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

The definitive guide to Grock. He's the oft-sighted star of our Paleolithic backdrop, the poster persona of the primal blueprint

itself.

We would be remiss, and a little rude, don't you think, to overlook formal introductions.

It's about time, some of you might say to yourself.

Let's meet the man of the Eon.

First off, he is simultaneously his own person personality,

incidentally male, and an inclusive, non-gendered representative of all our beloved primal

ancestors, male or female, who spanned the primeval globe. It's grok, as both construed individual and collective archetype, you might say.

In either capacity, GROC serves as our primal exemplar, a figurative model for evolutionarily

tried and true lifestyle behaviors, diet, exercise, sleep, stress, etc. And as Mark's daily apple itself has evolved over the last few years,

we've grown quite attached to him, you might say, a likable fellow, really, who, incidentally,

also has a charming family, a strong, resourceful wife and two healthy children, a young boy

and infant girl. Grock, as we've come to know and love him,

is a rather typical hunter-gatherer. He harkens from, say, the San Joaquin Valley of now California.

Born before the dawn of agriculture, he lives the life of a forager, hunting game and gathering

all manner of roots, shoots, seeds, and fruits for both

himself and his family, or small band. He's perhaps 30 years old on the upper end of life expectancy

in his day, but he has the remarkable health to live far beyond that if he can avoid the traps

of his time, accidents, predators, illness, far different threats than ours today.

You see, by modern standards, he would be the pinnacle of physiological vigor.

Picture a tall strapping man, lean, ripped, agile, even big-brained by modern comparison,

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