Nutritional Supplements

I believe in the benefits of a primordial, evolutionary diet, which is based on the same dietary principles followed by our ancestors. During the 2.6 million years that our Paleolithic ancestors inhabited the earth, they depended upon nutrition from lean meats, fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds. As a result, our ancestors were lean, fit, and free of the chronic diseases that plague our society in epidemic proportions today. Simply put, we didn’t evolve with soda, high-fructose corn syrup, pizza, pasta, cookies, crackers, chips, bagels, rolls, bread, croissants, candy, ice cream, artificial colors, flavors, GMOs, antibiotics, growth hormones, pesticides herbicides, and etc.  And…they’re not needed in our diet.

Diets changed considerably in the space of a few thousand years, owing to the dawn of agriculture and the introduction of cereal grains. Today, a concerted effort is required to avoid highly processed foods containing minimal nutritional value and chemicals with cumulative, adverse effects.

Given that there has been little change in the human genome since Paleolithic times, our nutritional requirements remain similar to those of the Stone Age hunter-gatherers. Thus, a diet that espouses Paleolithic principles — a balanced ratio of low glycemic index carbohydrates, high-quality proteins, vegetables, and essential fats — may be the ideal route to the attainment of robust health, energy, and vitality.

For those individuals who aspire to that healthier way of eating, and who choose to undertake therapeutic lifestyle change in our office, we recommend certain supplements as part of the regimen. Supplements should not be taken as a substitute for good quality food; rather, they should be used to enhance the diet by optimizing nutritional wellness and increasing metabolic efficiency. Supplements can also compensate for nutritional deficiencies resulting from the consumption of processed foods with lower nutritional value, or nutrient-depleting lifestyle factors such as stress and chemical exposure.