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The effects of salt substitute on community-wide blood pressure and hypertension

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All Packed Up Salmon

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Roasted Chicken with Spring Veggie Finished

Recipe: Spring Chicken Paleo Style

By Lorrie Cordain
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Recipe: Beef Tenderloin with Roasted Cauliflower-Pomegranate Salad

By Lorrie Cordain
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Healthy Aging: Study shows high-carbohydrate diets promote dementia

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Salt vs Potassium Foods

The Sodium/Potassium Ratio and its Importance in Human Health

By Mark J. Smith, Ph.D.
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The Importance of Sleep for Your Immune System

By Mark J. Smith, Ph.D.
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Disease Prevention

A significant body of research supports why The Paleo Diet has the potential to not only prevent but reverse chronic disease. Now, many experimental studies are confirming this.

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Autoimmune Disease
An autoimmune disease is a condition in which the immune system attacks the host’s body. Each of the more than 80 diseases are differentiated by the tissue(s) or organ(s) that the immune system attacks, such as beta cells in the pancreas in diabetes and connective tissue in rheumatoid arthritis.
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Cancer
Cancer refers to a collection of related diseases that develop cellular tumors. These tumors develop when the normal orderly process of cell death and growth breaks down. Then, some of the body’s cells begin to divide uncontrollably and can spread into surrounding tissues.
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Metabolic Syndrome
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is said to occur when a person exhibits at least three of five risk factors (abdominal obesity, high triglycerides, low HDL cholesterol, high blood pressure, high fasting blood sugar). MetS is a significant risk factor for developing conditions like heart disease, diabetes, and stroke.
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Diabetes
Diabetes is a group of conditions that all involve a breakdown in normal insulin function. Type I diabetes is an autoimmune condition where pancreatic beta cells that produce insulin are destroyed. In type II diabetes, patients develop insulin resistance. Both conditions can lead to uncontrolled blood glucose levels.
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Cardiovascular Disease
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) refers to a collection of often related diseases that affect the cardiovascular system. They include heart and blood vessel disease, heart attacks, strokes, congestive heart failure, arrhythmias (abnormal heart rhythm), and heart valve problems.
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Asthma
Asthma is a condition in which the bronchial airways narrow, swell, and produce extra mucus. This leads to difficulty breathing and can trigger coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath. While it is a minor nuisance for some people, in others it can be a major problem when it leads to a life-threatening asthma attack.
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Digestive Diseases
Digestive disease refers to a large group of varied conditions including leaky gut, irritable bowel syndrome, autoimmune diseases such as Crohn’s, and microflora imbalance. As a result, there is no one mechanism. However, most of the conditions appear to have something in common: a breakdown of the digestive defenses and inappropriate inflammation.
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Acne
Acne vulgaris is a skin condition that occurs as a result of the obstruction and inflammation of hair follicles and their accompanying sebaceous gland. It leads to the formation of whiteheads, blackheads, and/or pimples, usually on the face and upper trunk. It is most common among adolescents but can affect people of all ages.
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Addressing Disease with Diet
The evidence linking diet to the chronic inflammatory conditions that are overwhelming our healthcare system—metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, cancer, autoimmune conditions—is incontrovertible. While we believe in an 85:15 approach to The Paleo Diet®, if you are dealing with one of these conditions, a stricter diet or even an elimination diet approach may help you.
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Preventative Care
Too often our healthcare focuses on what to do after we get sick. Proper diet and exercise can go a long way to ensuring you never need to visit the doctor for anything besides your regular physical.
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Nell’s Corner: Immunity and Inflammation During COVID-19

We all want to avoid getting sick, but what is most important - avoidance, building immunity or reducing inflammation? Nell's Corner addresses this questions.

By Nell Stephenson

Healthy Aging: Study shows high-carbohydrate diets promote dementia

Take a deep dive into research showing how eating a diet high in sugar can contribute to the onset of dementia and how a Paleo Diet can be protective

By David Whiteside

Paleolithic aging: Exercise for brain, biceps, and longevity

Evidence is quietly accumulating that our brains and immune systems need exercise as much as our muscles. Find out the facts about Paleolithic aging.

By David Whiteside

Key Nutrient Series: The Role of Sodium and Potassium in Our Diet

The question of how much salt we should eat has become one of the biggest debates in the Paleo community. Read the series to find out!

By The Paleo Diet Team

Does a Low-Salt Diet Cause Insulin Resistance?

There's a belief in the Paleo world that a low-salt diet leads to insulin resistance, but the science shows the exact opposite - a high-salt diet causes it.

By Trevor Connor

Healthy Aging: Study shows high-carbohydrate diets promote dementia

Take a deep dive into research showing how eating a diet high in sugar can contribute to the onset of dementia and how a Paleo Diet can be protective

By David Whiteside

The effects of salt substitute on community-wide blood pressure and hypertension

A high-salt diet contributes to hypertension or high blood pressure, but did you know that increasing potassium in your diet can offset some of the effects

By Dr. Marc Bubbs

Thomas Seyfried’s metabolic theory of cancer, and how our ancestral diet could help curtail the disease

Important new discoveries about cancer cells - including their reliance on glucose for fuel, is showing an important role of diet in managing the condition.

By David Whiteside

Recent research study challenges the Paleolithic diet’s benefit on gut and cardiovascular health and adds that whole grain sources may be required

A recent study from Australia found the Paleo Diet raises TMAO, but Mark J. Smith show that there may be more politics than results in the study

By Mark J. Smith, Ph.D.

How Vitamin D Helps Fight the Cold, Flu, and Other Viruses

If you keep getting sick and don’t know why, here’s how the underestimated sunshine vitamin can help boost immunity and fight viral infections.

By Aimee McNew

Dietary Salt Impairs the Endothelial Glycocalyx: The Most Important Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factor You May Never Have Heard About

Learn more about dietary salt & the paleo diet. Browse The Paleo Diet® blog to learn more about the paleo diet, paleo foods & health benefits today!

By Loren Cordain, Ph.D.

Eat Saint Louis Style Pork Ribs, and Reduce your Risk for Heart Disease, Osteoporosis and Other Chronic Diseases

St. Louis style pork ribs come from the healthiest part of the pig. Dr. Cordain of The Paleo Diet explains why their high menaquinone content may help your health in today's entry.

By Loren Cordain, Ph.D.

New studies on salt: Adverse influence upon immunity, inflammation and autoimmunity

The most scientifically valid study in humans has demonstrated that a high salt diet promotes chronic inflammation and adversely affects the immune system.

By Loren Cordain, Ph.D.

Ketogenic Diets: Long-term Nutritional and Metabolic Deficiencies

While the Paleo diet and ketogenic diets are often confused, they have important differences that need to be recognized. Read more about the potential drawbacks of a ketogenic diet in today's post.

By Loren Cordain, Ph.D.

North American Plains Indians: Tall and Robust Meat Eaters, But not a Milk Drinker Among Them

A constant criticism of the Paleo Diet® is that we can't maintain bone health without consuming dairy. Yet Native Americans were tall and robust - and didn't drink milk.

By Loren Cordain, Ph.D.
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Trevor Connor
Trevor Connor

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.

Mark J Smith
Dr. Mark Smith

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.

Nell Stephenson
Nell Stephenson

Ironman athlete, mom, author, and nutrition blogger Nell Stephenson has been an influential member of the Paleo movement for over a decade.

Loren Cordain
Dr. Loren Cordain

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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