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

and is narrated by Brock Armstrong.

The primal community is more diverse than you might think.

We're cave men and women wannabies,

deluded health nuts, nonconformist cynics,

shameless meat lovers, barefoot rabble.

The list goes on and on.

People who don't know any better may assume a lot of things about us.

We've probably all been in these situations by now, right?

If you asked random people on the street about their perceptions of primal and paleo adherence,

I'd venture to say that a lot of them would say we're beefy, single men in our 20s, maybe 30s,

who spend our days at the gym. Kind of funny since the majority of

MDA readers and listeners, by about 10% anyway, are actually women. And last time I checked,

not all of us, my old self-included, have seen 30 in a while. We're not all Californians or even

warm weather folk who spend our days shirtless and surfing, even though the barefoot shoe

fits this guy. Many of us, in fact, weather winters, cold and long enough to mirror the

worst ice age. In fact, a substantial percentage of us aren't even from the US, or from North America.

We're from over 50 countries across nearly every continent, still holding out for the Antarctic contingent.

We look out our windows and see tundra, or mesa,

or ocean, or mountains, or farmland, or forest, or cityscape, or suburbia, or swamp land.

We're in different time zones and seasons because we span literally every end of the earth. Not surprising, given all these facts,

we claim varying creeds, including no creed, and many different ethnic identifications.

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