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

How to leverage the minimum effective dose in your primal life.

If you haven't heard about the minimum effective dose, a concept

coined by Nautilist fitness creator Arthur Jones and popularized by Lifestyle Hacker Tim Ferriss

in his book, The Four Hour Body, here's the simplest definition, the smallest dose that will

produce the desired effect or outcome.

For Jones, this was the minimum effective load, the point at which any additional resistance added to the bar would be redundant or even counterproductive to one's strength and fitness goals.

For Ferris, the MED is about getting the most bang for your exercise

and dietary buck. A popular example is boiling water. If you want to boil a pot of water

at standard air pressure, the MED is 212 degrees Fahrenheit or 100 degrees Celsius. Adding more

heat is redundant and won't make it boil even more.

If you look closely, the primal blueprint has always been about getting the best results

for the least amount of pain, sacrifice, time, work, and suffering.

It started as a reaction to my prior life as an endurance athlete, where I did the exact

opposite. I got decent results for a massive amount of pain, sacrifice, time, work, and suffering.

And back at Primal Con Oxnard in September of this year, my keynote speech was about leveraging

the minimum effective dose in various aspects

of your primal lifestyle to get the most benefits with the least amount of sacrifice. The MED isn't

a prescription. It's a lens for examining our life and determining how to allocate our time and effort,

and though it can probably be quantified using extensive tracking,

biometrics, weighing and measuring, that isn't necessary or even ideal. Okay, so how does this

apply to primal living? Calorie intake. My old college buddies still call me Arnold, the pig from green acres because i ate so much

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