The paleo diet is a diet that eliminates common food allergens from the diet. This is primarily about gluten-containing wheat and milk lactose and casein. In addition, legumes are prohibited - they are also capable of disrupting the intestines. The paleo diet means avoiding grains, bread, baked goods, dairy products - and even peanuts and soybeans (they belong to legumes). So what are the benefits of the paleo diet for the body - and what foods are you allowed to eat? The paleo diet is about giving up "modern" foods and switching to traditional foods. The name "paleo" refers to the Paleolithic period, which lasted 2.5 million years and ended 13 thousand BC. Essentially, this diet puts an attempt to eat like a caveman. The paleo diet is based on the fact that most of the food we are used to have appeared literally in the last hundred years. At the same time, scientific research confirms that a diet rich in refined carbohydrates disrupts the metabolism in general, and the brain in particular. 7 From a practical point of view, paleo is an effective diet for losing weight and maintaining stable body weight. Furthermore, since such a diet involves avoiding grains (wheat, rye, oats, rice), paleo can be an example of a carbohydrate-free keto diet. The advantage of the paleo diet is that it is suitable for nutrition in the presence of autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis. So often, it is the unsuitable food that becomes the cause of the exacerbation of such diseases. This is because the body reacts to it with a sharp reaction of the immune system. The paleo-autoimmune protocol, called AIP for short, introduces diet and lifestyle choices to optimize gastrointestinal function. Recall that the intestine is the main organ of the immune system. Unlike the regular paleo diet, there is a more restrictive list of allowed foods