What is the Primal blueprint? The ” Primal Blueprint ” is the way to know what actually makes your body going. It is indeed a way to rejuvenate your body and revitalize your metabolism. Primal Blueprint shows you that you have the power and ability to control your overall health, determine your own body composition as well as direct the genes towards muscle building, fat burning and energy producing ways.

It is basically a set of instructions or a blueprint which allows you to have control on the way your genes express themselves to build healthiest, strongest and leanest body.

Understanding the essence of the blueprint

Life is not that tough as we believe it to be. You can surely have an impact on the way your genes express themselves. You can do this by providing right environment to your body cells. You need to have basic and clear understanding of the way in which your body works and a road-map to know answer to how to have optimal fitness and health. By following this easy strategy, you will be able to evaluate or know the food choices to make, exercise to indulge in to lead a healthy life. And even when you opt for some “bad” or unhealthy choice, at least you would know that why it is not good for you.

Say no to grains

In the Primal way of living, grains are a necessary opt out stuff. Despite their high place in conventional hierarchy of healthy food plan, grains are totally unnecessary in the eyes of primal blueprint. And this includes whole grains as well.

For all the health benefits that grains have, it is actually not the case when you research deeply about them. Primal way of living did not give any emphasis on eating the grains in any form be it refined or whole grains.

Eat animals, insects and plants

The primal eating pattern lays emphasis on quality protein sources like fish, all types of meat, fowl etc., colorful veggies, selected fruits like berries and fats such as olive oil, avocado and nuts except peanuts. The primal living says to observe your portion control every week first and then to each meal. The primal followers need to eliminate sugars, hydrogenated and trans fats and grains completely from their diet in order to achieve good health and desired results.

Slow paced activities

We all know that our forefathers or ancestors spent many hours every day moving around here and there for food, work etc. and that was called as the low level aerobic pace. They gathered, wandered, hunted, migrated, foraged, climbed, crawled and scouted. This type of an activity prompted their body genes to build stronger blood vessels to fuel the muscle cells, to store excess food and also to convert the stored food or fat into energy. Obviously they did all this everyday without thinking about the same. And as each footfall landed at different angle, so each tendon, ligament and muscle worked and thus became stronger.

This is the same approach that primal living wants its followers to adopt i.e. to do slow paced activities every day.