Matt is an explorer in the world of health, seeking ancestral wellness in the modern world. He is a Yogi, student of movement under the Ido Portal Method, and driven to spend as much time creating a lifestyle closely aligned with our primitive roots. Matt is the Founder of Primal Goods Company and the Co-host of The Modern Cavemen Podcast.
FIND MATT AT:
Primal Goods Company
The modern Cavemen Podcast
LESSONS:
1) Create balance in your live
2) It's either a “hell yes” or it's a “no.”
3) You can't fill up a cup that's already full
4) Don’t make your happiness conditional
SOME QUOTES FROM THE EPISODE”
When I was 14 years old, I got a freak diagnosis with cancer. I broke my back in a football game and during football practice got an MRI and the doctor's like, “You know, you have a compression fracture that sucks. You're not playing football this year. But also… there's this big mass in your chest…”
I got really interested in making sure that something like that didn't happen again.
I think the human body wants to be well, and if you put all these conditions to be well, it's going to be well… You start throwing the weird shit in there, I think the body will stray from that path.
We stopped doing that like a couple hundred years ago and all this weird shit started popping up. That's been my main thing- to get back to that sort of “primal lifestyle”
One of the biggest things lately is getting uncomfortable. I'm so comfortable all the time and I think it's good for us to not be comfortable. So now I have to program in periods of discomfort; I'm getting in the shower and I'm taking a cold shower purely to be uncomfortable.
Your body's made to be able to manage those extremes and temperature discomfort. And if we never pushed the body to get there, then we're going to lose that capability.
I mean every now and then we want to throw something on Netflix. We put on our blue light blocking glasses…People come to our house and are, “What the fuck are all these candles doing here?,” It's like , “You guys got some kind of ceremony going on later?”... “No, this is just Wednesday”
Humans have been moving around since the entire life of our species... we had to...it's only now that we don't actually have to. You'd have to be like hiking through the woods, forging for shit and trying to kill some big animal--now you can just push this little buggy around at Whole Foods and swipe your card and it's there.
Hey, you are living in 2019… Sometimes my girlfriend wants to go out and have pizza for dinner. Sometimes we want to watch a TV show late at night and eat some ice cream. Sure! And that's about one of the lessons: that you create balance.
What you see in the modern person, it's very heavily weighted on professional growth and financial growth-- It's at the expense of everything else...sometimes, I try to go the other way.
It's not necessarily a bad thing to be that way, but still give energy in these other areas.
Take care of your health and spend time with people you care about. It's really about finding a balance between all these different modalities of life.
I find my creativity, new ideas, possibilities, new thoughts--all that stuff happens when I'm in these almost like, vacuums, where there's nothing else going on in my mind
You can't welcome new things in your life unless there's space.
I started Primal Goods Co. when I broke my ankle and I was in a wheelchair for three months and laying on the couch at my parents' house. I couldn't do anything else and I was just kind of sitting there bored. The universe gave me that time and said, “You need to sit down”
