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What is a fast-mimicking diet?

The Fasting-Mimicking Diet (FMD) was developed by Valter Longo, director of the Longevity Institute at USC, through decades of research on caloric restriction, autophagy, and stem cell regeneration.

The key insight from Longo’s lab was that it’s not zero calories that matter — it’s the absence of signals that tell the body nutrients are available (primarily protein and sugar). With the right macro composition (very low protein, very low sugar, higher healthy fat), the body enters a fasting-like state even with some caloric intake.

The FMD human protocol is typically 700–1,100 kcal daily calorie intake.

Valter Longo describes FMD in his book The Longevity Diet: Discover the New Science Behind Stem Cell Activation and Regeneration to Slow Aging, Fight Disease, and Optimize Weight. The FMD research — including the comparison to water fasting effects — is described primarily in Chapters 6 and 7, where Longo walks through the clinical trials and the mechanistic reasoning behind why caloric restriction with the right macros mimics prolonged fasting at the cellular level.

The landmark peer-reviewed paper behind the book:
Brandhorst S. et al., “A Periodic Diet that Mimics Fasting Promotes Multi-System Regeneration, Enhanced Cognitive Performance, and Healthspan,” Cell Metabolism, 2015.

How the app uses FMD: the app includes a toggle to track time spent within a fast-mimicking window. This is informational only — unlike dry fasting, enabling FMD doesn’t change your effective fast hours. Use the FMD toggle if you’ve consumed some calories but believe you’re still within FMD constraints (under 800–1,100 kcal depending on the day, with macronutrients consistent with the FMD protocol).

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What is a dry fast?

During a dry fast, you consume nothing at all — no food and no liquids. This is unlike a water fast, where you avoid calories but can drink freely: water, black coffee, unsweetened tea.

By some measures, 1 day of dry fasting delivers the same metabolic benefit as 3 days of water fasting.

The effect varies between individuals — so the app includes an adjustable multiplier specifically for dry fasts. If you’ve observed or believe that dry fasting is 3× more effective than water fasting for you, set the multiplier to 3.

As an example, the app’s author has observed that his muscle mass loss is 2.6 times lower during dry fasts compared to water fasts. Since muscle preservation is his most important metric, he sets the multiplier at 2.6.

By empirical observation, in everyday situations without intense cardio, a dry fast feels about the same as a water fast — but with amplified effects, which include:

  • Preserving muscle mass better (roughly 2× less muscle loss during dry fasts)
  • Increased immune response, as dry fasting helps eliminate harmful bacteria
  • Accelerated fat burn, since the body must burn fat not only for energy but also to produce the water it needs for biological processes

The app includes a toggle to track dry fasting, including when it’s part of a longer fast that combines both dry and water phases.

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The app manual [you probably don’t need]

A. Getting started

  1. Choose your intended fast length in hours (or days and hours), press Start, and you’re fasting.
  2. Once the fast is running:
    • The progress bar tracks your fast against your intended hours. Its colour shifts from grey to yellow to green as you progress — each colour tied to the metabolic state your body is entering.
    • A status message below the bar briefly describes what’s happening in your body at that stage.
    • A summary line shows the percentage of intended time elapsed and the projected completion time.
  3. Dry fasting: if you plan to go without any liquids for longer than 12 hours — even as part of a longer water fast — enable Dry Fast in Settings and flip the toggle when you begin. You can adjust the dry-to-water fast multiplier or leave it at the default of 3 (meaning 1 day of dry fasting is treated as equivalent to 3 days of water fasting). The app recalculates your effective fast hours accordingly.
  4. Fast-mimicking mode: if you eat something during a fast — intentionally or by accident — but your intake stays under 500 kcal in any 24-hour window, toggle on Fast-Mimicking mode instead of ending the fast. This doesn’t change your effective fast hours; it adds a visual marker to the progress bar so you can see when you were in a fast-mimicking window.

How dry fasting shows on the progress bar: dry fast time appears as a black dotted line for the first 12 hours. If you stop the dry fast before 12 hours, the dotted line stays as a visual marker but doesn’t affect your effective hours. Once you pass 12 hours, the line turns solid and the app multiplies those hours by your multiplier to calculate effective fast time. Example: 16 hours of dry fasting × 3 (default multiplier) = 48 effective fast hours.

B. Notes and mood log

During a fast, you can log your mood on a 1–10 scale. Press Save and the rating appears directly on the progress bar, giving you a visual map of how you felt over the course of the fast.

You can also add timestamped notes at any point. These become valuable when you review past fasts — patterns emerge, and you learn what works for your body. Notes and photos are included when you export your data, making them especially useful if you run your fasting history through an AI tool for analysis.

The free version includes mood logs and text notes. Premium adds photo attachments — snap a photo or pick one from your library.

C. Data export

Your data stays on your device — the app doesn’t store anything externally. Whenever you want, go to Settings → Export Data and everything is saved as a .json file.

JSON is readable by a wide range of apps and is ideal for AI analysis, either on its own or combined with data from smart scales, rings, or watches.

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The fasting app with pro tweaks

Most fasting apps count down to a finish line. This one doesn’t — and that’s by design.

Paleo Fasting was shaped by people who fast regularly, not by people who read about fasting. All the essentials are here — timer, mood log, notes — free, for everyone, permanently. But a few things work differently than you might expect.

No countdown to “done”

You won’t find a timer counting down to zero. You set intended fast hours — and that’s a deliberate, philosophical choice.

Fasting is not something you should do. It’s something you choose to do. No meaningful experience deserves a deadline ticking over your head. Your body is not a stopwatch; it doesn’t operate on a precise hour-by-hour schedule, and neither should your mindset.

Here’s what that means in practice: if you set out to fast 72 hours but stop at 48 — or even at 16 — this app records that as a success. Because it is one. Life intervenes, your body sends signals, plans change. A shorter fast is still a fast. The app will never brand any session a “failure,” regardless of what you originally intended.

Intended hours, not a hard goal. You’re always welcome to hit them or go beyond — but you’ll never be punished for listening to your body.

Dry fasting mode

Dry fasting — no food and no liquids — is water fasting with the intensity turned up. The research is still young, but what exists is compelling: dry fasting may deliver roughly 3× the metabolic benefit of a water fast over the same period. Muscle preservation appears to be about 2× better, while fat loss and autophagy accelerate.

The app lets you track dry fasting segments within a longer fast and adjust a personal multiplier based on your own observations. There’s a dedicated forum post on the science and practicalities — worth reading before you try it.Fast-mimicking mode

Fast-mimicking mode

You’re mid-fast and you eat something. Fast ruined? Not necessarily. Research led by Valter Longo at USC shows that fasting benefits remain largely intact when daily intake stays between 800 and 1,100 kcal with the right macro profile — very low protein, very low sugar, moderate healthy fat.

The app includes a toggle for this: flip it on and your progress bar reflects that you’ve entered a fast-mimicking window rather than broken the fast entirely. More on how this works and the research behind it in a separate forum post.

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Office Warrior: Productivity Meets Fitness

Introduction: Unlock the Secret to Workplace Wellness and Efficiency

Have you ever finished a workday feeling both accomplished and physically invigorated? It might sound too good to be true, but you can achieve peak productivity while also improving your fitness. That’s like having peak focus all day in office and having a full workout session. All without leaving your office. In this post, I’ll share my surprising discovery of how integrating simple exercises into my work routine led to not only a highly productive day but also unexpectedly sore abs the next day. Let’s explore how you can revolutionise your daily grind, turning it into your personal goldilocks of productivity and health.

The Magic of Timed Work Intervals

Time management technique (aka Pomodoro technique) that involve working in focused bursts have been around for years, and for good reason. This method typically involves 25 minutes of concentrated work followed by a short break. After a series of these cycles, you take a longer break. I found that 35-minute work intervals worked best for me, allowing for deep focus without fatigue.

The Science Behind It

Although the technique has been discovered empirically, since then scientific research has shown that prolonged periods of sitting can slow down metabolism, decrease focus, and contribute to increased body fat storage. By incorporating brief, strategic movement breaks, you can counteract these negative effects and maintain high energy levels throughout the day.

Maximising Break-Time Efficiency with Movement

On the day I experienced both peak productivity and an equivalent of super-efficient workout, I filled my short breaks with bodyweight exercises. Each pause became an opportunity for abs exercises —activities that require nothing more than a small space and perhaps a yoga mat.

Effective Break-Time Exercises

Although on that particular wonder day I chose abs exercises, for the purposes of productivity it really doesn’t matter what kind of exercise you use. 

1. Bodyweight Exercises (calisthenics): Push-ups, squats, and lunges are excellent for building strength without equipment.

2. Stretching Routines: These help relieve tension and improve flexibility.

3. Yoga Exercises: yoga offers a variety of exercises that can target specific body zones, allowing to focus on areas you want to strengthen, stretch, or improve.

4. Nothing of the above seems doable: simple walk to water cooler is better than nothing. 

4. However, avoid anything what is so strenuous that require proper warmup for the sake of avoidance of injuries – like, exercises involving lifting heavy weights. Generally, you’re safe as long as you stick to using bodyweight only. 

Remember, the type of exercise isn’t as important as the act of moving itself. Any movement helps keep your blood flowing and your mind alert.

A Day of Unparalleled Productivity

That particular day was extraordinary. I maintained focus and energy from early morning until late evening, working productively for 16 hours—a duration I previously thought impossible without having the focus wandering off. The cherry on top? I ended up with pleasantly sore abs the next day, a tangible reminder of how effective this integrated approach to work and fitness can be.

Conclusion: Cultivating a Sustainable Habit

This experience has shown that it’s possible to boost productivity while simultaneously improving fitness. By refining this method, you can develop a sustainable habit that enhances both your work performance and physical health.

To learn about maximising your productivity while staying fit, explore our course Productive & Fit You by the Hour. 

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Food negativity is everywhere and that’s good

Wherever you go for health-related ‘news’, you’re likely to encounter a lot of negativity. Obesity is on the rise. Ultra-processed foods are engineered to be addictive. Sugar and seed oils are omnipresent, along with residues of pesticides and other agricultural chemicals. Corporations seem to be poisoning people for profit. Collective health statistics are deteriorating. Doctors have effectively become drug dealers for pharmaceutical companies. The system appears to have evolved to push us towards consuming addictive food (feeding Big Food) and predictably making us ill (to feed Big Pharma). And what about electromagnetic field exposure and chemtrails?

The poster case of negativity is this famous American Health Crisis Roundtable, where a constellation of influencers (‘experts’) delivered a very convincing ‘negative’ message. The message was very correct, based on facts which reinforce the notion of very dim reality when it comes to health and, particularly, prevalence of ultraprocessed food. I put the ‘experts’ in quotation marks for the single reason that most of those influencers make living by peddling various supplements which are nothing else but a genre of ultraprocessed stuff. So, some of them are far from being impartial – nevertheless, the message itself is very correct. The state of things is  bad.

Depressing? Maybe. But what if it’s true? Unfortunately, much of it is. In this case, the negativity is not only justified but a necessary step towards correcting what’s wrong. So, why the negativity and what’s exactly wrong? Let’s restrict ourselves only to subjects concerning health and well-being.

You can get your answer the next time you go to a supermarket. Just look at what people have in their shopping carts. Is that stuff good or bad for them? Can they be healthy if they consume that every day? I have a habit, for better or worse, of glimpsing into almost every shopping cart. In my case, the typical description of what I see is: ‘Horrible’. That’s 90% of the time. Then there are a few cases where there’s a mix of good and bad stuff. And then there are very rare occasions when everything in the cart is good. That’s probably less than 1 time out of 100.

Let’s presume one knows everything about which foods are good for health and which to avoid. You know, pesticides, Dirty Dozen fruits and vegetables, sugar, additives… all that stuff proven to be bad for health. It’s there, on the shelves of every supermarket, for the sole reason that it’s profitable to sell it. At the same time, it’s proven to be bad for health yet legal to sell. Yes, food producers are essentially poisoning us for profit.

Even more soul-scorching is seeing kids buying sweets and instant noodle soup – and that’s all they’re buying. That’s conditioning them for life… conditioning which is harmful to health but will be associated with their childhood… conditioning that will be very difficult to unlearn if they ever learn how unhealthy that stuff is. They may never unlearn it.

Now, you know it all and want to avoid buying only food free of stuff known to be bad for health. The problem is that you can’t avoid it entirely. There are very few items of clean food one can get in any particular supermarket. It differs a bit by country and neighbourhood but, generally, most of the products in any supermarket should not be consumed. They’re not good for health one way or another.

For me, it’s a rigid habit to go into any supermarket knowing that 99% of the products there are not good. The ones I frequent usually have only a single-digit item list which I buy – certain bio cheese, kefir, cottage cheese, canned venison without additives, occasional almonds, cayenne pepper and Himalayan salt, bio red wine, avocados, bio apples… that’s pretty much it. Like 10 items out of thousands of items in any such supermarket.

Where do I get my food from? My staple food I get directly from producers which are regenerative agriculture farms. Egg delivery once a week. Meat delivery usually every 2 weeks. Occasional delivery of avocados and seasonal fruits and vegetables.

Is it always possible? No. At least not for me, not in the current real-life conditions. On those occasions when I have to compromise on food quality, I intend to remain mindful about it. Sugar? Very rarely and very little – think about how to burn off that fast energy and recover from low-intensity inflammation the sugar causes and regain gut health. Grains? The same as sugar plus think of how much dry fasting will be necessary to burn out the nasty pesticides. Non-bio meat? Think of dry fasting again to burn out the nasties in the form of residues of therapeutic antibiotics and pesticides as those animals were possibly fed the worst kind of non-bio feed.

Back to the issue of negativity. If only less than 1% of products in your supermarket are good, negativity about it is not only justified but necessary for awareness. If you don’t touch those 99% of outright harmful products, this negativity is not applied to your food choices. Yet, the negativity serves a noble purpose until the remaining 99% make a different consumer choice. If nobody buys, it will not be there. Supermarkets are in business to make money, they sell what people buy, even if that means being part of the established chain which, effectively, poisons people for profit.

But let’s look at all this in a positive way. There are still supply channels available for healthy food (even if it doesn’t come with the convenience of shopping in the supermarket) – use those channels, choose your food carefully for great benefit to yourself and, ultimately, for the greater good.

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How to Hike for Health (Why 99% of People Do it Wrong)

The title is probably misleading. There is no right or wrong way to hike. Whatever way one hikes, the chances are that it is better for health than the usual everyday life. If somebody smokes and eats junk food customarily – and continues doing it while out hiking, he or she is still better off out hiking than doing the same by staying on a couch and binge watching Netflix. The effects of bad habits are somewhat mitigated by the very fact of being out hiking, i.e doing physical exercise in fresh air.

I do not know motivation of other persons. I can try to define my motivation for going out on hike. I basically seek soothing physical exercise by walking all day in nature, meditative experience, complete digital detox. I expect to come back from a longer hike calmer and fitter.

There are several aspects for my hiking, which I consider of critical importance, without which my hiking experience would be deficient. Those aspects are mentioned below.

  1. Walk in minimalist shoes, no matter how difficult is the trail. Minimalist shoes will not make you the fastest hiker, the opposite is more likely. But going while feeling every stone you step on, being very mindful all the time where to put your feet, enjoy the benefits of walking in minimalist shoes – for me it is very important. For me hiking in ‘regular hiking boots’ – you know, those one can comfortably kick stones around and hardly feel anything – are not enjoyable, or desirable.

    Why 99% do it wrong: This year (2023) I hiked for 4 weeks doing Tour du Mont Blanc and GR 20 trail in Corsica. I only met one person who hiked in minimalist shoes (Xero hiking boots). That makes us 2 out of thousands of persons I met in the mountains (those are very crowded trails, you generally meet a lot of people every day).

  2. Make no compromise on food quality when out on trail. Good food is generally not available in the mountains. The only reliable food sources are dinners and breakfasts in shelters. Those meals, as prepared by shelter operators, are so heavily based on pasta and white bread that should be considered as junk food.

    For this reason I almost never eat shelter food. This year I ate twice during 4-week hike. One time it was good (no bread or pasta) and the other time I got sick for a half day (lasagne and too much bread plus apparently some sanitary condition during the food preparation).

    Why 99% do it wrong: This year I did not meet a single person who considered shelter meal as junk food. There were some complaints in places where it was the worst but shelter food is generally approved as good. I noticed that Coca-Cola and potato chips were the favourite drink and snack in shelters –  and that stuff is usually brought up there on donkey back or with helicopter. Snacking on mountain tops is very usual – typically a sandwich or some candy bars.

  3. I prefer nice trails in woods rather than challenging stony mountain tops with great views. Trail in woods generally allow for low-intensity cardio allowing to walk from sunrise and to sunset without getting excessively tired. Trail in woods allow for meditative experience and nasal breathing. Woods offer more enjoyable sensory experience of sounds and scents than any mountain top. I find no pleasure of conquering tree-less mountain tops through strenuous physical exercise, often under blazing sun – and I derive hardly any pleasure from views from mountain tops (I may pass those without stopping, they are not the reason I hike).

    The trails I chose this year were a bad fit for my hiking needs. Those are epic trails and had to be done once. But those were difficult trails, too risky for minimalist shoes (although I managed to complete without any foot injuries), did not allow for sufficient meditative experience — too many steep ascends where nasal breathing is a struggle if possible at all.

    Why 99% do it wrong: I did not meet any person who would say a half bad word about the trail. Even if all of them had too much cardio than can be considered as a healthy dose. Those trails are done mostly for ego – ‘the Europe’s hardest’, ‘one of the most beautiful’ rather than for pure enjoyment and health enhancement.

Those aspects are very subjective. Every person has their own. These are mine subjective considerations. That is my ‘right way of hiking’. According to those [my] criteria, 99.9% of people do it wrong. And probably I do it wrong if their criteria are applied. 

For me hiking in non-minimalist shoes, eating junk food while out in mountains and having too much cardio (impeding meditation and nasal breathing) is not proper hiking, I don’t want that kind of hiking. I’m at peace that for 99.9% of others this is of no importance and they hike as they deem to be the correct way. 

Paleo Karma way is about opting out – of ultra-processed foods, of over-pampered shoes – and embracing the aspects of life what made our Paleo era ancestors strong, healthy and resilient individuals. 

One should be at peace that 99% of products in any regular grocery store are not good for health. That 99% of shoes sold are sub-optimal for health, particularly posture. That social networks are designed to be addictive. Etc.  In general, to be at peace that 99% of mainstream products and habits should be viewed as harmful – they lead to collective health stats. And those health stats are appalling. Cardiovascular diseases and cancer are the main causes of death in the developed world. Those terminal illnesses were virtually unknown to Paleo era person.

Consumption of mainstream products and adopting of mainstream lifestyle leads to becoming part of mainstream health stats, i.e being a sick person. Paleo Karma lifestyle is about remaining healthy and happy person. That’s a lifestyle so different from lifestyle of the majority of people. Hiking habits/gear/motivation is just another illustration of it.

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Summary of Paleo Axioms

Our description of what it means to live by paleo axioms is here.

What are those axioms? Paleo axioms is a set of habits and life choices which reconcile us as a ‘modern human’ with our physiological and psychological setup as ‘an ancient human’ who deep-down knows how to be healthy and happy.

The axioms work best as a set. Following them allows you to function at your true potential, maximises productivity, promotes vibrant health and enjoyment of life. 

Realistically, it may not be possible to follow all of them all the time. It’s not necessary – even following half of them half the time will raise you above the average. Most people do not follow none of those and they make up the dire statistics of collective health.

It is necessary to reach some critical mass of observance. Say, cold exposure (Axiom #4) alone will not compensate if one is eating only junk food (ignoring Axiom #1). The more you move dial toward observance of axioms, the more healthy, happier and productive you’ll be. Once the proverbial dial moves above 50% (in terms of axioms observed and time observed), the benefits will be immense. At 80% or above you’re probably the best version of yourself.

Paleo Axiom 1: Eat Clean

Eat biodynamic food only to limit exposure to omnipresent residues of pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics and other harmful substances in commercially farmed food. Aim to reduce carbs (particularly, flour and sugar) to become metabolically healthy, fat-adapted individual. A healthy individual feels slightly sick when eating ultra processed, high carb food – like donuts, hot dogs etc. – because that food is unnatural and incompatible with what millions of years of evolution made the human to be.

The food supply today is defined by ease of production, storage, cost (including subsidies) and are profit-driven. The concern about consumers’ health is not on top priority list. As long as it’s legal, any food can be promoted as ‘healthy’. And there’s a lot of stuff there which is proved to be harmful at commonly consumed rations yet perfectly legal to sell and promote without any restrictions.

Don’t engage in discussion if anything in ultra processed food is a health hazard. It may or may not. Collective health stats imply it is harmful. What’s clear it does not add to health, so avoid. It is easier to avoid discussion if that e-250 in processed meat, cheeses etc causes cancer or not – the only safe bet is to stay clear of any food where it’s added. Coincidently, the same e-250 is used as poison to control wild boar populations in Australia – why would you eat that poison?

Paleo Axiom 2: Exercise Optimally

Sedentary lifestyle is very harmful but so is overtraining. It is important to train regularly and, equally important, let the body fully recover in between the sessions. Cardio, like running, is useful only in limited doses. Contrary to common beliefs like ‘no pain, no gain’ weight lifting or running every single day is not healthy – the opposite may be true. The only exercise which can be practiced without any limit is walking. A healthy human can walk from sunrise to sunset without causing any inflammation in the body (like running or weight lifting does every single time).

Paleo Axiom 3: Get Sound Sleep

No individual who does not sleep well for prolonged period of time can be healthy. Particularly, deep sleep phase is the most valuable (that’s when recovery and detoxification happens) and the most evasive. The good news is that, if you follow other axioms (particularly, the first two above) quality sleep comes naturally to reinforce the beneficial cycle of wellness (just make a commitment get to bed on time – preferably 2-3 hours before midnight). 

Paleo Axiom 4: Observe Fasts

There’s reason fasting is part of practicing every major religion – christianity, islam, judaism … On more joyous note, even he classics have noted it: `A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors’ (Marc Twain). There is a reason for that. Fasting is a very powerful tool for vibrant health, including prevention of deadly diseases and ensuring metabolic health. Yet, a large part of members of society have never missed a meal, i.e. they have never practiced fasting.

Paleo Axiom 5: Embrace Cold Exposure

Just like fasting, cold exposure has been an integral part of what was evolution of human body. Humans are designed by nature to be react to hormesis (a short period of discomfort) to come out with stronger immune system and calmer mind. Modern life allows most humans to live without experiencing any such hormetic event, like cold exposure, and this makes the body weaker in long term. Stepping out of comfort zone to alignment with our roots to build up our health from basics up. 

Paleo Axiom 6: Clean Environment & Careful with EMF Exposure

The modern industry produced tens of thousands of chemicals which would have been absolutely foreign to a healthy paleo age man. House cleaning products, personal hygiene products, air pollution from exhausts … the sources of exposure to non-natural chemicals and pollution seem endless. Many of those products are harmless even if not natural but even more of those are proved to be harmful (yet perfectly legal to produce and sell …). EMF – short of electromagnetic field – exposure has increased a trillion times (yes, a trillion, with 12 zeros) since Paleo era and EMF structure has become unrecognisably complex. Don’t listen to government assurances that EMF exposure at this level is safe. It is not, there is scientific proof of it, manage your exposure accordingly.

Paleo Axiom 7: Achieve Psychological Wellbeing

Wellbeing is a symbiosis of physical and mental health. One can nurture or destroy each other. The first 6 axioms deal mostly with physical health which irrefutably reflect back to mental health. If you practice other axioms, the chances are that you already experience psychological well-being. However, there may be more to it – from solving relationship problems, to finding your ikigai  or practicing meditation. Psychological well-being, alongside with physical health, is an integral part of holistic health in line with Paleo Karma principles. Our brain has an immense power both to heal and destroy – treat the power of your brain with utmost respect.

Paleo Axiom 8: Practice Earthing (Grounding)

That’s as simple as being barefoot on the ground for some time of the day. It’s proven that earthing has multiple health benefits, including improved functioning of immune system. Yet, for many people – say, someone living in sky-rise building and in colder climate – how ofter there is direct contact with earth? Even in summer, in nature, the chances are that there’s a rubber sole between ones foot and ground. Swimming in lake/river/ocean has the same effect as grounding.

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Living by Paleo Axioms

Each paleo axiom is a habit what is undeniably good for your physical and mental wellbeing. It is a habit which over millions of years kept humans healthy and strong to survive the harsh environment be happy every time when they succeeded.

The environment we live today is not ‘harsh’ anymore, not by Paleo era standards. In a way, there is no need to be strong or even healthy to survive. In our modern world being fit and healthy is not a precondition for survival – any sick and unfit person will be fed, taking care of and kept alive. There is no need to scavenge for food, and spend energy doing so – the food is readily available. Happiness, if defined by dopamine surge, is nothing to fight for – it comes through display of a mobile phone, in form of food engined to exact ‘pleasure point’ of certain mix of fats, carbs and protein. Omnipresent synthetic chemicals and electromagnetic field is something our God-given immunity is not designed to handle.

We live in the best time of human history. There is more freedom and opportunities available to any person than any time before. There are solutions for problems which have never before had before – like, just think about surgery tools, information technology etc.

Yet, in the process, we’ve taken it too far. We’ve adopted too many things which are harmful due to way we employ them in our lives. Too much comfort, too much food, too unnatural chemicals in food, products engineered to give quick and sure dopamine boost through various senses without any effort, too much unnatural electromagnetic field exposure … The immune system of a human being is very resilient system but there is only so much it can handle – and currently we are at a point where we constantly overload and chronically weaken those protection mechanisms to the point that first time in 200 years the life expectancy at birth is going to decline. In a way, physically pampered life kills us, ignorance about omnipresent risk factors kills … and kills in bad ways – just google for collective health stats to find out in how bad ways.

The good thing is that to a large extend we can have all the comforts of modern life and health and happiness protocol of an ancient man. In simpler words, no need to be obese, sick and depressed – to be fit, healthy and happy feels so much better.

Living by paleo axioms is taking back the vibrant health, energy and happiness in the best version of ancient man while keeping all the amenities of modern life.

This is about being mindless of ‘manufactured happiness’ of the modern world, being educated and aware about why the prevailing food supply is what it is (hint: your health is not on the top priority list ), what are real effects and side-effects of widely used pills, learning about safe of use of modern technology like mobile phones (no, they are not unconditionally safe).

Based on knowledge of objective facts, which are often well hidden in the incessant information avalanche, one stacks good habits and eliminates bad habits. To achieve this is more delicate balancing act as it seems. A lot stands in our way – conditioning, peer pressure, corporate lobbies leading to withholding information … Yet, at the end of the day it’s you and only you who can adapt a good habit – sometimes effortlessly, sometimes through a short-lived discomfort what leads to 10x comfort later.

Our summary of paleo axioms is here.