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

The Primal Blueprint Eight Key Concepts.

Fully grocking the Primal Blueprint Eight Key Concepts is crucial to succeeding with this way of eating and living.

As the saying goes, knowledge is power.

Having a firm grasp on these key concepts will provide a framework for, and make you more resolute in, your daily decisions.

Read them, commit them to memory, live by them, and you'll be well on your way to a lifetime

of health and wellness. Let's get right to them.

Number one. Yes, you really can reprogram your genes.

The popular conception of a gene is a wired collection of DNA and chromosomes and other stuff

that determines whether or not you're going to get this type of cancer, how long you'll

live, and if you'll get a coronary bypass at some point in your life. There's this idea that genes

are immutable, that they represent a sort of cosmic destiny for an individual. But aside from some

heritable traits like eye and hair color or the number of

fingers on your hands and feet, genes are actually programmable. They express themselves in

different ways according to information gathered from our environment, our food, and our behaviors.

They turn on and turn off in response to these environmental signals. Thus, though you might have the gene for type 2 diabetes,

which is really just a genetic proclivity towards the disease,

not a sentence, providing the right environmental signals

will prevent the gene from ever turning on. How we eat, exercise, sleep, interact with our

social circles, stress and spend time outdoors, plus tons of other environmental signals,

determines how our genes express themselves determines how our genes express themselves.

How our genes express themselves, in turn, determines our level of health.

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