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There’s sure a lot of new readers, visitors, and a number of people have let me know via comments, email, Twitter and Facebook that they’ve just started out on a Paleo diet. Some have questions and others just want to shout, like idumych on Twitter.

@rnikoley is my guru! I’ve been eating (and showering) #paleo all [...]

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A reader email this morning with an important question I ought to address here.

Let me preface this by saying I’m just starting out on my Paleo/Primal journey. I am also terrible at wading my way through scientific studies, and have the kind of luck where I think I’ve got something covered, and then some other [...]

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I got an amazing email this morning that delighted and thrilled my soul, and so I’m going to congratulate reader Chris right out loud and in public, because he really deserves a great big round of applause.

You’ve asked to be kept up to date, so I thought I’d touch base. As of this morning’s [...]

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I got an email from a new reader the other day.

…30 years old, MD in anesthesia and critical care in Italy, fed up with being 40 pounds overweight. I’ve always been the big girl, since I was little, and now that I’m a grown up i would really LOVE to shed the pounds at last. Tried it all: [...]

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I’m going to borrow a page from Mark Sisson and try something out. Anyone willing and able to help field some reader questions? I hope so, and with that hope, here goes. I’ll alert each questioner to this post so that they can be prepared to add supplemental info where needed. ~~~ Q1. From Joe: I have been reading the blog for about 6 months and had tremendous success eating Paelo style. I had a quick question – Sometimes when I eat refined foods (grains, bread, pretzels, hoagies etc…) my mood becomes nasty. I get angry for little or no reason. When I go back to strictly paleo, I am more patient and I am more pleasant overall. Do you know of or have you ever heard of anything about how food effect a persons mood? ~~~ Q2. From Marc: Perhaps you can help me, I started eating paleo and following a plan very similar to yours about 3-4 months ago since then I have gained 12 pounds. Not muscle. Pants getting tighter. 220lbs to 232. Basically at a loss on what to do next. Any advice would be appreciated. Blood work good, thyroid ok. [Ed: He goes on to…

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