The Paleo Diet

Theory and Application — What the Ancestral Diet Gets Right, and What It Gets Wrong

The Paleo Diet is Book G1 of The Performance & Human Physiology Encyclopedia — a 93-volume, university-level library on what a given way of eating really does — and for whom. It is written for readers choosing a diet, and professionals asked about them daily: deep enough that a professional already trained in the field keeps learning, structured clearly enough that a motivated reader can follow every step.

What you will find inside

• What the Paleo Diet Is — and Isn't
• The Evolutionary-Discordance Hypothesis
• What Our Ancestors Actually Ate
• We Are Still Evolving: Recent Dietary Adaptations
• The Health Evidence
• The Food-Quality Core: Where Paleo Is Right
• The Excluded Foods: Are Grains, Legumes, and Dairy Really Harmful?
• Macronutrients and the Low-Carb Question
• Paleo for Specific Goals
• Risks, Gaps, and Sustainability
• Paleo Across Populations and Sport
• Myths, Marketing, and the Ancestral Industry
• Putting It Into Practice

How this book is written

• University level, without dilution. Exact scientific terminology, defined at first use — mechanisms, not just conclusions.
• Evidence graded, not asserted. Major claims carry a level, from A (strong) to D (expert opinion), so you always know how much weight to give them.
• Numbers, formulas, worked examples. Reference ranges, equations and solved calculations you can apply the same day.
• Myths confronted directly. Where a popular claim does not survive the evidence, the book says so — and shows why.
• Fully referenced (APA 7). References at the end of every chapter, plus a master bibliography.

13 chapters · approx. 100 pages · Book G1, Collection G — Diets & Nutritional Strategies.