Summary of Mark Sisson's The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 DNA within each of your cells is a recipe for a lean, fit, and happy productive human being. You can control the environmental signals that your genes receive through the foods you eat, the workouts you conduct, the sleeping and lifestyle habits you adopt, and even the medication you take.
#2 The difference between the particulars of your unique family genes, and the basic human genes that we all share, is that the former are affected by your actions, while the latter are not. You have significant power to affect which genes are switched on or off.
#3 Your genes have expectations of receiving a specific and narrow range of signals from you, but they don’t care if you make good or bad lifestyle choices. They will pursue this mission regardless of the effect upon your long-term health.
#4 Your genes are like on/off switches for building protein molecules that influence every element of body function and structure. You have tremendous control over your day-to-day operations through the environmental signals you send to your genes.

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Diététique
• diététique
• Diet

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 13 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781669353386
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Mark Sisson's The Primal Blueprint 21Day Total Body Transformation
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The DNA within each of your cells is a recipe for a lean, fit, and happy productive human being. You can control the environmental signals that your genes receive through the foods you eat, the workouts you conduct, the sleeping and lifestyle habits you adopt, and even the medication you take.

#2

The difference between the particulars of your unique family genes, and the basic human genes that we all share, is that the former are affected by your actions, while the latter are not. You have significant power to affect which genes are switched on or off.

#3

Your genes have expectations of receiving a specific and narrow range of signals from you, but they don’t care if you make good or bad lifestyle choices. They will pursue this mission regardless of the effect upon your long-term health.

#4

Your genes are like on/off switches for building protein molecules that influence every element of body function and structure. You have tremendous control over your day-to-day operations through the environmental signals you send to your genes.

#5

The food, exercise, and lifestyle habits that were successful for our ancestors have shaped and molded our modern genome. We are identical to our hunter-gatherer ancestors in how we metabolize food, respond to exercise, cycle through sleep phases, and absorb sunlight.

#6

The initial generations of predominantly grain-based eaters, such as the Egyptians around 7,000 years ago, were shorter, less muscular, had lower bone density, and shorter lifespans than their predecessors. The decline in human health occurred because we departed from what our genes were accustomed to for the previous two million years: meat, fish, eggs, plants, and constant activity.

#7

The life expectancy of 33 in Grok’s time was much more impressive when you factored out predator danger, high infant mortality rates, and routine infections and traumas that were commonly fatal in prehistoric times.

#8

The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation is about making life-transforming decisions based on sound scientific information. Knowing this, we can avoid the complexity and gimmicks common to the latest diet or exercise craze and instead focus on our ancestors’ and evolutionary biology's recommendations.

#9

The great news is that being healthy does not require extreme training, restrictive dietary habits, or a joyless daily routine. We’ve adapted to a variety of foods and environmental circumstances in order to thrive in all corners of the globe.

#10

The hunter-gatherer lifestyle reveals simple insights into how to be healthy. Absent from Grok’s diet were the agricultural foods that became predominant over the past 7,000 years, as well as the modern foods that we’ve introduced over the past century.

#11

The lifestyle of our ancestors was mischaracterized in the seventeenth century by English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, who believed that the lives of our pre-civilized ancestors were solitary, poor, and short.

#12

We are adapted to perform occasional grand endurance feats, such as a persistence hunt, but we are also adapted to spend extensive periods of time doing nothing. Aligning your sleep habits with the rising and setting of the sun may not sound as exciting as consuming digital entertainment, but it can enhance your health.

#13

The Primal Blueprint is based on the premise that we are genetically identical to Grok, a hunter-gatherer who lived 10,000 years ago. Grok enjoyed excellent longevity and quality of life, despite lacking the modern benefits of medicine, technology, and convenience.

#14

You were designed to derive most of your energy from either healthy fats or body fat stored on your rear end, hips, thighs, and waist. You were also designed to avoid eating carbohydrates, as they are unnecessary and counterproductive to your health.

#15

When you overstress your insulin response system and become insulin resistant, you are in big trouble. If glucose is not efficiently processed, it will damage protein molecules through a process known as glycation.

#16

If you are a sugar burner, you are trapped in a carbohydrate dependency. You have elevated insulin levels throughout the day, and as a result, you store extra calories as body fat. To lose weight, you need to up-regulate your ability to burn fat and down-regulate your ability to store fat.

#17

There is no requirement for dietary carbohydrates in human nutrition. Your body can manufacture glucose from proteins and fats on demand, and in amounts needed to keep your brain humming and energy levels stable, through a process known as gluconeogenesis.

#18

Carbohydrates are the elective macronutrient, and should only be needed in any appreciable amounts after heavy exercise when you want to replenish muscle glycogen.