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

Why You Shouldn't Be Afraid of joining the status quo.

The other day, it occurred to me that we're coming up on 10 years with this blog.

In 2006, I started publishing what were then wacky, newfangled ideas about how people should

go barefoot or wear vibrams, eat more animal fat, slash carbs, and askew grains altogether. Avoid most vegetable oils,

stand up while they work, expose themselves to cold, get off the chronic cardio wagon,

and climb trees or sprint down their streets like nine-year-olds.

Finally, there was the proverbial and ironic icing on the

cake of suggesting people ask, what would Grok do, that now illustrates Posterman for all

things evolutionary. Ten years ago, many of these ideas were still viewed as strange or even

flat out wrong. To jump on the primal bandwagon

then meant weathering certain share of negative feedback. The jabs from coworkers or friends

while dining out, the looks from passers-by when working out at the park. So for years, it was a regular

theme on MDA to take up these social concerns, to remind folks that they shouldn't give any energy to others' judgments, that they are blazing their own trails, and that they're part of a growing supportive community here at MDA and the Paleosphere at large.

In other words, we've spent a good deal of time talking about

not being afraid to be different. The fact is, however, in these last 10 years, we've seen

everything from an explosion of barefoot shoe lines to a popping up of CrossFit gyms all over

the country. The growth of standing and treadmill workstations

to the expansion of farmers markets and cow sharing, a slowly turning tide against fast food

to time magazines exonerating butter on their cover. Paleo is even becoming a category on

restaurant menus and not just primal ones.

Sure, this is all a far cry from the full primal picture.

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