{"id":42737,"date":"2019-02-12T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/?p=42737"},"modified":"2021-02-13T11:47:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T16:47:28","slug":"the-pegan-diet-what-it-is-and-what-to-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahealthysliceoflife.com\/the-pegan-diet-what-it-is-and-what-to-eat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pegan Diet: What it is and What to Eat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since January, I’ve made some major changes in the way I eat. I was not feeling poorly before, but when I had health issues come up and discovered I was estrogen dominant<\/a><\/strong>, I decided to jump in and try to make as many natural alterations to my diet and lifestyle as I could to help. While my diet had always been “healthy” (since there is no real definition for that, I’ll define it as low in processed foods and high in vegetable intake), I learned that for optimal hormone health, there were certainly changes I could make that appeared promising to be able to make a difference.<\/p>\n

Since my personal issues originate with insulin resistance, that’s where I started my research. My first googling led me to Mark Hyman.<\/p>\n

Who is Dr. Mark Hyman?<\/h2>\n

Mark Hyman is, among other things, the Director for the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine. Functional medicine is a form of alternative medicine which focuses on interactions between the environment and the gastrointestinal, endocrine, and immune systems. He has written several books, but the two that I checked out of the library immediately were The Blood Sugar Solution<\/a><\/strong> and Eat Fat, Get Thin<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In The Blood Sugar Solution he talks about preventing not just diabetes, but other diseases as well, with a focus on balanced insulin levels. Dr. Hyman describes the seven keys to achieving wellness-nutrition, hormones, inflammation, digestion, detoxification, energy metabolism, and a calm mind.<\/p>\n

In Eat Fat, Get Thin he elaborates more on those pillars, as well as what an optimum health diet looks like, which he calls the Pegan diet.<\/p>\n

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What is the Pegan diet?<\/h2>\n

A “Pegan diet” is a term originally coined by Mark Hyman in his 2014 blog, and described in his Eat Fat,Get Thin book. It is named because of it’s core attributes of combining the best parts of a paleo diet and the best parts of a vegan diet.<\/p>\n

The core takeaways of a Pegan diet are this:<\/p>\n