Many unhappy returns
Over the course of the last year, I’ve had a few close brushes with corporate wellness, a world that I’ve found to be strange and in many ways, extremely disturbing. In general, every encounter has had a strikingly similar look and feel: I make a pitch to someone in the organization and lay out all the advantages of a healthy workforce and the need for training ...
Pop goes the Paleo
I was recently contacted by a “journalist” who wanted some “secrets” about Paleo health and fitness. It was obvious that she had no interest in Paleo itself. Rather, she wanted a sentence fragment or two that might fit into an article with other weight-loss, lifestyle and fashion “tips.” ...
Anything is possible
Maybe you’re new to movement. Maybe you’ve been on the couch for the last few years. Or, maybe you’re an experienced athlete, but you’re stuck in a movement rut and you need some inspiration. Where do you turn for instruction? ...
Before and after the before-and-after
In the hyper-competitive world of physical training and health promotion, marketing experts tell us that we’ve got to have the images to make our case. Consumers are highly visual creatures and they’re more likely to respond to dramatic imagery than big blocks of explanatory text ...
Living and thriving in two worlds
There comes a time in every young Paleo enthusiast’s life when the magnitude of our predicament comes into sharp focus. We begin to realize that our bodies are truly ancient, sculpted over the course of tens of thousands of generations for survival in a world that, for all practical purposes, no longer exists ...
I’m funny looking, you’re funny looking
Sports commentators sometimes tell us that “every athlete dies twice.” The first death comes when injury forces the star into retirement, the second comes some years later when his heart beats for the last time ...
Take this story and call me in the morning
Are you a machine? Is your body like a very intricate watch, a complex system of mechanisms and feedback loops? Are you just a flesh and blood cyborg? Sounds kind of creepy, doesn’t it? And yet, that’s precisely how many people think about the human body ...
How to do one thing
Put down your phone now and read this.
Yes, you, I’m talking to you!
I know you’re distracted and frantic and in a hurry, you’ve got a million things to do and you need to find out what’s going on and, um…wait… where was I going with this?
Those deaf, dumb and blind kids
Back in my younger days, the rallying cry was “don’t trust anyone over 30.” At the time, I thought that there might be some merit to that advice. Adults do have a way of monopolizing the learning process and stomping on creativity ...
We are people through other people
Frank Forencich speaking at the Ancestral Health Symposium, 2012.
A plea for the body
Throughout the entire history of life on earth (a period of some 3 billion years), organisms have experienced and learned about the world through direct participation of their bodies and their senses ...
One For All
Imagine that you're watching a really bad movie. For some reason, the writer, producer, director and editor all hate each other and could never agree on what the film is supposed to be about. In the end, they decided to release it anyway, even thought it’s nothing more than a patchwork of disconnected, disjointed ideas. It’s called Mexed Missage.
A modest proposal for 2013
I've always found it curious, our cultural habit of bringing various things to work on designated days of the year. A quick troll of the Internet reveals an amazing variety of days (some real, some imagined) in which people are encouraged to bring some person or item of interest with them to the office, the school, the hospital or the factory.
You are the one
Hi! I’m a health expert and I’m going to tell you how to live. I’m going to tell you how to exercise, what to eat and when to eat it. I’m going to tell you how to succeed in athletic training and how to avoid injury.
Wicked smarts for a complex life
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities–brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
John W. Gardner
Do you ever get tired of health experts? You know, those know-it-all pundits who appear in major media with simple solutions to difficult health and lifestyle problems? Did you ever get the impression that these commentators live in an artificial wonderland of unlimited time, money and resources?