Q & A with Lee Selman: Beginning Paleo

Let's start at the beginning:  What brought you to eating Paleo/clean?

We had a friend move in with us in 2009 who had eaten Paleo since 2005. We thought we would give it a whirl just to make it easier on us all during dinners. 2 weeks in we felt amazing and were hooked. The three of us missed desserts.

There was nothing out there that was fresh and had no sugar or crap in it. Every package you picked up had a 6+ month shelf life on it. Hence Paleo Treats was born! 8 years later and we've never looked back.

I had a health scare in 2012 when the doctor found a tumor the size of a golf ball on my spine. It ended up being a Schwannoma which is a tumor of the myelin sheath covering peripheral nerves. I had a pretty intense surgery which needed my lung to be deflated to get to it, and I was in intensive care for a week.

Schwannomas are genetic, and they said I have 7 of them throughout my body. So, needless to say, I am pretty intense about my diet and super focused on limiting the inflammation in my body.

A huge piece of advice I can give is eat like you give a damn about your body, you don’t know what is brewing. I had NO symptoms and could have been in big trouble if the tumor went all malignant on me. Dr. Sara Gottfried says “Genetics loads the gun and the environment pulls the trigger.”

So I eat responsibly, with fresh low starch veggies and healthy meat, fish or fowl. I stay away from sugar for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or drink and all food is medicine to me. The only time I have dessert, is if I want one of our Paleo Treats at the end of the day. Lucky me. :)

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