My Story
Meet Paul
Saladino, MD
I left conventional medicine when I realized it was designed to manage disease, not cure it. This is the story of how I found my way back to health, and how I'm helping others do the same.
The Origin
Raised inside the system.
I had eczema and asthma before I could tie my shoes. My parents are both in medicine: Dad's a doctor, mom a nurse practitioner. Treatment started early. They had the best intentions. But nobody in medicine was asking the right questions about food.
The eczema came in flares, itchy red rashes that wept and needed steroid creams. The asthma kept me on daily inhalers. My mom cooked what the experts prescribed: whole grains, lean meats, low-fat everything. The food pyramid on a plate. I was predictably overmedicated. Nobody questioned the food. Not the doctors. Not the experts. Not my parents, who were doing exactly what they were told was right.
The Detour
I did everything right. Then I did the one thing nobody expected.
Good student. Studied hard, got good grades. Straight to William & Mary, summa cum laude in pre-med. On paper, the plan was working. Then I quit. I walked away and took six years off. Worked ski shops in Wyoming. Waited tables in Oregon. Lived out of a truck. Climbed in Colorado, New Zealand, and California. Hiked the Pacific Crest Trail. Plunged into snow-fed alpine lakes just to feel my body wake up.
I wasn't running from medicine. I was looking for something it wasn't teaching me: that the body is an animal in a landscape, not a set of symptoms in a chart. When I came back to medicine at 26, I came back with different questions. The kind the system isn't built to answer.
The Search
18 years inside the system.Zero hours of nutrition.
Undergrad · William & Mary
Graduated summa cum laude
PA School
Graduated with honors
Cardiology Physician Assistant
Medical School · University of Arizona
Graduated with honors
Residency · University of Washington
Undergrad · William & Mary
Graduated summa cum laude
PA School
Graduated with honors
Cardiology Physician Assistant
Medical School · University of Arizona
Graduated with honors
Residency · University of Washington
The Realization
I had every credential. I still didn't have an answer.
The Unanswered Question
“Why is this disease actually happening? What if food is part of the problem?”
For two decades, the answer was
- A shrug
- “Cause unknown”
- A prescription
The Patient, Too
I wasn't just the doctor. I was a patient too.
Every diet the experts recommended
- Raw veganism
- Paleo
- Keto
So I stopped asking the system.I started asking my body.
The moment everything changed
Food became my medicine.
Within 14 days, my eczema had vanished.
Before
A lifetime managing symptoms
What I Changed
Only meat, salt, and a bit of liver
After
My eczema had vanished
The Insight
Taking foods out was how I learned which ones to put back.
The point was never restriction. Strip the diet down to the fewest inputs, watch what your body does, then add foods back one at a time.
Remove
Take potential triggers out
Observe
See what changes
Reintroduce
Add foods back one at a time
Why elimination reveals it
Plants
Defense chemicals
Inflammation
Not everyone reacts — but for people like me, they were quietly fueling it.
Traditional cultures neutralized them
Ferment
Soak
Sprout
We've simply forgotten.
Elimination was never the destination. It was the map.
The Evolution
Healing didn't make my diet smaller.It made it bigger.
- 01
Honey first
I started with honey to heal my body.
- 02
Then fruit
Added fruit to nourish and rebuild.
- 03
Then raw dairy
Introduced raw dairy for deeper healing.
- 04
Checked my bloodwork
Watched the symptoms fade and labs improve.
My immune system found its strength.
The foods your body is fighting might be the ones it needs most.
You can stop fighting them.
When you eat what your body recognizes, you get your range back.
Your body still knows how.
The Mission
I've met hundreds of people who reversed what their doctors said was permanent.
Obesity
Depression
Anxiety
Ulcerative colitis
Diabetes
Infertility
PCOS
Often after being told point blank that diet had no relationship to their illness. That's why I do this. Not to sell a diet, but to help people who can't see a way out reclaim their birthright to vitality.
I've walked my own path of healing. Now let me help you on yours.
I'm rooting for you.
You can heal yourself with diet. Western medicine probably won't tell you that, but it's true. I've seen it thousands of times. Thanks for reading my story. Now start yours.
The Track Record
MD
University of Arizona
Residency
University of Washington
500+
Podcast episodes
403K+
Newsletter subscribers
6M+
Social followers
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The only brands I'll ever put my name on.
I co-founded both of these because I couldn't find them anywhere else. No sponsors, no paid endorsements. These are the only products you'll ever hear me talk about.
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Food the way nature intended. Animals raised on open pasture with practices that build soil and ecosystems.
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