AHS12 wrap-up posts
- Stephan Guyenet’s Ancestral Health Symposium 2012
- Emily Dean’s AHS12 as a Practicing Clinical Physician and Ancestral Health Symposium 2012 — The People Post
- Chris Kresser’s Take Home Messages from AHS 2012 and Live From AHS12 (podcast)
- Lindsay Starke’s Where Do We Come From? Where Are We Going? The Ancestral Health Symposium 2012 (on BoingBoing!)
- Robb Wolf’s Ancestral Health Symposium 2012 review (podcast)
- Ned Kock’s Ancestral Health Symposium 2012: Evolutionarily sound diets and lifestyles may revolutionize health care
- Beth@WeightMaven’s My #AHS12 highlights
- Jimmy Moore’s Recollections On #AHS12 Paleo Conference At Harvard
- Peter Attia’s Update on the Ancestral Health Symposium and NuSI
- Matt Metzgar’s Back from AHS12 part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4 and part 5.
- Adele Hite’s AHS 2012 and the BIG BUTT: Lessons in Nutritional Literacy
- Alec Henderson’s Ancestral Health Symposium 2012: At a Glance and Citizen Scientist REPORT: Ancestral Health Symposium Edition
- Paleo Pioneer’s What is the Ancestral Health Symposium (AHS) and why should you know about it? and Top 5 Takeaways from AHS12
- Ancestralize Me’s #AHS12 Recap
- Yelling Stop’s Thoughts on the Ancestral Health Symposium 2012
- Prana PT’s #AHS12
- Amber Lee Duke’s AHS12
- The Healthy Cow’s AHS 2012 Part 1: Safe Starches and LDL-C vs. LDL-P, AHS 2012 Part 2: Mark and Robb, Gut Health and Obesity, and Lustig Talks Sugar. Again. and AHS 2012 Part 3: Nutritionism, Denise Minger on Organ Meats, and Terry Wahls’ MS.
- Paleo at Penn’s AHS: Day 1, AHS: Day 2, AHS: Day 3
- Primal Balance’s Paleo Summer Camp: Goodbye AHS12
- Pretty Good Paleo’s Ancestral Health Symposium 2012
- UltraGrassFed’s #AHS12 – Day 1 recap, Day 2 recap, and #AHS12 – Day 3 recap
- Jenice Johnson’s Ancestral Health Symposium:
The good, the bad and what was missing (Tanka Bar) - SCDLifestyle’s A Toast to AHS12, Tequila & Friends
- Abel James’ Highlights from the Ancestral Health Symposium 2012
- Caveman Doctor’s Podcast 14: AHS Takeaways and Keith Norris Interview
- Swiss Paleo’s Paleo Lovefest, Brainy Style
- Ann Topalian’s 2012 Ancestral Health Symposium
- Dominic Munnelly’s Ancestral Health
- Frank Forencich’s Man does not live by food alone
- Primitive Movement’s AHS 2012 — Recap
- Anastasia Boulais’ (aka primalmeded) As if you need another AHS wrap up post…
- Tony Federico’s 11 Awesome Things About AHS ’12
- Jamie Scott’s AHS12 – An idiot abroad part one
- Paleo by Diana’s AHS12
- Primarily Paleo’s Reflections from the Ancestral Health Symposium 2012
- Paleo Living’s AHS 2012 Recap
AHS12 presentations
- Paul Jaminet’s New Technologies, New Opportunities and AHS 2012: The Safe Starches Panel
- Mike Mew’s Modern Melting Faces (YouTube)
- Todd Becker’s Hormesis: A New Lens for Understanding Health and Improving Resilience
- Ann Wendel’s The Effect of Ancestral Nutrition on Type 1 Diabetes
- J. Stanton’s “What Is Hunger, and Why Are We Hungry?” bibliography
- David Pendergrass’ Paleo Nutrition and the Brain
AHS12 photo albums
- Tess McEnulty-Falor
- Bobby Gill: day 1, day 2, day 3
- Ditch the Wheat’s Ancestral Health Symposium 2012

Weight Maven is written by Beth Mazur. Beth believes that obesity is more symptom than cause and that the real problem is our Western diet -- especially sugar, refined grains, and industrial oils. Beth writes about nutrition, ancestral health & food policy. And cats! 

I haven’t read all of the wrap-up posts. I found the following statements in The Healthy Cow’s wrap-up to be interesting:
“a major distinction between visceral fat and subcutaneous fat (visceral being the fat gained within the abdominal cavity, and subcutaneous fat being fat located under the skin). There’s a big difference. A person with more visceral fat will be at much higher risk for metabolic abnormalities and chronic disease, while someone with mostly subcutaneous fat is likely to be metabolically healthy, regardless of the fact that they’re obese.”-Subcutaneous fat could support the position of Health at Every Size. advocates. I previously posted that certain members of the Fierce Fatties group say that they are healthy (for example, blood pressure, cholesterol levels); perhaps they have subcutaneous fat. The rub (if I may use one of your expressions, Beth) is how does a person know the type of fat he/she has.
“according to Stephan (Guayanet), and I suspected this to be true, probiotics don’t significantly change your gut bacteria, and they don’t really have any effect at all. Most of the bacteria get killed on the way to the large intestine, and the few that are left just don’t make a dent in the billions of bacteria that are already there.”-Yikes! So should I stop taking a probiotics supplement?
About Dr Robert Lustig: “He discussed the danger of fructose overconsumption, per the usual, but one thing he stressed this time was that fructose is only toxic if it is consumed in the context of a hypercaloric diet. Translation: if you’re in caloric balance, or caloric deficit, fructose doesn’t exhibit the same dangerous effects on insulin sensitivity, weight gain, etc. Only if you are overconsuming calories will it exhibit these toxic effects.”-This concept is completely new to me. What do you think, Beth?
Thank you for posting the reports.
Thank you for this list!!
Thank you for this list..especially for including my post on it! I’m looking forward to reading everybody else’s recaps.
Beth, I wish we had gotten a chance to chat at AHS! Maybe next year or at PaleoFX? Thanks for compiling this list and especially for including my post :)
Thanks Tony … hope to meet you at the next paleo-fest!
Commentary: Someone says the politically correct words re: missing meeting you at the thing, and someone else writes a few thought-provoking paragraphs about content, and you only respond to the PCer
What’s the point of opening up comments if they are cherry picked? ALL blogs considered!
Comments aren’t cherry picked. My apologies if my responses (or lack thereof) don’t meet with your approval. Maybe it’ll get me on Paleo Drama!
I’m headed there next! But seriously, it’s the on-going thank yous and great meeting yous and I missed yous and I can’t get enough of yous, all left over from the one big even in all these folks’ lives. Geez. Now, answer someone else and ignore me for chrissakes!
Will do ;).