Secrets to Unlocking the Genes That Want You to be Lean, Healthy and Looking Years Younger

Introduction

The purpose of this document is the give a one-stop summary of my continually evolving life way in diet, nutrition, exercise, fitness, and health. I draw from vast sources of information, employ the scientific method, evolutionary logic, and have consequently come away with the firm conviction that the mainstream dietary advice is not only wrong, but is maliciously maiming and killing people in great numbers, devastating families, imposing tremendous costs that will ultimately be covered by healthier people, and that the medical and drug industries are profiting from all of it.

What is meant by "Animal," and "Freeing" it?

• Free the Animal
• Your Inner Animal
• Animals Don't Need Gurus

Please take a moment to review some of the results that have been achieved through my Free the Animal Program.

• First Photo Progress Update, February 2008
• Second Photo Progress Update, September 2008
• Third Photo Progress Update, June 2009
• My Lipid Panel
• Some Results Reported by Others

Foundation

The Foundation of my approach to diet and exercise is evolutionary biology. This informs a logic known as natural selection, which in turn helps us understand what humans ought to eat and not eat, how much, how often, and even when not to eat at all (fasting).

In addition, we can also understand how to move around such as to properly condition our bodies for natural, animal-like physical health.

However, should you personally not want to accept evolutionary science, you don't have to in order to gain all the benefits possible from my program (See: You Don't Have to Believe in Evolution).

Here's a 5-point summary of what forms the essence of the approach:

1. Eat real food (meat, fowl, fish, natural fats from animals, coconuts & olives; veggies, fruits, & nuts) that you shop for and prepare yourself most of the time. Add a little dairy if you like it and can tolerate it. Find the range of balance that works best for you in terms of fat, protein & carbohydrate ratios. I say 'range' because I think you ought to mix things up; seasonally, or whatever method works for you. Especially: cut out grains, sugar and vegetable oils. Consider supplementing with omega-3 fats.
2. Allow yourself to go hungry every day, at least a little (first meal of the day is a good time -- don't eat until you're truly hungry). Every once in a while, go hungry for a whole day.
3. Get plenty of sunlight; and, probably supplement vitamin D.
4. Run very fast sometimes, play hard when you can, and push and lift heavy things around when you have the urge. Do it briefly and intensely; not too often and not too long. Once to twice per week for 20-30 minutes each is plenty. But always push yourself for that brief time. Always try to workout hungry, just like animals.
5. Get lots of sleep.

Food

• How to Cook
• Keeping it Real: Food

Saturated Fat & Cholesterol

• Explore Posts on Saturated Fats
• Explore Posts on the Cholesterol Myth

Meat Eating vs. Vegetarianism and Veganism

• Vegetarian and Vegan Posts
• The Vegetarian Myth, by 20-year vegan, Lierre Keith

Other Must Reads

• Mark Sisson's Primal Blueprint 101 (the brief summary)
• Arthur De Vany's Evolutionary Fitness Essay
• A Little Heads Up For Beginners