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Today I want to talk about this trend for living like our \u201cOld Stone Age\u201d ancestors. What does recent science say about the benefits of minimalist running and the paleo-diet?\xa0 Are these practices something that we, as runners, should adopt?\xa0 Can \u201cPaleo Running\u201d and a \u201cPaleo Diet\u201d help us to live better, healthier lives?\n\xa0\nAgriculture was a life changing advancement for early hominids.\xa0 It allowed us to spend more time together, in ever growing groups, to develop a civilization that would expand to all continents of the planet Earth.\xa0 You can try to live a Paleolithic, Mesolithic or Neolithic lifestyle if it suits you; but as Thomas Wolfe wrote \u201cYou can\u2019t go home again\u201d.\xa0 We are no longer \u201chunter gatherers\u201d we are worker runners.\xa0 By virtue of your listening to this you have embraced a modern technology that our australopithecine ancestors from 2.6 million years ago could never have imagined.\xa0 I don\u2019t know if we should eat and run like they did\u2026but maybe you were born out of time and might find some benefits to taking Thoreau\u2019s advice to \u201csimplify, simplify simplify\u201d.\n\xa0\nWe shouldn\u2019t dismiss Paleo eating and running just because it\u2019s the current fad.\xa0 Like any popular trend we should understand its benefits and try out certain aspects of it in our lives\u2026so unlace your shoes sometime and try a short barefoot run, try avoiding the middle aisles of processed freeze-dried sugar coated consumables when you\u2019re shopping for food and see what happens when you give up bread, rice, potatoes and non-green vegetables for a few weeks.\xa0 You might channel your inner caveman and improve your health in a stone age way.\xa0\n\xa0\nLinks:\n\xa0\nMelodious advice by Neil on Twitter @neilbearse\xa0\n\xa0\nBoth opening and closing themes songs were by Jim Fidler at .\n\xa0\nThe song - Unfamiliar Sky was off the brand new soon to be released album \u201cA Raven Has My Heart\u201d by Black Lab.\xa0 You\u2019ll be hearing a lot about this album in the months to come.\xa0 Paul Durham\u2019s music has become kind of the soundtrack of my life. Listen in, love the sounds at http://blacklabworld.com\n\xa0\nFitBit at .\n\xa0\nIntervals between episodes, and Burning 40 updates can be found at steverunnerblog.com\n\xa0\nIn Vino Veritas with at \n\xa0\nONLY IF YOU LIKE IT: (But really, PLEASE, only if you can afford it!) Phedippidations is supported monthly through the kind and sincerely generous financial support of 70 friends and fellow runners:\n\xa0\nWilliam, Vera, Katie, Ryan, Chaise, Gordon, Scott, Mike, David, Jeff, Colin, Jason, Diane, Cheryl, Ron, Mark, Martha, Greg, Jim, Tim, Bill, Michael, David, Doug, Vance, Marcelo, Roberto, Zaki, Jan, Margaret, James, Norm, Simon, Janice, Andrew, Pam, Rob, Glenn, Trey, Steve, John, Angie, Al, Toni, Martin, Lynn, Nancy, Eric, Jim, Joe, Martin, Rich, Tom, David, Pierre, Maria, Hisham, Andrea, Matt, Jen, Lou, Brad, Dave, Desiree, Jens (@ScenicRunner), Claudia, Jonathan, John, Jill and Elizabeth.\n\xa0\nTHANK YOU! {}\n\xa0\nFollow me on:\nBlog: \nStream: \xa0\nApple App: \xa0\nAndroid App: \xa0\nSupport: