After 38 years of being in the natural healing field I finally feel like I am getting the hang of this health thing. It has not been for lack of study, I have spent lifetimes in seminars and classes. it has not been due to lack of experience, as an herbalist and naturopath I have consulted with thousands of clients and helped many of them regain their good health. But up to this point the pace of my progress as a healer has been slowed by a faulty premise; that the agrarian grain and legume intense diet that evolved since the beginning of the Neolithic period ten thousand years ago promoted human health. It doesn't and there is no getting around that.
Yes, I apologize to all of those grain and bean farmers and bakers galore, but those foods that have become especially prevalent since the beginning of the industrial revolution cause inflammation in the body and block the absorption of vital nutrition, especially minerals. When people can remove grains, legumes, dairy, sugar and salt from their diets and replace them with lean meats and fish, vegetables and fresh fruit, nuts and seeds their body starts rebuilding the way it was designed to, quickly.
As an herbalist I have seen that a therapeutic supplement program works much faster and deeper when you shift the diet toward Paleo. When a person realizes that they are causing their disease, their tiredness, their obesity by eating these low vitality foods that society has provided for them, it makes it easier to choose health. The Paleo diet is what nature chose for then.