251: How Ancestral Health Can Help You Improve Your Modern Life with Keith Norris

Today’s Guest

Keith Norris

In today’s episode, Ted interviews Keith Norris, the co-founder of Paleo f(x)—the largest Paleo convention in the world. He made his transition from corporate America to following his passion of inspiring people to live healthier lives using ancestral health.

In this session, Keith shared the more personal aspects of his life and journey from being an athlete, a veteran, and working in a Big Pharma to finally achieving success with Paleo f(x) and his gym business Efficient Exercise. He is also a blogger and has a manufacturing company that produces some proprietary exercise equipment.

Moreover, he emphasized that the thrust of the whole conference is not just health but addresses the mental, physical, spiritual, emotional, financial and relational health that truly makes human beings thrive. He also talks about the false economy that is created when “healthcare” is about profiting from a sick and unhealthy population. You’ll learn how to break the bonds that are keeping you stuck in an overstressed, unhealthy modern lifestyle to living how the human body was designed to with Ancestral Health practices.

You’ll Learn

• How did he go from strength and conditioning coach to Paleo advocate (04:32)
• His big pharmaceutical industry experience (11:51)
• What is holistic health and why it’s important (14:28)
• Why are we so fat (21:55)
• What motivated him to create the Paleo f(x) event (26:56)
• How Paleo Diet and Primal Living can affect your life (35:24)
• 5 Things you should know about stress and your health (42:26)
• Why we get sick (59:23)
• 3 Pieces of advice for all Millennials (01:03:04)
• The biggest reason why you should go to Paleo F(x) (01:10:08)

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Connect with Keith Norris:

• Keith’s Websites 
• Keith’s blog Theory of Practice

Ted’s Take-Aways

1. How our social networks have such a profound influence on us. If you’re hanging around with people who don’t aspire to, then don’t be surprised if you’re unable to get ahead in life and achieve the goals you set for yourself. You need to get around people who inspire you, who motivate you, who share the same types of goals.

Do you have a strong support group? It doesn’t have to be an online entrepreneur or meet up group unless that’s the area you’re in. Maybe it can be a church group for you, some type of a workout group or a public speaking group like Toastmasters. Just make sure you get around people who are pushing you forward and support you. There is nothing worse than getting motivated but feeling like the people in your life hold you back.

2. The evolutionary perspective is about understanding how human beings are wired. Whether you believe in the theory of evolution or not, human beings come pre-programmed. For example, you need to breathe air, drink water, eat food, move your body, sleep and more to be healthy. There’s no getting around those facts. But if you think that those are the only things you need to be happy then you should look a little deeper.

There’s even research showing how negative people in our lives bring us down—even if you’re mostly surrounded by positive people. And there’s never going to be a time where you’re going to be able to thrive around negative people.  Start using an evolutionary lens on other areas of your life and not just the health and fitness parts. You don’t always need to live like a caveman, but learning the rules of what makes a human being thrive physically, mentally and emotionally can make it more clear what you need to do to level up your life from where you are now.