What Is The Paleo Diet? Paleo Diet for Beginners

What is the Paleo diet? Here's a common

sense explanation for the beginner

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Hi Iam doctor Ekberg with Wellness For Life

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don't miss anything so paleo has become

a buzzword these days and there's a lot

of confusion as usual and what humans do

best is to complicate really really

simple things. So if you go on some

forums and you start nitpicking before

you long you're just go crazy so first

of all what does it mean where's they

come from why do we do it the

Paleolithic era was from about 3 million

years ago to about 10,000 years ago

that's the time that humans first

started making stone tools and and they

got better and better at innovating

things until about 10,000 years ago we

started the agricultural era so during

this whole time there was no agriculture

and the humans and the humanoids were

hunter-gatherers they were walking

around they were moving their

settlements they didn't build cities and

then about 250,000 years ago we got Homo

sapiens and that's what you and I are if

you're listening to this you are a homo

sapiens and that means that you shared

the same genetic code as the people did

about 250,000 years ago we haven't had

time to adapt our genetic code it

changes very very slowly so what that

means is whatever they ate they have

become adapted to and that's me that

means that's what you and I are adapted

to that's the foodstuff that fits into

your genes that's what your body knows

what to do with what did they eat they

ate primarily meat, fish and poultry if

you could hunt it or catch it or pick it

then it was food they eat fruit berries

vegetable

and roots and they also had some nuts

and seeds but now we have to realize

that could make the Paleo diet a whole

bunch of different things depending on

where you live did you live in the

Arctic did you live in the tropics did

you live in the mountains or did you

live by the coast was are we talking

summer or we talking winter so it's not

a single thing that could be a huge

amount of variation to it but what's

more important is to understand what we

eat a whole lot of that they had none of

and now we're talking

they had no grains they had no legumes

those are things like peas and beans and

peanuts and things like that they had no

processed foods and now we're talking

primarily sugar and they also had no

Franken foods and what we mean by that

is that there's this tale of dr.

Frankenstein who tried to create life

making Frankenstein's monster well

that's kind of what we're doing with our

food alteration we're making monster

food we're making things that has

disastrous effects it didn't work for

Dr. Frankenstein and it's not working so

well because we're getting sicker and

sicker and sicker the more of these

processed Franken foods that we eat and

one of the worst ones is margarine

because there is nothing it's like

plastic there's nothing no similarity

between anything nature has ever made

- what margarine is same thing with

artificial sweeteners it is a neurotoxin

it's a chemical and all these other

chemicals preservatives food additives

flavor enhancers colorings etc those are

frankenfoods they're chemicals they're

poison they have no place at all

so these are things that they never ever

got not a single ounce or gram ever that

makes it pretty clear-cut that yes there

are some things they could eat and there

were some things they never ate

but then the question is do we use this

as a guideline as a template to give us

some ideas and some common sense or do

we say that nothing ever changes and

therefore we should treat this like

religion like a firm rule this is the

way it is and one of the most common

things that come up then is can we have

dairy so according to the religious view

this the stern the firm view of course

we can't have any dairy because these

guys didn't have it well you could argue

that maybe they killed an animal that

they could get some milk out of sure but

here's the way I look at it dairy is

from mammals humans are mammals it is

probably the most natural food on the

planet because every mammal baby starts

out on Mother's Milk

we pretty much continue until that baby

can fend for itself until it's old

enough to go out and start picking

things and doing things so for different

animals that that lasts different

periods of times but most

hunter-gatherer populations

breastfeeding is commonplace up until

six or seven years old not exclusively

not the only food source but as a

supplement food source so basically at

that age they they don't need it because

now they're old enough to start moving

around but what that tells me is dairy

is natural to humans because we are

mammals and we are adapted to that food

so then we can talk about well should we

drink the milk from other species so yes

we should have human milk but can we

have goat's milk or cow's milk and I

believe based on muscle testing that and

and clinical results that any milk is

perfectly fine as long as it is not

pasteurized that is the key because milk

is alive it's always in nature is always

delivered straight from the source

to the person eating it to the baby and

that means it was never pasteurized it

was never processed the pasteurization

happened because they wanted to extend

the shelf-life and now they turn it into

a frankenfood because they kill off the

enzymes and the bacteria and everything

that was in there that helped you digest

it that made it alive and natural so to

me Dairy is okay but never pasteurized

and if you make sour cream or yogurt out

of it now you bring it back to life so

now it's okay again so once you read

online about this you quickly get very

confused and as always everyone turns it

in to another diet and does it work can

you lose weight on it and yes if you eat

this way you lose so much weight and as

always they're missing the point it's

not a diet and we don't care if it works

for weight loss it's an understanding

it's a it's an idea

it's a metaphor for understanding what

food is what food is suited for us and

what is non-food what is it that's

foreign and poisonous and what is it

that can sustain us there was a guy

called Weston Price who travelled the

world about a hundred years ago and he

found that there were populations all

over the planets who were extremely

healthy who had no tooth decay no

degenerative diseases they were doing

absolutely fine and some of them ate a

lot of vegetables and some ate no

vegetables some ate almost all fish

because they live by the coast and some

ate no fish because they lived in the

mountains they had goats they drank goat

milk they had cows they drank cow's milk

they made cheese and butter and no

matter where he went they were perfectly

healthy as long as they ate whole food

as long as they didn't mess with it as

long as they didn't process it or turn

it into Franken food

humans can survive on a wide variety of

different foods the problem we've gotten

into is we've added too much grain too

much legumes we process too much

everything is sugary we have the

high-fructose corn syrups and the agave

and all these different things that we

never got in those amounts from nature

so there's the problem so that's the

Paleo diet in a nutshell that's the idea

behind it can you use it religiously and

get good results absolutely go for it

can you use it as a template I think

that's the better that's how I look at

it I look at as a great metaphor to

start understanding why certain things

might be good for us and why certain

things might be creating a lot of damage

so the take-home message is use it any

way you like it's a great metaphor for

understanding what foods might be

suitable and what might not but in the

end you eat whole foods you avoid

processed foods and you eat it in the

freshest and most natural state that you

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