Rebel Health Radio with Dr Brian Peterson DC

Weekly discussions, conversations and interviews designed to inspire our community to lead healthier, happier, more vibrant lives.

Today I want to introduce to you a way of looking at your exercise routine a little different that you may have approached it in the past. Imagine if you were alive 15000 years ago. What do you think you would look like? I’ll bet you were strong lean muscular and athletic. You wouldn’t have a gym membership, you wouldn’t be waking up at 4:30 am every morning trying to pound out 10 ks before work. Imagine what your partner would look like back then. Pretty freaking hot I’ll bet. Seriously, imagine that… Just imagine them muscular, fit, healthy , high sex drive. That is how we are meant to be as humans. That is what we are designed for. Genetically. How would your relationship be different if you were both that fit?

For 2.5 million years, our ancestors hunted and gathered and became the dominant mammal to reign supreme over the earth. With our large brain and skills, we carved our greatness as the top of the food chain. But now, we are the sickest species on the planet. We have totally changed the environment, the diet the exercise and movement patterns, the stress levels. We have completely removed our mammalian body from what it was used to for millions of years and created a false environment that has created the diseases of civilisation, that are unfamiliar to hunters and gatherers. We now have the greatest moment in history to be able to recognise what is required for humans to live a quality and quantity of life with health and vitality. We have all the resources at our fingertips to be able to provide our selves and our families with the simple instructions that our genes require to avoid disease and create great health. So lets work out exactly what we need to do for our diet and nutrition, and then, the hard part, getting our selves to actually do it. We are going to talk about some simple strategies for transferring our family to a primal, paleo, innate lifestyle.

Rebel Health Radio episode 00 is an overview of the podcast intent. We clarify our definition of a rebel, and what health is. Dr Brian gives some insights as to where his interest in health began. We also discuss the big picture of health and how we can chunk it down into bite sized pieces (pun intended) called the 5 pieces of the lifetyle puzzle.