Category: ancestral health

How To End A Rebound Headache

First, let’s recap part one. Here are the 7 Warning Signs You’re Having Rebound Headaches: 1. Your headache is present upon awakening. 2. Your headache has become exquisitely sensitive to movement, or physical activity. 3. Your headache pain is more spread out than usual, and oftentimes seems to concentrate in the back of your head, towards the […]

AHS 2014 – Looking Forward to the Past

This past week I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the Ancestral Health Symposium at UC Berkeley. This was the fourth incarnation of this annual event, one designed to foster collaboration amongst scientists, healthcare providers, and laypersons across disciplines. It’s a great event. It’s also the fittest, leanest, and most vibrant looking crowd […]

Road Trippin’ Migraine Free: How to navigate the roadside migraine minefield

It’s that time of year. School is out, which means families from coast to coast will be packing their suitcases, loading up the rooftop carrier, and heading out for their summer vacation adventure. But danger lurks. Inside every gas station procured bag of Cheetos or drive-thru cheeseburger awaits a migraine ready to strike, ruining your […]

The Final Days of Sugar?

In a recent post, I discussed how the authorities in academia were finally (albeit begrudgingly) reversing their view on the fat and heart disease connection. For decades now, fat has been the nutritional whipping boy, blamed for all manner of modern ailments, while sugar has been allowed to skirt along under the radar undetected. It […]

The Benefits of an Ancestral Perspective

So, according to the commentary posted in this week’s JAMA Internal Medicine, we are in the midst of a “paradigm shift” when it comes to mainstream medicine’s conception of a healthy diet. In a study published in this month’s issue of the aforementioned journal, we learn that, in a prospective cohort of patients, the highest […]

The Sweetness of a Carrot: Ancestral Eating and the Glorious Gustatory Reset

“…almost all the fruits our ancestors ate were about as sweet as carrots.” – Dan Lieberman, The Story of the Human Body Finally, it seems that sugar is all by its lonesome. Long defended as a harmless empty calorie, even mainstream nutritionists now view sugar as problematic. It, not fat, along with other forms of refined […]