Malibu, California. |
| 0:10.5 | But the problem with the internet is vetting that information. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to another episode of the Primal Blueprint Podcast here in the Auburn, California |
| 0:20.8 | studios this week. I'm Brad |
| 0:22.2 | Kern's your host and I'm with my neighbor and good friend Steve Levine. And if you haven't heard |
| 0:27.0 | of him, he doesn't have too many books out or a lot of big following yet. But this guy is |
| 0:31.8 | going to rock your world. And we're going to talk about all things primal because I think I'm |
| 0:35.8 | talking to probably the number one enthusiast |
| 0:39.0 | consumer of podcast books and written material on the planet for primal paleo ancestral health matters. |
| 0:45.7 | Welcome, Steve Levine. |
| 0:46.9 | Thank you, Brad. |
| 0:48.1 | So I thought we'd talk today about how you got started. |
| 0:51.5 | You have quite a long journey here in the low-carb world and how you got started |
| 0:55.3 | interested in this sort of health direction and go from there and talk about some of the hot |
| 0:59.4 | topics that are on your mind lately. Well, you know, I probably started like a lot of us out there. |
| 1:04.8 | My family had a history of arterial carosis, so I was always careful to stay away from the artery-clogging saturated fat and eat a lot of heart-healthy grains. |
| 1:14.3 | But as I went into my 30s and into my early 40s, the weight started creeping up and I, six-foot-tall, got into the low, you know, 205-pound range. |
| 1:22.7 | And I realized I needed to make a change. |
| 1:24.7 | And I, of course, always had to stay away from the Atkins idea because of, |
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