Love is beau­ti­ful. Love is essen­tial for elec­tri­fy­ing health. Love is essen­tial for life. With­out the act of mak­ing love, life does not exist. This is beau­ti­ful, don’t you think?

The fol­low­ing is a list of ten love tips that will allow you to live your life with elec­tri­fy­ing health. You want to live as long as pos­si­ble, right? More impor­tantly, you want to feel alive dur­ing your time on beau­ti­ful Earth and not suf­fer from any dis­ease or can­cer. This is cer­tainly pos­si­ble and the fol­low­ing tips will help.

1) Love your­self. You are the most impor­tant thing in your life. If you don’t take care of your­self then how are you going to help others?

2) Love oth­ers. My sis­ter just got mar­ried in Key West. The love she shares with her hus­band is infec­tious. If you are deeply in love then you will make sure your lover is in grand health. You will make sure you are in grand health as well. You want to be with this per­son for as long as possible.

3) Make love. Yes, that means have sex. Sex with some­one you love. Sex is phys­i­cal activ­ity. It gets your blood flow­ing. It’s fun. It’s play. And, of course, it cre­ates life. Mak­ing love with some­one you love is one of the world’s great­est de-stressors in the world. Exces­sive stress is one of many play­ers in dis­ease and can­cer. You want to avoid both, right? Find a lover and make love with him or her!

4) Love to cook and/or pre­pare food. Unless you live with a pro­fes­sional chef, make cook­ing a hobby. If you hate to cook or pre­pare deli­cious raw food such as a smoothie then you are more bound to buy pack­aged junk food at the gro­cer or to pass through a drive thru. If cook­ing becomes a hobby, some­thing you love engag­ing in, then your health will improve. Home cooked meals are almost always bet­ter than pack­aged crap at your local gro­cer. Start with cook­ing meat and veg­gies with lots of spices and herbs and then go from there.

5) Love nature. Where do you spend the major­ity of your time? If you work, eat, relax and get enter­tained indoors then you are prob­a­bly nature defi­cient. Get out­side. I don’t care how cold or hot it is. I hate the cold but I still feel out­ra­geously relieved when I step foot out­side in the heart of the Win­ter. It’s dif­fi­cult to explain the incred­i­ble phe­nom­e­non behind the heal­ing prop­er­ties of nature. If you are con­stantly inside and stressed then it’s time you spend more time out­doors. Go for a short walk. Take a long hike. Play a sport. Go to the beach. Ski or snow­board. Don’t be afraid of the sun. Vit­a­min D3, aka the Sun­shine Vit­a­min, is essen­tial to all life. A burn is too much but a tan is per­fect and pro­tects you from dam­age. Maybe you need a non human com­pan­ion to join you on your walk?

6) Love your pet. We own a lovely Boston Ter­rier. I’m deeply in love. I LOVE tak­ing him for walks. The longer the bet­ter. If I never looked for­ward to putting the leash on him and step­ping out­side then I would feel stressed every time I had to do this “chore.” This would prob­a­bly lead to bad habits that could lead to poor health.

7) Love move­ment. Any form of move­ment is bet­ter than no move­ment at all unless you are com­pletely exhausted or have a strong desire to relax. Every sin­gle time I decide to lift my butt off the chair and do a few push-ups, pull-ups, squats, lunges, leg swings, hip exten­sions, arm cir­cles, etc. I feel alive. My con­fi­dence soars. Just a few min­utes of this many times through­out the day can do won­ders for many folks. Love the move­ment you are engag­ing in and feel your health improve in an instant.

8 ) Love sleep. Sleep is impor­tant. If we all know this is true, then why do we fail to place an impor­tance on it? We instead watch hours of TV on a daily basis. Ditch the tele­vi­sion. You think you love watch­ing the screen when in real­ity you don’t. You love being out­doors. You love to play. You love to sleep. Love it more. Under­stand that it is vital to your health and be grate­ful every time you place your head on your pil­low and pull the cov­ers over your body. Love the energy you gain from sleep.

9) Love to smile. Are you feel­ing stressed out? Smile. Try to laugh a lit­tle. How are you feel­ing now? If you actu­ally com­pleted this small task then you should have felt alive for at least that brief moment. The sim­ple act of smil­ing is one of the sim­plest, yet one of the most pow­er­ful and con­ta­gious actions you can take to improve your health. A fake smile won’t work unless a real laugh fol­lows. But if you make smil­ing a habit then it will all of a sud­den hap­pen auto­mat­i­cally. You will find your­self laugh­ing more. Your hap­pi­ness, and thus health, will increase at a rapid rate. It may take some prac­tice but it’s worth it. It’s so sim­ple folks. Just smile!

10) It’s your turn. Leave a com­ment below with at least one tip that deals with health and love. What do you love that improves your health? Maybe its giv­ing a hug, play­ing a sport, med­i­tat­ing or engag­ing in yoga. What­ever it is, share. I would LOVE to hear your thoughts.

by Todd Dosen­berry

photo credit: Natal­ieMaynor

You want to be healthy. You want lean­ness. You want to feel awe­some as much as pos­si­ble. You want per­fect diges­tion if pos­si­ble. You want to avoid sick­ness. You want to be dis­ease and can­cer free.

You can have it all. The most impor­tant step is feed­ing your body what it desires.

How do you do this?

Buy food at a farm­ers market.

Here is what you may find in abundance:

• Fresh veg­gies
• Fresh fruit
• Pas­tured eggs
• Grass-fed meat (includ­ing the nutri­ent dense organ meats like liver!)
• Fish/seafood
• Nuts and seeds
• Extra virgin/cold pressed Olive Oil

Local food. Sus­tain­able food. Per­haps cer­ti­fied organic food. Food that nour­ishes you. Food that will pre­vent sick­neess, dis­ease and can­cer. Food that will make you come alive.

Food that will make you healthy.

You will meet farm­ers and will be able to learn exactly how your food is grown and raised. You will build rela­tion­ships with the farm­ers you buy from.

You will NOT find crap. You will NOT find CAFO meat. You will NOT find col­or­ful boxes.

Begin to focus your gro­cery shop­ping efforts at your local farm­ers mar­ket start­ing NOW!

Then thank me later.

You need to begin feed­ing your body whole food if you want vibrant health. You will find this at the farm­ers mar­ket. Sure, you can buy whole, real food at your stan­dard gro­cery store. But, most of the “food” that is avail­able is crap unless you are shop­ping at a place like Whole Foods. Farm­ers mar­kets are not per­fect either but it is by far the best place to start. It is by far the best place to focus on.

Go ahead and buy coconut milk at your areas stan­dard grocer.

But, if you want to make it easy on your­self then just visit your farm­ers mar­ket. There are count­less ben­e­fits in doing so.

If you have no idea where a farm­ers mar­ket may be in your area then why not do a quick google search? Or, visit LocalHarvest.org for farm­ers mar­kets or EatWild.com for grass-fed, wild meat.

Do you shop at your local farm­ers mar­ket? Why or why not?

by Todd Dosen­berry

Is it pos­si­ble to give your health to others?

Yes.

The world con­tin­ues to get sicker. This does not mean every indi­vid­ual is get­ting sick. Mil­lions are thriv­ing. Mil­lions have it fig­ured out. They know how to achieve superb health to the point where they can engage in any activ­ity they want. They wake up full of energy, have a pas­sion for life, digest food as well as pos­si­ble and never get sick. They are well on their way to feel­ing like a kid when they become 80 years old. Even 90. They show no signs of slow­ing down and sim­ply love life.

Is this you? Do you want this to be you?

I’m not there yet but I am well on my way. I’m on a life long jour­ney towards superb health. I’ll never reach per­fec­tion because it does not exist. But, I’ll strive for it while doing my absolute best to limit my stress.

In order to give your amaz­ing, vibrant health to oth­ers you must first find it your­self. You must feel the magic and live it day by day. You must move on when you feel like you have fallen through at any given moment. You must never stop edu­cat­ing your­self. You must study your­self. To find out if X food is wrong or right for you, exper­i­ment. I say wheat is not meant for any human being. To find out if this is true for you, elim­i­nate it for 30–60 days. Keep track of how you feel. Then re intro­duce and keep track of how you feel.

Real­ize that health is a life long jour­ney. Seek to improve but be okay with where you are at any given moment.

When you show improve­ments in your health your fam­ily and friends will nat­u­rally begin to ask you ques­tions. If you lose a bunch of weight then they will want to know how you did it if they need to lose weight them­selves. Maybe you had acne but now have per­fectly clear skin. Those who still have acne will want to have skin just like you.

So give it to them. Tell them how you did it when they ask. Remem­ber that health is a life long jour­ney. Just because it worked for you does not mean it will work for them. This is great! Encour­age them to never stop. Tell them that they may need to fail a few times. Fail­ing is good. When you fail, you can learn a lot. If you fail it shows that you at least gave an effort. If you never fail then you are not try­ing hard enough.

Don’t push your lifestyle on oth­ers. That’s not giv­ing. That’s theft. It’s steal­ing their freedom.

I live pri­mally. I do my best to avoid grains, sug­ars, indus­trial oils, legumes and con­ven­tional dairy. After doing this for 20 months, my fam­ily is finally start­ing to jump on board. I don’t push it on them. They see my over­all health improv­ing and want to see the same in them­selves. They ask me ques­tions. They want to learn more.

I choose to live a healthy lifestyle. This has enabled me to give health to oth­ers. This may be the great­est gift in the world. The great­est Christ­mas present any­one could open.

Or maybe a hug, smile and the words “I love you” will do.

What are you giv­ing to your fam­ily and friends this hol­i­day sea­son? Love? Health? Appre­ci­a­tion? Gifts?

by Todd Dosen­berry

photo credit: kevin doo­ley

Con­sump­tion… would you be able to give up 80% or more of the things you have, eat and do for a mil­lion dol­lars? What if you were told you were going to die if you didn’t? It’s dif­fi­cult for us to change unless there is a huge reward or if some­thing dra­mat­i­cally bad is going to hap­pen if we don’t. Can you imag­ine yourself…

• Spend­ing a max­i­mum of 10 min­utes a day on facebook?
• Spend­ing a max­i­mum of 20 min­utes a day in your email inbox?
• Sell­ing or giv­ing away 80% of your clothes?
• With­out a car?
• Never eat­ing wheat again? What about all grains?
• Say­ing no to gifts this Christ­mas? What if you instead asked for love and time with people?
• Being out­side in nature by your­self for 10 hours reflect­ing on life?
• Not spend­ing a sin­gle sec­ond with tech­nol­ogy for a 24 hour time period? 48 hours?
• Engag­ing in only 2 10–30 minute strength ses­sions a week yet put on all the mus­cle you desire?
• Liv­ing in a home with your basic needs and per­haps a few extra strong desires with no clutter?
• Cook­ing sim­ple meals and then tak­ing the time to enjoy your food with fam­ily or friends?
• Work­ing at your job for half of the time you do now?

Does any of the above seem pos­si­ble right now? All of it deals with con­sump­tion. All of it deals with health. More often than not, we don’t need this or that. With less, we would enjoy life more. We would have more time to spend with those who are impor­tant to us. We would have more time for our­selves. We would be less stressed and thus more healthy. I could prob­a­bly come up with 1,000 or more bul­let points and elab­o­rate on them. I’ll stick with the ones that came to my mind first. I’ll now elab­o­rate on them to show you how all of them have improved or could eas­ily improve my life in some way.

Spend­ing less time on facebook

I have a “good excuse” to spend a lot of my time on face­book dur­ing the week. I don’t have a job but rather rely on income I receive from my blogs. One of the best ways to mar­ket is through face­book. With this being said, I’ve noticed that when I take a day here and there to limit my time on face­book or even go a day with­out it, I have some­thing mean­ing­ful to pub­lish on my face­book wall when that time comes. When I let myself roam on face­book for an unlim­ited time period I may not have some­thing use­ful to say but say it any­way because I’m on face­book. I’d be much bet­ter off lim­it­ing my time on face­book. I bet you would be too.

Spend­ing less time in my email inbox

I used to spend an hour or so with email on a daily basis. Most of it was junk but I thought I had to deal with it. I’ve learned over the past few months that spend­ing 10 min­utes some days, 30 min­utes oth­ers while tak­ing some days off entirely, I am much more pro­duc­tive. I tend to work on things that are more impor­tant. Dur­ing this month my eyes have rarely seen my inbox. Instead, I’ve focused on putting the fin­ish­ing touches on my ebook, Toad­ally Pri­mal Smooth­ies. The offi­cial prod­uct launch date is Decem­ber 1 and spend­ing time in my inbox is only hurt­ing me.

Sell­ing most of my clothes

I used to sell Amer­i­can Eagle cloth­ing on eBay. This resulted in me hav­ing way too many freak­ing clothes. I had about 25 polo shirts hang­ing in my closet! This was absurd to say the least. How­ever, I’m proud to say that I am down to 2 polo shirts! Along with the polo shirts I have sold or given away most of every­thing else. I sim­ply did not need it and I now have less clut­ter in my life as a result.

I don’t own a car

I sold my car about 2 months ago. It was one of the great­est days of my life. I have not bought a car since and I don’t plan on buy­ing one any­time soon. In fact, I’m lit­er­ally look­ing to go car­less till at least the year 2020. Instead, I’m going to seek out cities where a car is not at all nec­es­sary. I’m liv­ing in Chicago as I type this. I was in Oahu, Hawaii for 40 days where the bus will lit­er­ally take you any­where on the island. There are thou­sands of cities around the world where walk­ing, rid­ing a bike or tak­ing pub­lic trans­porta­tion is a riot. Life has slowed down for me and I am much more appre­cia­tive of life.

I don’t eat wheat

Last month I asked you if you were ready to ditch wheat. I don’t eat wheat as a nor­mal part of my diet any­more. It used to be the cen­ter­piece but since giv­ing it up my health has improved in many ways. I’ll eat the occa­sional food item that has wheat but this is truly very rare. It’s get­ting eas­ier and eas­ier to say no to any wheat that comes my way. This is actu­ally true with all grains as a mat­ter of fact. Instead, I eat more qual­ity meats (think grass-fed beef) along with more veg­gies and fruits.

Less Christ­mas gifts this year

I used to get a lot of gifts for Christ­mas. It was fun as a kid but it has grown old super fast. I told my mother I did not want any gifts this year. Instead, I sim­ply want to spend qual­ity time with my fam­ily. I’d rather have all of us go ski­ing even though none of us ski. I want love. I don’t want gifts. She insists she gets me some­thing but I’m con­fi­dent it will be less than any Christ­mas before which I’m look­ing for­ward to! I have 3 sib­lings and we mutu­ally agreed to not buy each other gifts this year. Instead, we will spend qual­ity time when the hol­i­days are here. To be hon­est, it’s a huge relief to real­ize this.

Spend­ing more time outdoors

I’ve never spent 10 straight hours in nature by myself but I do plan on doing so many times for the rest of my life. Imag­ine how slow life would go if you did this. Just 2 weeks may seem like a year. It’s almost like you add years onto your life. We all com­plain how short life is. Well, why not slow it down? Why not get off face­book? Why not get out­doors? Why not just sit and reflect? I’ve def­i­nitely taken more time to reflect on my life. I walk a lot more. I’m liv­ing in Wrigleyville, Chicago, IL right now with my brother and have a one mile walk to Lake Michi­gan. It’s where I am headed when I fin­ish writ­ing this post.

Tech­nol­ogy fast

Have you ever gone 24 hours with­out tech­nol­ogy? What about 48 hours? I’m talk­ing about ditch­ing your cell phone, com­puter, and any­thing else that eats up your time. I did this for just over 72 hours a cou­ple months ago. I was on Lake Michi­gan and had no inter­net access and no phone recep­tion. I’ll admit that there was a TV but I hardly watched it. It was one of the best 3 days of my entire life. I was out­side a lot by the lake. What did I do? I spent qual­ity time with my par­ents and older brother. I read books. I did a cold water plunge in the lake. I ran on the sand. I chat­ted with my fam­ily over a fire. I cooked food and ate it. I reflected. I played Sudoku. Soon, I’ll be doing this reg­u­larly. Are you ready for a 24 hour tech­nol­ogy fast?

Less exer­cise, more play

I rarely exer­cise. I want to enjoy life. I also want to be fit. This is why I am a huge fan of body­weight exer­cises. To me, it’s fun but it’s still a great work­out. I usu­ally engage in push-ups, pull-ups, squats and planks. I have no rou­tine. I just do! I quit when I want to. I also engage in sprint inter­vals when I feel like it. Aside from that I may run if I feel up to it. I walk a lot, move around in gen­eral, play, dance, etc. Today, exer­cise is a blast. Do you love your work­outs or dread them?

Liv­ing with less clutter

I want to see the world. I’ve been all over the place since the mid­dle of July of this year. I was in Hawaii for 40 days, then back with my par­ents in Grand Rapids, MI for 2 weeks and am now in Chicago with my brother. I plan on liv­ing some­where in Florida to start 2013. Guess what? All I have is a carry on bag and a back­pack. Talk about liv­ing with­out a lot of clut­ter! Sure, I have some stuff sit­ting at my par­ents, where I lived for 23 years, but I plan on sell­ing at least 80% of it. I don’t want it. It’s clut­ter and needs to go. I’m not sug­gest­ing you live out of a carry on bag, ok?! Why not take baby steps and just de clut­ter as time goes on? Go take 10 min­utes right now. I’ll wait…

Cook­ing sim­ple meals and enjoy­ing food with fam­ily and friends

Not much can beat a sim­ple home cooked meal that is enjoyed with fam­ily or friends. Can you think of much? I’m not talk­ing about bland meals. I’m talk­ing about sim­ple meals. For exam­ple… why not cook up some grass-fed ground beef with a few of your favorite spices? Throw in some apple cider vine­gar too. Chop up sweet pota­toes into bite sized chucks, throw on some but­ter, add salt and pep­per to taste and throw into a 350 degree oven for 40 min­utes. Feel free to mix the 2 when both are done. This is an incred­i­bly sim­ple, sat­is­fy­ing, nutri­tious, healthy, deli­cious meal. Cre­ate it with your fam­ily or friends and then enjoy it with them. If you are by your­self then take the time to sit, enjoy and reflect. Don’t watch TV or read. Eat!

Work­ing less

What if you only had half of the time to work? What would you do? Maybe you would take a few days to orga­nize what you do at work. You would then focus on what is the most impor­tant. You would real­ize that a lot of the stuff you do on a reg­u­lar basis is 100% unnec­es­sary. I believe MOST peo­ple can work less but still get more done. We work way too much. If your boss all of a sud­den told you that you only have to work 5 hours a day, 4 days a week, how would you react? I bet you would be ecsta­tic! You may tear up out of pure joy. As a result, you would become more pro­duc­tive because you would be less stressed and more happy. When I decide to limit my work time I end up doing what’s pro­duc­tive and ignore what’s not nec­es­sary. Life is a lot more fun this way. What do you think about all this? Are you ready to enjoy life instead of stress out about it? Are you ready to get your health back? Maybe there is some­thing that you can add to this list. Please leave a com­ment below. Thanks for reading!

by Todd Dosen­berry

Are you afraid of change? If you found out you had stage 1 can­cer would you do some­thing about it? Most peo­ple don’t want to go through chemother­apy and take tons of drugs. If you catch can­cer soon enough then one can cure it through food. It’s been done over and over again. When some­thing dra­matic hap­pens to human beings they do some­thing. They make a change.

When an over­weight indi­vid­ual finds out that they are pre-diabetic or already dia­betic they are more likely to change their habits. So many of us think it’s near impos­si­ble to make a change but when real­ity hits us, all of a sud­den change becomes easy.

If some­one told you that you were going to die in 1 year if you did not change your poor lifestyle habits start­ing today then what would you do? Would you edu­cate your­self? Would you begin to play more? Would you laugh more? Would you eat less junk food? Maybe some of us should think this way. Most of us need a change but most of us won’t change unless we have a des­per­ate rea­son to.

I used to be afraid of change. I still am some­what but am get­ting bet­ter and bet­ter every sin­gle day. There are no tricks. You just have to take action. To kick a habit you have to replace it with another habit. If you have a poor habit of drink­ing pop every­day then start to drink more water. Add a few splashes of lemon or lime juice if you want for some zesty flavor.

What is one change that could save bil­lions of lives?

Ditch­ing wheat. I would love to go even fur­ther and encour­age you to ditch all grains but I think an eas­ier and more appeal­ing approach is to ditch wheat. I am not going to write a 1500 word essay on why you should ditch wheat. I am not a nutri­tion­ist, or any­thing close to it. I am a nor­mal guy whose mis­sion is to save mil­lions of lives. Tak­ing this one step, mak­ing this one change of ditch­ing wheat, may save your life.

It’s not dif­fi­cult. You have a habit of eat­ing wheat on a daily basis. You must replace those calo­ries with some­thing else. I rec­om­mend you eat more meat and veg­eta­bles. If you are skep­ti­cal of this rec­om­men­da­tion then why not try it out? Why not go 30 to 60 days with­out eat­ing a sin­gle gram of wheat. Replace those calo­ries with meat and veg­gies. Record how you look, feel and per­form and be hon­est with yourself.

You may not want to give up bread, cereal, pasta and pizza but would you rather be a happy, healthy, vibrant human being or eat wheat? If you cur­rently eat wheat then you may think this choice sucks but I am here to tell you that the world opens up to you when you go wheat (or com­pletely grain) free. You dis­cover more veg­eta­bles. Your rela­tion­ship with food improves. It becomes an enjoy­ment. A time to be grate­ful for every­thing that you have. You begin to go to the farm­ers mar­ket to buy local pro­duce and meat and even grow a plant or two of your own.

Ditch­ing wheat is a major change. It’s a sim­ple change to your dietary habits that will sig­nif­i­cantly change you. You will feel bet­ter. If your bloated today then that sick feel­ing will more than likely go away within 30 days. If you are con­sti­pated then that will go away. Your energy lev­els will soar. If you have an autoim­mune con­di­tion then that will improve. You will lose fat.

You will feel alive again.

I don’t eat any grains. Please under­stand that this is a gen­eral state­ment. I won’t be avoid­ing grains 100% of the time for the rest of my life. When eat­ing out at an Ital­ian restau­rant I some­times eat a piece or 2 of white bread dipped in olive oil. If I eat more than a bite or 2 then I regret it. I ate cake at a wed­ding I went to back in May. I’ll eat white rice here and there, when it’s free. Think Chipo­tle and Moe’s bur­rito bowls. I love sushi too and don’t mind the rice in sushi rolls.

How­ever, at least 95%, prob­a­bly closer to 99% of my caloric intake is grain free. I went pri­mal, as I like to call it, on April 5, 2010. It was by far the best deci­sion I have made in my entire life. Food is the main focus because it’s, well, food. But it’s more about going back to the begin­ning while still liv­ing in the mod­ern world. Play more, sleep more, rest more, work­out less, move more, eat more meat and veg­eta­bles, eat less junk.

If you want to take one step today towards a hap­pier, health­ier, more vibrant you, then do one thing: ditch wheat. Do what you feel is best for you, but take a close look at your life. Ask your­self how you feel at this very moment. More than likely, ditch­ing wheat will be a sim­ple, yet major step towards a new you. Are you ready?

If you are con­fused and want to learn more about the prob­lems of wheat then con­sider read­ing Wheat Belly. It’s the newest book on on this sub­ject and is beyond enlightening.

Do you still eat wheat? Why or why not? If you have ditched it then please leave a com­ment with your story. Let read­ers know what ditch­ing wheat has done to you. You could quite pos­si­bly save some­ones life!

by Todd Dosen­berry

photo credit: dj @ oxherder arts

How is your health today? Be hon­est. Take a few moments to think about your over­all health. Do you have end­less energy dur­ing the day? Do you wake up refreshed with­out an alarm clock? Could you go one week with­out cof­fee? How often do you play? How often do you have a mean­ing­ful con­ver­sa­tion with your spouse, child, mother, father, sib­ling or close friend? Are you con­stantly stressed? Do you live in the moment or do you con­stantly think about the past and worry about the future? How often do you move through­out the day? How often do you sit?

I could spend all day ask­ing you ques­tions that are related to your health. When peo­ple begin to take con­trol of their health they first focus on food. That’s fine. When we strengthen our rela­tion­ship with food our health gen­er­ally improves in all other areas. Most cul­tures cen­ter around food so this makes sense. Some peo­ple will feel much more healthy with a lit­tle more play and a lit­tle less work in their life. Some peo­ple need 5 min­utes to them­selves to start the day. We are all dif­fer­ent and we all need to find the “it” factor.

Either way, it’s time to go back to the begin­ning. Take a few moments to imag­ine what life would be like in a hunter gath­erer soci­ety com­pared to the indus­tri­al­ized soci­ety. More specif­i­cally, think about food, work and play. What do you see? Do you see a bunch of boxes on shelves or do you see col­or­ful veg­eta­bles and fruits? Do you see a large vari­ety of ani­mals graz­ing on grass and hunt­ing other ani­mals or fac­tory farms with ani­mals being treated poorly? Do you feel the urge to hunt down an ante­lope or bear so you can pro­vide nour­ish­ing food for your fam­ily? Do you stum­ble across a body of water and do your best to catch dinner?

Do you see your­self sit­ting in an office chair all day or walk­ing through the wilder­ness? What about play? I can imag­ine myself play­ing tag, wrestling, climb­ing trees and more. I feel myself liv­ing in the moment. I don’t have any wor­ries about what to write about next on my blog or what some­one might think of my opin­ion on this or that. I can imag­ine myself search­ing for food when hun­gry. I may stum­ble across a berry patch or suc­cess­fully hunt a deer.

The mod­ern world is com­pletely dif­fer­ent then the hunter gath­erer world. Where has our vibrant health gone? We con­tinue to head in the wrong direc­tion at an alarm­ing rate. The last 30 years have been dev­as­tat­ing. We were told to eat low fat this and fat free that. What has hap­pened since this rec­om­men­da­tion? All sorts of dis­eases and cancers.

What do you think would hap­pen if we only ate food that we could hunt and gather? What if we think about how we may have lived in the past and com­bined that with the mod­ern con­ve­niences of today. I will never be ready to give up my Mac­Book Pro. Its a use­ful tool that enables me to inspire mil­lions of peo­ple around the world. I am not ready to give up my clothes or friends I met online either.

I was ready to give up grains, dairy and legumes. In fact, I did so on April 5 and have never felt bet­ter in my entire life. So much so, that I decided to start a blog. It has been a com­plete bless­ing since Feb­ru­ary of this year and I am for­ever grate­ful. I have changed hun­dreds of lives and I will con­tinue to do so until my time on Earth is over. I don’t have a magic diet for any­one. I have gen­eral rec­om­men­da­tions that are based on The Pri­mal Blue­print. I con­tinue to exper­i­ment myself and encour­age every­one to do the same.

My life is much more sim­pler today. My idea of fit­ness is to sim­ply move. Play. Do a quick 10 minute burpee work­out if you want. Go sprint for a few min­utes. Take a hike. Swim. Do 20 push-ups if you are up for it. Do what YOU want to do but make sure you are hav­ing fun. That is what we ulti­mately want, right? To have fun? To feel as awe­some as pos­si­ble as often as possible?

It’s time to go back to the begin­ning. Are you ready? Let’s take our minds back in time and imag­ine. Let your mind be free and then move back to the now. Live in the moment under­stand­ing that “aver­age” used to mean healthy, fun and vibrant. Do you want this? I’ll help you get there.

Ask a ques­tion in the com­ment box below. What are your thoughts? Are YOU ready to start over? To go back to the begin­ning? What do you think about con­ven­tional wis­dom today? I’d love to here from ya!  All com­ments (received by Octo­ber 2^nd, 2011) that add to the dis­cus­sion will be eli­gi­ble to win a copy of Toad­ally Pri­mal Smooth­ies.

by Todd Dosen­berry