The Primal Connection

Challenge yourself to disconnect. As a general rule, stay focused at work, but when you come home, stay tuned in there. Try not to skirt it with rationalizations as you fondle your iPhone in one hand, and push your child on the swing with the other.

healthier we are, the more efficient our physiological functioning, the more normalized our hormonal responses, the more health promoting our epigenetic storyline ... and quite likely, the more content, satisfied, and fulfilled we can be.

Today, we make what isn’t real our reality. We literally dream up ways to make our lives more difficult and miserable. We spend hours obsessing in front of mirrors when our ancient ancestors never in their lives saw a full image of their own reflection. We compare ourselves to digitally enhanced people on magazine covers, who in reality have no con

As Art DeVany, author of The New Evolution Diet, is fond of saying, to the hunter-gatherer, there is no failure— only feedback. Indeed,

The synergy of light, appetite, and fat storage is actually a desirable evolutionary process kicking in. Our ancestors stayed up later in the summers eating carbs in the form of seasonal fruits, vegetables, and tubers. This triggered hormonal processes that prompted their bodies to start storing fat, a desired effect when considering the long, cold

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OUR GENES PREDISPOSE US to prefer the sights, smells, sounds, and sensations of the wide-open savanna, amid the chirping of birds, the feel

PERSONAL EXPERIMENT: TRY A TECHNOLOGY FAST For one day, see if you can survive without your car, TV, computer, or other technology. Bicycle to the farmers market and bring home some bounty in your backpack or basket. Work your way leisurely through the Sunday paper, the accumulating magazine pile, or that page-turner gathering dust on your night ta

Life is 10 percent what happens to us (chance) and 90 percent how we respond to it (choice).