Your health is intertwined with the health of your microbiota. If your microbiota is diverse, resilient, and dominated by bacteria that agree with your biology, then that means that you possess a natural defense against diabetes, colon cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, and a plethora of other diseases and health problems. Unless you’ve […]
Nutrition
How Bread Messes With the Head
Yesterday, as I was rushing through a local grocery store that was one the verge of closing up for the day in pursuit of something to eat the remaining days of Easter, I was taken off guard by a craving for bread that came out of nowhere. I could feel that my body wanted some […]
Do We Really Need to Brush Our Teeth?
Many diseases and health problems that we – contemporary humans – consider to be largely unavoidable, such as acne vulgaris, a skin disorder that afflicts more than 90% of the adolescent population in some westernized countries, and malocclusion, a very common condition nowadays that is characterized by a misalignment of the upper and lower jaw, […]
Saturated Fat: Is the Tide Turning?
Several years back I started writing about saturated fat here on Darwinian-Medicine.com. In the time that has passed since then, I’ve published several articles about saturated fat as it relates to human nutrition and health. The reason why I’ve devoted quite a bit of time to this issue is that I’m concerned about the fact […]
The War on Fat: Is it Unhealthy to Eat Meat?
Meat has gotten a bad rep. If you are to believe the headlines, it’s to blame for everything from heart disease to stomach ulcers to global warming. Given that meat, and red meat in particular, has received so much bad press over the past several years – especially following the World Health Organization’s (WHO) release […]
The Therapeutic Potential of Fermented Vegetables
About a decade ago I started to realise that microbiome disruption is a root cause of a plethora of diseases and health problems. This triggered me to start looking for ways to restore the human microbiome, which I discovered had recently been severely damaged by various human activities. We humans are very “good” at breaking […]
eBook: Heal Your Gut With Fermented Vegetables
Do you feel like your body isn’t in peak shape? Is your quality of life compromised by an inflammation-related health problem such as irritable bowel syndrome, depression, acne vulgaris, inflammatory bowel disease, chronic fatigue, type-1 diabetes, or obesity? If so, then chances are your gut is in a sorry state and is largely to blame […]
How Your Microbiome Shapes Your Appetite
It’s commonly believed that our dietary preferences are fairly static, in the sense that they don’t change much, irrespective of how we live our lives. This assumption is erroneous. A person whose favorite food is doughnuts won’t necessarily crave doughnuts his whole life. By altering his lifestyle and behavior, in particular his eating behavior, he […]
Paleolithic Nutrition: It Can No Longer Be Ignored
The nutritional establishment has long been telling us that we should consume a lot of grains and low-fat dairy products, including milk. Over the past decade, it has become increasingly clear that this recommendation, which is deeply rooted in the paradigm that forms the foundation of contemporary mainstream nutrition and is by many almost unquestioningly […]
Healthy Fats: A Cornerstone of the Paleolithic Diet
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 […]