IMO, this guy has food allergies( skin lesions when he eats red meat) and he's blaming it on low carb paleo eating.
So he goes from one extreme( no grain) to another( high grain) and he will gain weight now. Too bad moderation and being an experiment of one is not in his vocabulary.

He needs to figure out which animal proteins he doesn't have a problem with!! Not avoid all of them!!

Speaking of dogs, when they are Dx with IBD, it is considered a food allergy to common proteins. The Rx diet for these dogs is a (1)novel source of protein and a (1)carb, generally sweet potato. Many are highly allergic to beef protein and do well on fish, lamb, rabbit and now I've even seen kangaroo.

a meat centered diet is the road to pain

Only by having to listen to doom-mongers...

Just wait for him to sign onto some big money deal having to do with some high carb/grain company...

I agree with Nancy and Debbie, the symptoms he describes are the ones I get when eating grains though I can see how paleo would contradict what he learned from Traditional Chinese Medicine.

like any commercialized diet, paleo is no different but I found it counter intuitive to promote paleo "diet" instead of a paleo lifestyle. Eating meat and few plants only is not enough if you are spending a domesticated life living in a civilization and away from nature. Where I live malls are always packed up while parks and nature reserves are almost always empty and that's not going to help you get a life balance and force. There is a clear evidence that walking in nature and getting disconnected every day is essential for good hormonal balance and health. Lack of oxygen, stress from overstimulation, addiction and lack of human touch and sleep are all factors that over ride the any diet there is.

There is hardly any benefit to change a diet and not change a lifestyle because the body only cares about meeting its short term needs and it will take it from anything even if it's twinkies and sodas. Also there is a notion that the body will adjust to anything so one needs to put a bigger plan and plan B,C... in order to make desired changes. Changin one's diet would be too easy to fix all of life's problems. One needs to look at a bigger picture

Well I *never* go to malls (I hate to shop, and just the thought of going to a mall gives me the heebie-jeebies) and I go to parks and nature preserves quite frequently (birdwatching is a big hobby of mine). But I don't seem to be improving my hormonal balance or health in any way yet that I can tell.

Quit food and live on prana !

Just kidding

like Wiley Brooks?

I would have stopped the diet long before 14 years had passed if I was THAT against it.

I suspect he may be like a friend of mine who every so often thinks he's found THE answer to health (he's a fitness freak). When he finds the new answer, suddenly all the science he relied upon when following the old answer is invalid, all the arguments against it have gained credibility and he develops a confirmation bias for the new thing. These obsessions can last years - my friend was a vegan for 9 years (for health reasons not moral) - now thinks veganism is terrible.

Lee

Are you friends with my son?

I'm glad I don't have a blog. I'd probably make an ass of myself twice a week.

Unless your son lives in Watford. Though he won't listen about low carb and paleo - in starting to research it he came across Matt Stone - who I don't know a lot about - and this is his new thing. Before being vegan he was into ultra low fat.

Lee

Except for the Watford thing he could still be my son, who is a devoted follower of Matt Stone.