Well, I watched all the videos and he never trashed the Atkins diet. In fact, his website pushes what he calls LCHF (low carb high fat). The thing I was not expecting was the advocacy for fasting. I always heard fasting eats your muscles away and many other things that turn out not to be true. I am very intrigued.
Intermittent fasting, really just not eating between meals, is good. But fasting is bad because it can decimate the good population you might have in your gut.
Paleo is not good alone because it discourages good carbs and it doesn’t take into account all we have learned about how essential to our health our gut population is.
We have so much more to learn. The most important thing is to eat clean, natural foods. Know every ingredient. Sure, in our faced paced life, you will sometimes eat junk, but if the majority of your diet is food from healthy animals and plants, you’re good. Each meal needs a healthy protein source (animal is better) and healthy fat. But, especially if you are poor, the protein and fat parts can be small and the bulk of the meal can be a healthy carb like a tuber or a grain or rice.