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"But that's so extreme!"
This is a common response when people first hear about the paleolithic diet, which eliminates commonly eaten foods like grains, legumes, sugar and industrial seed oils.
But while a paleo diet may seem extreme from our modern perspective, it's actually the most "normal" diet for humans to eat.
After the Homo genus evolved 2.4 million years ago, humans lived for 84,000 generations as hunter-gatherers. We ate meat, fish, nuts and seeds, vegetables, some ...
In a previous article in this series on diabesity I briefly mentioned the role of gut health in obesity and diabetes. I'd like to go into more detail on that subject here, especially since it's not a very well known relationship.
Our gut is home to approximately 100,000,000,000,000 (100 trillion) microorganisms. That's such a big number our human brains can't really comprehend it. One trillion dollar bills laid end-to-end would stretch from ...
Article summaryThe benefits of fish oil supplementation have been grossly overstated
Most of the studies showing fish oil benefits are short-term, lasting less than one year
The only fish oil study lasting more than four years showed an increase in heart disease and sudden death
Fish oil is highly unstable and vulnerable to oxidative damage
There's no evidence that healthy people benefit from fish oil supplementation
Taking several grams of fish oil per day may be hazardous to your health
A new ...
In the first part of this series on diabesity, we "got under the hood" to look at the underlying mechanisms of both obesity and diabetes. We've now moved on to discussing the environmental and lifestyle risk factors that drive these conditions. In the last article we learned about the top 3 dietary causes of diabesity. In this article, we're going to see how stress can independently cause both obesity and diabetes.
A huge - ...
So far in this series we've focused on a new way of understanding diabesity as an autoimmune, inflammatory disorder, and we've looked in a general way at the underlying mechanisms (inflammation, genetics, environmental triggers and leaky gut) that contribute to diabesity.
Now that we've laid that foundation, we're going to take a closer look at some of those mechanisms. In this article, we'll discuss the three major dietary toxins that trigger diabesity:
Cereal grains (especially refined flour)
Omega-6 ...
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