Welcome back to the Ancient Health podcast, where we educate you on real health solutions that

will help transform the way you live, feel, and overcome disease naturally. I'm your host,

Courtney Bursage, along with Dr. Josh Axe and Dr. Chris Motley. We're so happy you've joined us.

Let's dive into today's episode.

Hey, everyone, Dr. Josh Axe here. Welcome to another exciting episode of the ancient health

podcast. I'm so excited to actually interview somebody. Actually, was one of my first interviews

years ago back, I want to say in 2009, Mark Sisson. And Mark Sisson is the visionary

behind ancestral health. In fact, if you've heard the word primal regarding anything nutrition,

Mark is the one that really sort of ran with that term and branded it and sort of brought into

light primal eating along with

the paleo diet.

So part of the reason why the paleo diet is so popular is because of our guest today,

Mark Sisson.

And he's really transformed the way that we think about, not only food, but in recent years,

footwear.

So Mark has dedicated a big part of his life to helping people live

in tune with nature. And we're going to explore Mark's journey today, everything from overseeing

anti-doping standards with triathletes to selling primal kitchen, incredible food-based,

uh, incredible food company that used, I said food-based company

because it's one of the few food companies that actually uses real food. But he was able to sell

that company, so he's a successful entrepreneur, health enthusiast, and also a person who has, again,

pioneered really the primal and paleo diets. Mark, welcome the show. Thanks for having me, Josh. Great to talk to you again. It's been way too long. It has. And I think we've talked a few times over the years, but I remember I had a few people in the very early days when I kicked up. I had a radio show and podcast. And you were one of those guests and I was so excited to

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