You’ve likely heard of The Paleo Diet®, Paleolithic nutrition, or the hunter-gatherer diet to describe a way of eating that mimics the diet of our ancestral past. Unfortunately, there's a lot of misinformation about the diet, but when you get down to the basics, it's just eating a lot of vegetables, fruits, lean meats, fish, eggs and some nuts and seeds - what you find at your local farmer's market.
Quite simply, The Paleo Diet® is the only diet to which the human species is genetically adapted. In other words, when you eat a Paleo Diet, you are eating the optimal foods for your body, literally programmed into your DNA.
By The Paleo Diet® TeamIf you've heard of The Paleo Diet, but don't know where to start check out our simple guide to what you should and should not eat on The Paleo Diet.
By The Paleo Diet® TeamThe Paleo Diet is the diet we evolved over a million years to eat and there is still a lot of science to show why it is still the best human diet.
By Mark J. Smith, Ph.D.Read commonly asked questions with Dr. Loren Cordain about the benefits of The Paleo Diet®. Browse our website for Paleo recipes, food lists & more!
By Loren Cordain, Ph.D.The focus of the Paleo Diet is not on finding an ideaL macronutrient ratio, but on eating the foods we evolved to eat and avoiding anything processed.
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Dr. Loren Cordain’s final graduate student, Trevor Connor, M.S., brings more than a decade of nutrition and physiology expertise to spearhead the new Paleo Diet team.
One of the original members of the Paleo movement, Mark J. Smith, Ph.D., has spent nearly 30 years advocating for the benefits of Paleo nutrition.
Ironman athlete, mom, author, and nutrition blogger Nell Stephenson has been an influential member of the Paleo movement for over a decade.
As a professor at Colorado State University, Dr. Loren Cordain developed The Paleo Diet® through decades of research and collaboration with fellow scientists around the world.
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