The Paleo Advantage: Using Paleo Diet & Functional Medicine Principles to Overcome Diseases of Modern Civilization

Today’s modern world has created a culture of poor diet and chronic disease. It is a great burden on our medical system, which is doomed to failure. The answer to avoiding or treating these diseases, such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease is through an Ancestral Diet such as Paleo. This book is the result of 20 years of meticulous research and diabetes education. Dr. Olivieri has complied an educational narrative, using Functional Medicine principles, to educate you in why we need to eat a Paleo Diet and how that interplays with our human DNA. You can’t fool Mother Nature for very long! Pharmaceuticals and following conventional medical advice will never maintain your health or help you to regain your health, once health problems have taken hold. The answer lies in how you live your life.

Dr. Chrystyne Olivieri is a Family Nurse Practitioner. She received her DNP (Doctor of Nursing Practice) from Stony Brook University. She has studied diabetes for over 30 years and currently practices in Endocrinology. She is also a full-time Graduate Nursing Professor at Long Island University, Brookville, NY. The subject of her doctorate project was “Using the Paleo Diet to Prevent Prediabetes Progression to Type 2 Diabetes in High Risk Individuals”. She is dedicated to Functional Medicine principles and teaches these very principles to the next generation of Nurse Practitioners in the classroom and in clinical settings.