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Very strange paper. It is titled "Biological and Clinical Potential of a Palaeolithic Diet" and draws this conclusion

Conclusions: Lean meat, fish, vegetables and fruit may be optimal, rather than a strictly vegetarian diet, in the prevention of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and insulin resistance.

Which is a conclusion that can be drawn without the paleo diet -- truly bizzare

AND it makes no conclusions about the usefulness of the diet for managing functional bowel disorders like IBS. And the study wasn't conclusive enough to make a statement any stronger than it maybe .... not is better than a vegetarian diet. And no comparison was made to a normal non-vegetarian diet.

The safest version of the paleo diet is the FODMAP version. Here is an example

Fructose malabsorption, FODMAPs and the Paleo diet

The National Health Service (NHS) in the UK calls it the
Cavemane Fad Diet

By the way - yeast is not a known IBS trigger. It is a notion fabricated by alternative medicine practitioners. It is dead when cooked and simply adds a tiny amount of protein. And the fructans - a high FODMAP ingredient - is a clinically proven IBS trigger for some people

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The FODMAP Approach to Managing IBS Symptoms
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The Role of Food & Dietary Intervention in IBS

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