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Paleo Diet + Kitchen-Sink Micronutrient Supp Sends Type II Diabetes into Remission | 14/17 Subjects Normalize HbA1c

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I guess that would qualify as a "variation of the paleo diet", as well.  No, this is not an advertisement for a diet book. In fact, the "variation" of the paleo diet the Canadian + US researchers used doesn't even require a cookbook, because it's as simple as "consisting of meat and vegetables, three times per day for three to five months" and "whole low glycemic fruit and nuts or seeds" as snacks between the meals  (Christensen 2017). That I still expect some people to call the study "shady", though, is the use of Apex dietary supplements in those of the subjects with a predetermined micronutrient deficiency (I wouldn't mind that - what I do mind, though, is that the scientists do not explicitly declare if they received funding by Apex and 'forget' to report 36 of 38 lab values they claim to have tested). As you would expect it from a "paleo diet", dairy was not on the menu Cheese for Your Hea...
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10 Days of 'Paleo Life in the Wilderness' Will Strip up to 18 cm off Your Waist and Boost Your Insulin Sensitivity by 53%

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Even though it may have been funny, this is not exactly how the scientists simulated the "paleo lifestyle" in the study at hand. Eventually, however, it came down to eating healthier, being active and even being stressed (within the limits of natural "paleo stress", though). No, this science website is not going to turn into a paleo blog, ... don't worry. It's mere coincidence that this is the 2nd "paleo" study in 2 weeks that is interesting enough to get its own SuppVersity  article devoted to it ( last one ). Moreover, said study, which was published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal  BioMed Research International , recently (Pruimboom. 2016), doesn't even have the world "paleo" in title of full-text and could still be called "the true paleo" study. It does, after all, revolve around a 10-day mimic of a "hunter-gatherer lifestyle" and its favorable effects on anthropometrics and clinical chemical indi...
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Ad-Libitum Paleo Diet W/ a Handful of Simple Rules Cuts 5-7 kg of Body Fat in 12 Weeks - Plus: Paleo Research Overview

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Yes, these foods were "allowed" - Even nuts, albeit in limited amounts. Ok, I have to admit that I have repeatedly made fun of "paleo" in the past. Its "cultish", sometimes even "sectarian" appeal is and will remain as hilarious in my eyes as the (for some people life-or-death-)question whether certain foods "are paleo" or not (who cares, as long as they are healthy?). If you happen to have seen my presentation at the Paleo Convention in Berlin, last year, you will know that, despite my apathy against the quasi-religious sides of "paleo", I do appreciate a certain set of "rules" or "principles" (or whatever you may call them) all iterations of "paleo" have in common. These principles work! And they have just been shown to help middle-aged type II diabetics (age 59±8 years) shed a quite impressive 6.7 kg of body fat (w/out exercise "only 5.7kg) in 12 weeks - without  dieting as in not e...
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Paleo Goes "Real Science" - First Meta-Analysis of Available RCTs Shows Improvements in Health + Body Composition

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The good thing about paleo is that you can eat a broad range of foods. An advantage that makes paleo versatile and tasty enough to adhere to. I know that I will probably have annoyed some of you by implicitly calling "paleo" non-scientific. If we are honest, though, the whole paleo concept is based on extrapolating data from modern hunter gatherer populations, infusing them with a minimal amount of real evidence of what our ancestors ate and mixing that with the intrinsically flawed assumption that the way our ancestors ate (which was 100% opportunistic and 0% "optimized") was the optimal way for us to eat... and no, I am not going to apologize for what some of you may consider an assault on respected scientists who have published more than a dozen of papers which constitute the theoretical backbone of an experimentally still mostly unverified, but promising approach to "healthy dieting". Meat is an essential part of the "paleo diet" | Lea...
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True or False? Glycine & Proline Supplements Ramp Up Collagen Synthesis & Improve Joint Health. Plus: The Tripeptide Advantage of Collagen Hydrolysates

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The "Paleo" cult has repopularized eating and preparing your own (Chicken) bone broth, but will this also help with bone and cartilage health? Although you're probably thinking of collagen as the stuff that's important for joint health, its implications in human health are more far-reaching than most of us believe. In fact, collagens are the most abundant group of organic macro-molecules in human and animal body. Because of their tensile strength, they perform numerous structural functions within the body - specifically in connective tissues which include among other tissue also organs as your heart, your intestines, your lungs and the parenchymal organs like the liver and the kidneys and even the fibrous matrix of skin and blood vessels. As I already said, collagens are yet by far best known as structural components of the protein matrix of the skeleton and its related structures, like bones, teeth, tendons, cartilage and l...
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