The Pros and Cons of Almond Flour: Rebuttal to “5 Reasons To Avoid Almond Flour”
I get asked surprisingly often to rebut or respond to posts or articles that criticize or question either some aspect of the Paleo diet or …
I get asked surprisingly often to rebut or respond to posts or articles that criticize or question either some aspect of the Paleo diet or …
Nuts and seeds are typically regarded as nutritious, health-promoting foods and since they were around before humans even existed, it’s hard …
The Paleo template is an educational foundation, based on scientific evidence, that informs our food choices. As such, it’s a …
Genetic testing can give us tremendous insight into our own health and, more importantly, our optimal diet and lifestyle choices given our …
We all crave beautiful skin! Whether it’s a flawless complexion and radiant shine or just freeing ourselves from troublesome …
Mushrooms aren’t actually a vegetable, but rather the fruiting bodies of larger fungi, or macromycetes. There are four major phyla of the …
I get a lot of questions from people who are tackling the autoimmune protocol and are frustrated that they aren’t seeing results. …
Cardiovascular disease (which includes coronary heart disease, hypertensive heart disease, and stroke) is our number-one global killer. …
Can we improve upon the standard Paleo diet for diabetes? Over the past few decades, diabetes has reached epidemic proportions, skyrocketing …
Sleep is one of the most important determinants of our health (see Sleep and Disease Risk: Scarier than Zombies! and Natural Approaches to …
What’s Paleo? What isn’t? For a while now, I’ve used the basic criteria of “does it hurt or harm our health?” …
A juicy orange, a flavorful grapefruit, a sweet tangerine… the citrus family provides us with some of our most well-loved fruits! And along …
With mounting research suggesting fructose is a major player in our chronic disease epidemics (see Why is High Fructose Corn Syrup Bad For …
As the Paleo diet gains prominence, some popular myths about this lifestyle have too. I’ve done my best to debunk these myths whenever …
Throughout the years, tons of “wonder foods” have come and gone within the health community, based on a mixture of legitimate science and …
One of the consequences of a nutrients-first approach is that the distribution of macronutrient intake tends to end up fairly balanced, with …
There are many resources, even within the Paleosphere, that make claims about weight loss (a lot of which are based more on the theoretical …
Mushrooms are an incredibly valuable nutrient-dense food that offers our gut bacteria unique fiber types that we can’t get from any other …
Leaky gut is gaining more and more acceptance as something that not only coexists alongside a huge number of health conditions (including …
Just because a diet is popular does not mean that it lives up to its claims nor does it mean that it’s safe! Case in point: ketogenic …
Whenever a new Paleo study comes out, it’s sure to stir up controversy—no matter what the findings are. “Good” findings are met with cheers …
It’s no secret that I’m a huge veggie fan! Their list of benefits includes everything from boosting immunity, to improving the health of our …
An estimated 213 million Americans (69% of the population) are overweight with 111 million (36%) being obese. Because being overweight …
I recently released my new gut microbiome e-books, The Gut Health Guidebook and The Gut Health Cookbook (released this week!), the …