What Can Fruit Flies Tell Us About a Human Diet?

A whole lot, apparently.  At least, if the experiments of Michael Rose are anything to go by.  I recently found out about Michael Rose through Michael Eades’ newsletter The Arrow (highly recommended) – and I found it truly eye-opening.  Be warned, this blog post is a bit of an excuse to nerd out on my … Read more

Are Carbs Bad?

The Ancestral Paradigm Many whole-food diets are based on the paradigm of ancestral health – we should eat as our ancient, prehistoric ancestors ate.  This criteria has been explicitly invoked by Paleo and Primal diet enthusiasts, and at least implicitly invoked by followers of low-carb, Atkins, keto, and carnivore diets (as well as promoters of … Read more

Eating Meat Cheaply

Eating Meat when Times are Tight If you are eating an ancestral diet – whether that be Paleo, Primal, a Paul Saladino “animal-based” meat and fruit diet, keto, or certainly carnivore, you are probably eating a lot of meat.  Of course, there are more vegetarian-leaning versions of keto and paleo, which I would be happy … Read more