Ben Greenfield warns that overly restrictive diets like carnivore or paleo can shrink your microbiome diversity and make you more sensitive to foods, creating what he calls a "comfort crisis." He also argues that artificial light, air, electricity, and food additives push us away from the natural conditions our bodies need to stay healthy.
If you have issues with gluten, with lectins, with gas, with bloating, if you have a so called princess gut, a lot of times you can stay super safe and say, well, I'm just gonna go carnivore, or I'm just gonna eliminate all these food groups and be like, I'll maybe paleo for the rest of my life. But the problem is, the more you limit, the less diverse your microbiome becomes, the more of a princess gut you get in terms of what I've heard called the comfort crisis. To aggravate that issue even more, I we are surrounded by artificial compounds, whether it's artificial light or artificial air, artificial electricity or artificial food additives that bring us even farther away from that natural setting that causes a human body to thrive. When it comes to health span and lifespan.
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