I LOVE Atlanta! Awesome town, great food and now lots of good friends. A huge thank-you to everyone who came out and a thank you specifically to Jeff, Melissa, Jules and Charles for not only hosting a kick-ass, back-to-back nutrition freak out, but for also making some damn good curry on Saturday night! The NorCal… Continue Reading
The Zone and Athletic Performance
Amidst yesterdays comments the question was asked “Where is the science for the Zone or paleo with regards to improving athletic performance?” as both a scientist and coach I would have normally told this person to go pound sand as my gym is full of people who are performing FAR better with a paleo diet… Continue Reading
Barry Sears IS Paleo!!
I receive a lot of email from folks asking a variety of questions. Two questions tend to about send me over the brink: “How many blocks should I eat?” and “should I eat Paleo or Zone?” Both questions are troubling for several reasons but it’s actually the later question that just slays me and, is… Continue Reading
Paleo vs. Zone: Does Food Quality Matter?
Update- I’ve been taken to task on what I wrote and I need to address that. I mention below a “50-60% adherence” number and really tore it apart. When Tony wrote that originally he qualified that as being an arbitrary number, not a claim of accuracy. I was pretty spun up about all that and managed… Continue Reading
MMMM Good Meals!
Hey Everyone, just wanted to let you know about an amazing service in the San Diego, CA area called MMMM Good Meals. Luckily, Dutch Lowy did a great interview with Michele Vieux, crossfit games competitor, CrossFit Invictus trainer and Big Cheese behind MMMM Good Meals. If you live in the San diego area and have… Continue Reading
Fat and Insulin Sensitivity
Chris, from Westcountry CrossFit shot me a question about the recent PaleoDiet Newsletter. If you have not subscribed to the newsletter and/or read all the archives you are REALLY missing out! So, here is that most recent PDNL and Chriss’ question: “Insulin resistance is thought to be an important contributing factor to the modern diseases… Continue Reading
The Road Forager 2: Sacramento Airport!
Hey folks! We are off to San Diego for the next CrossFit Nutrition cert. We tend to fly out of Sacramento so we grab meals in the food court pretty frequently. In the picture I have a BLT (bacon, lettuce, tomato) salad with extra chicken. I went for the blue cheese dressing as it looked… Continue Reading
The Road Forager!
This is an experiment using my iPhone to update the blog so we’ll see how or if this works! What I’m hoping to do is post some of the meals we put together while on the road for the CrossFit Nutrition certs. We have eaten in some wacky places and it might be interesting for… Continue Reading





