The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Marxist and is narrated by Brock Armstrong.

How to deal with health noise.

Among the most important truths I've come to believe over time is the need to be

selective in life. Selective with relationships, selective with experiences, selective with purchases,

selective with information, selective with messages, whether they come from outside sources

or, on occasion, my own head. Like it or not, we have

limited time and energy in a day, and in a life. While some people respond to this fact with

frantic scurrying or miserally parsing out the minutes, I've found the best approach for me

is to winnow what I want or need to give attention to

what's most important.

It's part spirit of simplicity and part defense of sanity, particularly when you consider

the deluge of bad news and marketing distraction that would snatch up every waking moment. Yet it's also more than that, primally speaking.

To maintain and enjoy my primal lifestyle, I appreciate being able to live with as much peace,

space, and clarity as I can.

The more I can reduce the static, those extraneous and contradictory messages regarding health matters,

the more effortlessly and clearly I can tune into the programming I want to embrace in life.

But what does that process look like and how do I apply it? What's the difference between a selective

and discerning perspective and just a closed mind. Let's take this apart.

The fact is, pursuing a life of genuine health and well-being requires a steady mind,

especially in the world of 24-hour news programming and the talking head culture that it spawned.

Not only do we fend off the chicken littles that make a monumental

crisis out of every little mole hill, but we can get quickly swept off course with every

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