Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past couple of decades or are one of those people who’re in denial about climate change and other related issues, you know that our environment is in dire straits. Global temperatures are rising, unprecedented levels of CO2 are present in the Earth’s atmosphere, oceans are filling […]
Celebrating the 35th Birthday of the Paleolithic Nutrition Concept
This year (2020) marks the 35th anniversary of the publication of Boyd Eaton and Melvin Konner’s exceptional paper on evolutionary nutrition entitled “Paleolithic Nutrition: A Consideration of Its Nature and Current Implications” in The New England Journal of Medicine (full text). As a way of eating, Paleolithic nutrition represents an extremely old, time-tested practise, extending […]
Sleep Optimization: 10 Tips That Can Help You Sleep Better
We all know that sleep is important. Not everyone is aware of how their choices in life affect the quality and duration of their sleep though. Some seem to operate under the belief that the whole sleep thing takes care of itself, and that all they have to do is find their way to bed […]
Healthy Food = The Closest Thing to a ‘Magic Pill’
People are continually looking for quick fixes to the problems that plague them. This is reflected by the massiveness of the supplement and pharmaceutical industries, which generate billions of dollars every year selling everything from weight loss products to blood pressure-lowering medication to herbal extracts to caffeinated energy drinks. The offered products are sometimes presented […]
What Are the Real-Life Benefits to Ancestral Living? 14 Questions with Evolutionary Health Aficionado Alessio Angeleri
One of the most fundamental Darwinian implications of the recognition that we’re fundamentally Stone Agers from a physiological point of view is that we are mismatched to contemporary conditions and would benefit from adjusting our way of living so that it more closely resembles that of our distant, naturally living ancestors. A wealth of scientific […]
How Extensive Are the Problems with Salt? A Summary of the Evidence
Salt, in the form of sodium chloride (NaCl), is added to almost everything these days. This is something you’ll quickly recognize if you survey a regular grocery shop, looking over the labels of the products it offers. You’ll see that salt is found in everything from bread to sausages to pizza toppings to ketchup to […]
The Dangers of Extreme Diets
A few weeks back, me and a good friend of mine who’s quite interested in diet and exercise got to talking about the larger nutritional landscape of our society, more specifically about diets that are heavily skewed towards one food group or macronutrient, such as vegan diets, ‘the carnivore diet’, and Atkins-type diets. These diets, […]
Humans Moving to Another Planet = A Biological Disaster
It’s been said that humans will one day leave Earth and take up residence on another planet, or perhaps in some type of free-floating vessels (1, 2, 3, 4). This idea is on the agenda not just because we now have the means to travel into space, but perhaps even more so because our current […]
Chew Your Food: Why ‘Shakes’ Are Ill-Considered
One of the mistakes I made back in the day when I was heavy into the bodybuilding game is that I used to drink some of the food I took in. I made shakes that included everything from bananas to oats to eggs. I even sometimes put canned tuna fish in them. Kinda disgusting, I […]
Musculoskeletal Darwinian Medicine: Three Great Exercises That You Can Do Almost Anywhere
Three of the exercises that are featured in the strength training guide I recently put up here on Darwinian-Medicine.com are the standing high row, the pull through, and the plank (performed with contraction of the glutes). They are among my favorite exercises, for a couple of reasons. First of all, they can be performed almost […]