The paleolithic diet, as originally developed by Lauren Cordain and popularized by Rob Wolf, aimed to inform optimal human eating in 2021 based on ancestral eating patterns.

“now a paleolithic diet is a diet that begins to introduce this concept of a plant toxicity spectrum on a paleo diet developed by lauren cordain originally and then popularized by rob wolf i've done podcasts with both of them they're on my podcast which is fundamental health you can find that at heart and soil.com or apple podcast you're listening to it now but i've spoken to those guys in the past the original thinking came i think from boyd eaton who was a physician in 1985 an article written in the new england journal of medicine with this really important concept that the way that our ancestors have eaten informed by anthropology ethnography study of current hunter-gatherers and some degree of archaeology might give us some indication of how humans should best eat in 2021 to obtain optimal health”