About Me
Miki Ben-Dor
I am a Ph.D. in archaeology, affiliated with the department of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University. I research the connection between human evolution and nutrition throughout human prehistory.
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Were Paleolithic hunter-gatherers often in ketosis?
Ketosis is a metabolic state characterized by elevated levels of ketone bodies in the blood or urine. It can occur because of fasting or a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet. The popularity of the ketogenic (ketones-producing) diet has raised the question of … Read the rest
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Live Paleo Style – Now available on Amazon and other venues
Paleo Style is not just nutrition!
My book is now on Amazon â Live Paleo Style. It is available in Kindle, paperback, and Audible formats. The audiobook is also available for sale here if you don’t want to … Read the rest
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The complete and unifying explanation of human evolution
To date, no complete evolutionary explanation has been given for the formation of the human species, and certainly not a complete and unifying explanation at the same time.
An evolutionary explanation explains a physiological or behavioral phenomenon in a species … Read the rest
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Discussing The Cooking Hypothesis – a section from my Ph.D thesis
The Cooking Hypothesis is quite popular, especially among journalists and vegans but also in the general nutrition-savvy public. It usually serves to support a high plant diet early in human evolution, which is the original claim of the hypothesis.
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Paleobiologists attempt to debunk the Paleo Diet â Not good
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From time to time academic researchers of one specialization or another find it worthwhile to try to debunk the Paleolithic Diet. This time it is a chapter in the book “Bioarchaeologists speak out” titled: ” Stone Agers in the Fast … Read the rest
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Major-general Sir Robert McCarrison or, Paleo – Why donât people get it?
The risk reduction template that is Paleo is extremely simple. We are best adapted to the consumption of meat and not yet, or less adapted, to the consumption of new foods. The closer we are to our adapted state, the … Read the rest
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How the âTrue Paleo Dietâ came to be vegetarian
A recent paper (Weyrich et al., 2017) received an enormous amount of publicity, with a claim that Neandertals in El Sidron, Spain were vegetarians. Some media headlines could even be interpreted as suggesting that the Paleo Diet was vegetarian.
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Does the Paleo diet need a rewrite?
The headlines are all over the media: The Paleo Diet May Need a Rewrite, Ancient Humans Feasted on a Wide Variety of Plants  writes the Smithsonian and defines the Paleo diet as a baseless âfadâ. Amanda Henry, a prominent researcher, … Read the rest
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Paleo diet: “Big brains needed carbs” (???)
Big Brain Need Carb is the title of the press announcement that accompanied the publication of a paper by Hardy et al. that was slightly more mutely titled “The Importance of Dietary Carbohydrate in Human Evolution” (1).
I don’t think … Read the rest
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Debunking season â Debunking âDebunking the Paleo dietâ by Christina Warinner
The popularity of the Paleo Diet brings a slew of debunking attempts from dietitians and academics answering the call of their vocation to save the world from the big Paleo Diet debacle.
It motivated evolutionary biologist Marlen Zuk to write … Read the rest
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