Quantified self guru Seth Roberts recently attended the Ancestral Health Symposium. His take-away: The QS and Paleo health communities need each other. He basically argues that Paleo is not persuasive enough and that it desperately requires more data and experimentation to prove efficacy. At the same time, however, Roberts is excited by the prospect and makes the claim that Paleo “could change the world.” He says,

The Paleo people are really pretty brainy. I mean, they don’t particularly talk that way or show it off, but from a lot of the talks that I heard, I understood that there was a lot of smart thinking going on, and a lot of scholarship, and a lot of critical thinking where they don’t just accept something because somebody says it.

Check out Roberts’s talk at the Quantified Self Silicon Valley meetup at Stanford’s Calming Technologies lab.

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