I turned to Paleo thinking I was being intuitively led to my health and hormonal balance. I was already pretty steady intuitive-eating-wise, but Paleo sent me back into another obsessed frenzy, nearly a year ago. Looking back now, I get frustrated and sad that I hadn’t learned my lesson from all my other diet fails […]

Eating the smallest amount possible is not only something that dieters try to do, but it reaches even further than that. Culturally, we are so afraid of obesity and fat, as well as villainizing “gluttony”, that en-mas we view food restriction as a virtue. I would guess that even people who are not mentally burdened […]

This is more of a personal story than a list of facts, but here it is anyway: From the standpoint of metabolism and adrenal recovery, caffeine is not the most helpful. It can tax the adrenals and spike cortisol making it difficult to completely restore the metabolism. It is also used as a “diet aid”, […]