The Joe Rogan Experience - #842 - Chris Kresser

Chris Kresser is a health detective specializing in investigative medicine, blogger, podcaster, teacher and a Paleo diet and lifestyle enthusiast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Duration: 2h 30m
Broadcast on: 04 Sep 2016
Audio Format: other

Chris Kresser is a health detective specializing in investigative medicine, blogger, podcaster, teacher and a Paleo diet and lifestyle enthusiast.

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- No, three, two, one. I always wondered what you base your countdown on, Jamie. You got two things going, is it an accurate countdown or are you just roughly guessing? - It's like a five count because we have a-- - This is delay. - Next is the thing and then the thing and the thing. - Okay, well we're live. Chris, what's up? - Good to be here. - Thanks for doing this, man. - My pleasure. - We were just talking about the term paleo. Like I put up that we're gonna talk about nutrition and diet and all that good stuff and then somebody went to your page and it says, you know, paleo and lifestyle expert. As soon as you have that word, paleo, people go, oh fuck. - Serious baggage, it's true. I mean, every day I think about, oh, I kind of wish I never would have used this word. - Yeah, well, Mark Sisson went with Primal. He uses that Primal blueprint. - Yeah. - You know, that's his sort of distinction of it. - I like that. I mean, they're both just words is what it really comes down to. - Yeah. - I thought about, I wrote a book that has the word paleo in it and I thought about it even before I published a book, I was thinking, you know, what I'm talking about is not really what people mean when they say paleo. It's a lot more inclusive and a lot less dogmatic and if I use this word, there's going to be pros and cons. - Yeah. - You know, the pro is people recognize it. It's one word that points at a whole way of thinking. I could have called it the nutrient dense ancestral, you know, nutrition book, but that's not too catchy. There are like five people that read it. And, but on the other hand, paleo has a ton of baggage, as you said. You know, people get a certain idea when they hear that word. And for some, it's good. For others, it's kind of neutral. They don't know anything about it.

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