A summary to understand this diet could be the following: the Paleo diet improves your health by eating real food, such as vegetables, meats, fruits, nuts and seeds. But you will surely ask yourself: How does this diet work? Is it safe? Or the most interesting, how can I start?

If you have ever asked yourself those questions, you are in the right place. We have made a complete guide to the Paleo diet where you will solve all your doubts.

What is the Paleo diet?
The Paleo diet is based on eating real, natural foods with little to no processing. In other words, the Paleo diet focuses on eating the way nature intended us to eat.

Our current diet is relatively recent, as we have only been eating this way for about 10,000 years. In contrast, most estimates say that humans have been around for just over two million years. That’s a lot of time. The Paleo diet focuses on eating food in the same way that we ate before the last 10,000 years.

Today, any standard diet contains a high amount of sugar, ruining the health of almost anyone who tries to eat according to the food pyramid.

The history of the Paleo diet
The Paleo diet began a long time ago in a cave far away, probably in Africa. The human body has evolved over millions of years. We’ve only been eating grains and other things since the agricultural revolution, which happened about 10,000 years ago.

It may seem like a long time, but it is really a small amount of time compared to how long we have been inhabiting this planet.

Our ancestors ate much more natural foods (meat, fruits, vegetables, and seeds) combined with unplanned or intermittent fasts where food was simply scarce.

The Paleo diet is a return to eating like we used to before, eating mostly fresh fruits and vegetables, meat, eggs, and nuts.

The 7 keys to the Paleo diet
1- Eating animal protein in relatively high amounts compared to current accidental diets.
2- Eat fewer carbohydrates than recommended in modern diets. But you do eat a lot of carbohydrates from fruits and vegetables.
3- Eat plenty of fiber from non-starchy fruits and vegetables.
4- Consume fats in a moderate way, especially the good ones (monunsaturated and polyunsaturated). Find the balance between omega-3 and omega-6 fats.
5- Eat foods that are high in potassium and low in sodium.
6- Eat foods with a good net alkaline load.
7- Eat foods rich in vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals, and antioxidants.