Exposed! the Weight Loss Industry Wants You to Be Fat: Primitive Health and Fitness Expert Reveals His 9 Secrets to Quickly and Dramatically Transform Your Body
By David Beares
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But then David Beares, Primitive Health and Fitness Expert, and owner of 39 Minute Workout, comes along and shatters all of our assumptions. And he has the audacity to point out something painfully obvious. We were healthy and lean for the bulk of human history. And we DIDN'T get there counting calories and lifting 5lb dumbbells.
In this simple to follow book, David lays out his Three Pillar solution to be the leanest, sexiest, and healthiest person you have ever been. But HOW he tells you to get there may shock you...
David Beares
David Beares holds a unique perspective on health and fitness. He draws from his training as a Licensed Acupuncturist, a certified Russian Kettlebell instructor, his experience hiking the entire Appalachian Trail, and his training in primitive survival skills. This all comes together in a system that he calls the 39 Minute Workout, "Primitive Health and Fitness".
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Exposed! the Weight Loss Industry Wants You to Be Fat - David Beares
EXPOSED!
THE WEIGHT LOSS INDUSTRY
WANTS YOU TO BE FAT
Primitive Health and Fitness expert reveals his 9 secrets to quickly and dramatically transform your body
DAVID BEARES
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Contents
My Story
Introduction: What’s With Primitive?
Who Am I Writing This Book For?
Layout Of The Book: Treatment, Training And Nutrition
Chapter #1
Exposed!!! Why The Weight Loss Industry Wants You To Be Fat
PILLAR ONE:
NUTRITION
Chapter #2
Why Most Of What You’ve Learned About Nutrition Is Wrong
Chapter #3
Red Meat Is Bad For You,
And Other Silly Lies They’ve Told You
Chapter #4
The 39 Minute Primitive Nourishment Philosophy
PILLAR TWO
TRAINING
Chapter #5
Rice Cakes, Diet Coke, And The Hamster Wheel
Chapter #6:
Ripped And Worn Out– The 90 Day Plan To Adrenal Exhaustion
Chapter #7
Primitive Fitness Secrets From A 9 Year Old Apache Girl
Chapter #8:
Use The 39 Minute Gps To Achieve Your Goals
PILLAR THREE
TREATMENT
Chapter #9
Why Alternative Therapy Should Be Your Primary Care If You Live In The Western Hemisphere
Bonus Chapter
The Mental Transformation
Conclusion
The Weight Loss Industry Wants You Fat... But I Want You To Be Fit
Making Personal Transformation Easy
The New Conversation
My Expanding Community
About The Author
MY STORY
H OW IN THE WORLD DID I become the Primitive Health and Fitness Expert? Well, from a very early time in my life there were two big factors that made me who I am. One, I was always intensely connected with nature. I had an obsession and connection with Native American culture and spirituality. Two, I was someone who always questioned pop-culture beliefs.
I was a fairly smart kid, but I can’t say that I’ve ever enjoyed school very much. I found it boring and constricting. I would much rather have been outside playing with my friends. It’s still funny to me that I worked through a master’s degree because the classroom experience has never been that pleasant to me.
It was my passion for the earth, traditional wisdom, and my desire to question norms that led me to think outside the box. I was born with a strong skepticism for new is better.
The big transformation happened in my mind and life about 15 years ago. I had two very painful experiences one summer, one being the loss of my last, and closest grandparent, who we called Daddy Don. (I swear he wasn’t mafia.)
Raw and in a ton of emotional pain, I took off for Monhegan Island in Maine to hang out with my best friend Tim who was working for the summer in a restaurant on the island. There wasn’t a lot to do there, but Tim gave me a book to read, Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. I took that book and devoured it on the cliffs looking over the Atlantic.
As I read, something opened and shifted in me. All of the loose thoughts and feelings I’d had from my childhood had something to root onto. I had context for my thoughts about the earth, our place and responsibility as humans in this lifetime, and the way to heal as people. But I didn’t have a vocation at this point. I had nothing to apply this new passion towards.
Over the next five years, I spent time living adventures. Almost two years working in the mountains of northern Georgia at a wilderness camp for incarcerated youth did a lot to strip me of my youthful arrogance. I believe every 20 year old needs to do something that challenges the oversized ego of their teens. This was mine.
My time in those mountains was powerful, and although I felt outmatched by many of these kids with extremely challenging needs and life circumstances, there were a few amazing times where my impact on their lives was apparent. This time in Georgia was really what helped me grow up fast, and it also gave me the strength for the next stage of my life.
I went on a life altering adventure. Something that tested my tenacity, that whipped me physically and mentally. Something that showed me what’s on the other end of hard work. A reward that can only be gained through sticking with something physically grueling and making it to the other side.
This adventure was a 2,160-mile hike of the entire Appalachian trail from April 2nd to September 30th of 2001. Nothing in my life, besides watching my son Max being born, has impacted me and opened my heart like this hike.
After the first month of the hike, when at least 70% of the people had quit, I saw something different in the eyes of those who stuck with it. There was a glimmer of passion and an understanding that you could only get if you stuck with it. Those who stopped short of the full hike will never what they missed.
As I was cruising along, hiking swiftly through the woods of Vermont I had an overwhelming thought, a clear insight into my steps beyond the trail. Without explanation, I knew that I was ready to find a vocation, some sort of work where I could apply my love of health, the earth, and traditional wisdom to a career.
It was a very weird image, because it felt like a knowing, like I was seeing a picture of myself in this new career. But I still didn’t know what it would be.
Less than a month after finishing the trail, I found the direction for my passion and skills at a school right near my family home. The September after the hike I started acupuncture and headed down the path of bringing primitive health and wellness tools to the community.
I was, yet again, learning another ancient system in the form of traditional medicine. This integrated the cycles of nature that I’d experience during my time in the woods with the health systems of the body in acupuncture. It all led me to being the primitive health and fitness expert and roots everything I do today.
Over the next 10 years, this passion morphed into the business and wellness system I’ve built: 39 Minute Workout. The thoughts, tools, and system in this book are the culmination of all the information I’ve put together from a wide variety of sources and experiences.
This is the same system of treatment, training, and nutrition that my family lives by, and the same system I’ve taught to hundreds of local residents in my Columbia, MD practice. This book is my chance to finally share this with a wider range of people.
What I really hope for you, the reader is nothing short of a personal transformation. I will seek to rip apart the lies that the modern food, health and weight loss industry have sold you for decades now. I will seek to bring you back to a simpler, time-honored wisdom that puts you back in control of your health and wellness.
If you choose to follow what I’m teaching, I believe you’ll be equipped to transform your health and that of your family.
INTRODUCTION:
WHAT’S WITH PRIMITIVE?
I ’VE CHOSEN TO USE THE word primitive here for several reasons. I’m aware that the word Primitive
is offensive in the paleontology world, so I need to make it clear. I have COMPLETE RESPECT for primitive/traditional/indigenous cultures.
In fact, in many ways I consider them far more advanced than we are today. For one, they knew how to live in a way that was supportive of health. They ate what they were supposed to, used their bodies as designed, and often had deeper sense of culture and family than we do in our modern, fractured society.
Primitive is the term I chose because it speaks to Simplicity, not backwardness. Primitive ways are inherently simple and beautiful. They’re not junked up with dogma. Primitive ways of living were based off survival, so they lived on the earth dictated by the laws of nature. Today, we eat to stuff ourselves or to satisfy our taste buds. Primitive people nourished themselves.
We have a skewed sense of the struggle primitive cultures lived under. Of course it really comes down to which tribe, which region, and which time of history. But that view of life as struggle
is a bit out of whack. I would say that it was life in balance. It was biology and environment in balance. Again, if you’d like to read a story of where things went wrong, I would start with Ishmael!
WHO AM I WRITING THIS BOOK FOR?
Y OU’LL SEE IN MOST OF the stories and details, I’m writing to women. Partly, I did this because 75% of my clients are women and I know their struggles and strengths very well.
But really, the information in this book is appropriate for anyone; man or woman, young or old. I’m writing what I consider to be timeless and ageless information. There is no age, sex or race that would be exempt from the Primitive Health and Fitness movement.
In fact, my intention is to show that these are the rules of Treatment, Training and Nutrition that were followed by most of our ancestors in some form. It is my belief that in this crazy world of stress, terrible food and inactive lifestyles, we HAVE to get back to our Primitive ways fast if we want to remain a viable society.
LAYOUT OF THE BOOK:
TREATMENT, TRAINING AND NUTRITION
Y OU’VE SEEN ME REFERENCE THIS twice now. These are what I call the Three Pillars of Health. I have structured the book around the three pillars. With each, I have started by ripping modern/conventional wisdom apart. First I tear down the false beliefs of nutrition, and then follow by showing what I believe to be the simple and Primitive truths of nourishment.
I’ve done the same thing in Training. I’ve shown two disturbing patterns in modern exercise that are keeping people from living healthy lives. I’ve then laid out a framework for appropriate exercise, again, based on our Primitive needs.
In Treatment, I’ve simply made a case for traditional ways of treatment. I’ve shown why you should choose to replace modern healthcare with traditional forms of medicine. To make traditional medicine your primary care, and to save most modern medicine (short of physicals and regular check-ups) for emergency care,
only to be used when deeper pathology (such as cancer or a broken bone) arise.
I’ve ended with a bonus chapter where I present what I call