Intro To My Paleolithic Diet Experiment

I have been studying nutrition and working out for a good number of years. Over that period of time I met hundreds of people with thousands of ideas. I've read hundreds of articles and dozens of books, visited plenty of websites and gone through more than my share of programs. I've even designed my own personal programs for myself based on all the "knowledge" that I've acquired from countless sources. I've also put countless numbers of supplements, powders, drinks, and God only knows who's science project creations into my system to get lean and build muscle. At the end of all of it, I was left feeling drained with high blood pressure (145/90), a mediocre body (20% body fat), and declining health and habits.

Finally, out of the blue, I made a new friend, Adam Farrah, who with just a few words made sense of the mass of mumbo jumbo and health industry voodoo that I had floating around in my head. He cleared away years of subjection to marketing and money making schemes, well meaning parents who knew nothing of nutrition, and government agendas to keep us sick.

He said to me, "You need to escape the health and diet Matrix." I thought I knew everything and almost cut him off to give him my take on things. Instead I let him talk. He said, "Think about who we evolved from. What did they have available to eat?"

In that moment EVERYTHING clicked. Our ancestors didn't have powders, dairy, fast food, pizza, legumes, hormone fed chicken, pesticides, steroids, grains, bread, cheese.....yogurt.......low fat, non fat, Dr. Atkins, low carb, high carb....rice....NONE of that!

They had whole, fresh fruits, vegetables, and live animal meat. That was it. They had to struggle to get it! And they were the species to whether the storms of prehistoric hell-ish living conditions and eventually give birth to our generation.

Yet we eat NOTHING like they did. In fact, we do the opposite! We are turning a finely tuned and biologically harmonious species into a gluttonous, sugar fix addicted, lard consuming, chemically additive mongering, pharmaceutical dependent disgrace with the way we eat! I came to this realization nearly instataneously.

And from there, Adam explained to me what the raw vegan and Paleolithic diets were and how they could change my life. Once it's all boiled down, what I follow now is a mostly raw Paleolithic Diet. I essentially eat whole raw fruit all day, with some whole raw veggies, and also eat portions of raw sashimi (fish) or grass fed, hormone, drug free meat at night. I slighly cook the meat but eat it very very rare.

What I have learned since then has been some of the most magnificently enlightening and life changing information I've ever come across. This is the SIMPLEST, easiest, and most enjoyable way of eating I have ever experienced. I have put it into practice and been documenting my journey. You can follow me day by day through my blog, amidst my other musings, and observe what I eat, how my work outs changed, and how my health and well being improved dramatically over a very short period of time.

I'll explain more about what the Paleolithic Diet is in forthcoming posts. You can also count on me to start exposing the truth about our widely accepted eating habits, beliefs about exercise, and unnecessary pharmaceutical dependence.