I love mountain lions for many, varied reasons but mostly for this one: there are no mountain lion nutritionists. They intuitively understand that deer, especially Bambi, contain all the macro- and micronutrients needed to sustain an optimally healthy mountain lion. So, what happened to Homo sapiens? The answers to that question would occupy way more space than Dr. Collin would be willing to lease to me. For myself, the axiom “food is medicine” rings incredibly true. The specific foods that are consumed in each uniquely metabolomic individual is, for me, the most important of all medical prescriptions. What we eat influences every system of our body positively or negatively at each meal and snack, each and every day of our lives. Hopefully, we all can metamorphose into a proverbial mountain lion and decipher what specific foods we must consume in order to construct an internal milieu comparable in functionality to Michael Jordan at the height of his basketball prowess.

Let me, then, project here a very simple dietary prescription for humans to follow: the PPF/Paleocarb/Protein/Fat diet. Robert Crayhon, who helped develop Designs for Health,¹ which is a science-based nutrition and natural medicine company, coined two words: paleocarb and neocarb. Over time I have come up with my working definition of the two words. For me, a neocarb is any foodstuff that digests quickly and raises serum glucose and more importantly serum insulin to pathological levels: any monosaccharide like glucose, disaccharides like maltose, and/or any flour, whether whole or white. Paleocarbs are what our ancestors ate in their natural form: nuts, beans, seeds, legumes, tubers, veggies, fruits. Paleocarbs contain fiber, which mitigates the glucose/insulin effect in the serum and phytochemicals, which assist our bodies in detoxifying the myriad exogenous and endogenous chemicals we are exposed to.