First foods for baby: nutrient-dense and primal

Even before we had a baby I was interested in how ancestral nutrition influences fertility and fetal and child development. It struck me as crazy that, in accordance with conventional “nutrition” advice and mainstream marketing, babies are often fed things like rice cereal, cheerios and little cookie biscuit things as their first foods. (It says […]

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Paleo dog food: what’s best & what to avoid

thrive primal paleo dog food

As health-savvy humans, we have the ability to take our digestive wellness into our own hands. We can consciously think about what we eat, knowing the choices we make will affect not only our digestion, but our overall health. Unfortunately, your dog is not so lucky. As utterly loyal and trusting companions, they’ll eat almost […]

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Why you can’t be healthy without meat & animal products

thrive primal - meat and animal products - essential for health

The topic of this post is a controversial one, and is bound to get a few of our more “plant-inclined” readers a little riled up. But here at Thrive Primal, we strive to provide our audience with useful, possibly life-changing nutritional information, regardless of how indigestible (excuse the pun) that information might be. Humans evolved […]

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