I cannot recommend enough Robb Wolf’s book on Paleo. Enough good detail about the autoimmune issues, leaky gut issues, and how we live in state of inflammation due to Omega3/Omega6 ratios being out of whack. Most of this is caused by eating a heavily grain based diet to include mass produced grain fed animals.
From http://www.leakygut.co.uk/:
“The symptoms of Leaky Gut Syndrome are many and varied and include: abdominal pain, heartburn, insomnia, bloating, anxiety, gluten intolerance, malnutrition, muscle cramps and pains, poor exercise tolerance, food allergies.
Leaky Gut Syndrome has also been linked with many conditions, such as: Celiac Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Fibromyalgia, Autism, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Eczema, Dermatitis, Ulcerative Colitis.
The other thing that was a real eye opener for was the issues with Cortisol as it relates to lack of sleep. I personally look back and see (besides eating poorly) weight gain when I went to an average of 6 hours sleep (or less) per night. Really good stuff, but they do focus on getting the blood markers correct through eating real food as opposed to statins, BP medications, etc.
Although he kind of got famous from the crossfit family he tends to recommend slowing it down as overdoing exercise for an extended period can also cause cortisol issues.
Great podcast too, the guy is sharp as a whip, but one consistent complaint he has is that his mother’s generation seems to want a drug to fix everything instead of working on prevention.
