about 10 years ago, research started to show, whoa, whoa, hang on, the reason you go to the gym is to

do that little bit of damage and to prompt those processes to take place and to prompt those

genes to upregulate and build new myocin and increase the amount of mitochondria and the effectiveness

of the mitochondria. And in the absence of those

inflammatory signals, if you suppress them with anti-inflammatories, then you don't get the benefit

that you went to the gym for in the first place.

Hey guys, welcome back to The Digest This Podcast. I'm your host, Bethany Cameron. And today, we have the founder of Primal Kitchen, Mark Seeson, on the show. And he's also the author of 12 books, including the Primal Blueprint and the keto Reset Diet. And today we talk all the things. He shares how to become

fat adapted, what that even is, how collagen helped change his life by sparing him from invasive

surgery, what removing grains did for him after just 30 days, and how the shoes we are wearing

are actually causing more harm than good to our health. We also dive into the myth that you need

carbs because, yes, there's essential nutrients we need. There's essential amino acids, essential fatty acids, essential proteins.

But there's actually no such thing as essential carbs.

So we get into that.

And if you cold plunge or have been curious about cold plunging, we dive into that as well. No pun intended. So I hope you guys

enjoy this episode as much as I did. And I also wanted to thank all my loyal listeners for

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Speaking of a fire interview, let's get right

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