I've never followed any of these diets. Over time I've just used information from a variety of sources (like these videos) and crafted a diet with supplements and weekly fasting routine that works for me.

Ironic because I stopped keto/carnivore and introduced some fruit again and feel way better. Workouts way better. Sleep better. Do what works for YOU!

Switch... Sometimes Keto... Sometimes carnivore.... Sometimes paleo... Always Low carb. Depends of season. Real food.

I lost all of my weight on keto but recently I have decided to take the best of every diet and make my own version for me. I am still very low carb but there are so many healthy foods out there that I couldn’t have with keto so I am now implementing those into my diet along with fasting and exercising and I feel amazing! I haven’t gained any of my weight back and it’s been 2 months since dropping keto. I believe I can live this way for the long haul. 😊

I've lost 80 lbs following keto and IF. Thank you for your videos! They are invaluable! ❤️

I am 71 years young and have been doing keto for over 10 years. It is doing well for me and I plan on continuing.

From my experience, albeit N=1, is carnivore is a very good elimination diet, ketogenic diet is a good therapeutic and weight loss diet, paleo is a good maintenance diet, and the SAD will kill one early and painfully. In conclusion, we have much to learn from a variety of diet choices in conjunction with what stage of life, stage of health, and state of mind. Any one of these diets can be a hammer, then everything looks like a nail. It comes down to appreciate use of the tools, and we have many tools in our tool box. Love your work, love the fact that your claims are backed by studies. That said, it can get a bit confusing on what diet, what foods, what study fits, etc. That is where you do as good a job sousing out the finer points. Keep it up.

Your advice an help is so vital for people around the world for me you helped me recover my health with diet an exercise,an now after 100 # riding a mountain bike an jogging again at 70 no more meds no more high blood pressure.or other complications from sugar an carbs

Awesome discussion. I'm on my third year of my journey to be "normal" for the first time in my almost 60 year life. For me, I had to do different things to get me to where I am today. I started by removing sugar and learning about different forms of "sugar" on food labels. Then, I move to eating a dirty keto, then average keto, then "puritan" keto style of eating to helped me loose 216+ lbs. More than a year ago, I realized that if I eat my asian-pacific basin foods from 300 to 350 years ago, my body seemed respond extraordinarily as the 24 inches of loose skin around my waist is almost gone, my white hair is almost gone, my skin looks younger, and I have muscles with definition for the first time in my life. I have experienced, that I needed to do different versions of keto more for my mental journey more than my weight lost, to keep me motivated and interested with noticeable results by people who has seen me and all the worries they expressed. Today, I got a compliment from an accomplished MD, knew me at 406 lbs and now is always shocked when he see me as I'm not "soft" looking as some who lost 200+ lbs. People think I'm in my early 40's when I meet them and I can now where any type of clothing for the first time in my life. Thank you, Thomas, for the 100s of hours of video you have produced as I took them all to heart and acclimated them for my family's ancestral' s food sources. I'm part Japanese, Okinawan and Hawaiian - mediterranean food style of eating would not have been possible in the middle of the Pacific for 2,500+ years Hawaiian where on these islands in the middle of the Pacific - so I found my own foods that had similar nutrients. I have found that modern version of the my ancestral foods spike my glucose level for long periods of time, but if I eat these foods the historial way - I can eat as much as I want without gaining weight!!!!!!! I love my food today, I eat more fat, more salt, more seafoods these past three (3) years flavored and cooked from my childhood - like my Great, grandmothers made for me. Mahalo 'e

Thomas, you were one of the first KZfaq creators I followed when I discovered keto and IF. A year and a half and 45 pounds later, I still trust you to give me the geeky science, and I always appreciate your point of you. I am a retired personal trainer and a woman who is 66 now and I feel better than I did when I was 33. Thanks for all you do!

I am full time AIP and lean into carnivore as much as I can. I have to eat nature's carbs around ovulation and my period to produce my progesterone. I listen closely to my body mostly to feel my best.

Great video. I’m 50 years old and I’m a few weeks into keto and just finished a 72 hour water fast. I’m tracking my ketosis with Keto-Mojo and love all this new information that wasn’t available in my 20’s when I was bodybuilding. I still have over 100 Lbs to lose but I’m confident I will reach my goal in 60 more weeks and keep this lifestyle. Thanks for all your help and information

Great content Thomas, missed this live but hope to see more of these in the future while you’re live. I’ll joke that I’m always a week’s worth of a bag of chips at 10pm from being that fat guy again so glad that you also came from there and understand why like our safety box of a diet that works. Took me 4 years to feel safe and comfortable enough (part knowledge and part habit) to evolve from Keto into Paleo 2.0 with my own rules wrapped around it. Thank you!

My mantra - Extremes are almost never the answer. I'm not climbing on anyone else's bandwagon, though I'll look it over and kick the tires to see if any of it will be good for me and my life. In the 70's I was a little kid, crouched in a huge garden part of each summer, "cruelly forced" to put a little time in weeding, planting, and picking before playtime. How I appreciate that now! Thanks mom and dad 💕💝💕 I know what real food tastes like, how it makes me feel and where to get it. My mom got creative too, so I learned about a huge variety of fruits and vegetables. I was surrounded by small family farms, most pushed out of business by uncaring, unethical industrial farms that ruined a lot of land. I never climbed on those bandwagons - milk/butter/eggs/red meat, etc etc. I focus on good sourcing, from small, caring family farms who treat the animals and the land humanely. I focus on balance and variety. I'll always continue learning, and KZfaq videos introduced me to new things like seaweed and krill. The healthiest is humane sourcing. Ethical people with a good conscience care about what they sell you, what you put in your body. Find them and pay them directly. From there, Balance, variety, self-awareness and Individual needs should shape and dictate whatever we decide to use from the latest trends.

Fruits in the summer, greens in the fall, grains in the winter, meats in the spring. Just look at what's available in nature.

I’m back on Paleo minus high oxalate veggies ( thanks to Sally Norton) . She also adds lost seasonality to the equation. I’m also aware of food combining now. A “balanced diet” means nothing . Protein can be eaten with fat but not with carbs. Melons should be eaten alone not mixed with acid fruits etc etc. Keep meals simple, one type of food at a meal.

From Detroit Michigan Thomas, more live Q & As. Very informative. Thank you!

Health = wealth it’s all full circle

I still havnt moved on from keto, I just become more comfortable eating foods with a few carbs In it. If I've learned anything it's really just a matter of... "everything in moderation"...

Thanks, Thomas. I try to keep fruit consumption to the periods that fresh fruits were available when I was a little kid, before we developed a worldwide agricultural supply chain.

Watching from the UK. Thank you for the great info, and for your channel in general. I am trying to blend intuition with advice, and so far it's going well x

cutting out moderate to high sugar gave me chiseled abs. i eat gentle carbs such as raspberries or part of a cantaloupe. fruits definetly can make you fat

Our ancestors would eat anything they could find whenever they could find it, and these labels are just marketing from people trying to sell supplements or a plan. I’d recommend that anyone talking about ancestral or paleo diets consult with a paleo-anthropologist.

Thank you Thomas. Changing to the Paleo part B does look to be the new trend.

Damn good video and helped me further realize that I was being too hard on my body in the past. I have never been overweight, but have always been considered lean. It's no wonder that the two times in my life that I've consistently done months of strict 18:6 every day, black coffee every morning with lots of hard, fasted training several hours before breaking my fast, made a bad digestive issue that I had healed over 14 years ago come screaming back. My sleep was also horrible and it's no wonder because my cortisol levels were probably through the roof. I've since learned my lesson and am perfectly happy doing one 24-36 hour fast a week. Thanks for making this video which further clarified all of this for me!

Keto & Paleo helped me drop 45lbs, but it still didn’t help my 145/95 hypertension

Awesome discussion!!!! Keep up the good work.

Thomas, love your videos. Im hoping someday you can do a video on the pituitary gland adenomas, low hormones, how to lose weight with all of those issues.

So one thing that’s interesting is that if you think of Paleo fruit growing wild, it was waaay less sweet than our modern cultivated varieties that we have now- and the ones that were very sweet, like figs or dates let’s say, they certainly don’t stay that way for long- and you were sharing them with your whole tribe for that week or whatever. Just a thought- the fruit would be pretty minimal and you’d be burning calories by picking them!

Hi Thomas, how about following a Keto, Mediterranean, Paleo, Carnivore diet, with IF and prolonged fasting of 5 days every 4 months. That's what basically I do, after I was able to bring my weight, IR and inflammatory makers to a optimal state. I'm a 62 yr old female feeling the best in decades. Thank you for your knowledge.

Really enjoyed the discussion.

I eat fat (and the dangling meat from it). I eat till I am full, and then I don't eat till I am hungry. I eat at high noon, and by the time I go to bed, I'm still not hungry; I am never hungry in the morning for "breakfast", so I wind up eating at high noon again. This is how it works for me, and it is working wonderfully! Enjoy!

Excellent, informative Q&A. Thanks!

He and his family are so cute. More importantly the videos are very educational.

It was 3 years ago when I started to try fasting I was in the middle of menopause and it was horrible trying just to get to 12 hours, but I did not stop and tried to get to 16 hours….. it just did not work then, because when I could eat I was eating like crazy!! So I stopped, one year later I tried again with a different approach, I took care of my sleeping hours first, I started working out 6 days a week and then I started with IF little by little, this time it did work, so like Thomas was saying it’s important to take care of having a good night sleep first 🙌

About 5 years ago I started paleo. Lost 35 lbs, and felt better. Then went Keto. I then cycle around; sometimes I want some beans in my chili, right? A nice glutne-free pizza. Sometimes rice - So I do some carbs about twice a month. I like to think of it as Ancestral eating - humans will eat whatever they get their hands on, so I will keep a little variety. I've been resistance training for over a year. Thinking about fasting but haven't yet. I think you need to add and try things, mix it up a little just follow some hard rules. Mine are no pasta, no sugars, no seed oils. no processed food, no grains other than white rice.

Thanks Thomas! Good information and yes I agree the trend is towards Paleo 2.0

I would think this is a good thing. If we look at indigenous people's diets, they were incredibly varied. Acorns, cattails, wild greens and mushrooms, lichens, pine, wild rice, bitterroot, camas, seaweed, fish, meats, fowl, squashes.... There was a lot of variety and it was based on seasonal and local availability, and whatever could be traded. Maize was a staple for the hopi. I like that you brought up modern "seasonal" vs traditional. I feel that so much of our current food problems surrounding fruit and veg are there because our foods aren't ripe. They are picked unripe and ripened off the vine/tree/plant (which in my mind has an effect on available nutrition). For those of us with the privilege of being able to get to a farmer's market, I feel THAT would be a good marker as to how to eat seasonally for that area and also get the most nutritious foods. I don't think even frozen or canned foods, which are supposed to be picked at peak ripeness, are entirely trustworthy because it makes more sense to ensure MOST of the crop is ripe, without being concerned about ALL.

Great video live the time went by quickly when I’m interested to the topic great Thomas👍

Wow wish I watched this live! Love these conversations

Love this style video. I could listen for 10 hours straight! Also really appreciate you breaking down all "paleoesque" stuff going on right now! And I love that you are always open to listen and learn from others that helps us so much too! ❤️

Please more livestreams Thomas Delauer

I have keto days, fasting days, italian days, vegi days, (ancestral days paleo is a myth), but from each of them never 2 or 3 in a row. Yet my Austrian days (lots of sugar AND fat at the same time) got abolished, and other principles like good exercise, no sugar, disciplined protein and water management made it to the list

Your info is so salient and useful. As a 65 year old woman, I have benefited from your info targeting older ladies. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Paula in Michigan. Love the live! More please!

Thank you for all your knowledge! I have listened to you and your knowledge has been helpful during the last 3 years. I lost 50 lbs and feel 40 at 80 years old. I still live keto to not gain it all back. I feel at least 30 years younger. I have to live this way and I had to get over thinking I can ever get off this way of eating.

Carb cycling works for me. More keto carnivore on rest or upper body days and some wild blueberries, raw milk, and maybe honey on lower body days.

Thank you so much for bringing this info! Great questions and answers that really hit the nail on the head for me. Please keep passing the knowledge down so we can keep evolving and learning how to just keep getting better!

I think it's fatty liver we are talking about. After a couple of years of keto your fatty liver is cured and you can tolerate a more diverse diet. Not SAD. But something like paleo.

Thanks for all the updated science and knowledge Thomas. It has brought an extreme amount of value on a consistent basis, so thank you

yes paleo is back. My cardiologist, Dr. Wolfson recommends paleo

Thanks for the stream brother!

Awesome information, I was wondering about this very topic.

Love his content

Watching from Vancouver Island Canada.

As for eating fruit in season, if humans came from Africa, fruits pretty much always in season if there's no winter. And as for eating plants I think it is good to look at our digestion vs herbivores and they have better ability or extra organs for detoxifying plants, except for fruit which has less antinutrients which is why it tastes good to us as apposed to vegetables or plain crunchy seeds

Great content as always. You have inspired me to get back at it. I had lost 50 pounds doing this right before Covid hit. Put 40 pounds back on & am now back down 12 pounds in the past 23 days. I have another 110 pounds to go and I am feeling good about having the tools to get there.

Absolutely awesome discussion, Thomas! Just a chat about what we know, what we're questioning/curious about, stuff we already know but possibly a diff point of view or reasoning.. just solid think tank. Super appreciate it and all your efforts! - With Love & Gratitude from Anaheim P.S. Those of us with actual biology backgrounds and those who just love to learn what's really going on in our bodies immensely appreciate the biochemical explanations! I have my B.S. in Neurobiology with a minor in Biochemistry, and you have literally helped me understand certain things better than some professors. It's all about being able to contemplate what's really going on and make it digestible-- not just regurgitating mainstream notions for the masses. You f**kin rock 🤙🏽

From what I'm learning so far It seems like You can literally merge Keto+Paleo Limit your dairy products (very very little) Limit your high glycemic/starchy fruits and veggies (very very little)

An excellent, practical video!

I have been very frustrated with my numbers after cutting out sugar, grains, and starches since February 2022. Just had my second quarterly doctor appointment after starting low-carb and my a1C increased for the second time, even though I have lost 30lbs, exercise daily and intermittently fast and also feel better than I have in years. I am trying to reverse my type 2 diabetes, but my doctor just wants to give me more medicine and says I should eat a low-fat diet. Not going to stop low-carb but just frustrated.

I definitely suggest Paleo 2.0 to anyone who asks. I was keto myself for several years but now trying to focus more on metabolic flexibility and aim for successful workouts at CrossFit. Seems to be all the talk in the nutrition-sphere too

California! More live, Thomas! I missed the live but enjoyed the video. Great content as always. Thanks!

Tunning in when i can !!

Its ironic how we consider paleo to be one sole menu diet despite it differs from a region, territory, continent to another !

Thank you Thomas you're very knowledgeable and I really appreciate all of your advice.

Thanks for what you do! 👍

I 100% agree with what you said about Longevity/paleo/ancestral diet. I just wanted to play a little devils advocate and point out that life expectancy of ancestors was probably 30-40 years max.

I love it when you start talking about the new research popping out about reducing blood sugar, as a diabetic, I emphasize keto, however I can add berries to my diet without problem. The potatoes and white bread blow my mind what you have talked about and reducing blood sugar, wow! Freezing, toasting microwaving... You have no idea how I'd enjoy potatoes again. White bread! While not necessarily keto, I just need to reduce my carbs enough to make my blood sugar happy. I'm not familiar with Paleo at all... 🤦 I'm so out of the loop... And, great advice about adding fiber in your videos. I think I'd really love a shake, for instance- that is very low carb, the ones I have seen just have too many, and my blood sugar does better on a low to no carb diet. While I know you're not necessarily the diabetic channel, you still have great advice for diabetics, and interesting research conclusions.

I do more Mediterranean diet, which is my ancestral diet being of arabic and spanish heritage.. l do alot of lamb and chicken, dates , yogurt and use our own home baked bread! So when paul salidino needs to be more apecific as to whose ancestors. Not all people evolved in the same regions.

Watching from Los Angeles California

Read the old ZoneDiet books, watch some old Dr. Barry Sears videos. It is based on Paleo principles (as far as macros anyway). Balance each meal with about 20-30grams of protein with about 1.25 that amount of complex carbs (in other words 1:1.25 protein to carbs). Make sure you get about 10-15 grams of both fat and fiber in each meal. Wear a Continuous Glucose Monitor if you can to see if this balances your blood sugar, reduce ratio of carb to protein if not. My ancestors are a lot of dairy, it agrees with me... 🤣

Good talk thanks Thomas.

Great conversation

Thanks Thomas,

Preach!! My thoughts exactly about understanding that we living in another world.. love your channel.

I miss the live chats.. I'm in the province of Ontario, too

I look at it like this if God made it eat it.... Your body is as organic as anything on this earth!!! Go natural and clean!!!

The point is, not whether we are still seasonal in our MODERN life, it's whether we should revert to season only as we did for 2 million years.

I started fasting because of the autophogy benefits. I'm not overweight. I thought it would clean up my cells?

Definitely more live chats! Love them.

Thanks, from Tampa!

Great content thomass delaur veer 🙏🏻🤝🏻

Yes more live streams!

Thanks Big T!

Here from Long Beach Cali!

Thanks Tom, great new format! Love it!!

Great talk!

I agree that paleo 2.0 is on it's way. I think that is good as far as a lot of smart people explain in a lot of detail why various practices are better than others it is wise to listen. I don't think we should use the phrase "follow the science" to regiment things. Science is actually a process that depends upon experimentation and questioning the existing "science" as it proves or improves the practices. We need to realize that science is a living process and evolves over time it is not forever fixed and rigid. Thomas, thank you for what you do. I don't think you are always right (no one is) but you have good informative content, you present it well, you are prolific as heck and I look forward, nearly everyday, to see what you have to say.

Bing cherries, best fruit for you!

I love longer videos. Thank you!!

Thank you! That was great! More live streams :)

Thomas you're my life changer ❤️

Good content my dude! Listened to it on my morning elliptical run at 4:30 am here in VA. I’m in the future while you’re snoozing haha.

You got to do more of these man. Atleast once a week

Whats your thoughts, on breaking fasts with Oats for example, flax and hemp seeds. Few walnuts, blue berries, and a Banana w pb. Real talk, I eat this 2+ times a week after fasting 14-16 hrs. Sometimes just a banana and a protein shake... Thoughts?

Interesting topic. Thanks for opening up this discussion.

Btw! Just finished another 48 hr fast and followed your advice on how to break a fast and feel so much better!! I piggy back by doing 16/8 starting after my 1 meal before 7pm, and...mmmmm ...I don't like it. Ugh, but Im going to try having my coffee black. I usually have biotrust mct8 in my coffee.. wish I wasn't so ocd...and could wait but I have coffee with my husband and Jesus every morning. OLD HABITS are hard to break. 🤣

This was some really excellent information. Thank you

Really enjoyed this one man, thank you