One of the dangers of following any diet is becoming dogmatic, developing tunnel vision and, as a result, failing to adapt the diet to your own needs (bio-individuality). What alterations/adaptations to the Paleo diet have you made and why?
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I don't buy any paleo 2.0 things. I believe that optimization is always better than a dogmatism stance. I believe like Peter Drucker said in his business books if you can measure it you can manage it. That is how I treat my myself, my family, and now my patients. The science of mitochondrial signaling and DNA transcription clearly point to epigenetic modification being highly valued. Now the key It to discover what foods,diet and supplementation with hormonal optimization matter most as the human ages along the 15-18 pathways of aging or longevity. That is my Paleo modification. Science always trumps beliefs or rationale. This movement was based upon scientists who looked back our evolutionary history and made valuable observations. Thinking that living only in the past makes no sense to me considering how the human mind has evovled the last 100000 years |
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I have a genetic variation that means I excrete sodium at above the normal level, so I have to eat a diet with ample added salt. Who knows what genetic variations we all have? Until we develop the technology to know them all and cheap testing, individual trial is the only way. |
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I don't have any rules or big rebellions. I know the general idea, I know many deeper details (but far from all that are necessary). I don't count any 80/20, I don't count calories, carbs nor protein (even though I got a bit worried after one thread, that I eat much too much). I eat what I feel like, and if I feel that I am straying a bit too much, I make myself get back on track. I drink coffee, this time with heavy cream and butter. sometimes black. Sometimes I will eat a whole bar of chocolate or grapefruit. I will do fasting out of laziness (so no lunch) and not because I planned it. I have it random. The diet should work for me and with me, not the other way around. |
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at present: Cacao; rare but Occasional black bread or pumpernickel; unsweetened bitter or baker's chocolate; and smoothies with unsweetened almond milk, flax seed, cashew butter, blue/black/strawberries, apple cider vinegar, 1/4 tsp organic vanilla extract, tsp virgin coconut oil, seltzer, and usually a scoop of Amazing Grass Superfood, ice (or I freeze the berries the night prior). |
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