The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

Aces and Primal Health.

It's fair to say that I gravitate towards tangible, actionable subject matter

when it comes to improving my own and others' health.

Things like nutrition, fitness, sleep, hormonal responses,

and supplement science may seem like a lot to chew on for the layperson,

but these are my personal passions as well as my

long-time profession. And while these are certainly the big, actionable players in the game of health,

I fully acknowledge that there may be more lurking behind the scenes than we realize,

a body that refuses to heal no matter how primal you eat, stubborn health conditions that simply refuse to

fully go away despite all the changes you make in your life, a propensity for disease that defies

everything you've learned about ancestral nutrition and wellness. An intriguing new angle in the

health sphere suggests the hurdle for some people may be embedded deeper than outer changes can access.

What are aces, or adverse childhood experiences?

Oddly enough, it all began with a weight loss program.

Working out of Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, California, Dr. Vincent Faliti was on a mission to get to the bottom of obesity.

The problem was, the patients in his program kept dropping out, and he had no idea why.

After a series of rather awkward and unintended questions, an interview with one obese woman provided the answer, adverse childhood

experiences, aces.

It turned out that the woman had been sexually abused as a kid, and her weight gain was a way

of disappearing, of minimizing her risk of further sexual assault.

Felity dug deeper and discovered that of the hundreds in his weight

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