Primal Blueprint Resources
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The internet offers a wealth of information to help you go Primal. You just have to know where to look. Below you will find some of my favorite Primal-related resources. From food journals and mail order food sites to my ever-growing list of health and fitness blogs, this list is meant to provide you with additional support. Check back often as I will continually update this page. If you think something should be listed here feel free to drop me a line via the contact form.
Supplementation
Primal Nutrition (my supplement company)
Food Journals/Calorie Counters
FitDay
The Daily Plate
Eating Primal
Local Harvest – Find farmers’ markets and local farms near where you live
Eat Wild – The #1 site for grass-fed food and facts
U.S. Wellness Meats – Mail order grass-fed/grass-finished meat
Alderspring – Grass-fed organic beef from the mountains of Idaho
Fitness
CrossFit – A fitness paradigm similar to Primal Blueprint Fitness
Other Sites
Weston A. Price Foundation – Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts
PaleoDiet.com – What the Hunter/Gatherers Ate
BeyondVeg.com – Paleolithic Nutrition
THINCS – The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics
My Favorite Blogs
This is a short list of my favorite blogs. (In the sidebar under “Sites Mark Visits” you’ll find more of my favorites. This section rotates my long list of favorite blogs every time you reload the page.)
LifeSpotlight
Conditioning Research
Art De Vany
Protein Power
Dr. John Briffa
Pharyngula
Body Recomposition
Son of Grok
Go Healthy Go Fit
Livin’ La Vida Low Carb
Pay Now Live Later
Critical Conclusions from Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes
Here are eleven critical conclusions from this extremely well researched and voluminous work that greatly influenced the Primal Blueprint
- Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, does not cause heart disease.
- Carbohydrates do, because of their effect on the hormone insulin. The more easily-digestible and refined the carbohydrates and the more fructose they contain, the greater the effect on our health, weight, and well-being.
- Sugars – sucrose (table sugar) and high fructose corn syrup specifically – are particularly harmful. The glucose in these sugars raises insulin levels; the fructose they contain overloads the liver.
- Refined carbohydrates, starches, and sugars are also the most likely dietary causes of cancer, Alzheimer’s Disease, and the other common chronic diseases of modern times.
- Obesity is a disorder of excess fat accumulation. This is triggered not by overeating or sedentary behavior, but by an imbalance of insulin which causes a disturbance in the hormonal regulation of fat tissue and fat metabolism. More fat is stored in the fat tissue than is mobilized and used for fuel. We become leaner when the hormonal regulation of the fat tissue reverses this imbalance.
- Consuming excess calories does not cause us to grow fatter any more than it causes a child to grow taller.
- Exercise does not make us lose excess fat; it makes us hungry.
- We get fat because of an imbalance—a disequilibrium—in the hormonal regulation of fat tissue and fat metabolism. More fat is stored in the fat tissue than is mobilized and used for fuel. We become leaner when the hormonal regulation of the fat tissue reverses this imbalance. (Carbohydrate drives insulin, drives fat (also Cahill 1965))
- Insulin is the primary regulator of fat storage. When insulin levels are elevated, we stockpile calories as fat. When insulin levels fall, we release fat from our fat tissue and burn it for fuel.
- By stimulating insulin secretion, carbohydrates make us fat and ultimately cause obesity. By driving fat accumulation, carbohydrates also increase hunger and decrease the amount of energy we expend in metabolism and physical activity.
- The fewer carbohydrates we eat, the leaner we will be.
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