Free The Animal

I received the following question in email from a reader. How would you compare the methods / products promoted by IsAgenics as a route to maintained weight reduction and increased sustained energy versus your program? A quick bit of Googling got me to the main company website (it appears to be an MLM, so there’s lots of “affiliate” websites out there). OK, where to start? How about with the most obvious: this is simply not an evolutionary approach in the slightest. Can it work for you? Sure, anything can work for you, even low fat high carb — if mere weight loss is your goal. The question, the only question as far as I’m concerned, is does it hold up to scrutiny from the standpoint of 2-4 million years of bi-pedal hominid evolution prior to the advent of agriculture 10,000 years ago? Taking that approach eventually begins to express genes that you already have, and begins to transform your body into the lean and attractive one designed by nature. I have begun to think that the one very fundamental problem in all of the diet fad world is the notion of “losing weight.” Why do you want to lose weight?…

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