These days, one doesn’t have to look far and wide to find information about Paleolithic nutrition and evolutionary eating. These topics are no longer constrained to tiny sections of the world of science; they have proliferated and mutated and made their way into bookstores, magazines, newspapers, and blogs. Hence, it’s not surprising that Paleo is […]
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10 Studies That Highlight the Extraordinary Potential of the Paleolithic Diet
Charles Robert Darwin taught us that the life forms that make up the ecosystem of the Earth evolve via natural selection. Over evolutionary time, different organisms have adapted to different types of environmental conditions, including different types of diets. Natural selection is constantly at work, modifying the gene pool of the living world. These facts […]
How a Healthy Diet Can “Reset” Your Appetite
A lot of people who eat a western-type, processed diet are hesitant to transition over to a healthier nutritional regimen, in part because they believe doing so will rob them of many great pleasures and make their existence more dull. Basically, they value the powerful, but short-lasting pleasure that accompanies the consumption of highly processed […]
The Detox Scam: It’s Pervasive and It’s Pernicious!
Very recently, I was exposed to the harsh reality of modern pseudomedicine (i.e., medicine that has no scientific/evolutionary basis). What happened is that a client I just recently started working with sent me a list of the supplements he’s currently taking to “detoxify his body”. I was shocked to see what he’s doing to himself. […]
Dietary Supplements: Enemies in Disguise?
Health food stores, in particular those that are heavy on nutritional supplements and functional foods, don’t live up to their name. 90%+ of the nutritional products – protein powders, vitamin pills, energy bars, sports drinks, and so forth – they sell are far from healthy. Nevertheless, a lot of people buy and use these types […]
Quackery Alert: Cleanses, Detoxes, Juice Cures, Shake Diets, etc.
The internet is a dangerous place. Unless you’re careful about what you search for, what websites you visit, and what links you click on, you may quickly find yourself surrounded by quackery on all sides. The risk of this happening is particularly high if you surf into health/fitness-related sections of the internet, which are notorious […]
The Science is Clear: Gluten is a Troublemaker
Do you try to steer clear of gluten – a composite of two proteins found in some cereal grains, including wheat and barley? If so, then you’re not alone. The number of people who’ve cut ties with gluten appears to have skyrocketed lately: food blogs are filling up with grain-free recipes, more and more people […]
Ask Eirik: How Often Should I Exercise?
I haven’t been very good at answering questions from reader’s lately. I apologize for that. Just now, I went through some feedback and questions that have come my way recently. (If you have a question for me, then feel free to send it my way via the e-mail form on this page). As I was […]
Is it Healthy to Drink Milk? 10 Questions with Bodo Melnik (MD); Professor of Dermatology, University of Osnabrück, Germany
Dairy foods, including cow’s milk, make up a substantial part of the typical western diet. Many contemporary humans consume milk for breakfast every morning, as well as regularly eat other dairy products such as yogurt and cheese. This is particularly true in the U.S. and in Northern European countries such as Finland and Sweden. It’s […]
Darwinian-Medicine.com 2.0
Dear reader, if you’re someone who regularly visits and browses this site, then you’ve probably noticed that Darwinian-Medicine.com has undergone some changes lately. The new design builds on the old one, but it differs in some important respects. In particular the tablet and mobile versions of the site have changed quite a bit. You may also […]