Richard Nikoley > Quotes

“There is new research being conducted having to do with starving cancer cells through fasting. Cancer cells can only utilize glucose, and not glycogen or ketone bodies. Moreover, cancer cells are 20–30 times less efficient at glucose utilization than normal cells. Cancer cells are real sugar addicts.”
― Richard Nikoley, Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet (aka The Caveman Diet) V2 - NEWLY EXPANDED & UPDATED

“What this all means is that when you fast for more extended periods, your cells clean out and recycle your intracellular garbage.”
― Richard Nikoley, Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet (aka The Caveman Diet) V2 - NEWLY EXPANDED & UPDATED

“This book makes the case that an appropriate animal based diet is more nutritionally dense, and thus, healthier than any variants of vegetarianism, including the most extreme form: veganism.”
― Richard Nikoley, Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet (aka The Caveman Diet) V2 - NEWLY EXPANDED & UPDATED

“Stay away from grain-based products. All of them,”
― Richard Nikoley, Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet (aka The Caveman Diet) V2 - NEWLY EXPANDED & UPDATED

“Stay away from all vegetable/grain/seed oils, except olive, coconut, and red palm (no canola, sunflower, safflower, corn, etc). We simply didn't evolve eating polyunsaturated oils in concentration. It's essentially the same issue as with fruit juices. Would you sit down and eat two dozen oranges? Eating the whole fruit (or vegetable) has its own built in stop mechanism: the fibrous bulk fills us up before we overload on sugar.”
― Richard Nikoley, Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet (aka The Caveman Diet) V2 - NEWLY EXPANDED & UPDATED

“The Paleo way is, simply, to eat a wide variety of real, whole, plant and animal sources in whatever combinations and ratios work best for you, determined over time and a bit of self experimenting. And what to avoid is equally straightforward: eat no grains or legumes, concentrated sugar, vegetable / seed oils . . . and figure out dairy for yourself. Avoid all processed foods in boxes, bags and freezer section,, and minimize eating out at restaurants.”
― Richard Nikoley, Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet (aka The Caveman Diet) V2 - NEWLY EXPANDED & UPDATED

“The jury is still out on which is optimal or whether there’s a marked difference, but the history of evolution makes me suspect that the animal forms are what we evolved to eat. Humans are very poor at converting the plant form of vitamin K (K1) to the more active form (K2). But ruminant animals convert it very efficiently, so they eat the greens, produce K2, and we eat them.”
― Richard Nikoley, Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet (aka The Caveman Diet) V2 - NEWLY EXPANDED & UPDATED

“particularly when confined to a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO). It’s better for the environment. You don’t have to be an “environmentalist” to understand the absurdity of this scenario: plow under forests and prairies, habitat for creatures and critters of all sorts, in order to plant corn and soy to feed the cattle. Why not simply graze the cattle naturally on the grasslands and natural habitat that existed there in the first place?”
― Richard Nikoley, Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet (aka The Caveman Diet) V2 - NEWLY EXPANDED & UPDATED

“Notions of ethics—the right or wrong of things—must logically begin by asking, What kind of animal is the human being? What are we naturally meant to eat? Again, paleo-anthropology tells us that humans have always eaten meat. From Kleiber's Law—which demonstrates that the chief metabolic difference between humans and our primate ancestors is the tradeoff between brain and gut size—to archaeological digs with piles of scavenged bones, to isotope analysis of fossilized teeth: everything points to an evolution where the hunting and eating of nutritionally dense animals was key in human survival and its ultimate success in becoming a nutritional generalist. ”
― Richard Nikoley, Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet (aka The Caveman Diet) V2 - NEWLY EXPANDED & UPDATED

“The nutritional deficit from grains pushing out far more nutritious and bio-available foods, like meat, fish, veggies, and fruits is the prime reason why they ought to be avoided in any important quantity.”
― Richard Nikoley, Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet (aka The Caveman Diet) V2 - NEWLY EXPANDED & UPDATED

“meat gave us the nutritional density to evolve big brains, big brains gave us the intelligence to introspect, and conscious introspection gave us ethics. Eating meat made us ethical beings. Eating meat, therefore, cannot logically be unethical.”
― Richard Nikoley, Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet (aka The Caveman Diet) V2 - NEWLY EXPANDED & UPDATED

“Australian aboriginals have the lowest recorded average cholesterol in the world, combined with the highest incidence of death from heart disease. Conversely, the Swiss have the highest recorded average cholesterol in the world, combined with the lowest incidence of death from heart disease.”
― Richard Nikoley, Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet (aka The Caveman Diet) V2 - NEWLY EXPANDED & UPDATED

“Researchers now believe that a third of us are likely gluten intolerant/sensitive. That third of us (and I would suspect many more on some level) ‘react’ to gluten with a perceptible inflammatory response. Over time, those who are gluten intolerant can develop a dismal array of medical conditions: dermatitis, joint pain, reproductive problems, acid reflux and other digestive conditions, autoimmune disorders, and Celiac disease. And that still doesn’t mean that the rest of us aren’t experiencing some milder negative effect that simply doesn’t manifest itself so obviously.”
― Richard Nikoley, Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet (aka The Caveman Diet) V2 - NEWLY EXPANDED & UPDATED

“The association between high triglycerides and heart disease is very well established. Even the National Lipid Association, from which this study and statement originate, acknowledges an independent association with triglycerides: “…triglycerides are the third component of the lipid profile and are an independent and compounding risk factor for heart disease, the leading cause of death in the U.S. Studies have shown that the risk of developing heart disease doubles when triglyceride levels are above 200 mg/dL. When triglycerides are above 200 mg/dL and HDL cholesterol is below 40 mg/dL, a person is at four times the risk of developing heart disease.”
― Richard Nikoley, Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet (aka The Caveman Diet) V2 - NEWLY EXPANDED & UPDATED

“Most people eat modern processed food diets and never allow themselves to go hungry for any appreciable amount of time.”
― Richard Nikoley, Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet (aka The Caveman Diet) V2 - NEWLY EXPANDED & UPDATED

“The American Dietetic Association is sponsored by Aramark, Coca-Cola, Hershey, National Dairy Council, Abbott, CoroWise, General Mills, Kellogg’s, Mars, Pepsico, Unilever, Soyjoy . . . you get the idea. The American Diabetes Association’s list of sponsors is essentially the same, with the big drug companies thrown in.”
― Richard Nikoley, Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet (aka The Caveman Diet) V2 - NEWLY EXPANDED & UPDATED

“There were other differences between indigenous societies and modernized ones. Price found that indigenous peoples enjoyed generally high nutritional density and profound ancestral wisdom.”
― Richard Nikoley, Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet (aka The Caveman Diet) V2 - NEWLY EXPANDED & UPDATED

“The skeletal remains of primitive hunter-gatherers are larger in stature, with healthier, straighter teeth and wider dental bridges (no braces!) when compared to those of ancient agricultural populations, or even modern humans.”
― Richard Nikoley, Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet (aka The Caveman Diet) V2 - NEWLY EXPANDED & UPDATED

“People I haven't seen in a while often comment on all the weight I've lost. I love telling them my secret: first and foremost, I eat lots of fat. Saturated fat, such as lard, butter, coconut oil, ghee, red palm oil, and olive oil.”
― Richard Nikoley, Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet (aka The Caveman Diet) V2 - NEWLY EXPANDED & UPDATED

“You've got to burn through your own fat to lose fat, so it stands to reason that a diet that both satisfies your hunger and  keeps insulin levels normal so your fat stores can more easily be released is the best strategy you can implement. You're not hungry—or as hungry—because you're getting the energy from your own fat.”
― Richard Nikoley, Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet (aka The Caveman Diet) V2 - NEWLY EXPANDED & UPDATED

“I encourage the preference for grassfed and pastured animal products for these reasons: It’s healthier. Most also find it tastier when cooked properly. It’s more natural. Cattle, for example, are not evolved to eat corn, barley or soy. They eat grass. Feeding them grains causes digestion issues in the rumen that then must be combated with antibiotics. It’s not a stretch to view this practice as inhumane for the animals,”
― Richard Nikoley, Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet (aka The Caveman Diet) V2 - NEWLY EXPANDED & UPDATED

“The whole weight loss industry is run like a religion. It operates by making you feel guilty for your own nature. And when you feel guilty, you are susceptible to all manner of suggestion—like purchasing ineffective products and services, and punishing yourself with boring diets and hunger-inducing workouts.”
― Richard Nikoley, Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet (aka The Caveman Diet) V2 - NEWLY EXPANDED & UPDATED

“there is the equally silly notion of “what do I eat to cleanse?” In fact, fasting is the only valid cleansing mechanism.”
― Richard Nikoley, Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet (aka The Caveman Diet) V2 - NEWLY EXPANDED & UPDATED

“I think people should be aware of the adverse health effects of eating processed food composed of grains, refined sugar, and vegetable/seed oils, and equally aware of the fact that there's a different way to eat that can prevent and even cure the diseases of civilization.”
― Richard Nikoley, Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet (aka The Caveman Diet) V2 - NEWLY EXPANDED & UPDATED

“Think of it this way: we’re rock and tissue. K2 helps calcium and other minerals to go everyplace they should (bones and teeth), and no place they shouldn't (arteries).”
― Richard Nikoley, Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet (aka The Caveman Diet) V2 - NEWLY EXPANDED & UPDATED

“What's ideal? Who's to say? Your only task is to find what's ideal for you, and the options are open-ended.”
― Richard Nikoley, Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet (aka The Caveman Diet) V2 - NEWLY EXPANDED & UPDATED

“Over hundreds of thousands of years of evolution, it’s only in the last 10,000 years that some people have had the opportunity to never be truly hungry. Wild animals, including wild humans, didn't have pantries and refrigerators, or local supermarkets and restaurants. They had to hunt, gather and prepare their food, and they also had to think and plan for times when food would be scarce. Sometimes they failed.”
― Richard Nikoley, Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet (aka The Caveman Diet) V2 - NEWLY EXPANDED & UPDATED

“The ADAs say butter is bad? Then food manufacturers give you margarine for decades. But then . . . oops! Margarine contains trans fats, which are now universally recognized as poison. Alright, so they created a whole new line of synthetic "spreads" based on vegetable oils—formerly used as industrial machinery lubricants—extracted by heat and petroleum solvents that have to be deodorized to eat (mouth watering, isn’t it?).”
― Richard Nikoley, Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet (aka The Caveman Diet) V2 - NEWLY EXPANDED & UPDATED

“Price found what I consider to be three very important things: almost no dental cavities (about 1 tooth in 1,000 vs. 1 in 3 in the modern world), wide dental bridges (no need for "braces"), and near effortless childbirth (wide birth canals in females).”
― Richard Nikoley, Free The Animal: Lose Weight & Fat With The Paleo Diet (aka The Caveman Diet) V2 - NEWLY EXPANDED & UPDATED