If you follow the paleo diet1 online, it’s only a matter of time before you stumble upon Bulletproof Coffee. It’s the brainchild of Dave Asprey, a man who’s regarded as one of the icons behind the quantified self movement. Asprey argues that most coffee contains mycotoxins, so he conveniently sells his own brand of coffee [...]
We recently talked about the monetization aspect of the Paleo movement, a trend that will only continue growing in parallel with the Paleo community itself. It should be expected, after all, that people will seek to make money where they can, and so riding the coat-tails of a popular movement is a typical strategy. No [...]
We can probably go ahead and blame Dr. Loren Cordain for sticking us with “the Paleo Diet”, who published a book by the same name. It’s a good book, don’t get us wrong, but it’s also not the definitive guide to “paleo”-eating, though likely many of us discovered the general tenets of our diet from [...]
The question of a paleo/primal diet being sustainable for the world’s population is a recurring one over at PaleoHacks. The issue is simple: if we remove grains from the diet, a staple of pretty much every poor country out there, then how can we realistically replace those calories with food that do meet paleo/primal standards. [...]