Chris Kresser - Your Personal Paleo Code: The 3-Step Plan to Lose Weight, Reverse Disease, and Stay Fit and Healthy for Life

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To all who struggle with chronic illness: may this book be a catalyst for healing and self-discovery

We live in extraordinary times. Human ingenuity has given us flight, space travel, lasers, the Internet, and amazing medical technologies that can help the deaf hear and the blind see. Biohackers and tech folks talk of uploading the consciousness before death, allowing the mind a second (and presumably very lengthy) existence as a program. So much is possible. Yet the highly modern Homo sapiens is struggling with debilitating and chronic health conditions: obesity, depression, diabetes, autoimmune disease, and cancer, among others.

A number of doctors, laypeople, and scientists have come to accept the mismatch hypothesis to explain much of modern chronic disease. Our species, having had only a few hundred generations to adapt to agricultureand only decades to adjust to the lightbulb and the digital ageis simply not equipped to handle industrial processed food, endless artificial light, and a sedentary modern life. As a psychiatrist, a medical doctor specializing in mental illness, I deal with the emotional and neurological consequences of this mismatch all the time in my clinical practice. We might call the low mood, crying spells, anxiety, and insomnia depressive disorder, but in truth, it is a breakdown of resiliency. Members of our hardy species can take only so much stress before we begin to experience anxiety, depression, and other consequences of our frenetic lives. To go forward into the future, we have to come to terms with our biology and its limitations. We must rebuild our resiliency to recover our health.

The prescription seems simple enough: Eat wholesome, real foods. Get plenty of sleep along with appropriate play and activity. But as a physician and working mother, I know far too well how difficult it can be to handle the pace of modern life, meet the needs of your family, and find the time and patience to keep yourself truly healthy and functioning at your best. In addition, despite the fact that we are all members of the same species, we each have very individual needs based on current health conditions and activity.

Chris Kresser struggled with serious, disabling health problems that modern medicine seemed to have no solution for. He used science, wisdom, and trial and error to heal himself, and due to that experience, he decided to pursue integrative medicine. He chose a masters program in California that combined Western and Chinese medicine, because he felt the holistic model it offered gave him a better way to understand and help the ill than the fragmented, specialty model of conventional medicine. His clinical experience, curiosity, and scientific savvy helped him to become enormously successful. His private practice has thrived, and his website and podcasts reach hundreds of thousands of eager readers and listeners around the world.

With Your Personal Paleo Code, Chris sets out the basic prescription for health and resiliency and then offers techniques so you can tailor the program for your needs and make it work on a personal level. His three-step program steers you to diet and lifestyle changes that will have you feeling better than you have in yearsperhaps better than youve ever felt. Chris gives you everything you neednot just recipes but a recipe for livingto achieve that improvement in health and functioning, but then he takes that a step further and addresses the complexities of your personal situation. Everything is spelled out in this book, and in addition, his website offers bonus chapters, more details on the science behind the Paleo movement, and copious online tools to ease your transition to good health.

By uncovering your own Personal Paleo Code, you can benefit from Chriss experience, clinical acumen, wisdom, and common sense to find that state of lasting health that can be so elusive in the modern world. Recover your natural human resiliency and thrive.

• Bonus chapters with more than a hundred and fifty pages of additional information about customizing your diet and lifestyle to address common health conditions. Ill refer to these bonus chapters throughout the book.
• A user forum with people from around the world following the Personal Paleo Code approach, moderated by my approved Paleo Ambassadors
• An additional three weeks of delicious meal plans and recipes, including snacks and side dishes
• Handy shopping lists
• A supplement guide with specific recommendations mentioned throughout the book, updated regularly so you can order the ones that meet my strictest guidelines for safety and efficacy
• Links to online sources of pasture-raised meats, wild-caught fish, Paleo-friendly snacks, and other essentials
• A guide to finding and working with a Paleo-oriented clinician
• And much more

You may have picked up this book for several reasons.

You may want to lose weight, boost your energy, or improve your overall health. You may be looking for ways to naturally treat a particular health problem, such as irritable bowel syndrome, hypothyroidism, or high blood pressure. You may feel well already but want to optimize your athletic performance, feel sharper at work, or increase your longevity.

What if you could create your own personalized approach to nutrition, one that is designed exactly for your body? An approach that respects the wisdom of your genetic template but also acknowledges your own unique circumstances and needs? This is exactly what Im going to teach you how to do in this book. I call it your Personal Paleo Codeyour unique prescription for optimal health.

WHATS A PERSONAL PALEO CODE?

Perhaps youve heard of the Paleo movement. Millions of people around the planet are joining this health revolution based on the latest cutting-edge science, seeking to eat and live in closer harmony with human genetics and biology. This development has come just in time. Throughout the industrialized world, humans are in a health crisis, getting sicker and fatter every year, dying from chronic diseases our ancestors never faced. We thrive when we eat and live a certain way, and our profound sickness stems directly from contemporary choices far different from that ideal way of living. We were never meant to eat the sugar, refined flour, and industrial seed oils that are the mainstay of the standard American diet (and what an apt acronym that makes!). We were never meant to work around the clock under the glare of artificial lights. Or spend half our lives sitting and staring at computer screens. Or live in relative isolation, with Facebook and Twitter standing in for genuine human contact.