The Ancestral Human Diet | Peter Ungar | TEDxDicksonStreet

[@Damudean]

What we can eat and what we are made to eat to flourish are two different things.

[@supremegroove7531]

This is why I check the comments before I watch the whole video

[@michizoey7422]

A healthy ancestral diet to me is overall defined simply by the lack of processing of a food (in its natural state devoid of chemicals and additives, ie real food). Grains may well have been eaten millions of years ago but they're a world apart from the processed grains and flours of today, so probably not a good idea. With meat products - if animals are fed a poor diet, not good; wild game and fish would be much better. Even the fruit of today is probably so much sweeter and obviously plentiful during all seasons so should probably eaten in moderation. Are nuts good? Yeah, but you shouldn't be eating handfuls and snacking on them all day long because back then you'd have to crack each nut individually, in otherwords don't overeat them! I also believe in intermittent fasting which I think our ancient ancestors would naturally have had to do.

[@andersarnkilde3372]

No unnatural food processing ?! Yes! of course! How many people on the planet did you think should survive on that diet ?! Last year, 2020, we were 7.8 billion people. A little many who have to live on naturally occurring nuts and fruits, don't you think ?!

[@naturesown1807]

@@andersarnkilde3372 You're saying it as if we would run out of food when that couldn't be further away from the truth given that the food is natural and grows without human interference. To say that is to imply that we aren't meant to be here at all.

[@dnw009]

I don't think there is a easy solution here to what works best and what food we should prioritise for our own health. We are facing a severe lack of proper study in this region to make any wise decisions. In part because of outside interference be it food industry or other people interfering with studies. It is also really difficult to determine what works for any given human and the fact our bodies can react wildly different depending from person to person. And naturally with any diet the only answer we can get from it is does this sustain me and my healthy body weight with no clue to what else it could be doing to our bodies internally. Particularly on the topic of gut bacteria which are very important for us since our food plays a major role in determining what bacteria will inhabit there. They help digest food and play an important role in our well-being. Since research suggests our gut bacteria are tied to our probability of things like diabetes, obesity, depression, and colon cancer. All of these things combined lead me to believe that we don't know enough and likely won't know enough any time soon to have a satisfied answer to what would work the best.

[@DerScheisse]

*_Solid Logic_*

[@boggybog]

Why do animals in captivity massively out live those in wild. Like dramatically so.

[@redbaron1139]

Very good I think he is right we evolved to eat diverse food depending on the availability but they were all natural seasonal foods obviously. the difference is today we are increasingly eating foods with ingredients which are not natural. Be that highly processed , chemicalised, gmo. antibiotic laced, irradiated, etc. I think this is the side we should be looking hard at in relation to health.

[@PV-free123world]

Not to mention processed seed oils which are byproducts of manufacturing marketed to us as "healthy" alternatives to natural fats.

[@pampelmouse]

​@@PV-free123worldIm always confused by people talking about how terrible seed oil is, i wonder if this is an American problem, where i am i can get sunflower or rapeseed oil and things like tallow are expensive, all fats are bad in large quantities and animal fats are slightly worse but all are ok in moderation

[@carnivoreRon]

When I switched to a carnivore way of eating, my autoimmune symptoms vanished after 3 years. I eat as low carb as possible. I work out crossfit 4-5 days a week. My CAC score last year was 32. I'm not obese. Don't have heart disease. I don't have type 2 diabetes. I'll never eat vegan or a plant based way of eating because it would destroy my health.

[@AngrySwimmingCat]

One size doesn’t fit all but good try

[@juns597]

Which autoimmunie system did you have? Just curious.

[@juns597]

Is that like a high-protein diet (less sugar, less carbs)?

[@corpsefoot758]

What’s funny is there are people with your exact opposite experience too So I think the answer is to figure out which diet matches your ancestral genotype, and follow those only

[@corpsefoot758]

@Nicholas Ayers Animals take countless of each others’ lives, so what exactly is the difference here lmao

[@thepotterwitch]

I come away from this talk with the conclusion that Peter Ungar was trying to convey was that with the differing environment and availabilities of food over our evolution there is no one set of foods that we ate regularly. Looking at the teeth as a guide to what each specimen that passed his desk was eating, his findings were not that we evolved to eat an exact diet. It was that what we were eating evolved as we did. He can tell you what a particular specimen that he has studied ate, but he is saying that man is still evolving and what we eat is varied because we are so versatile, it's not the definitive list of foods we have evolved to eat.

[@Anna-tc6rz]

Exactly. If your family history lived in certain areas like say alaska then you didn't have access to fruit and vegetables really so you mostly ate meat. I think if people are wanting to look into diets thinking theirs is causing issues they should do an ancestory test and try mimicking diets from that area in terms of "well they didnt have this food commonly" so you try and cut that one out and work from there.

[@reaux3921]

*humans

[@clintdeckert211]

JUST BECAUSE WE can DOESN’T MEAN WE should. The real question is; WHATS OPTIMAL?

[@fitnessgripperFG]

Animal food and fruits are the best for the human body. End of discussion.

[@melissabrock4114]

@@fitnessgripperFG no, not end of discussion. Nutritional scientists still have their hands full for a reason. Saying "end of discussion" is nothing short of anti-science

[@angeloarcenas5947]

In developing countries people are more concerned with what’s available.

[@Avi00124]

@@melissabrock4114science is wrong time and again, as with the vaccines

[@vernaxxx8940]

The diet of Australian aborigines pre-European settlement has been documented. It was omnivorous, with the exact composition depending on location. There was a "subsistence" component based on what the women could gather, including nuts, seeds, tubers, and seasonal fruit, plus a irregular contribution from the hunters ie lean meat or fish. Unfortunately the descendants of these hunter/gatherers have suffered badly from a transition to the western, agriculture-based diet.

[@tembofly]

He said it (though not intentionally)... our human ancestors ate meat, and lots of it. Australopithecus sites are laden with stone tools and animal bones bearing cut marks. That is not the case with their contemporary, Paranthropus. Regarding that fork in the evolution, one lead to carnivory, and the other to herbivory, as dominate foods. There are no stone tools associated with Paranthropus, but tools and animal bones are abundant with Australopithecine sites. I think it odd he missed such an important point. If our ancestors were so opportunistic, why the split? Our ancestors went for meat. That was the core reason for the split.

[@ColinStuckert]

This is a legit youtube comment. Kudos

[@MarmaladeINFP]

He "missed such an important point" because it didn't fit his ideologically-driven predetermined conclusion. He thought he was being clever by dismissing everyone making specific dietary claims by asserting humans ate everything. But just because humans are able to eat almost anything doesn't really tell us much about what early humans actually ate most of the time.

[@dimetriwatt7334]

@@MarmaladeINFP So basically we eat mainly meat? Just wanted to clear the air and ensure I'm following.

[@TheShree909]

Our human an estors are planta, nuts for the most part followedby meat.

[@tembofly]

@@TheShree909 1. mostly nuts? Like what species of nuts? You go find nuts in nature. And to be 'mostly' means they'd have to available year-round. That cannot be, as nuts are seasonal. What tribal or people on earth NOW eat mostly nuts? That's nonsense talk. 2. Humans lost the ability to synthesize vitamin B12 because our diets supplied it, so we don't need to spend physiological resources to make B12. Human evolution fixed the waste issue, and it could do it because on the consistency of meat in our diet.

[@frankiefernandez5252]

Your DNA or ancestry seems to play a vital role in the diet you should eat for optimum health. If your DNA is more Equatorial or from warmer climates, then you're probably better off eating more vegetables and fruits in your diet, but if your ancestors are from a Northern, colder climate, then more meats would probably be healthier for you. This theory is known as the "ancestorial appropriate diet." (Hat tip to Dr. Berry).

[@alienheadgains1977]

The Maasai people live directly on and along the equator and meat is the only thing they consume. They don't eat plants at all. Whether your ancestors lived in hot climates or cold ones, the thing that nearly all ancient cultures have in common is that they ate tons of meat.

[@frankiefernandez5252]

@@alienheadgains1977 True...meat was abundant. Don't tell that to the PETA vegans.

[@alexisgateau-begin2082]

So if I'm mixed race, I can eat whatever I want? 😂

[@casper5563]

@@alienheadgains1977 the Maasai warriors only ate meat, blood & milk but they also used plants for herbal teas & spices. The rest of the tribe ate all kinds of plants & tubers, they Even traded some grains with neighboring tribes..

[@GenXmom5]

Makes sense!

[@ginabe091]

Thank you, Dr. Ungar, for this excellent presentation!! It was indeed very meaningful to me and I have learned a lot from it.

[@saxmanzzz]

A very useful talk. It's clear that humans can, and do, eat virtually anything edible and digestible.

[@PV-free123world]

True, but it doesn't mean what is available is optimal for health.

[@naturesown1807]

Not everything is edible and digestible, that's the problem.

[@stanhry]

A broad diet even before cooking, preparation ,and storage techniques where invented. After all that was invented it is even broader. Grandma’s wisdom of eat a little of a lot of things , moderation, still holds up.

[@suzannejenkins3533]

@@stanhry no, it really doesn’t. Eating constantly throughout the day just means your body is constantly producing insulin. Bad news. And everything in moderation is the biggest con going. Saying to people you can eat everything, sugar, grains, vegetable oils, whatever you want because it tastes good, is like a parent who can’t say no to a child. Do not eat this rubbish. It is causing disease. Walk down any street and see the results of the everything in moderation message. It doesn’t work.

[@egg399.]

Fibre isn’t digestible

[@johnrubbish9229]

Human tend to see just what they aim to so, depending on which trend diet do we enter, we would look for positive information about it. That's one of the reasons for which so many people have such contradictory opinions. I have tried many of them, even being already healthy and fit, and I haven't faced dramatic differences to get to a conclusion. I'm still healthy and fit while eating variable (almost avoiding processed food) and doing regular and no suffering exercise.

[@MarmaladeINFP]

Ungar entirely overlooks nutrition. We know that the nutrient content of food has severely decreased over time, including over the past century. The nutrient intake of parents and grandparents, on average, is higher than it is now for the younger generation. Weston A. Price long ago, through analysis of foods, determined that it was nutrient content that was the major contribution to jaw development. It obviously wasn't about chewing tough foods because many of the health populations with well-developed jaws did not have a habit of chewing tough foods. The main factor that changed over time when a modern diet was introduced was nutrition. By the way, Price first came to his observations in his dental practice in the US. he started his career in the late 1800s and by the early 1900s saw a dramatic change. what was beginning to alter the nutrient content of food was soil depletion, grain-fed animals, etc. It wasn't only jaw development that was effected for he also noticed the same pattern in bone development and neurocognitive development. There is no plausible way the change in chewing practices could have had such wide-ranging impact.

[@igorsoares4594]

Lack of what dr. Price called the activator x, known today as Vitamin K2..Not only can changes be observed in jaw and teeth structures, but in bone structure as a whole.

[@MarmaladeINFP]

Exactly! If it was only about a lack of chewing tough foods that was the cause behind lesser jaw development, we wouldn't expect a correlated change in bone development in general. But that is exactly what has happened. Ungar's explanation makes no sense, even from a brief perusal of the evidence.

[@wodzefag8062]

yes very true, good comment. versatility is one thing, but nutrients dense "real-foods" is another.

[@Badboyifier]

@Salsa™️✔️ maybe thats a good enough reason to join those who fight against it

[@Sobchak2]

I am afraid you understood very little of this talk

[@hispacacciato3514]

He is not mentioning the seasonal matter tho. And that animals always eat meat whenever possible. Chimps and many other primates don't even wait for the perfect timing but they also actively hunt.

[@peggycearnach8034]

Hello Peter, I’m thinking that you could actually test the bones to see what they actually ate. Oh wait - they did. Apparently it was found that early humans ate mostly meat, preferentially so whenever it was available to them. They would eat anything rather than starve naturally. Human brains have suffered shrinkage due to the recent agricultural revolution circa 10,000 years ago.

[@geraldj.joseph7813]

Because you find a few grains in teeth does not mean man - was eating grains in the Paleolithic era - man may have simple been staving and forced to eat grains. A Paleolithic diet is not about grass fed meat and Paleolithic man was not consuming dairy - He consumed mostly a plant based diet and animal, fowl and fish protiens when he could find (catch) them. The key to mans health in the Paleolithic era was he walked distance every day and consumed a variety of whole foods. Today our foods are minerals deprived, we no longer eat plants and we do not walk daily - this leads to disease.

[@utah133]

Grains are a very recent addition during our evolution. They require agriculture. They are unnatural in many ways.

[@renatolopes2019]

In that era they probably have eaten grains too. But very few amount. They were gatherers. They weren't doing agriculture. They weren't producing bread, pasta, pizzas... They just have eaten what they find, it could be one, two, five grain of wheat, rice, corn... etc. Very very few amounts. That is it.

[@renatolopes2019]

@@utah133 The point is the amount. You could find grains in nature, but in very few quantities. Five grain of wheat. Could be stored in your teeth for 2 million years. But our diet was definitely not based only on it, as it is today.

[@piricsiremus2405]

@@renatolopes2019 Grains have been a part of peoples diets long before the industrial revolution it's just that thay were eating whole unprocessed stuff , mayans ate grains all the time quinoa is part of their main dshes ,what they didn't have was sugar .Being on a mostly meat diet even though on paper looks the best from a nutritional standpoint is just unrealistic.Most people didn't have the resources to eat mostly meat anywhere in history we are oportunistic animals we eat what we can find to survive ,i believe that meat would be the first option for most people but that just wasn't around allways hunting is not easy an task and you're not allways sure you're gonna catch something or that it will be enough to satisfy your entire tribe hence the supplementation with different types of foods.

[@VeroPrezoh]

@@utah133 the grains and beans they ate were not necessarily due to agriculture. They harvested different types of grains and beans found in the wild. They were just not the same kinds of grains / beans that we now grow and consume today. Same goes for meat. We didn't eat cows, chickens and pigs either until later on when agriculture was part of our way of life. Most of the food we eat today were not found in the the wild. Most fruits and vegetables found in grocery stores were non existent before we started breeding them selectively over a long period of time.

[@joyfullittlethings9448]

Interesting talk. For me, I think a healthy diet is moderate of every thing. You can eat junk food but not too much of portion at one time or for a long period of time. Our body is a super machine, give it a few jobs at a time, remember to reward it and don’t push it too far.

[@andersarnkilde3372]

You're quite right. The problem is that he talked about our ancestors many many thousands of years ago and they did not have the opportunity to buy varied diets in supermarkets.

[@Anna-tc6rz]

If theres one thing I can say I think is 100% poision it's sugar. Before modern technology fruits high in natural sugars couldn't be had year round in the vast majority of places so we didn't have issues like diabetes. I think if people are wanting to look into diets thinking theirs is causing issues they should do an ancestory test and try mimicking diets from that area in terms of "well they didnt have this food commonly" so you try and cut that one out and work from there. If your family history lived in certain areas like say alaska then you didn't have access to fruit and vegetables really so you mostly ate meat. Just make sure you talk to your dr especially if you're doing an extreme one so you can be monitored!

[@TheDeathOfLucifer]

I believe in an all meat diet honestly. BUT, I dont think it's the only good diet and it's not for everyone. But even sugars in fruits are not that bad cause a lot of the sugar gets flushed by the fiber. But yeah definitely all sugars in moderation

[@bperez8656]

Fruits and vegetables should be eaten in abundance in the summer months and drastically reduced and replaced with whole grains and meats in the winter. I agree !!

[@PV-free123world]

@@bperez8656 Scrap the grains and just eat meat :)

[@MarmaladeINFP]

Wild fruit rarely has as high of sugar content as fruit bought in a grocery store. And wild fruit tends to be very small. For the most part, sugar in the past human diet was an occasional treat and even then typically only was found in small amounts. The modern high-carb diet is a total health disaster.

[@PV-free123world]

@@MarmaladeINFP I couldn't have said it better myself!

[@purity4all]

Gluten- While it's true that there is nothing unnatural about gluten, we have never eaten as much gluten as we do now. Glutenous foods are not only much more readily available and easily accessible , and therefore used much more frequently and in greater quantity than it once was, but as farming has changed the make up of our foods through the years, to make it hardier , and more abundant, the amount of gluten in a particular plant has increased, this is especially true with wheat .( our most common source of gluten).

[@snake1625b]

Yup, it's no coincidence that many people (even non celiacs) are experiencing digestion issues with today's wheat based products.

[@adamdebesai]

I read in a book that before farming was discovered, our ancestors were eating wild grains but it accounted for a small fraction of their diet. Maybe we’re not fully adapted to a diet dominated by grains.

[@corpsefoot758]

@@adamdebesai That seems to be a growing consensus now Our diets changed much faster than our bodies’ ability to adjust to them

[@roberthall8473]

Surely it depends on your ancestry as to which diet suits you, predominantly carnivore, grain based or vegetarian. I know from personal experience I crave carbs but feel better and loose weight if I reduce or eradicate them. I’m sure other people will experience the opposite.

[@lspthrattan]

BTW Sarah Palin totally plagiarized that "why did He make them out of meat?" line. It was years old long before anybody outside of Alaska ever heard of her.

[@davidthomas967]

I’ve had eczema on my arms, legs and chest for the last 5 years. 3 months ago I started only to eat beef, eggs and only drink water, my eczema has virtually vanished. I don’t need any so-called expert to tell me what works.

[@yujia2667]

this is great! anthropology is actually quite interesting sometimes.

[@sergeyzerkin8029]

And sometimes it’s not ?

[@melissabrock4114]

*always

[@kamal030801]

Human is the most adapted being on earth. So its food should be versatile. Somebody advocates only and exclusively plant based diets. But think about places on earth where plant foods are not abundant, what will they eat? I'm not an expert but logically I think eating natural food but not overeating, optimum physical activity and praising God can make us healthy and happy.

[@naturesown1807]

What places are plant foods not abundant that humans are native to?

[@kamal030801]

@@naturesown1807 'Beduins' in the middle of the desert, where milk and meat are the main food for many days, for 'Eskimos' in the arctic areas where fish is the major source of protein. Besides there are many places on the earth where domestic animal products and/or aquatic animals are major source of food. In those places only plant foods are not sufficient for proper nutrition.

[@AeonAxisProductions]

Literally did not have to be a whole speech, I already knew that our diverse diet is one of the main reasons we spread so wide so fast

[@utah133]

My ancestors ate meat, so I do. Not a lot, but enough. I'm diabetic but controlled. Wheat and sugars are poison to me. I eat no grains, starches or sugars. Fruits very sparingly. Cream, butter and fatty meat, cheese and eggs, fish, plenty of non starchy vegs are my staple diet. I walk 5 miles daily and at least 250 steps per waking hour. I've lost 50 pounds and normalized my blood sugar. Obesity and diabetes are a modern plague, caused by extreme carb overload.

[@nicolasacosta5024]

Congratulations. :) That is definitely the way to go.

[@thepotterwitch]

You do what works for you. It is said by the wisest of us " the best diet is the one you can follow." That's why people can and do well on all sorts of different diets.

[@emanueldyakun6609]

Please, say this to my mom! Save me!( I am serious)

[@intell0]

Are you type 1 or type 2? In either case, check out Snake diet, he has reversed peoples diabetes back to non existent!

[@robertjuh]

I eat about 750 grams of fatty meat a day and a couple bites of veggies

[@anonymousAJ]

My ancestors ate seed oils and refined carbs

[@ManaiaNapier]

Lolll

[@VeronicaMist]

Cooking would have come into it way back also. Fascinating.

[@samanthaweber6741]

So the answer is eat a wide variety of foods because bio diversity is our strength when it comes to diet and for the foods that don't work with you avoid

[@BarryAnderson]

The key take home is what was available at the time which will be a different seniorial in time and in location and in the diversity of the soil of the foilage and of the vegan and non vegan life on land and in the water. Even though we see lots of historic art on caves and ancient stone walls of carved animal drawing sketches and not plants this is a bit telling I think. Later I will do a Google search with the keywords teeth and jaw of Carnivores, Humans, and Cows to look at the differences. I will also key in the words for finding out the differences in digestive tracts and microbiomes as well. Holistic Chef Barry Anderson of Phuket Thailand is curious to know and thank you.

[@BarryAnderson]

I germinate my grains into sprouts or gaba grains mixing them with other ancient grains. Interesting. Did you know that in ancient China many thousands of years ago their stable food diet was not rice but actually the ancient grain called millet? Our ancestors native Americans harvested millet and they are recorded as crossing the barring straight from ancient Asia when the ice was frozen over. Europeans stole their land from under their feet forcing Native Americans to etch out an existence on undesirable non-arible land plots. When they adopted our Western ultra-processed diets then all kinds of CDC-named diseases hijacked their ancestorial good health. Not taught in our school systems of Western propaganda. holistic Chef Barry Anderson of Phuket Thailand

[@spexi513]

Mama 🌏 provided a buffet and we trashed it laid down blacktop and put up a synthetic fast food franchise 😭

[@drbbdr]

All the diet problems match with the apparition of nutrition experts

[@waynemorgan1577]

Just because ancestors/ancient man from way back was eating a particular item does not mean it was the diet meant for the human body.

[@waynemorgan1577]

@saying the truth still trying to get that answer myself..

[@alienheadgains1977]

Maybe not at the time, but it means that over many millennia we made changes to our digestive system and dietary needs to allow ourselves to thrive more on that diet.

[@billsalcido7878]

If our body’s evolved to survive on a certain diet then that diet is the most beneficial. Duh

[@andersarnkilde3372]

Read your own text again. Try to use a little reflection. Maybe it was some nonsense you wrote ?! And then write a new text.

[@frankiefernandez5252]

So....back to square 1....a non answer.

[@andersarnkilde3372]

he had given us the answer: we eat everything. If we want to survive and become more human on this planet, we must eat more vegetables. If we want to become even more human, then we must eat algaes. If we want to become even more human, we must eat dust.

[@stevebuss69]

@@andersarnkilde3372 how did u come to that conclusion from this ???

[@andersarnkilde3372]

@@stevebuss69 There are several conclusions in my post. The paleo scientist's , Peter Ungar, scientific results show that man has the ability to eat everything. Throughout history, the ability to eat everything has made us a very successful species. But, the more people we become on our little planet, the more we have to specialize in our diet. History shows that species with specialized diets are very vulnerable. Man is making himself a vulnerable species. Human success is also the greatest danger to its existence in the future.

[@TheJanieLee]

I was just thinking how anything can be made into a college class for money.

[@fatefulbrawl5838]

I mean, they have to get their money worth somehow.

[@Shevock]

There's not that much money in it. 75% of classes are taught by adjuncts with low pay and no Healthcare. Maybe you get what you pay for. Lol!

[@djhellion5]

I think Plato came up with that 😉

[@angeladansie4378]

Yes, some people like to learn & are willing to pay for the knowledge of others to be shared. Attaining knowledge is work. Do you work for free? If so, I have 4 semi loads of firewood that I need sawn up

[@nathanaelbreuer9554]

How much insects did our ancestors eat?

[@Indomitablespirit108]

Were Twinkies a staple back then?

[@mariomiranda105]

I lost a ton of weight by eating rice, meat ( beef, chicken, fish etc. ) and vegetables plus weight training. Eating junk foods occasionally, ( Mcdonalds, KFC etc. ). Sustainable diet is the secret nothing else.

[@shcxatter2]

And this my friends is what I call, talking for 16 minutes, but saying nothing!

[@Lamentfordeath]

There is. Its just not the answer you were looking for.

[@michaelcarley9866]

Grasshoppers until we come upon a carcass then hit bone to bone or find a rock. Simple. Grasshoppers nice and safe.

[@haitirocks90]

Just because there’s isn’t an answer doesn’t mean he isn’t saying anything. Much of science is finding out that we actually don’t know the answers we thought we knew but people have trouble coming to terms with that because it’s in our nature to need an “answer” to make sense of things.

[@haitirocks90]

He’s actually not saying nothing...he’s saying there is no one ancestral diet, but that it depends on the environment your ancestors lived in and the food which was available to them.

[@weareallinthis3668]

I am learning a lot so far, rewatch it again & actually listen this time. Very simple, you got this because I’m no different from you. ❤️ Sending love.

[@mazafhakar3971]

Good talk. Some commentators are missing the point, which is that it is natural for us to eat any of the foods available to us, including those excluded by fad diets.

[@alienheadgains1977]

Meat is not natural for us to eat?

[@samreh6156]

Humans are not natural.

[@michaeldillon3113]

Hopefully polypharmacy can keep us alive till we get adapted to eating ultra processed food .

[@Johannore]

It's pretty obvious what we CAN eat, more interesting is, what is healthy for us? For exemple he listed french fries on he's list of things we can eat. That kind of ruind it all and left really nothing to learn from his talk.

[@yoe91]

Bits and pieces of interest but I haven't learned much from this video tbh.

[@downeastprimitiveskills7688]

Sure, go ahead and load up on sugary treats , it won't hurt you , you will over come any down falls.

[@piricsiremus2405]

@991Fate You call type 2 diabetes adaptation ?

[@MarmaladeINFP]

@@piricsiremus2405 - Diabetes is simply the body's response to too much sugar in the blood. It's the body's adaptation to massive amount of carbs causing disease so death can be delayed for a short while. It's not an optimal adaptation, of course. But a high-carb diet doesn't give the body many choices.

[@hazynpeterson4083]

Nitrogen Isotope analysis. Meat is prized meat primary

[@julia.no.X]

Such an opportunity is lost.

[@primaleater1616]

So avoid fast food and processed food

[@naturesown1807]

Avoid anything that isn't natural. Meaning anything that wouldn't survive without human interference.

[@zack_120]

The question is unsloved! Since, and it must be, the food availability dictated what they ate, so just to study the edible things found at different stages of evolution, which is the answer to the question of what they can eat. When this is solved (temporal), then comes the spacial question: selection of available foods by them which is the tougher part as shown in this video. But the temporal info will provide much of clue as to what they likely ate, a step closer to solving the whole Q.

[@PV-free123world]

Yes, but what they ate may have been suboptimal due to circumstances, so we shouldn't extrapolate what we "should" eat (for health) based on periods where high quality food may not have been available.

[@tobydude7462]

Brilliant

[@garrettevans9193]

Personally I do not eat meat anymore because of a few reasons, but one that stands out to me is the way producers treat animals now. Yes, humans ate meat. But the meat you eat now is not the same meat as the meat eaten by humans thousands of years ago (just using a random number.) Now animals are filled with GMOs and all types of bad things. This is not to tell you to stop eating meat, but rather just an opinion being shared. So, if this comment inspires you to go do research and you find evidence against my statement, that is fine. I am not claiming anything. I am not trying to get you to change your ways. I am just sharing how I feel on the matter. I just hope you do research and find out what you are eating, for your benefit.

[@MarmaladeINFP]

That is a fair enough reason. But I'd note that in many places people have access to high quality meat that is free of GMOs, pasture-raised, and using restorative agriculture. It's closer the kind of meat humans ate in the past, including higher nutrient-density. There are several farmers that do that kind of thing in the local area here. They sell their meat at local farmers' markets, have drop-off sites, or deliver them to your home. What is available depends on where one lives. The same applies to organic and sustainably grown plant foods, as most people are buying chemical-drenched fruits and vegetables that are grown on farms that cause pollution and erosion. The challenge is partly availability, although price can be a problem as well. Eating higher quality foods can be more expensive. Then again, some people have no problem spending money on fast food and eatng out.

[@mowthpeece1]

Invoking Sarah Palin for anything in seriousness already makes him suspect. Though we did eat a mixed diet.

[@SuperMiguelito2000]

He invokes SARAH PALIN.?

[@JohnBauman-h6d]

ancestral human diet varies greatly depending the time of human evolution as well as the location.

[@janusgates2589]

Pythagoras was one of the first Pita🫓gurus

[@garage_geekz]

We evolved because we are the only species that cooks food um hello fire??? gosh I can’t believe people don’t get it

[@Stgfre]

The optimal diet is an omnivore diet, or a diet plant and meat based.

[@JasonBuckman]

Primarily meat-based, supplemented with plant-based upon natural seasonal availability.

[@huhwhatomg]

great lecture. my favorite part is the little lip smacks in between every sentence.

[@Alteori]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ladyhawk6999]

Man is an omnivore. If man didn't start eating meat, he'd still be swinging in the trees .

[@robkings]

Wrong. it was the invention of cooking that enabled us to make more different types of food bioavailable that fed our larger brains. We can eat meat but our ancestors mostly ate plants and only rarely ate meat as catching and killing animals was often quite difficult. We were not hunter gatherers but rather gatherer hunters.

[@reaux3921]

Lucy wasn’t a man

[@cab711]

Haha using tooth decay to demonstrate that our ancestors ate carbs.

[@sassysweet1750]

I still don’t know what I should be eating 😭

[@darkengine5931]

I'd start with trying to restrict what we definitely shouldn't, like empty calories, liquid calories (lacking satiety), highly-processed foods, etc.

[@redpill2491]

Meat, fruit, blood, honey This is our natural diet.

[@normasithole-mazhindu6645]

Same here

[@michaelcarley9866]

Bugs and water.

[@anarchy7741]

@@redpill2491 Humans do not have a single meat eating trait.

[@stevebreakstone1588]

Interesting. Very well done. Short yet insightful.

[@reemahmedalhatri]

How can I access his research papers?

[@benlee3051]

carbs and sugar make me ill to. so no carbs for me

[@beekaybelgiancarnivore]

i think the ketovore is the more logical one

[@PV-free123world]

What does morality have to do with reality?

[@anarchy7741]

Morality fits in perfectly when you include: The biology and anatomy of the humam body is herbivorious Humans do not have a single meat eating trait Humans do not need meat to be healthy So with all this combined, the question becomes, Why eat animals when we dont need to? Hence the morality perspective

[@PV-free123world]

@@anarchy7741 The only thing I can say is that you've been mislead on every point. I lived with the Inuit for 2 years on Baffin Island and saw first hand what stone-aged people ate for health, and it was virtually nothing but animals. They were happy, healthy and in tune with nature. And I've heard the twisted illogic of the plant-based agenda 1,000 times, but it's still completely and utterly wrong on every single point. Take a break from the plant-based propaganda and see what real scientists are saying, especially real anthropologists. Look outside of the agenda and you will find the truth. Eating animals is normal, essential, moral, a biological imperative. Look up what former vegans say about why they went back to eating meat, why it's good for human health and good the planet. There's no sense in me telling you, you have to find out for yourself and genuinely seek the truth.

[@anarchy7741]

@@PV-free123world Thats nice. Ill repeat. The human body does not have a single meat eating trait. What you described are CHOICES. I can choose to do anything and everything, that doesnt mean I SHOULD do it. And the inuit have a 10 year shorter lifespan than their surrounding areas. And 500 year old inuit mummies have been discovered with clogged arteries..Not exactly healthy. Your little 2 year peak into thier lifestyle doesn't mean anything. The inuit HAVE TO eat meat. I am not talking about that situation. Thats why stories mean nothing. I know an 80 year smoker. That means we should smoke right? NO Follow the evidence, not your flesh addiction. Take a break from paid meat propganda and look at the evidence

[@PV-free123world]

@@anarchy7741 Me, 57-YO female, coronary calcium score of zero, stress echo test zero, AKA zero heart disease. Carnivore 3 years.

[@PV-free123world]

@@anarchy7741 I got very sick on a plant-based diet, and only got better on carnivore. It's not a choice, it's a biological imperative. Even if it was a choice, who are you to tell others what they should eat? Who is anybody to run around forcing their distorted ideology on others?

[@zentzu4003]

the amount of ads..

[@michaelcarley9866]

Grasshoppers until we come upon a carcass then hit bone to bone or find a rock. Simple. Grasshoppers nice and safe.

[@spexi513]

The patron saint of high school triangle formulas ( not verbatim) = 🤣💚.

[@Drawingmylanguages]

1000000 years from now if man is still around they will say: 1million of years ago we started getting adapted to junk food😂😂😂😂 we started eating micro plastics, processed food, heavy metals and so on. And now we are a super specie that can eat even rocks 😂😂😂😂

[@andrewburnett2581]

Yeah yeah yeah but what is best? Optimol? Superior? With no adverse effects right accross the ball? Animals.

[@yaseenhadi7419]

Cancer: well hello there 🙋‍♂️

[@Leonnitram123]

there are several things that I don't like here. First he calls the paleo advocates " gurus", though there are indeed some sketchy fellas there are also many very serious doctors that advise to eat paleo like DrTerry Whals for example who put her multiple sclerosis into remission. Then he says we ate cereals long time ago... how on earth were ice age men ( that lasted thousands of years) were able to even remotely access the quantity of grains we have access to today ?? also Paleo advocates DO NOT say the paleo diet is the real Paleolithic diet , critics really need to stop with that strawman, they say it mimics the way we ate in terms of nature and in terms of macronutrient ratio.

[@oceanlawnlove8109]

No, sorry Mister Ungar, this TED talk is NOT it.

[@jsvboston]

people ate carbs (bread or rice) but how often did they eat!!!!

[@-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-...]

Jason Voutour they ate it errrrrdayyyyy. Mmmmm pizzaaaa

[@bartram33]

So there were no Mc Donalds there then! Surprise!

[@PV-free123world]

And somehow we survived :)

[@hippocrates72]

4:17 *hominins*

[@philipwakeford6923]

We have evidence that some humans regularly ate grain around 15 thousand years ago, so eating grains is fine!?!? LOL Lets just ignore the fact that most of the food consumed over the previous 2 million years had no or little carbohydrates.

[@OldWorldNY]

Eggs and beef. Saved my life.

[@frankmedrisch7451]

Why are people so concerned to define the ancestral human diet? What are the evolutionary pressures making an ancestral diet a longevity diet? To me there is no evolutionary reason to think an ancestral diet is optimal for longevity or even good health. If you were going to die of an infection at age 25 it didnt make sense for evolution to select the diet that is optimal for longevity or long term health. In other words, the question what is the ancestral human diet is irrelevant in the 21st century

[@zachbaker5259]

He said humans have been debating the ancestral human diet for literally thousands of years 😂

[@anarchy7741]

yes. Because humans have the anatomy and biology of an herbivore, but we have an addiction to flesh

[@naturesown1807]

@@anarchy7741 The flesh isn't causing the addiction, it's the chemicals that the flesh is pumped with along with the various methods of conditioning and programming that are used to draw us towards it.

[@a2thek914]

@@anarchy7741 Yes but that addiction also made our brains grow.

[@samreh6156]

@@a2thek914 Why have cats little brains?

[@angeloarcenas5947]

@@anarchy7741 the video just showed man having an omnivorous diet. Our ability to survive on a diverse array of food helped us evolve to this point.

[@johnfadds6089]

"low carb gurus" you mean all the doctors and scientist who looked at the scientific evidence?

[@rodneyprimal652]

The average human probably believes it though

[@troyhayder6986]

Ive got a mouth full of razorblades...so yeah...meat...

[@TheRealBatCave]

Processed foods.......

[@URLnotEarl]

According to the Liver King, steroids are best for your diet 😂

[@LBCblackboard]

Pfas chemicals are in everything now

[@SkyRiver1]

Cut marks on the bones are from leopards eating prey, not from humans butchering them. You will find the same "cut marks" on human bones from leopard predation.

[@ragnarbluechip8795]

Really? Then why did they find bone cutting tools at old firesites together with burnt animal bones 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@SkyRiver1]

@@ragnarbluechip8795 Wrong sites einstein.

[@d_xnii]

Eating the bad gives us every disease tho LOL, we’re not versatile in the slightest

[@bobbyb9258]

Evolutionary speaking you can still reach an age sufficient enough to have a progeny and raise them even if you die from those diseases at 50.

[@MarmaladeINFP]

@@bobbyb9258 - Pottenger's cats on an unhealthy diet could survive long enough to have progeny... well, until they couldn't. The cats kept getting sicker and sicker each generation. Then finally after several generations they became so sickly as to be infertile. But when these infertile cats were given a healthy diet, they became fertile again.

[@corpsefoot758]

Nah, it depends on your genetics Some people can stuff down carbs like it’s water. Others have fatal allergies to the same exact food Same thing with dairy, all-meat diets etc.

[@d_xnii]

@@corpsefoot758 wrong

[@corpsefoot758]

@@d_xnii LOL what?? So you’re denying that I’ve seen people eat junk carbs for decades and never get sick from them? Or are you denying that others have food allergies to those same exact diets

[@cloud-seven]

A bald guy talking about the natural human diet un-ironically. Welcome to the 21st century.

[@Knaeben]

If they ate grains, their teeth would have been shredded. They also would have had all the signs of diabetes. Paleolithic people were eating processed carbohydrates like this guy says.... right.

[@Sabrina-by1qw]

What a quack

[@Cenot4ph]

Nonsense conclusion 😂 avoid

[@cio4720]

just youtube "Vegans: The Epitome of Malnourishment"

[@Mijn24]

Those folks only eat fiber , humans are supposed to eat a starch based diet

[@corpsefoot758]

Human beings thrive on both ends of every dietary spectrum. That is because different ancestries feature difference dietary genetics

[@cio4720]

@Ken ya and vegan gains fantasizes about killing humans and stepping his foot through a baby... but i dont know what that has to do with diet. there are more serious people then sv3rige that also promote a carnivour or keto diet and besides all that only cause sv3rige maybe crazy dosent proves the carnivour diet wrong galileo was considered to be crazy too

[@cio4720]

@Ken the "the cholesterol hypothesis" is just that a theory it never got proven... so no need to disprove it in the first place but since you just talking about sv3rige and not about diet at all i will stop talking and wasting time with you

[@rodneyprimal652]

You have very poor evidence for any of this it’s pretty funny

[@animamundii]

I have been watching hundreds of lectures in the last couple of months and this guy really is one of the worse presenters I've seen. Unnecessary long pauses, kind of stretched out talk.. Also, I don't see the point of this talk. Of course the diet became more versatile...we started to grow food and became agroculturalists - it's a no brainer. The question is, is it better?

[@jaketaylor1409]

"if god didnt intend for us to eat animals why did he make them out of meat" That is the stupidest thing ive ever heard and he actually said its a good point. Like bro... Guess what your made out of lol. If god didnt intend for us to eat other people, why did he make them out of meat.

[@corpsefoot758]

Animals aren’t people, though. Otherwise pet-owners would be jailed for slavery

[@rossw2243]

I mean technically you could eat a person. You might get some funny looks though.

[@leojanuszewski1019]

Eating meat makes you smart...don't need research to know that.

[@JohnBauman-h6d]

the infamous Neanderthal went extinct eating 90% of meats in their diet.

[@historian-x]

@@JohnBauman-h6d It is not the meat which made them extinct.

[@keijojaanimets819]

Why is hes nose red?🥃

[@kozikowskir]

Wtf is it?!

[@angeloarcenas5947]

So humans are omnivores, not herbivores? The food nazis are not going to like this.