Controversial Thoughts: How is an Animal-Based diet different than a Paleo diet?

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Paul Saladino, MD

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🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Animal-based vs Keto vs Paleo

Though at first glance an #Animalbased diet may look like a ketogenic or paleo diet, there are some key differences. Though a paleo diet includes meat, this type of eating forgets about the incredible nutrient richness found in organs like liver, heart, kidney, etc. A paleo diet also leaves in nuts/seeds/and leafy greens which don't really provide any unique nutrients but do lead to a lot of gas 💨, bloating, and digestive issues for many people. These are full of anti-nutrients and digestive enzyme inhibitors and are best avoided.

Though a very low carbohydrate ketogenic diet can be incredibly powerful for many people with diabetes, and obesity, this way of eating isn't really sustainable long term.

The fact of the matter is this, eliminating carbs can help with insulin resistance but didn't cause it in the first place. To truly treat these issues we must remove seed oils and excess linoleic acid from our diets. Once you are metabolically healthy, including carbohydrates from the least toxic plant sources (sweet/non-sweet fruit- no fructose is not toxic in fruit) can be a positive addition to your diet!

Animal-based diets can take many forms to suit your needs, but don't fall into overly rigid ketogenic dogma by fearing all carbohydrates long term. Cycling in low-carb periods or periods of a carnivore diet is great, but it's also nice to bring in a few low toxicity plant foods from time to time for variety, flavor, color, etc. Just know that if you chose to include nuts/seeds/leafy greens you may run into digestive issues by trending too much toward paleo.

Here's to reclaiming your birthright to radical health! #theremembering

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0:00.0	What is up you guys welcome to another edition of controversial thoughts where things are never boring and
0:07.5	Usually quite controversial last week. I talked about coffee. So if you really want the controversial download on that
0:15.3	You should check out last week's controversial thoughts episode
0:19.6	This week I want to do a little bit shorter and less technical video about
0:24.0	differences between an animal-based diet and a paleo diet or a
0:31.3	ketogenic diet just for those of you who don't know what an animal-based diet is I want to give you a basic idea of this my
0:40.7	conceptualization how I think about this how I really
0:44.1	Got here from a carnivore diet and then talk about how it's different than a paleo diet and a ketogenic diet because those differences are
0:51.5	Quite important. So here are some pictures of animal-based diets on our beautiful heart and soil cutting board and
1:01.6	You can see there's a lot of color here. There's meat and there are some plant foods
1:06.0	But the plant foods are intentionally
1:09.1	selected so
1:10.9	That's really the biggest difference between an animal-based diet in my mind and a paleolithic diet now
1:17.5	A paleolithic diet is a diet that begins to introduce this concept of a plant toxicity spectrum on a paleo diet developed by
1:26.8	Lauren Cordane originally and then popularized by Rob Wolfe
1:30.2	I've done podcasts with both of them. They're on my podcast, which is
1:34.9	Fundamental health you can find that at heart and soil.co or Apple podcasts. You're listening to it now
1:41.2	but
1:42.5	I've spoken to those guys in the past the original thinking came I think from Boyd Eaton who was a physician in
1:48.8	1985 an article written in the New England Journal of Medicine with this really important concept that the way that our ancestors have eaten
1:56.7	informed by anthropology
1:58.7	ethnography
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