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Sometimes Foods: Eat in Moderation

As he saw it, the people of the Mediterranean built their diets around plant foods and seafood—vegetables, legumes, fish, olive oil, grains, and nuts.

There is chronic stress—the kind that comes from a bad job, sour relationship, prolonged financial hardship, or even what my friend fitness author and mega-athlete Mark Sisson calls “chronic cardio” (discussed momentarily). This kind of stress accelerates entropy and decay. It leads to prolonged elevation of the hormone cortisol, which can rob our

modern longevity is often undesirably inflated by things that keep us alive but do not improve quality of life: hospital machinery, pharmaceuticals, and the ability to reel in the years doing little more than putting spoon to mouth and thumb to remote control.

Dom will both drink fat between meals (e.g., coconut milk—not water—in coffee) and add in supplemental “ice cream,” detailed on page 29

when high-heat cooking methods are used.

macadamia nuts earning special distinction above other nuts and seeds due to their favorable fatty acid profile.

Create each meal around your protein source.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health. —HIPPOCRATES