Nora Gedgaudas is a widely recognized expert on the “Paleo diet”. She is the author of the international best-selling book, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond the Paleo Diet for Total Health and A Longer Life. She is also the author of the best-selling ebook: Rethinking Fatigue: What Your Adrenals Are Really Telling You and What You Can Do About It and has recently written a third awesome book, PRIMAL FAT BURNER: Live Longer, Slow Aging, Super-Power Your Brain and Save Your Life with a High Fat Low Carb Diet, which we'll be talking all about today.
So if you want to hear about the benefits of a low-carb, high-fat lifestyle check it out and why animal products must be a part of it, be sure to check it out!
Here's what you'll learn:
- How we know our ancestors consumed a lot of dietary fat
- Why our brains REQUIRE dietary animal fats (not just plant-based fats)
- Why most people can't get anti-inflammatory omega-3 fatty acids from plants
- How we KNOW our ancestors were not eating starches
- Why food quality is perhaps more important than anything else
- The nutrients you get from animal fats that you can't get anywhere else
- Why vegan/vegetarian diets are not the answer (even if you hate CAFOs)
- The crazy "foods" that cows are being fed in CAFOs
- Why animal agriculture can save the planet
- The difference between paleo and keto
- Nora's 2 favorite supplements for properly digesting protein
- The most common mistakes people make when adopting a high-fat low-carb diet
- Why protein needs to be moderated
- How much protein you should be eating each day for a long, healthy life
- The BEST lab tests for food sensitivities (and the only one she recommends using!)
- The difference between a food allergy and a food sensitivity
- Why detecting food sensitivities is PARAMOUNT to optimal health
- A day in the life of Nora's meals