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Want a Flat Stomach? Try The Paleo Diet Now

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Channel: The Urban Monk · 2014 · Education

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Everyone's talking about the Paleo diet — but most people doing it are doing it wrong, and some are actually gaining weight. Dr. Pedram Shojai and Dr. Sara Gottfried break down what Paleo really means, what the science actually supports, and how to figure out the version that works for your body specifically.

Paleo has become a buzzword, and like most buzzwords, the meaning has gotten stretched, misapplied, and commercialized beyond recognition. People are eating grass-fed steak and three spears of asparagus and calling it Paleo. Others are watching their husbands lose 25 pounds while they gain 10 on the exact same food plan. Something isn't adding up — and that's exactly what this conversation is here to address.

In this episode of the Health Bridge, Dr. Pedram Shojai and Dr. Sara Gottfried dig into what Paleolithic eating actually looked like, why the food available to our hunter-gatherer ancestors bears almost no resemblance to what we're buying at Whole Foods today, and why biological individuality matters more than any diet book. You'll hear why insulin resistance is driving so much of the modern obesity and metabolic disease epidemic, how feast-and-famine cycles shaped our endocrine systems in ways that modern abundance is actively working against, and why the energetic quality of what you eat matters as much as its macronutrient profile.

You'll also get practical guidance on which cooking oils to use, why fiber is the most underrated part of any ancestral eating approach, how to think about protein sources beyond just grass-fed beef, and why your hip measurement is a more accurate measure of progress than the scale. Dr. Pedram Shojai and Dr. Gottfried also discuss why eating 80% vegetables and 20% clean protein tends to produce the best clinical results they've seen across hundreds of patients.

There is no one-size-fits-all answer here — but there are principles worth understanding, and this conversation lays them out clearly.

00:00 - What Paleo Actually Means and Where It Goes Wrong
08:00 - How Modern Food Differs from True Paleolithic Eating
16:00 - Insulin Resistance, Feast and Famine, and Modern Metabolism
24:00 - Best Cooking Oils, Proteins, and Anti-Inflammatory Choices
32:00 - Biological Individuality and Why Women Respond Differently
40:00 - Fiber, Vegetables, and Practical Paleo Takeaways

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