134: The 7 Health Rules I No Longer Follow

134: The 7 Health Rules I No Longer Follow

From The Primal Shift by Michael Kummer

April 15, 2026 · 28 min · Season 2 · Episode 134

About this episode

Michael Kummer discusses the seven health rules he no longer follows and the evolution of his dietary beliefs.

If you've been following me for any amount of time, you know I've had strong opinions on diet, training, and what belongs on your plate. Some of those opinions I've walked back. Not because I was wrong about everything, but because I've learned more, lived more, and stopped clinging to ideas just because they were mine. How you handle being wrong says a lot more about you than how confident you were when you thought you were right. And when you build an audience or even just a social circle around certain positions, those positions become part of your identity. Walking something back feels like losing credibility. But doubling down on something you no longer believe is what actually destroys it. In this episode, I walk through the seven biggest areas where my thinking has shifted and why. For example, I used to move from one strict dietary framework to the next: paleo to keto to carnivore, fully believing each was the answer until the next one replaced it. Where I've landed is that no single framework captures reality. Humans are meat-leaning but opportunistic omnivores, and the problem with rigid labels is they turn food into ideology. You stop asking "is this good for me?" and…

People in this episode

Host: Michael Kummer

Topics covered

  • health rules
  • diet
  • nutrition
  • self-improvement
  • black-and-white thinking
  • omnivores

Keywords

  • diet
  • health rules
  • nutrition
  • paleo
  • keto
  • carnivore
  • omnivores
  • black-and-white thinking
  • intermittent fasting

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