I just read Diet Evolution by Dr Gundry.  It was a fascinating read.  One of my other all time favorites is Lights Out.   Lights Out, Sleep Sugar and Survival has a huge bibliography and references countless studies that correlate the advent of electricity the invention of the light bulb and pretty much every disease that has afflicted modern man. Basically all animals and man have circadium rhythms.  The body is engaged in critical repair at night and producing hormones. If you interupt that critical  repair with artificial light you will be more susceptible to disease. He has so many studies that show the long lived people are often rural that wake up and go to sleep with natural light. ( although others ascribe the foods that these remote people eat.  It also tracks what happened when electricity and light came to the most remote farm lands in our country.  So you had places with same diet and the only variation was upsetting the sleep wake cycles with electricity and lights. Its a really fascinating read.  PS if you dont feel like reading it just try to be a little more in tune with natural light. So you can party til midnite in the summer but try to get to sleep  early ( even 9pm) 2  nights a week during the winter.

Many books talk about our genetics.  It actually makes a lot of sense your ancestors date back millions of years to the beginning of our appearance on earth however long ago you believe that to be. The ones that did not have efficient fat storage died off. The ones that didnt have an intelligent sweet tooth ate some bitter poison and died off.  I think we can agree those ideas make sense.  Dr Guthry the author of the diet evolution puts forth an even more radical idea.  He says that just like we witness all kinds of incredibly intelligent behviour for survival of species and propagation in the animal an plant kingdom, human genes are as intelligent if not more so.  He says once you reproduce, its actually in the best interest of your genes ( that want to live forever) to get rid of you.  Especially if you are gluttonous, your genes are going to assume that you are going to starve your babies so it will kill you off… Really stuff that makes you feel like you are reading science fiction. However Dr Gundry is a really famous Heart Surgeon and the book is chock full of examples of patients that were supposed to die, with extreme blockages that he cured with diet alone in a few short months. It was so fascinating I read it in 2 days.  So I will have to go back re read it and take out excerpts.  The other reason I loved this book is because he embraces high protein ( Atkins) and vegetarian ( Pritkin Ornish)  He says that start with Atkins to lose the weight but after you plateau you need to segue into a more vegetarian diet.  Really makes a lot of sense.

Have to mention Eat for Your Blood Type.  You dont even have to read the book just determine your blood type, google search foods that are supposedly good for you and bad for you and see if you feel that way when you eat those foods.  PS the interesting part of it, is that everyone was blood type O up until 10,000 years ago.  At that time type A and B were mutations. That also coincides with the advent of farming.  So supposedly type O’s cant possibly tolerate grains since grain never existed durring their reign on earth.  But then again if you subscribing to some of the other book’s theories it is somewhat irrelevant.  But its definitely worth having a peek at the foods that are suppossed to be avoided by your blood type and see if indeed they do or dont agree with you.

At the end of the day its all about being self aware. You can spend $20,000 a year and work with my best friend Oz Garcia for a year, like many of the rich and famous.  But he will insist that you keep a food log and notice how you feel after eating various foods.