First, let’s recap part one. Here are the 7 Warning Signs You’re Having Rebound Headaches: 1. Your headache is present upon awakening. 2. Your headache has become exquisitely sensitive to movement, or physical activity. 3. Your headache pain is more spread out than usual, and oftentimes seems to concentrate in the back of your head, towards the […]
Category: ancestral health
AHS 2014 – Looking Forward to the Past
This past week I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the Ancestral Health Symposium at UC Berkeley. This was the fourth incarnation of this annual event, one designed to foster collaboration amongst scientists, healthcare providers, and laypersons across disciplines. It’s a great event. It’s also the fittest, leanest, and most vibrant looking crowd […]
Ask Dr. T: How to tell if I’m in sugar or fat burning mode?
“How do I know if I’m still in fat burning mode, or if I’ve shifted back to sugar burning mode?” This was the excellent question posed to me earlier this week by a patient in my clinic. After reading the book, she’d adopted an ancestral diet, and was eating around 20 grams of carbohydrate […]
Road Trippin’ Migraine Free: How to navigate the roadside migraine minefield
It’s that time of year. School is out, which means families from coast to coast will be packing their suitcases, loading up the rooftop carrier, and heading out for their summer vacation adventure. But danger lurks. Inside every gas station procured bag of Cheetos or drive-thru cheeseburger awaits a migraine ready to strike, ruining your […]
The Final Days of Sugar?
In a recent post, I discussed how the authorities in academia were finally (albeit begrudgingly) reversing their view on the fat and heart disease connection. For decades now, fat has been the nutritional whipping boy, blamed for all manner of modern ailments, while sugar has been allowed to skirt along under the radar undetected. It […]
Ask Dr. T, Episode 1: “Aren’t there triggers in your recipes?”
Many of you have reached out to me over the cyberwaves with questions and comments about the book. Over time, I notice certain themes emerging. I figure if a few people are asking me the same type of thing, then there are bound to be other readers out there with similar concerns. And so, from […]
Migraines and the Hypothalamus, Part One: Towards a Grand Unified Theory
If you’d told me five years ago I’d be writing a book about migraines in the future, I doubt I would’ve believed you. Not that I wasn’t keenly interested in the subject, mind you. It’s just that at that time, though I knew there was still much to learn about migraines, I thought that […]
How to Trigger a Migraine, Part 2: It’s an Elephant!
In part 1 of this series, I discussed the classic view of migraine triggers. This is important information for sure, and has helped a great many migraineurs over the years. But it’s not the whole story. As some of you may know, when I adopted an ancestral style diet four years ago, I didn’t expect […]
The Benefits of an Ancestral Perspective
So, according to the commentary posted in this week’s JAMA Internal Medicine, we are in the midst of a “paradigm shift” when it comes to mainstream medicine’s conception of a healthy diet. In a study published in this month’s issue of the aforementioned journal, we learn that, in a prospective cohort of patients, the highest […]
The Sweetness of a Carrot: Ancestral Eating and the Glorious Gustatory Reset
“…almost all the fruits our ancestors ate were about as sweet as carrots.” – Dan Lieberman, The Story of the Human Body Finally, it seems that sugar is all by its lonesome. Long defended as a harmless empty calorie, even mainstream nutritionists now view sugar as problematic. It, not fat, along with other forms of refined […]