Summary: Yes, you really can become the New Paleo You! It won’t happen overnight, but considering that you’ve been sliding into the Old Neolithic you for decades, at least, you will be very pleased to hear that your new self, no matter how much you’ve been damaged metabolically from bad nutrition and exercise advice, is only months away in most cases. Let’s take a bad case as an example- let’s say you are a life-long exerciser, mainly running and other forms of “cardio” or “aerobics” like spinning classes, dance classes, jazzercise, whatever kind of exercise that only is supposed to burn calories and help endurance... this kind of exercise is really bad! just so you know, it is counterproductive, and will only teach your body to hold onto fat, raise your cortisol or stress hormones, lower your immunity to colds and flu, and wear out your joints. And let’s say you have been a “yo-yo” dieter for years- reducing calories to 1500 per day or less, losing weight (not only fat, but mostly muscle first, and then some fat), until your body intervened (luckily) and forced you to eat more food... unfortunately, the body can’t tell you exactly what food to eat, so you just ate lots of low fat (which equals high sugar) processed fake foods, lean cuisine type nutritionally barren processed fake meals, and horrible fast foods... yuck.... This is actually a pretty typical modern American, especially of the female variety! (Males have their own bad normal “types”, but let’s work with this for now- the solutions are identical!) And, in addition, you’ve probably gone regularly to the Doctor, trying to be “responsible about your health”, and have been prescribed various medications for, oh, high blood pressure, migraine headaches, anti- depressants, and maybe (worst of all!) a Statin drug for high cholesterol. And you probably have various skin ailments, dry or oily, perhaps acne or rosacia, and all in all you just feel BAD. You have trouble sleeping, and feel anxious much of the time. All of this is very common, almost inevitable for the present day and manner of living and eating... But now, let’s go... Back to the Future! Back to the future theme Now, you are going to become the New Paleo YOU! And don’t worry, it’s not all that hard, in fact it’s easier than what you are doing right now, and the results will amaze both you, your family and friends, and especially even your Doctor! First off, change your diet. Actually, this is first, second, third and fourth- change the way you eat. Simple things first- throw away your salt! No, I’m not telling you to eat less salt, I’m telling you to eat MORE! But get a good quality SEA SALT, not that lousy fake processed salt made by big industry. Himalayan is a great place to start! Tastes amazing, and loaded with healthy minerals your body is craving. Next, throw away your vegetable oils and margarine and Crisco poisons! They have no nutrients at all, and are only helping to make you fat and sick- throw them out, don’t even donate them to the homeless, they are better off with out them too. Again, I am not asking you to do without, just substitute UP- go buy real, pastured butter. (Hey, this paleo thing isn’t so hard yet, is it? It’s just way tastier...) For pastured butter, buy Kerrygold from Ireland or even better, Organic Valley pastured butter from the wondrous state of Wisconsin wherein I reside... for OIL, get olive oil, coconut oil, ghee (clarified butter) is also great and readily available. Do NOT get peanut oil (a legume), but real NUT oils like macadamia or almond oils are great. Coconut oil and pastured butter will be your go to butters, but real honest-to-God lard from grass fed beef and pastured pork or (my favorite) duck is to be prized! So far, everything has been improvements to your life and diet (and your health!) Nothing hard so far... but now: I want you
