Paleo Diets and Their Value

I don’t believe I’ve said much about this here, and I’m a bit behind everyone else because my copy of Robb Wolf’s The Paleo Solution was to be shipped when Amazon ran out of copies. I attended Robb’s seminar in July at Potomac CrossFit.

This is not the most awesome picture, but it’s the one [...]

The Ketogenic Diet

This is a review of Lyle McDonald’s The Ketogenic Diet: A complete guide for the Dieter and Practitioner. I’ve also recently read a couple of his other books, but after thinking about it a while, I learned the most from this one.

I’ve had this sitting around for a while, and I didn’t read it [...]

What’s Wrong with Polyunsaturated Fats?

I didn’t worry a lot about how much Omega-6 was in my diet (mostly from high PUFA nuts, seeds and their oils) and instead tried to balance it out with fish oil.

… More recently, while looking into subclinical (as defined solely by blood tests) hypothyroidism and how hard it is to get a proper diagnosis and treatment for hypothyroidism generally, I wound up reading a lot of work by Ray Peat, PhD , [...]

Gluconeogenesis

I’ve had something about polyunsaturated fats (PUFAs) in the hopper that is my brain for some time, but when I was finally catching up on my blog reading, I found that Dr. Kurt Harris has written something about it recently. It’s a good one.

It’s coming from a little different place than I [...]

Low-Carb Diets and Metabolism, Part Deux (Electric Boogaloo)

This time, I’m launching right in so I don’t get distracted. Part one is here.

Once you’ve gone low-carb for a long time, whether you’re paleo or not, it’s hard to go back without gaining weight. Many people who’ve been on a low-carb diet for a long time claim that they gain from consuming [...]