It Starts With Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

our blog readers in July 2009. We called the post “Change Your Life in 30 Days” and outlined the full ...

ailments. Seasonal allergies—gone. Asthma— not a single attack. Blood pressure—back to normal. Cholesterol—improved ...

But it totally did!” Our own stories were pretty dramatic, and we have hundreds of readers’ stories ...

CHAPTER 2: OUR NUTRITIONAL FRAMEWORK “I’m 46 years old and have lost the same fifty pounds over and over ...

The framework for our Whole30 program and general recommendations are built on what we’ve learned from some very ...

genetically adapted to the diet of our Paleolithic ancestors, and that genetic disposition hasn’t changed much in ...

was more likely the lack of antibiotics, the abundance of predators, and harsh living conditions. ...

Now, we agree that foods advocated by the Paleo diet are the healthiest choices in today’s modern age. ...

on what Paleolithic man may or may not have eaten. We care about what is making us, here and now, more ...

for which we are simply hardwired, like being active during the day and sleeping at night, lik ...

of course, is yes. We will reference a ton of technical information—what we call “science- y stuff”—and ...

Which one is right? Maybe neither, maybe both—it’s hard to know. But one thing is certain—in the case of ...

pinpoint the exact cause and effect of any one behavior on a population. For example, consider the following ...

recommendations. We have years of experience and documented Whole30 results to confirm that we’re on the right ...

Win-win-win. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH + CLINICAL EXPERIENCE + SELF- EXPERIMENTATION CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE We’re ab ...

body. If you’re the kind of person who needs to know not just the how, but also the why, ...

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CHAPTER 3: WHAT IS FOOD? “My wife and I have had terrible seasonal allergies for several years. Now our allergi ...

to satisfy all four criteria. Not three, not most ... all. We’ll explain them in more detail in the coming ...

WHAT IS FOOD? Food is composed of a multitude of complex molecules. Some provide energy, some provide str ...