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That Paleo Guy
www.thatpaleoguy.blogspot.com
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Research, opinions, and irrelevencies from a guy with analogue genes living in a digital world.
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TPG Moves House

Im moving caves.  Not physically in my real world, but through the ether and mystery that is that is the internets, to a new site.For a little over 6 months Ive had a That Paleo Guy Wordpress bl...

24 sep 11

Fruits, Vegetables, Biomarkers, and just how sneaky can plants be...

In the conventional nutrition world, the answer to seemingly every nutritional ill is to eat more fruitsandvegatables (written as one word as they are communicated as effectively being the same thing...

23 sep 11

Eat for your brain, not your belly

A quick and dirty cut and paste job tonight, with a big IN YOUR FACE to anyone who still believes that food choices are under conscious control. "Just eat less" is so 2005...To Ditch Dessert,...

20 sep 11

Fat Metabolism, Glycerol, and Improved Hydration

A series of tweets in the last day or so reminded me of a conversation I had with Dr Emily Deans during our recent stay in Los Angeles for the Ancestral Health Symposium.  The topic of the conve...

18 sep 11

If you dont value your health...

...dont tell me you are "too busy".This is one of my pet peeves at the moment... hearing about how busy everyone else is and therefore how hard it is for them to prioritise their health in th...

15 sep 11

Follow the Money IIIa

I just want to touch briefly on another couple of aspects from my previous FTM post.  In her attempts to address either actual or potential criticisms of the ingredients and sugar content, Dr Jo...

14 sep 11

Follow the money III

Late this afternoon, I was alerted via a tweet from the lovely junior-(primal)-doctor-to-be, Anastasia Boulais (twitter handle - @primalmeded), of the following piece written by an Australian media s...

12 sep 11

More fatty acid signaling

From the PubMed reference to a paper from yesterdays post, I noticed there was this commentary looking at the issue of free fatty acid receptors generating excitement in pancreatic beta-cells and off...

12 sep 11

Fatty acid signal transduction

Well, with a title like that, Im picking a good proportion of those who have "That Paleo Guy" in their Google Reader wont even bother clicking through, whilst others might be forgiven for thi...

11 sep 11

High-Velocity Voracity

It would seem, based on a report that appeared online at the end of last month, that I should be the size of a house (and I might well be - this is the internet after all).  This is because I am...

06 sep 11

Coconut and Starchy Vegetable Consumption in the Pacific Islands

One of the problems with nutritionalising our food, is that we often lose the context of how nutrients are consumed, particularly when we are talking in gross macronutrient terms.  Suggesting pe...

01 sep 11

Nutritional and physiological role of medium-chain triglycerides

In my last post, there was some focus on the potential role of long-chain fats regulating inflammation in the gut, where it is possible that the likes of omega-6 long chain fats ramp up an inflammato...

28 aug 11

Nutrient-Induced Inflammation in the Intestine

Life after the AHS is starting to get back to normal.  The last week or so has involved watching the videos of those presenters I missed on seeing, digesting the large amounts of information, an...

20 aug 11

Influenza Fever - Does the body know best?

New Zealand is the only country, outside of the USA, that allows widespread advertising of pharmaceuticals on television.  We have to suffer nightly advertorials advising us that we can now get ...

16 aug 11

The Ancestral Health Symposium - Getting My MovNat On

Before we dive in on my Los Angeles - AHS MovNat experience, a couple of things...Unless you have been living under a rock and have absolutely no interest in what went down at the AHS, you will no do...

13 aug 11

The Ancestral Health Symposium - A Review

...Far out, where to start?  I have read several reviews from those who attended the AHS in Los Angeles, and it would certainly seem that the event exceeded everyones expectations.  This, a...

10 aug 11

Ancestral Health Symposium - The Respect Post

Im in my UCLA hotel room winding down after what has been an epic few days, flying to LA to attend the inaugural Ancestral Health Symposium.  When I get home, I will do a more solid review of th...

08 aug 11

A Kiwi heads to Los Angeles

Just a quick note to say that in two sleeps Ill be jumping on board an Air New Zealand 777-300ER and winging my way to the bright lights of Los Angeles to attend and present at the first Ancestral He...

01 aug 11

TdF-Inspired Cycling Post #3 - Taking it easy

**This series of posts has obviously been mostly directed toward my sport of passion - cycling.  However, I am sure those who participate in other sporting/athletic modes will find much that app...

25 jul 11

White Out in the Red Zone

After one of the warmest winters on record (including the week that was had in Vanuatu), winter proper finally showed up - and brought its A-game.  For those based in north-east USA, our crippli...

25 jul 11

TdF-Inspired Cycling Post #2 - Strength Training for Cyclists

What a difference a week makes in the tour.  Firstly, someone seems to have sorted gravity out, as there has been a lot less crashes.  And now, with the major hill stages over, one of my fa...

23 jul 11

Hope and Despair

Part two of my cycling posts is under construction (read as: still rattling around in my head).  So while I wait for it to fall out of that cavern, I thought I would share a letter that I receiv...

19 jul 11

TdF-Inspired Cycling Post #1 - Updating high-fat diets for cyclists

Its been awhile since I last blogged on anything related to my main sporting passion - cycling.  My biggest series of blogs to date (and still amongst the most popular based on page views) have ...

17 jul 11

Low carbohydrate diets slow tumor growth and prevent cancer initiation

Delving into another paper tonight and it feels quite a luxury to be working on my second post within a matter of days.  A few things on the go... excitedly counting down toward the Ancestral He...

11 jul 11

Whole grains and another smoking gun?

Listening to two of my favourite gurus chat on a podcast this week (Chris Kresser interviewing Dr Emily Deans), and Emily mentions that wheat and grains are a bit of a nemesis for paleo folk scanning...

09 jul 11

Subclinical celiac disease and gluten sensitivity

Whilst we are going through review articles, this one on changing the terminologies around coeliac disease and gluten sensitivity popped into the inbox over the weekend... speaking of which, it is a ...

04 jul 11

Low Carbohydrate Diet Review: Shifting the Paradigm

Every so often, a paper comes along that we (the paleo community) can hang their hat on.  For me, I see the Siri-Tarino meta-analysis on saturated fat as a major turning point in our argument th...

29 jun 11

Follow the money II

It was a little over a year ago that I wrote a post - Follow the money - after some interaction I had with a UK-based dietitian.  The short version is she emailed me some documents as part of ou...

26 jun 11

Nutrition Professor puts sugar in the gun

Kiwis (New Zealanders), on the whole, are a relatively naive bunch.  There are certain professions in which we hold a lot of trust, and take what they say in good faith.  And due to this le...

25 jun 11

Interview with a nutritional ecologist - Research on human obesity epidemic

From New Zealands National Radio - some good gems in this short interview;Massey University Nutritional ecologist David Raubenheimer talks about his adventure-filled field trips to study the eating h...

22 jun 11

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