Not so much bizarre but definitely miraculous (for me). For the first time in ages (or maybe ever?) I can go hours and hours without eating and not get jittery/grouchy. I still get headaches but that could be from eye-strain (note to self: get the hell off the computer and get thee outside).

Awesome about the regenerated toenail (sounds like a punk rock band name) and the end of panic attacks!

I have dealt with depression and anxiety for a few years. I had a baby in July and after experienced major post partum depression, and severe anxiety. I didn't not want to go on meds and tried natural remedies and exercising, although it helped the symptoms were still out of control. I started seeing a therapist, so I could be diagnosed. My boyfriend is doing Crossfit and he told me he wanted to start trying a paleo diet. So I started us on a paleo diet. I didn't think it would help with my depression and anxiety, but I could try loosing some baby weight. Within a week I lost 5 pounds and felt great! It's been almost two months and I haven't had one anxiety attack, and I feel great! I have continued to see a therapist because I do have some issues I need to work out and I never want to go back to that dark place. The paleo diet has given me the ability to be in control and feel great!

Reversed peripheral neuropathy about 80% (neurologist is shocked!)

Back and joint problems are gone.

Eczema type skin conditions completely cleared up.

Haven't had any kind of NSAID for anything in almost a year.

Hashimoto's is under control and energy returning.

EDIT added - no more GERD either.

My husband had a mole on his back fall off!

It was one of those raised ones, the kind you keep your eye on, you know? Completely gone now!

This isn't really a side effect but I count it anyway. I was totally hooked on tobacco, Copenhagen. Had smoked since I was in my teens and used the dip to quit smoking. I know, please hold the lectures. Total chemical dependence. I am 57 and this went on for years. I started down the paleo path this last January for all the right reasons. Have benefited from all the good things this has to offer. I was still dipping in January, but after a few weeks I just put it down. Something changed to allow me to quit, almost without thinking about it. I I really think it was the effect grains where having on me, anxiety? Don't know. I did use one package of Commit lozenges the first week, but did not really feel they were needed. Bought a couple packs of Tic Tacs the next week, but those just seemed like a bad idea. I have lost some weight and still need to drop another 20 lbs, but not being a junkie anymore kind of put that all in perspective for me.

In addition to curing my life-long depression I would have to say the fact that I never get sick is a seemingly miraculous health benefit from eating paleo. I can't remember the last time I've had a cold, the flu, or even allergies - and that's with working in a cubicle farm where germs are everywhere! Being sick is a sign of a weakened immune system, something I just don't have any longer.

My left ankle had been swollen for over three years. I had ask my doctors over and over again, what causes this? How can I prevent this in the future? The answers I recieved was "It "might" have happened, perhaps from an an old injury or maybe from my blood pressure meds." After living Primal (I include a bit of dairy every now and then) for a month and 1/2 - two months, the swelling was gone!.. That made me Very Happy not to mention losing belly fat first! No turning back, Love it! It has been 3 months and Monday I am going to do The Whole30, can't wait to see what happens after this!

Not so miraculous maybe, but skin condition stuff. Itchy scaly scalp gone. Fungal infection between toes for at least four years. Had tried everything under the sun including buying all new socks and shoes. Gone! Toe nails look so much better. Systolic BP never under 120 even when I was slim and in my 20's. (except for a short time when I was on a beta bocker for headaches) My last unmedicated systolic BP was 116 and I'm 50 yo. Lost 29 lb. Took me a year to lose that much following weight watchers to the letter several years ago. I could go on but so far I'm very happy with the progress in only 3 months.

I used to have tonsil stones - which have mysteriously disappeared. It's not a huge life changing thing since they were more of an annoyance than a serious problem, but I guess it's kind of cool?

I just lost some weight.

I have very fair skin, and used to sunburn quickly, literally in 15 minutes in mid-day sun. I seem to have much more tolerance to sun now. I'm guessing it has more to do with the 6000 IU of D-vitamin I supplement with daily than paleo diet, though.

Digestion is excellent. I used to think that groaning tummy, runny/rock hard excrement, and general discomfort after eating was a normal part of human existence, not anymore.

Higher alcohol tolerance is a nice bonus.

Well for the most part it seems I'm very resilient to stress, as far as physical manifestations of it regardless of diet, internally I'm easily stressed out, I'm the type of person who is like a mom who can find absolutely anything to worry about for no good reason. I'm also very energetic in a nervous kind of way, I do a lot of pacing around sometimes I even walk around while reading. I've just always been like that. It's good for me to exhaust myself on occasion. It takes a very special women to be married to someone like me.

When I started eating more saturated fat I noticed that I was able to actually relax and chill out in a natural way the nervousness just doesn't enter my thought process as much as it did before. And while I'm not high-fat I'm not low-fat either. I'm probably pretty equal. At least half and half for fat/carbohydrate ratio. But I will favor fat over carbohydrate quite naturally if I'm not thinking about it.

So internal stress and stressful thought patterns went down just by eating more saturated fat. I never really ate junk to begin with once I moved out of my parents house.

The other thing that changed was my sexual side. I've always been a very sexual person despite not having sex till I was 21. From about kindergarten up I've always been interested in girls. I found that this already annoying trait intensified the better I ate.

It's interesting though my sex drive increases proportional to my fat intake and decreases proportionally to carbohydrate intake. Now that I find interesting. It also further reinforces the idea that behavior can (and I do believe this is more true than most would admit to also include "everyday behavior patterns") can be driven solely by nutrient status.

My hair and nails grow faster as well and these annoying ingrown beard hairs I used to get I don't get anymore. I can shave against the grain and I don't get any irritation or anything like that anymore.

I would say the most miraculous was internal stress went down, in other words things that used to bother me don't even get my attention anymore.

Ha, similar experience...I had smashed my big toenail so badly several years ago that it would just grow out a bit, then fall off. Over and over. I had to kind of paint the stubby half-nail and the skin and hope no one noticed. But since going paleo that sucker has grown out to a full nail (and my other toenails and fingernails grow crazy fast and thick). My acne has also cleared up, and the seemingly immovable stomach pooch I've always had on my otherwise slender body has disappeared.

• Less eczema
• Allergy symptoms almost all gone (I used to wake up with mucus jamming my throat and sinuses and what not and it would take hours to finally breathe correctly)
• Asthma more manageable
• Better sleep because I also quit energy drinks :)

And a recent one : My fresh tattoos are healing much faster !!

thicker eyelashes and softer hair!!

My winter eczema did not flare up this past winter.

Restless leg syndrome used to be a nightmare for me, but no longer suffer with that at all.

I no longer suffer from PMS every month. Not to mention all the other undesirable things that go along with that time of the month. And it's shorter by 3 days!! Paleo is worth doing just for that reason alone!!

No longer have gall bladder attacks after meals.

No more headaches.

I used to have the weakest stomach - would often vomit from foods I ate (we're talking several times a week not bulimic btw). Have not thrown up once since going paleo.

Not a single breakout in months.

No crash during the day. Consistent energy.

Haven't been sick in well over a year.

No more allergies.

Amazingly soft skin.

I have primary sclerosing cholangitis and have had most of the symptoms ease or go away since starting paleo/primal in February. My insomnia of 10 years was gone in about a week. Chronic pain is down to almost nothing with many days pain free. Liver pain is mostly gone. Only the pruritus remains mostly unaffected.

I used to get a cold almost every winter a few times throughout the grueling 6 months- now I never get sick! I haven't taken medicine for anything in a year, whether it be stomach aches, colds, cramps, or headaches, because they simply don't appear!

My hair is more lustrous and my nails are much stronger.

This may not be miraculous to all, but my HDL is 100 now and went up 45 from my pre-paleo days. I think that is so amazing and it's nice to just feel great.

I've been paleo for only 2 months. An ugly, lumpy, 6-year-old scar on my arm totally flattend, lightened in colour, and is almost undetectable now. No more headaches, stomach aches or joint pain. No anxiety, my skin is radiant (people comment constantly), and of course...a huge weight loss.

Lost about 25 pounds, and can't seem to gain bsck 20 pounds of it no matter what I do.

Better mood, sleep, energy, no blood sugar crashes.

A patch of dry, scaly skin on my ankle that I've had for 20 years suddenly disappeared, and has not come back.

I had Keratosis Pilaris (chilcken skin) on the backs of both arms for at least 10 years, it suddenly disappeared.

I had low-grade dandruff with minor flakes on my neck and shoulders ever since I was about 18, which is gone.

I had vitiligo on my face and hands, which really bothered me. This has stopped spreading everywhere but one finger, and while it has not reversed, it has not spread any further elsewhere. This is still a work in progress but there are clear benefits already.

My hair is more full snd literally stands straight up, and I have had many compliments.

My blood pressure dropped 15 points.

I sm 42 and it is no exagerratiom to say that my health was radically transformed in less than 6 months. The changes on thr outside are very obvious, I only wonder what is going on in the inside.

I have always, for as long as I can remember, had these ugly red bumps on my upper arms. Nothing I tried helped and after being Paleo for less than 6 weeks they are already much smoother and lighter. I too have also had a major decrease in anxiety. I have a prescription for my panic attacks and was taking it 2-6 times a week. I haven't taken one in 4 weeks!

It's helping dramatically with gastritis I've been suffering from for a few years. And my skin is improving greatly as well. Actually my overall health is way better when I stay on a healthy diet plan of the paleo type.