Primal Body, Primal Mind Quotes

“And here’s the kicker: food manufacturers are using a gasoline additive known as hexane to process soy products (and some vegetable oils). Soybeans are soaked in large vats of hexane to assist in the extraction of substances such as protein and oils from them. An independent lab has found hexane residue in soy-based foods, but the FDA does not require any testing for hexane, even in baby foods. It is used by the food industry because it is cheap to do so and because the FDA lets them get away with it. The soy industry is incredibly powerful and influential. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lists hexane, incidentally, as a hazardous chemical.”
― Nora T. Gedgaudas CNS CNT, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond Paleo for Total Health and a Longer Life

“The bottom line is that we had access to most, if not all, of our dietary or physiological requirements long before the agricultural revolution, and those requirements have not changed. Diets”
― Nora T. Gedgaudas, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond Paleo for Total Health and a Longer Life

“No magic pill will ever take the place of a diet and lifestyle that honors our primal physiology.”
― Nora T. Gedgaudas, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond Paleo for Total Health and a Longer Life

“In 1985, the total annual sales for all antidepressants in the United States were approximately $240 million. Today, it is in excess of $12 billion. Between 1987 and 1997, the percentage of Americans in outpatient treatment for depression more than tripled.”
― Nora T. Gedgaudas, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond Paleo for Total Health and a Longer Life

“As much as 10 percent of human brain size has been lost in just the last century alone, likely due to the decreased amounts of available dietary EPA and DHA and the increased consumption of processed foods (Leonard et al. 2003). Increased”
― Nora T. Gedgaudas, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond Paleo for Total Health and a Longer Life

“Perhaps the biggest obstacle to a more rational debate about cholesterol, heart disease, or any other health problem is the simple fact that too many of the people we turn to for advice on such matters—our doctors—are tied to the makers of drugs. Sometimes those ties involve several hundred thousand dollars a year, sometimes just a few warm doughnuts. RAY MOYNIHAN AND ALAN CASSELS, SELLING SICKNESS Furthermore,”
― Nora T. Gedgaudas, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond Paleo for Total Health and a Longer Life

“The best basic dietary approach for anyone wanting to prevent heart disease is a normal, unrestricted dietary intake of cholesterol and healthy natural fat, total avoidance of highly processed or rancid vegetable oils and trans fats, and a reduced or eliminated intake of starch and sugar-based carbohydrates. Dietary”
― Nora T. Gedgaudas, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond Paleo for Total Health and a Longer Life

“The idea that saturated fats cause heart disease is completely wrong, but the statement has been “published” so many times over the last three or more decades that it is very difficult to convince people otherwise unless they are willing to take the time to read and learn what produced the “anti-saturated fat agenda.” DR. MARY ENIG, CONSULTING EDITOR TO THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF NUTRITION,”
― Nora T. Gedgaudas, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond Paleo for Total Health and a Longer Life

“The gut, in fact, has even more neurons than the brain! The next time you find yourself struggling with mood issues, consider first the quality of your gastrointestinal health and digestion. The brain and gut are inextricably linked.”
― Nora T. Gedgaudas, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond Paleo for Total Health and a Longer Life

“Do not fear naturally occurring fat or get suckered into following a low-fat diet. Remember, we are designed to eat fat, and a significant amount of it. This is why we have a gallbladder in the first place. We’re creatures of the ice age—remember? Use it or lose it.”
― Nora T. Gedgaudas, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond Paleo for Total Health and a Longer Life

“Don’t be fooled into thinking you don’t really need your gallbladder, though they may try to convince you that you don’t. Living without a gallbladder can lead to lifelong issues with inadequate fat and fat-solublenutrient digestion, deficiencies of minerals and critical fat-soluble nutrients, fatigue, hormonal imbalances, and other problems.”
― Nora T. Gedgaudas, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond Paleo for Total Health and a Longer Life

“Always wait to eat until you have time to relax and focus on the meal, take in the aroma of the food, and take the time to chew. In the mouth, the enzyme amylase begins the digestion of carbohydrates, and the food needs to be chewed thoroughly. Poorly chewed food creates far more work for the stomach and requires more hydrochloric acid to do the same job of breaking down the protein. Chew, chew, chew! (Sorry to say, you’re mother was right . . . about that, anyway.) From”
― Nora T. Gedgaudas, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond Paleo for Total Health and a Longer Life

“The good news is that the devastating symptoms of gluten sensitivity and celiac disease can often be entirely eliminated. The treatment solution? You must eliminate 100 percent—not just most—of the gluten from your diet, and that means not just gluten-containing dietary grains, but all hidden sources as well,”
― Nora T. Gedgaudas, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond Paleo for Total Health and a Longer Life

“Since there is no human dietary grain requirement and since the consumption of grains causes so many known health problems due to their gluten content, antinutrient content, poor L-tryptophan profile, high omega-6 fat levels, and mainly starch-based content as well as their allergy and sensitivity potential, there is little reason to include grains in the diet of anyone seeking optimal health. In”
― Nora T. Gedgaudas, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond Paleo for Total Health and a Longer Life

“Chronic carbohydrate consumption, in general, ultimately depletes serotonin stores and greatly depletes the B vitamins required to convert amino acids into many needed neurotransmitters. Careful”
― Nora T. Gedgaudas, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond Paleo for Total Health and a Longer Life

“As such, butter or ghee can be included liberally in the diet. In addition, raw butter, milk, and cream contain the Wulzen factor, otherwise known as the “antistiffness” factor, which is potentially beneficial for healthy joints in non-casein-sensitive individuals. Fast”
― Nora T. Gedgaudas, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond Paleo for Total Health and a Longer Life

“Excess consumption of sugar, starch, and cereal-based carbohydrates is easily the most destructive dietary tendency today. It is a rampant problem, leading to heart disease, obesity, diabetes, cancer, and many other degenerative disorders as well as numerous mental health and cognitive problems. As”
― Nora T. Gedgaudas, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond Paleo for Total Health and a Longer Life

“No known primitive culture in the history of the human species has ever adopted vegetarianism by choice. It”
― Nora T. Gedgaudas, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond Paleo for Total Health and a Longer Life

“The overall, number one source of dietary calories at this time in the United States is actually high fructose corn syrup, an extremely toxic industrial sweetener found in almost all processed foods. The”
― Nora T. Gedgaudas, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond Paleo for Total Health and a Longer Life

“More modern ills can be traced to chronic carbohydrate consumption than to any other single factor.”
― Nora T. Gedgaudas, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond Paleo for Total Health and a Longer Life

“This is a critical and very fundamental point to remember: we don’t ever have to eat any sugar or starch of any kind at all in order to be optimally healthy. Our”
― Nora T. Gedgaudas, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond Paleo for Total Health and a Longer Life

“It is also quite evident that diets consisting of any significant quantity of carbohydrates are a strictly modern phenomenon, one that our ice age human physiology has evolved little adaptation to—or defense against. Carbohydrates,”
― Nora T. Gedgaudas, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond Paleo for Total Health and a Longer Life

“All of the structure and functions of the human body are built from and run on nutrients. All of them. JANET LANG, B.A., D.C.”
― Nora T. Gedgaudas, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond Paleo for Total Health and a Longer Life

“The optimal human diet is not something that should have to require overly careful formulation by calories or percentages, much less by blood type. A person should not need a calorie counter, a percentages guide, or any sort of manual in tow when going to the market to buy food. No one should need a blood test to determine blood type in order to know how to eat. Such tools, though they provide a seductive sense of structure and security, can be unnecessarily confusing and do not ultimately constitute a sound, principle-based, commonsense approach. Long term, these approaches tend to lack sustainability. Fundamentally,”
― Nora T. Gedgaudas, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond Paleo for Total Health and a Longer Life

“Diffuse musculoskeletal pain, muscle weakness, and even osteoporosis may be the only symptoms of wheat allergies (gluten) and are completely relieved or reversed on a gluten free diet” (Kozanoglu et al. 2005).”
― Nora T. Gedgaudas, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond Paleo for Total Health and a Longer Life

“rediscovered, a ketogenic diet is returning to mainstream acceptance and is again recognized as a highly effective therapy for seizure and neurologically related disorders. In fact, there are studies to show the strong benefits of ketogenic diets on virtually every manner of neurological disorder. Some examples of neurologic uses of a ketogenic diet other than epilepsy are migraines, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS), autism, brain tumors, depression, sleep disorders, schizophrenia, postanoxic brain injury, posthypoxic myoclonus glycogenosis type V, and narcolepsy, to name a few.”
― Nora T. Gedgaudas, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond Paleo for Total Health and a Longer Life

“Far and away the safest means of obtaining vitamin D is through exposure to sunlight (which contains ultraviolet B, or UVB, light). This allows the body to make what it needs as it needs it. It is possible now to buy UVB-based vitamin D–enhancing light systems for home use. It is very difficult to ascertain just how much”
― Nora T. Gedgaudas, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond Paleo for Total Health and a Longer Life

“Learning to make your own from quality raw cow, sheep, or goat’s milk (assuming that you have no casein sensitivity) or even coconut milk (my personal favorite) is “easypeasy.” Raw cultured vegetables are also extremely easy and inexpensive to make at home. They are a wonderful addition to any diet. (See Nourishing Traditions, by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig.)”
― Nora T. Gedgaudas, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond Paleo for Total Health and a Longer Life

“The Future of Food (which can be accessed online for free viewing). Among the most common examples of GMO-containing foods are soy, corn, and wheat, but GMOs are”
― Nora T. Gedgaudas, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond Paleo for Total Health and a Longer Life

“has been wisely stated that it is abjectly impossible to actually teach anyone anything. The best one can do is inspire others to learn.”
― Nora T. Gedgaudas, Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond Paleo for Total Health and a Longer Life