Hey dudes and dudettes…
Believe it or not, but an online summit comprised of 23 interviews – from Mark Sisson and Gary Taubes to Denise Minger and Jimmy Moore, was put together on the Paleo Diet and Lifestyle by Sean Croxton of Underground Wellness. And I, ME, MATT STONE – was invited to participate. Yes, as ironic as that sounds, I was invited to share my perspective on Paleo. Sean didn’t want it to be too much of a “Paleo love fest,” which should give everyone a great deal of respect for Mr. Croxton. Anyway, it’s free to listen in to any of the interviews, including my talk entitled: “Matt Stone Debunks the Paleo Diet.” Click HERE to REGISTER.
I hope you can balance out the “paleo love fest” with some science and real world application. I’m loving life with plenty of carbs and ice cream almost every day.
Looks pretty interesting actually. There’s quite a few people on there I’d like to listen to. So how does this work .. is it just a live radio show for just the people that sign up?
Nevermind, so this is all pre-recorded and ready to roll huh. You definitely are going to get the spotlight. I can’t wait for all the paleo heads to come over and start trolling this blog afterwards.
Btw, the primal wardrobe looks like it allows for quite numerous nipple slips. Haha that photo cracks me up.
Are they that deprived of glucose in their diets that they didn’t notice what you were actually going to say???
If thats not a good reason to eat a bowl of cereal, I don’t know what is.
Hey, the giveaway of your Diet Recovery book is now live on my blog here:
http://nourishedandnurtured.blogspot.com/2012/02/giveaway-diet-recovery-book.html
I’ll pick a winner on 2/22/12!
Cool Sarah! The site looks great and thanks for letting us know.
Be mindful of flying arrows or other prehistoric tools aimed at your head Matt. Them paleos get around. Why one could be out doing maintenance walking or some MovNat when attacked and not have a barbell to defend oneself with. The Horror!
You will be the best, we all know that. Why didn’t Sean invite Chief The One and Only to knock some heads on that panel?
I want my money back.
Oh. It’s free.
Never mind.
haggasaourous rex
Let’s hope they don’t use an atlatl!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TP1dARLQzU
I’m sure Matt’s Jedi-mind-tricks will be able to stop it…especially cuz he eats carbs and will have the energy. hehee.
They will be powerless against my big, carb-induced smile and free distribution of hugs and other things that carbs make me want to do.
Croxton, Taubes, and Sisson, my hair follicles, gut lining, and muscle fibers kryptonite. Meh, maybe too harsh. They all mean well, right? How are they still makin it work? Hasn’t been long enough? What about their Catecholamines? What about Taubes’ 3/6 ratio’s with the peanut butter and sausage. Dude’s have more hair than I do, I’ll tell ya that. WTF =D
Really though, Sean used to be the main dude I’d listen to. Still email subscribed. I don’t listen to UW radio anymore though, it just gives you something else to worry about anymore unfortunately. Get a shower filter, or soak up obesagens. Your laundry detergent better be pH balanced for your skin. These things make sense but DAMN IT what does this look like? lol. Such a success he has turned himself into nonetheless.
Seriously man, it was the same for me. I was all about low carbs, and then thankfully Sean Croxton brought on Matt Stone on one of his radio interviews a year and a half ago or two….I was converted back to normal eating. haha! I don’t listen to Sean that much anymore either, though he still offers some good points.
After a long time higher carb Paul Jaminet is the first person to have me honestly reconsidering that. I’ve been reading a lot of posts on his website and downloaded his book Perfect Health Diet to my Kindle. Not that I would go low carb, but just not as high carb. His view isn’t from an insulin -> fat gain -> disease perspective, but on the work the body needs to do to convert things into what it needs, what metabolic pathways are most optimal and which leave behind oxidative agents, and looking at the diets of the longest lived people on this planet (>= 110 years). I would still go with what feels most natural but I may experiment with higher fat and see how that feels.
I want to buy your ebooks, but I can’t find contact info on your site anywhere in case I were to have a problem of any kind that I needed to communicate. I have been burned once by buying something from a site that had no way to contact someone and then there was something wrong with the product and I was just sol. So I am hyper vigilant about checking for that now. I looked all over your site and couldn’t find anything, so if I over looked it somehow, I would like to know where it is, or how I am to contact you in the event of a problem.
Thanks,
Lisa Truitt
That is given after purchase. It’s ron@180degreehealth.com
Go git ‘em, Matt! cannot wait to be the proverbial fly on the wall fer this’un. The only topper would be you and the D-Rider duking it out in a mango wrestling match! Crikey!
The balding vs thick skinned! i’m already out with the chips soda and pizza!
So here’s the email from Sean Croxton:
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Welcome to the UW Paleo Summit!
My team and I have spent the past
two months putting together the most
awesome internet Paleo event ever.
And here’s how it all works!
Starting at 12:01am PST on Sunday,
Feb 26th, we will post 2-3 video slideshow
presentations in the summit event “rooms”.
These presentations will be available for you
to watch for FREE for 24 hours.
After 24 hours, we will replace the video
presentations with another set.
You’ll be able to leave comments and
share the presentations via social media
and all of that fun stuff.
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So what I’m wondering… do we get to keep copies of the videos, or does each have to be watched in its own 24 hour window. If so, that’s rather lame, IMHO.
I hope that we can watch them at our leisure because I have a life and things to do.
I don’t know what format the video will be in, or what is will be hosted by, but you could try using an add-on like DownloadHelper for firefox for example to download the video before it’s gone. Or if you have firefox go to Page Info under Tools and go into the media tab, try to find the video material and Save that to your computer. Basically, any content you see on the web can be downloaded one way or another, you just gotta have a little know how and some software help. Sorry if that’s illegal..I guess =D It’s just like when you go to a youtube video and you want it, you can type “kiss” in front of the “youtube” part of the url and it’ll redirect you for download, and there are many other sites like that.
Good to know. Thanks for that info. I work in computers and I get the fact that if you’re viewing something online, all the data is being sent to your PC and can presumably be captured. It’s just not always easy and personally I don’t care to figure it out. If they weren’t available for download automatically, my plan was to just skip ones I want to see if they didn’t fit my schedule.
Hey Aaron! We went to great lengths to make sure that the videos cannot be stolen from the site. Hired a genius to ensure that would not happen. :)
The entire set of videos, audio files, transcripts, and a bunch of bonuses will be for sale at a VERY reasonable price.
Thanks!
Sean
Ah, good to know. Thanks Sean! I will seek that out if I am unable to watch ones I would like.
I have the Matt Stone interview audio.
Sorry folks, you’ve got to listen within the 24 hour time span to get it for free. After that, there will most likely be a purchase that you can make to have all the audios available. It’s a marketing tactic that provides limited-time free content with the hopes of converting you into a buyer of the whole package. (I’m not affiliated with this summit, but I’ve seen this technique used before.)
Hi Matt-
I was wondering what your thoughts are on low thyroid and gut health. I am pretty positive that my gut is not healthy, and wonder if that is what is causing my low thyroid symptoms? Did you (or anyone who cares to share) go through a protocol like GAPS to heal your gut? If so, did it work, and what are your thoughts?
Thanks,
Melissa
I would search “GAPS” on Matt’s like, last 2-3 blog entries (there were comment questions regarding this). Or maybe he even has a specific entry about it. I don’t think he agrees with it, but he’ll probably respond to you though. I would start smashin food and get your body temperature up. That’ll help tackle both problems. Reading his RARRF and HED information is where you want to look. You just gotta reeead, or pay to get right to the point I spose =P maybe throw some rbti in there. It’s all confusin if you don’t have time to dabble in all the free info bein flooble flobbed around. LOL
Thank you, Bob!
A starch-free diet can work, but GAPS is so high in meat and fat and low in carbs typically that people run a great risk of doing metabolic damage during it – which ruins everything from a digestive standpoint. Many digestive problems are caused by a low metabolism, like SIBO (the cause of most cases of IBS I believe), heartburn, constipation, delayed stomach emptying, bloating, etc. So I prefer to see people raise metabolism and then, if digestive problems remain, tinkering around with things a little bit more specifically.
If you are really running into a lot of digestive hurdles, lower residue, hyper-concentrated foods can help a lot. Stuff like ice cream with no gums added for example.
So, what I guess you’re trying to tell me is- EAT! I need to forget about all of the crap I read on Paleo, GAPS, low carb that have polluted my brain for the past few years, get back to basics, and plow through some good food. Thanks, Matt!
Hey Melissa, I started GAPs about 21 months ago for low thyroid, fibromyalgia, etc. It helped a LOT and I had health problems from childhood clear up. It really helped me, but I would recommend doing a high carb version of it, lots of fruit and fermented dairy and focus more on broth and less on meat. I’ve done it both ways and the low carb way wasn’t very helpful. Thankfully I wised up and didn’t stay on it for too long. I’m still on a version of GAPs but I include potatoes and milk now and am starting to add in other things. Grains still seem to cause some inflammation but I’m experimenting.
Anyway guess I’m just saying that at least in my experience GAPs is super helpful, as long as it’s done correctly and you don’t start worshipping meat and fearing carbs, which is what a lot of people do.
HTH!- Kate
I would agree with Kate. I have done GAPS and it has helped resolve some life long issues. However, it is super important to beware of going too low carb with it. I didn’t know this in the beginning and am now trying hard to get my metabolism in a good place again, mind you I have been under a lot stress too… I have had a lot of success with paying attention to WAPF principles in re-introducing grains. I just don’t do well if they are highly processed and not traditionally prepared. I am now working my way through lots of sourdough bread!
Thank you very much, ladies!
Anisa, How long have you been on GAPS and have you been successful reintroducing grains? I’ve been on it for 22 months and want to try to add back some grain but I’m not sure how to go about it.
Thanks:)
Hi Matt,
I am registered and psyched! Carbs make YOU want to hug people; they make ME want to shimmy in the sunset. Good luck!!
Spandy andy must know the secret of carbs!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXYjgHC_Ycw&hd=1
My ancestors seemed to be in a good health with a basic staple of horse milk and dried
horse meat going on for months.Then they got assimilated by the larger population of my other
ancestors( i got few..living in a ancient crossroad country..) whose diet was based on local agriculture and farming. pickles are preserved for a winter while summer cooking turns around salads, fish, barbecued meat and such. There are many people passing the 80 years in good overall health, my two grandfathers are 85 and 83, the lattest broke an arm last summer clumbing on tree , not a palm one..but stil a feat for hs age..they both walk at list a 2,3 milles a day. Far from being fat either. Something quite interesting is that my grandmother who is 82, being a tall and strong woman, she never till today had a celultte. Blamy me..
She eats a lot of white bread and man, her legs doen’t have a gram of this horrible fat that kills
every single women above 30 today..How and why , dunno, but then the woman has never ever dieted in her whole life.She cooks wonderfully well and let’s say that the food is not a light one.. but they have a big garden and grow a lot of everything so they mostly live on
what they grow. i mean the veggies.
So I have been trying to eat only baked root vegetables and squashes/pumpkins, mainly, with some rice and meat and sugared teas.
I got this incredible craving for any kind of starch, but pulverized/aglutinized starch. I craved any kind of flour.
I was cooking the veggies for a long time to make them into soft soft baby food, but I dont think that has the same effect as pulverizing and mashing.
For instance, to make fufu, tubers are boiled then mashed. The effect i assume is to break down cellulose and increase surface area. (Fufu can also be made with yam or plaintain flour…fufu is the staple food of West Africa, source of the best athletes on the planet in most sports).
So, I reason that because of my activity level (I work out too much I am sure…I just love it, learning capoeira), I needed to get MORE calories into me QUICKER. So much of the volume of what I was eating was water.
just some off topic rambly thoughts.
If you like to work out then you definitely need to fuel that so I think you’re on the right track. I would say you’d make yourself hypothyroid if you continued with the high water content stuff and worked out too. I could be wrong…lookin up capoeira.
Matt,
the primitivenutrition serie on youtube will highly help you with your pitch against the paleo. 71 very well executed videos, which pretty much tears & destroys the whole “appeal to nature”-paleo pseudoscience.
All paleo themes covered, everything from the Inuit & Masai health to genome.
Enjoy, I recommend viewing the vids in chronological order.
http://www.youtube.com/user/PrimitiveNutrition/videos?sort=dd&view=u&page=3
The photo on this post reminded me of something. Did anyone see the pics of the Peruvian tribe members who recently attacked tourists?
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2012/01/31/uncontacted-peruvian-tribe-emerges-attacks-tourists/
I’m pretty sure these folks eat some kind of primitive diet (whether paleo or mostly vegetarian) and don’t have all the 20th century devices (cars, TVs, washing machines, etc.) to keep us from natural exercise. Despite that, they certainly don’t look like the picture of health.
Yes, that picture will probably make it into the Paleo book, along with several other pics of primitive hunter-gatherers looking mediocre at best.
The HG’s in the pic are probably yucca eaters. High starch intake but starch intake yet low in macronutrients compared to tubers. Also they reside inland. Low iodine, low zinc maybe. Also they are likely inbred, without the interaction (and mixing) with outside groups that occurred among coastal HG’s.
Just wondering about the effect marginalization has had upon the above-mentioned Peruvians. FTA: “it is believed that illegal logging and low flying helicopters have forced the Indians from their natural dwellings. ”
To what extent has that affected their diet and lifestyle? The article doesn’t say. What did these people look like one hundred or more years ago? And is the photo truly representative of all of the members of that foraging society?
In the spirit of disclosure I will put out there that I am indeed a paleo adherent, and I’m also completing a degree in anthropology this semester. Nifty articles such as the one above provide a jumping-off point for more questions and hypotheses, but should no more sway someone against a paleo diet than pictures of ripped and lean hunter-gatherers should sway one for a paleo diet. I look forward to listening to your UG wellness presentation later today.
Hey Matt!
Great stuff on the Paleo Summit! You got lots of great stuff, you were my favorite on the whole summit – made me think tons. What should I read (blogs, books, scientific resources) where I could learn more about Metabolism and dieting at the cellular level and how that works – i need more detail. Thanks, hope you can help me.
Francisco