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was similar to

where everybody else

was getting their information.

But over the last few years,

I've been doing a fellowship

in anti-aging

and regenerative medicine,

and their focus is on diet

to a certain extent.

And so that's

when I started to realize

that there was

a lot of scientific evidence

that had been out there

for years

that was being ignored

because it wasn't consistent

with the conventional wisdom.

And so,

it was just pushed aside.

But I saw studies

that were done 20 years ago,

30 years ago,

that supported

the improvements in health

from a Paleo-type lifestyle.

So, that's when

I started to realize

that there was legitimacy

on a scientific basis.

Paleo is eating whole foods,

real foods, that you...

either get from a farm,

or you get

from, you know, your rancher.

I mean, you can get them

from in the store obviously,

but you don't get them

from a box.

It also sometimes

has shrimp paste

as an optional ingredient.

[Simone]

It's about eating real food.

Eating food

that our grandparents

would recognize as food.

Eating food that

isn't from a factory

but is from farms, and ranches,

and our backyards optimally

if we can garden

without killing everything,

which I can't.

There's a very different

consciousness

about the sourcing of your food,

where it comes from,

how it's prepared,

the oils that it's prepared in,

and just kind of

your relationship

to being able

to prepare those things yourself

in your own kitchen.

The focus is all about

eating high-quality foods,

eating natural foods,

and eating foods

that are actually good for you

and will help fuel you,

as opposed to just being

for weight loss.

What would common sense dictate

would be the best diet

for us as a species?

Well, you could argue

a diet based on the foods

that we have been eating

the longest in terms of

our time on this planet.

I mean, those are the foods

we have evolved to eat,

that we're likely

to be best adapted to,

and are gonna be broadly

the best for us.

So, how long

have we been evolving?

Well, it depends who you ask.

But if you ask an evolutionist,

there's a pretty stock answer.

It's about

two and a half million years.

[Darryl]

Paleo from a dietary perspective

is really a way of modeling

what our ancient ancestor did,

in terms of hunter-gatherers,

and taking the best of that

and applying it

to what we should do today

in terms of food.

In terms of our food choices,

it's wild meat, wild fish,

vegetation, fruit, nuts,

and really trying

to look at the kind of

macro-nutrient ratios

that our hunter-gatherer

ancestors had

as part and parcel

of their eating habits.

[Patricia] The diet

really has to be in place

for everything else

to work as well.

When we treat patients,

really I would say...

over 80% of what we do

has to do with the diet.

At this point,

it's an intervention.

-[Man] Absolutely.

-And we're trying to get you

as healthy as we can get you.

-We can see the results already.

-[Patricia] Right. Right.

And so, our goal is always

to have you get most of

your nutrition from your food.

[Man]

My doctor was quite surprised

to see the difference.

-[Woman]

A-plus is what he said.

-Really?

And you got to change

some of your medications, right?

-Yes, he has.

-Okay. What did he take off?

Well, we got rid

of the atenolol.

[Patricia] Oh, good. Okay.

So since November then,

your weight has dropped

about 22, 24 pounds?

Yeah. Yes.

-And that's just...

Is that still continuing?

-Yes.

-Are you plateauing or...

-No.

-No, still... Okay.

-[Woman] It's a nice surprise

when you get on the scale

and go, "Whoo!

Where does that go?"

With the diet that you're on,

and as you lose weight,

your need for that...

Your insulin sensitivity

will hopefully improve,

and you'll need less and less

of that medication.

And as you drop

your blood pressure,

or your weight,

your blood pressure medication

is gonna come down too.

But it's like

one happens and then the next.

And then one happens

and then the next.

You're not depriving yourself

of anything.

The only thing

you're depriving yourself of is

chips, and bread...

and all the things

that aren't good for you.

[Patricia]

That you don't miss.

A co-worker said to me...

They were having a pizza party

for someone who was retiring.

So I had my stuff,

and they said...

She turned to me...

And she's had a heart attack,

and she has been told

not to eat the fast food

and stuff that she always eats.

"When are you gonna get back

to eating real food?"

And I was like,

"But I am. But I am."

"When are you gonna get

to eat real food again?"

And she's just slopping down

her tacos from Taco Bell

every day.

A lot of times

once the diet is in place,

the others follow.

The sleep improves.

The weight goes away.

We were satisfied

with what we knew to be,

and we thought this was it.

You grow old, and you die,

and you feel miserable,

and you have aches and pains,

and that's just part

of the life process.

And we know that

that doesn't have to be.

So, we're moving more.

We're feeling better.

It's incredible.

[Irena] I remember growing up,

and my grandmother would

go to the markets every morning,

and she would buy meat

from the butcher.

She would bring back

bags of vegetables and fruit.

We would go hunting, fishing,

quite often foraging

for berries and mushrooms,

and she would cook from scratch.

That's not that far back.

When people say, "Well,

actually it's not possible

to try and live,

you know, ancestral way

in the modern world,"

I say,

"Well, we're not actually,

literally doing that."

We're just saying,

"Hey, how about we take away

some of these industrial

processes,

"and mutating our food,

"and changing things

the way they should be

naturally?

And just try and leave

a little bit more the way that

we're intended to by nature."

[John] So when did

we first start

to cultivate crops,

things like corn and wheat?

Well, the paleontological record

suggests

that this was probably

just about 10,000 years ago.

Now, that sounds

like a long time ago,

but from

an evolutionary perspective,

it's very recent,

and genes change very slowly.

While foods like grains,

and refined sugar,

and refined vegetable oils

are relatively recent

additions to the diet,

the average diet

has about 70% of calories

contributed by these foods.

[Simone] A lot of people

do have to eat every two hours

to sustain their blood sugar

because they are eating foods

that are causing them to crash,

and I used to be

one of those people.

And I used to have

to bring food with me

all the time,

because if I went

two hours without eating,

I would crash

and feel... really awful.

When people think that

they need to eat every two hours

to sustain their blood sugar,

that's 'cause

they're eating foods

that are not sustaining

their blood sugar.

If all you're craving

is bread, and cookies,

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