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Make an informed decision about your health by exploring the science behind nutrition and a Paleolithic diet.

You Are What You Eat: The Science Behind Our Food

The Dangers of High Salt Diet: Impact on Autoimmunity

Our Paleo ancestors survived on a low salt diet. Today, it's everywhere and nearly impossible to avoid. Discover the dangers of a high salt diet.

By Dr. Marc Bubbs

Dairy: Milking it for all it's worth

Dr. Cordain discusses dairy's unfavorable effect on health and how milk proteins and peptides can promote allergies, inflammation, and autoimmune disease.

By Loren Cordain, Ph.D.

Fruits and Sugars

In general, fresh fruits are healthy, nutritious foods that are good sources of vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, and fiber. However, the common fruits we eat today bear little resemblance to their wild ancestors.

By The Paleo Diet® Team

The Wheat Series Part 1: Wheat and the Immune System

A healthy gut exposed to wheat isn't fine in anyone. Find out how the relationship between wheat and the immune system causes inflammation in our guts.

By Trevor Connor, M.S.

Evolution and High Protein Diets Part 1

By examining the environment under which our genome arose, we are able to determine if high protein diets are helpful or detrimental to our health.

By Loren Cordain, Ph.D.

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