In one of my recent books Eat to Get Younger we discuss the research surrounding coffee. There is much debate about the potential health benefits of drinking coffee. While there is clearly scientific research to suggest that coffee can be beneficial when it’s well tolerated, for many people coffee unfortunately is not always tolerated. From a paleo perspective it is clearly not a traditional food. Coffee is likely to have only been around for the past 10,000 years or even less and therefore we do not have a long history of being adapted it.

It may be a staple in the Western diet but gluten can cause serious health complications for many people. The most serious immune reaction to gluten, coeliac disease, affects one in 100 people, most of who don’t know they have it. As a coeliac myself and a specialist in digestive health and autoimmune conditions, I … Read more