Journal of Evolution and Health: A joint publication of the Ancestral Health Society and the Society for Evolutionary Medicine and Health

We present the scientific abstracts of the 5^th Annual Symposium of the German Society for Paleo Nutrition (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Paläoernährung) which took place on September 23^rd 2017 in Giessen, Germany.

Besides an overview on existing interventional studies on Paleolithic diets, a focus of this year´s symposium was on secondary plant metabolites: presence, standardization by phytoneering and the role of phytomedicine for prevention and treatment of cancer. Further topics were the role of vitamin-D and omega-3 fatty acids, as well as molecular anthropology and personalized nutrition.