The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Marksissons

and is narrated by Brock Armstrong.

Definitive Guide, the Primal Blueprint.

The basic premise is this.

The primal blueprint is a set of simple instructions,

the blueprint, that allows you to control how your genes express themselves

in order to build the strongest, leanest, healthiest body possible,

taking clues from evolutionary biology.

That's the primal part. Sometimes we get so lost in the science

of human biology, we just can't see the forest from the trees. We overlook the simplicity and ease

with which we could all be achieving exceptional health and fitness. Living in modern society

is extremely complex with daily mind-boggling achievements

made in science, technology, and medicine, and with an ever-expanding knowledge base that

increasingly grows more esoteric and niche, it's no wonder that we often look for complicated

scientific solutions to problems that really only require simple answers.

One of the best examples is the huge and expensive race to identify all the new possible

genetic variances or SNPs within the human genome that might predispose some of us to certain

health conditions. Hardly a week goes by without a new announcement

of the discovery of a so-called defective gene that increases someone or some group's risk of being

obese, getting cancer, or developing type 2 diabetes, or arthritis. The net effect of all these

announcements and the sensationalized news headlines is that many of us have become accustomed to blaming our health conditions on our unlucky inheritance of these defective genes.

And as if it weren't enough to abdicate responsibility here, we then cross our fingers and close our eyes and hope that the scientists can create

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