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

How to Take Care of Your Gut, the new and improved primal flora.

Anytime I discuss supplements, some readers bulk.

For them, if Grock didn't do it, we shouldn't either.

And you know what?

If that describes you, I get where you're coming from.

Ideally, optimal health develops organically, from the food we eat, the sun, sleep, and movement patterns we

follow, the lifestyles we develop. But we don't live in Grog's world anymore. We don't have

access to the same nutrient-dense plants and animals he did. And we face entirely new stressors

and endure novel deficits that previous generations never have.

These new challenges call for new solutions and supplements can be one of these solutions.

As a supplement maker, I always take cues from GROC's behavior and physiology and requirements

and use modern-day science to produce quality products.

I'm not just making them to sell something. I'm meeting a need and filling a deficit.

Usually my own. The funny thing about science is that it's a moving target.

It's evolving, and if science evolves, so too must the supplements based on its findings.

To stay abreast of it all, I'm always researching and listening to advisors and other experts

to make sure that my formulations are optimal.

Gut health, as a topic, has exploded in recent years, as has the amount of research being

done, and what we know about the foods we eat, behaviors we do, and supplements we take

affect our guts has evolved. I recently updated the primal flora formulation to reflect the latest developments.

It now contains an almost entirely new set of probiotic strains. Later, I'll explain what these

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