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 […]
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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 […]
7 Myths About the Paleo Diet
A lot has been said about the paleo and its related diets (aka ancestral, primal, etc.), in general, in the popular media. Some of it has been responsible and accurate. Much of it, particularly those reporting on Marlene Zuk’s book Paleofantasy, has not. Those in the latter category have often taken the form of hasty, […]