Paleo living

21 Free Preventative Medicine Habits!

Here is a great list of things to do to keep yourself healthy, besides following a paleo diet. My favorites are 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9,  and 21. But they are all terrific suggestions. How much better would this world be if we all did everything on the list everyday! It’s been said that [...]

How to avoid that heart attack

Bad advice from doctors still abound on the web. Dr. Greg Kerr is recommending that one eat a diet low in fat, reduced animal products and more fruit. This is outdated poor advice. It is the advice that has made millions of people ill with more heart disease and diabetes. To prevent heart disease humans [...]

3 reasons why coconut milk may not be your friend

Although this is mainly about canned coconut milk there are some issues here that may make it difficult for some people to use it, even fresh. Since coconut products, especially milk are an important part of the paleo diet, it may pay to look at how you feel when you consume coconut milk.ᅠ Coconut milk [...]

Primal Transhumanism

I came across a new term for me today “transhumanism”. It is an international intellectual and cultural movement supporting the use of science and technology to improve human mental and physical characteristics and capacities.ᅠClick here for a more detailed explanation. The interesting thing is in this article the author says that the improvement of the [...]

Leading Athlete Cites Paleo Diet as Key to High Performance On and Off the Course

A look at what the paleo diet can do when taken to it’s optimum.ᅠGreg Parham, off-road triathlete, follows a paleo diet and engages in some of the most grueling competitions around.ᅠ In a fascinating interview, Paleo Cookbook author, Nikki Young, delves deep into the life of this highly successful off-road triathlete, who cites the paleo [...]

How Coconut Oil Helps the Thyroid and Aids Metabolism

Great video on just one more benefit of coconut oil. It is truly a fantastic food, inexpensive and relatively easy to add to your diet.  If you are going to be taking it by the tablespoon, start off slowly. It is a terrific addition to a paleo diet. The thyroid gland is the largest gland [...]

Extraordinary new pictures of life in the depths of the Amazon jungle

Amazingly, in this world of high technology and instant contact, there are still small individual groups of people living out a completely untouched way of life, basically a hunter-gatherer existence. Three years ago a video was shot from a helicopter of this tribe living isolated in the Amazon jungle on the border between Peru and [...]

Why We Must Learn to Love Weeds

While this article on weeds is about how we, have created super weeds, plants that are difficult of impossible to remove, I have included it here since “weeds” have played an important role in our past and may do so again in our future. Weeds were used by our paleo ancestors for many purposes. There [...]

How to Take Care of Your Teeth (Hint: There’s More to It Than Brushing)

Mark Sisson, of Mark’s Daily Apple, has a great piece on caring for your pearly whites while following a paleo diet. I’ve thought about this from time to time, since my dental health has improved immensely while being paleo. I once had periodontal disease, long before going paleo, which I took care of holistically. But [...]

Being Paleo During an Economic Disaster

Terrific article about the advantages of following a paleo diet and lifestyle even in hard times. If you are currently eating a high carbohydrate diet right now, try to image how long you can easily go with out eating…. just think about that for a minute. 2 hours, 4 hours, could you possibly go 6 [...]