Basically, a cooked-palaeolithic diet is fine for now if you are not suffering from ill-health in any real way or if you are still young. However, since levels of heat-created toxins derived from cooking, such as advanced glycation end products, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons etc. etc.  are heavily implicated in age-related illnesses such as Alzheimer`s, atherosclerosis etc. etc. it is a good idea to go rawpalaeo as one passes , say, 35, or so, IMO.

As for cooking, as regards palaeo foods, it in most cases, leads to the  lowering of nutrients to a great extent, other than the issue of heat-created toxins caused by cooking. Then there is the issue of the  healthy bacteria and enzymes destroyed by cooking. Broccoli is not really very palaeo and I doubt it was a staple in the Palaeolithic, even when cooked.

As for the when cooking was invented, despite the vague unproven opinions of 1 or 2 kooks like Wrangham, the overwhelming evidence shows that cooking as only invented c. 250,000 years ago in the Palaeolithic, which was only the very last 10 percent  of the Palaeolithic. Before that, hominids happily ate raw meat diets without issues just like wild animals.

You know your craft I'll give you that...

As far as raw goes, I do make a point to undercook my beef... but eating chicken raw just doesn't seem safe. Steaming vegetables seems to have more health benefits then eating them raw. Fruit and nuts I obviously eat raw.

I supplement with both probiotics and digestive enzymes so hopefully these help to displace those lost in the cooking process... or are you going to tell me that since paleo humans didnt have supplements we shouldnt either?

So because Broccoli wasn't a staple for paleo human beings you don't believe it should be for us?

Eating the TYPES of foods our paleolithic ancestors ate VS. ONLY and SPECIFICALLY eating what was eaten by them --- seems like the difference between a healthier way of eating and a fad diet

You are aware this is rawpalaeo, not a cooked-palaeo diet?

Anyway, welcome to the forum! Good to hear you are avoiding BB competitions as I have heard horror stories re forced dehydration in order to emphasise muscle-tone etc.

Ya I'm starting to figure that out as I surf through the forums lol

It's almost like a cult following here... talks of drinking blood and eating raw meat

While I won't argue that its a bad idea to eat that way, I still choose to cook my meat.
And then some vegis like Broccoli are healthier when cooked.

I have to imagine paleolithic human beings were intelligent enough to make fire and figure out how to cook their meat...?