The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson

and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

Where do I start?

Big Picture on Tackling Primal Challenges. Earlier this month, a reader posed a fantastic Where do I start? The big picture on tackling primal challenges.

Earlier this month, a reader posed a fantastic question that prompted today's post.

It was long, so I'll give the choice bits rather than quote the entire thing.

Where do I start?

I'd be interested in seeing your opinion on the relative impact of various primal lifestyle changes.

Eating clean would be a 10, etc., but what about subtler things like sprinting, IF, quality sleep, sunlight, and play?

So I guess I'm asking you to write on a 30,000-foot level how all these things interplay and what their relative contributions

are to overall wellness. Where does one start indeed? Most people familiar with the primal

blueprint are also familiar with the pecking order within each primal law. I'm sure the reader is one

of them. If you're not, I'll give a couple examples.

The foundation of the primal blueprint way of eating is, one, eliminating grains, especially

gluten grains, two, eliminating processed sugar and excess carbs, carbs you haven't earned through

physical activity, pregnancy, nursing, etc.

And three, eliminating processed seed oils high in omega-6 puffas.

Do those three things and you're most of the way there.

You can tinker around the edges, sourcing only grass-fed meat,

giving up nightshades for a spell to see how it affects you,

foregoing dairy, eating

liver once a week, eating lots of colorful fruits and veggies, but doing the first three will

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