My response to the challenge that wild root didn't have much starch so my theory is bunk: I do agree that many of the wild versions of plants that we eat today were meager starch sources but that doesn't mean that larger, wild varieties didn't exist. For example the wild ancestor of the Guinea Yam can be seen here with roots just as big as what we see in the grocery store today: www.researchgate.net/figure/Semences-de-D-praehensilis-comestibles-a-et-b-semenceaux-fragments-de-tubercules-c_fig4_318793655 We also have things like starchy tiger nuts which were the main dietary component of some of our ancestors: "An Oxford University study has concluded that our ancient ancestors who lived in East Africa between 2.4 million and 1.4 million years ago survived mainly on a diet of tiger nuts." "The Oxford study calculates a hominin could extract sufficient nutrients from a tiger nut-based diet - i.e. around 10,000 kilojoules or 2,000 calories a day, or 80% of their required daily calorie intake - in two and half to three hours. " www.ox.ac.uk/news/2014-01-09-ancient-human-ancestor-nutcracker-man-lived-tiger-nuts Finally, these large tubers are allegedly the wild Lesser Yam and are massive so it would need to be verified but it at least shows that wild, unfarmed plants can achieve massive starchy root systems: th-cam.com/video/J0vp5PvQpvs/w-d-xo.htmlsi=kwIZtEPKSpQ2FJbg&t=1008 A worse fiber to starch ratio also doesn't mean that there weren't enough calories around, just that more fiber would be consumed which is on track with the 100g fiber coprolites we find.
Even then the hadza average 15000 steps a day from the numbers I’ve heard. No one is running 400 miles in the western world One thing eating starch for that amount of energy expenditure and another for modern people who drive and sit most of the day
Why do we get CAVITIES from starch but not from meat? Vegans don’t think to the end, they just stay with the part they like, that may be why some think they are stupid.
Another point about fire- I read a while back that cooking meat increases the calorie availability for humans by about 2-3x. Whereas cooking starch increases the calorie availability by 10x. In other words, as the only animal who cooks food, starch would give us a bigger “unique win” that no other animal would be able to get (except the dogs we were feeding)
Imagine what the carnivore crowd has to say about this: "So, it took all that starch to get us to the point where our brains would become smart enough to know that we shouldn't be eating it."
I completely agree with this. I’m convinced hunting was primarily a social behavior rather than a food gathering event. A way to establish pecking order and bond, etc.
Page 2/2 I'm A Carnivore & Love It... Saved My Life! After healing, our tissues are more sensitive for a while, so it seems like we are too, but it's actually a good thing our bodies can recognize damage from foreign material, have an inflammatory response, & begin healing quicker, & much more effectively. A cut that used to take me 3 months to heal, now only takes a few days! If we become numb to the things that hurt us, we can't tell when we're being hurt, & this is no way to live. This is part of "knowing thyself" in ancient Greek Philosophy! We've lost touch with many parts of ourselves, but proper diet, sun, fresh air, & grounding, are pieces of this puzzle. In a low inflammatory state we are able to use mitosis & autophagy to heal. We don't recognize these senses & abilities, because they were stolen from us at birth, with spoonfuls of high glycemic foods that kicked us out of fat burning, & into a constant mind fogging inflammatory glucose burning state or a lifelong chronic state of pain that we become accustomed to, & we don't know is happening. We just become cranky, nutrient deficient, irritable people, usually with brain damage, before we realize anything is wrong, reducing cognitive abilities needed to save ourselves... chronic stress turns into narcissism soon after that. We are indoctrinated into a culture, with "multiple choice," giving us the illusion of freedom, but almost every turn is a trap. We can't stop doing things that harm us, even after realizing how bad they are, because of addictive substances pushed on to us by greedy corporations. Food Bliss points & addictions are real, & even small addictions turn into big ones. I researched many different condiments, hidden complex carbs, lab synthesized addictive substances they add to foods, or even just basic spices with small amounts of plant defense chemicals, plant toxins, anti-nutrients, & carbs to feed a bad bacteria that signals us to crave bad foods. When we get down to the science of everything, we realize how everything is connected. Dr. Anthony Chaffey says that removing the last 5% of this stuff makes us feel 90% better. It's easy to overlook anti-nutrients & defense chemicals in seasonings, & artificial sweetener, or electrolyte powders with "natural flavors," which could be addictive insulin, & dopamine spiking artificial sweeteners, or over 200 other things... Small amounts of dead bugs are under this category, & L-cysteine is an amino acid used to lengthen the shelf-life of products like bread, & can come from human hair, chicken or duck feathers, & cow horns! Potentially harmful artificial & synthetic chemicals are often used in the processing of natural flavors, & these don't have to be listed on nutrition labels. These are food manufacturing byproducts that our bodies don't recognize, & cause repeated inflammatory responses or chronic inflammation that eventually results in autoimmune disease, cancer, & death! Our bodies are highly sensitive once we're cleaned out. Even low glycemic sweeteners, like Allulose, Stevia, & Monk fruit will affect us negatively in minimal ways. So when we're putting in just a little bit we still feel it. Most condiments are full of harmful lab synthesized chemicals. These chemicals cause more damage to our bodies than we realize, when we're numb. Remaining in an inflamed state prevents us from healing. Our healed rebuilt tissues are more sensitive, but it's a good thing to know when there's incoming damage, so that our bodies can react to heal quicker. Chronic pains most accept as normal parts of aging, improve, or disappear entirely... I feel Amazing, pain free, satiated, & beyond happy... Euphoric! I had autoimmune diseases, insulin resistance, & cancer, about to die! Now with the proper fuel, & a healed mind, I understand why! Now, I expect to live to be 120... To think I spent most of my life wishing it would all just end! We've been lied to! We need to erase the lies from our mind, especially in the areas of faulty medical science, & the censoring of real history that controls these false narratives, such as the Inquisitions, Crusades, & many other homicidal events... Deceitful corrupt religious rule, & governmental control, oppression, legalized slavery, brainwashing schools, & tactics, etc... Gaslighting, subliminal messages, & catchphrases on repeat until we believe them. They literally drug us with thousands of chemicals to reduce our cognitive abilities, make us more docile, manipulatable, & susceptible to their deceit! There's a way to break free from this trap! The first step is to STOP drinking, cooking, & bathing with Fluoride that calcifies the pineal gland, short circuits our brain, & causes Dental & Skeletal Fluorosis, reducing teeth & bone mineral density, making them weak & brittle. Fluoride is in nearly everything that municipal water touches, & is added to many products. Toxic fluoride & bromide compete with essential iodine & chloride absorption & effects thyroid function, resulting in debilitating mood disorders like hypo/hyperthyroidism & Hashimoto's. There is no essential carb. We're forced to create excessive amounts of insulin that causes diabetes when we eat too much sugar & carbs. We become lost in a fog that we don't realize we're in, then we don't realize we're not supposed to be eating them. Glucose feeds bad bacteria that send us hunger signals. Too much fat won't hurt us, it will just come out in our stool. We've been fear mongered into believing that fat is bad, but it is essential! Fat is good for us, & we need to be burning fat in order to absorb our "fat soluble" vitamins. Fat doesn't make us fat... High insulin producing food such as sugar, carbs, processed foods, & other things our bodies don't recognize, & have to get out of the way, is what makes us fat. Insulin is a hormone that sends a signal to our body to store fat. The higher the insulin spike, the more fat we store. This is why high glycemic foods cause us to gain more weight. Even seeing, smelling, chewing food, or sipping on sugary drinks will create a small insulin response. Our bodies only burn glucose first as a defense mechanism. Glucose creates the same inflammatory response to our cells, & similar levels of addictive dopamine signaling in the addiction centers of our brain, as meth & cocaine! Glucose burns similarly to rocket fuel, fast, volatile, & erratic in a way that's damaging to cells. The deaths of many carb loading bodybuilders show clear evidence, & the results dictate the outcome of burning glucose for fuel! We produce insulin to signal our bodies to turn sugar, carbs, fructose, & honey into glucose to be stored as unhealthy, but usable starvation fuel or glycogen stores. This is the subcutaneous fat under our skin, visceral fat smothering our organs, & glycating into a sticky syrup like substance, as it lingers in our blood, & arteries, eventually hardening, clogging them, causing heart attacks & strokes. Insulin is produced to protect us & signals our bodies to promptly store away high levels of dangerous sticky glucose. The insulin that we can produce is limited, especially without proper nutrients, & the thyroid mechanisms responsible for this process can wear out, causing diabetes. Carbs mixed with protein, or worse fructose combined with protein, when consumed, & metabolized together, create sticky proteins or glycation, that clogs arteries faster. We have to figure out the amount of fat we need, which varies based on our size, activity levels, & energy needed to heal. It wasn't until I was running on ketones for fuel that I realized how much power we use for our brain. Cognitive & regenerative abilities increase tremendously while running on ketones! Jesus said, "Eat split out animals that two cud." (Leviticus 11) “Then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:32) Eating 90% meat based is good, 95% is great, 100% is amazing! Regeneratively raised grass-fed ruminants with access to a diversity of grass, & nutrient dense weeds will contain the highest, "cleanest" levels of nutrients. Ruminants both "clean" the meat & make the nutrients absorbable for us. This is very important! For the best results we need to be eating lamb, goat, deer, elk, bison, cattle, etc... primarily. Small scale fish with fins such as sardines & salmon, & minimal amounts of other meats such as chicken, turkey & pork can also be included. Fish should be wild caught, & these animals don't filter contaminants, & must be fed their ancestrally evolved appropriate diets. Microplastics & forever chemicals are contaminating practically everything. Much more than this becomes gluttonous, & we pay for it with our health. Wean into the carnivore diet, the oxalate dumping period (diarrhea) of flushing stored contaminants over decades of eating inappropriately, can be brutal! This only lasts a short time, then we heal & feel amazing. Autoimmune diseases & even most cancers can be cured with appropriate nutrients in adequate amounts... This is because most diseases are actually nutritional deficiencies & damaged cells from environmental pollutants. Most Cancers are metabolic diseases, caused by fake food! Dr. Anthony Chaffee, Dr. Ken Berry, & Dr. Shawn Baker are great references for additional advice on a proper human diet. Please support the TH-cam channel HomesteadHow & check out their documentary "Healing Humanity." Steak & Butter Gal has a great support network, especially for women. Between them there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions of success stories. All these wonderful people are doing a great job of spreading the word of a proper human diet. We all know how difficult it can be to switch from an addictive SAD diet, to a healthy one. They have channels on TH-cam, covering what we need to know to thrive. Regenerative farming can lead us all back to good health! Good luck on your journey. We Are One!
Starch is sugar and sugar is a metabolic poison. I understand that the vegan brain doesn't work that well but seriously, you carb addicts are really deluded.
Starch is poison... Body does everything to get rid of it. When human eat starch, hormonal response triggers panic switch from normal fat burning to emergency glucose burning.
Page 1/2 I'm A Carnivore & Love It... Saved My Life! The carnivore diet saved my life! Primarily I enjoy ruminant animals with four chambered stomachs capable of breaking down plant matter, filtering out plant defense chemicals, plant toxins, anti-nutrients, & even many environmental pollutants, while also providing all essential nutrients in more bioavailable or absorbable forms than any other food. Most soils are depleted of iodine, but we can get this from small fish such as sardines or salmon, as well as iodine supplementation in the form of drops or capsules. Regeneratively raised Ruminant animals eat grass & weeds with long root systems that reach deep within the soil, sucking up nutrients not available near the surface, or hydroponically grown fruits, & vegetables, or crops grown in soils void of nutrients, & also doused in estrogenic pesticides, & carcinogenic herbicides, that runoff into our water supply, poisoning our bee population needed for our cycle of life. Bee's pollinate vegetation, so that we have nutrient dense ruminant animals to eat. This is our primary species appropriate source of nutrition, & what our ancestors evolved adapting to eat... As well as small scaled fish with fins, eggs, some small birds or chickens, & minimal amounts of other specific meats, all of which is viable but less optimal than ruminants. (Leviticus 11) Plants have goitrogens, thousands of defense chemicals, plant toxins, lectins, oxalates, tannins, phytates, phytoestrogens, & more, all anti-nutrients that keep us from breaking down proteins, nutrients, & essential amino acids. They're responsible for hormonal imbalances, gastrointestinal distress, kidney stones... there's a vast list of symptoms, & autoimmune diseases. Ruminant animals are the only thing that filter this stuff out for us. Plant defense chemicals, toxins, & anti-nutrients are in practically everything, except ruminant animal meat. An inflammatory response occurs as a result of cell damage. This lets us, & our bodies know when to repair. Continuing to consume even small amounts of anti-nutrients such as phytates, tannins, oxalates, gluten & other anti-nutrients or lectins, will cause diarrhea or "oxalate dumping." Chronic inflammation, & stress prevents healing. Our mitochondria make up our cells. We use mitosis to dispel or metabolize old damaged mitochondria & autophagy uses old mitochondrial tissue to repair & replace other damaged ones, creating new vibrant healthy cells. This repair process keeps us healthy, looking great, & feeling amazing! Fat has been demonized, but we need fat to absorb our "fat soluble" vitamins. Fat is good for us! Same with electrolytes, salt, or trace minerals. Some need potassium & magnesium supplements or additional salts. There are different types of magnesium. Magnesium oxide & magnesium citrate are laxatives. I recommend more absorbable magnesium glycinate & malate. Redmond Re Lyte Electrolytes has these forms of magnesium… ELMT is another good one. Fluoride is added to the municipal water supply to "strengthen teeth," but it has the opposite effect, causing Dental & Skeletal Fluorosis. This reduces the mineral density of our teeth & bones, making them weak & brittle. It also dumbs us down, & makes us more docile & manipulatable. In other words they're using fluoride to brainwash & program us. There is no helpful reason to add it to our water supply, & it's been proven to cause cancer, but they still steadily increase the amount that they put in the water supply. A decalcified pineal gland increases our intuition, allowing us to recognize deceit, like a sixth sense, with validity like that which our eyes & ears provide! We have to filter drinking, cooking, & bathing water with filters that will remove fluoride & other chemicals abundant in our area. Iodine helps detox from toxic fluoride & bromine, which compete for essential Iodine & chloride absorption. Dr. David Brownstein said, "In our toxic world, I don't think there's enough Iodine in the microgram dose to detox from fluoride & bromine." Over a lifetime of new profound Awakenings or epiphanies, we become Enlightened. We gain clarity, peace of mind, & "Christ consciousness." Jesus said, "And you will know the truth and The truth will set you free." (John 8:32) Jesus was a humble, non egotistical man that found his way, made it his mission to heal others, & we can too! With a healthy body, a strong Awakened mind, & an Enlightened soul full of love, our hearts will guide us. "Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is unclouded your whole body is full of light." (Luke 11:34) "So Jacob called the name of the place pineal saying, I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved." (Genesis 32:30) A calcified pineal gland impairs mental function, making us docile & more easily manipulated. A decalcified pineal gland allows us to recognize deceit. This is known as the opening of the Third Eye, a sixth sense that dramatically increases intuition, with "Christ consciousness." "Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know." (Jeremiah 33:3) These were the true teachings of Christ... Every Christ that has ever walked the Earth or ever will, has conveyed this message. Christ, derived from the Greek word "Christos," means "anointed one" in Greek, or Savior & Messiah, meaning Awakened & Enlightened. The Holy Spirit is the same as Christ's Spirit & God's Spirit. They are one & the same! (Romans 8:9-10; Ephesians 3:16-17; Colossians 1:27) "We Are All One in Christ." (Galatians 3:23-29) There is no "I," only "we," for We are part of One Spirit, just as our limbs are part of one body! We become "One With All That Is." (John 17:21) "One who is awakened by the Holy Spirit is recreated into a completely new person."(2 Corinthians 5:17) A Message from The Greats! Newton's third law states, "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction." Hermes Trismegistos said, "As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul…" Imam Ali Bin Abi taleb said, "Knowledge is power, and it can command obedience." "The most effective way to destroy people, is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."- George Orwell “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled.”- Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain, author, writer Christianity tells us to ignore other teachings. Yeshua (Jesus) tells us something different. "He who seeks, let him not cease seeking until he finds; and when he finds he will be troubled, and when he is troubled he will be amazed, and he will reign over All."- Yeshua (Jesus) (Gospel of Thomas commentary) "If a blind man leads a blind man, they will both fall into a pit."- Jesus (Luke 6:39)(Matt 15:10-20)(Book of Thomas, 34) "Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it." (Proverbs 4:23) "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." (Luke 6:31)(Matthew 7:12)(The Golden Rule) Samuel Clemens said, "Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see."- aka Mark Twain "To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our minds strong and clear. (Siddhartha Gautama) (Buddha) Buddha means, "A person who is Awake." "Good health starts in the gut." "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food."- Hippocrates "Except the one whose faith is weak without Coral over disputable matters. One person believes he may eat anything while THE WEAK PERSON EATS ONLY VEGETABLES." (Romans 14:1) "And God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you IT SHALL BE FOR MEAT.” (Genesis 1:29) Vegetation is primarily for our animals, not us! We're not ruminants with stomachs biologically designed to break down plant matter, & filter out damaging plant defense chemicals, plant toxins, & anti-nutrients. Ruminant animals can even filter out toxic environmental pollutants with their long four chambered digestive tracts. We need the biological material of animals to replace our damaged animal parts. Ruminants eat grass & weeds with long root systems that reach deep within the Earth sucking up nutrients not available near the surface or in hydroponically grown, or unrotated nutrient void soils most crops are grown in. "Eat split hooved animals that chew the cud."-Yeshua Hamashiach, (Jesus)(Leviticus 11) Ruminants that graze eating grass, & nutrient dense weeds... Lamb, goat, deer, elk, bison, & cattle, etc... primarily. "And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate." (Luke 15:23) "We didn't evolve to eat meat, we evolved because we ate meat." (Richard Wrangham, Primatologist) "Ruminants are our evolved ancestrally appropriate diet." (Dr. Ken Berry) "It's kind of nice to be aging backwards basically." (Dr. Shawn Baker) “There is no essential carbohydrate,” “Everything your body needs can be made from proteins and fats that you eat." (Dr. Bessler) "The lymphatic system prefers ketones over glucose for fuel." (Dr. Leslyn Keith) "Plants are trying to kill you." (Dr. Anthony Chaffee) "Red dye, yellow dye, blue dye, you die!" (Dr. Mark Hyman) "Take away the excess of toxicity, get what you need, & that's the core of integrated function." (Dr. Sid Baker) "When you improve your health, you are improving the planet." (Dr. Peter Ballerstedt) Alexander Hamilton said, “If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.” Albert Einstein said, "All it takes for evil to prosper, is for good men to do nothing." Shahir Zag said, "A tiger doesn't lose sleep over the opinion of sheep." Benjamin Franklin said, “Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”
Fantastic work here Mic. I love it that you site the science where you get your info. Regarding running down animals. Here in New Zealand, we have no 4-legged animals natural to NZ. They are all introduced so have to be controlled by man. In the 70s the department of conservation employed many deer cullers. (they still do today) These men were incredibly fit and one game they use to play was running down red deer. Not all of them were able to do this feat but some of the elites were. Eventually the deer would stand splay legged with its tongue hanging out and the hunter could grapple it and cut its throat with his knife. (they were not running with their rifles)
There was a really interesting self-published book that I read called Graincollection, yes, all one word, that posits that a close analog for early human behavior might be the Therapithecus gelada, or "gelada baboon." It was a hypothesis originally conceived by anthropologist Clifford Jolly to explain some contradictions in the prevailing models of early human development. This baboon is social with many anatomical developments that mirror unique aspects of human anatomy, and they subsist in large part by stripping ripe seeds from grassland plants and digging up tubers. Unlike chacma baboons, they don't do much hunting, but do carnivory in the more typical way of incidentally eating insects and bird eggs as they find them, forming a very small portion of their diet. The book's argument is that this lifestyle does a pretty elegant job of explaining early tool development. It was a very interesting argument to read, though as far as I'm aware no attention was devoted to it. But it is pretty interesting that the most important agricultural plants are tubers and grain. You've got to imagine they weren't domesticating oats and barley on a whim, they must have been eating it before they started planting it.
We Thrive On Meat! If we want to thrive in optimal health, it's not up to us what we eat. Our evolution, biology, microbiome, & genetics determine this. We must accept what we have to do to survive. There is a food chain & a cycle of life. Everything has evolved to eat a select few foods, & humans are no exception. "We didn't evolve to eat meat, we evolved because we ate meat." (Richard Wrangham - Primatologist) There were no cave paintings of us hunting salads... We evolved to eat primarily ruminant animals, such as woolly mammoth & buffalo. These were Regeneratively raised Ruminant animals that ate grass & weeds with long root systems, capable of reaching deep within the Earth, & sucking up nutrients not available near the surface, or in the hydroponically grown, & nutrient void soils, most crops are grown in. Ruminant animals have four chambered stomachs biologically designed to break down plant matter, filter out plant defense chemicals, plant toxins, anti-nutrients, & even most environmental pollutants, while providing more nutrients in more bioavailable or absorbable forms, than any other food on the planet! "Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon, and wise too late." (Benjamin Franklin) The dawn of agriculture brought with it malnutrition, pestilence, & disease, regressing our evolution, making us smaller, weaker, dumber, more docile, & more manipulatable, just as the Elites in control planned it. We found 300,000-year-old skulls, that have perfect teeth, jaw lines, & no cavities, yet we can't make it into our teens without our teeth rotting! Sugar & Carbs rot our teeth, & turn into glucose that feeds Candida or bad bacteria, preventing us from having healthy mouths. On carnivore we no longer have to brush our teeth as much... With toxic fluoride toothpaste that calcifies our pineal gland, reduces cognition, makes us docile, malleable, & causes Dental & Skeletal Fluorosis, which demineralizes teeth & bone, making them weak & brittle! Fluoride is added to the municipal water supply in America, as well as bottled, & shipped all over the world, & must be filtered out using third party filters capable of filtering the most harmful contaminants in our area, from drinking, cooking, & bathing water. Toxic Fluoride & bromine compete for the absorption of essential iodine & chloride. Because of this, & our iodine depleted soils, the majority of the population is deficient in iodine. Fish & seafood contain iodine & supplementation in drops or capsules is also available. Iodine can eliminate bad bacteria, & can be used to treat water, & wounds. Eating "clean" ruminants means not sweating out plant toxins & other chemicals, so we don't have to shower as much, which means dousing ourselves in fewer chemicals that soak into our skin. We should all eat an appropriate human diet for a few months, before discounting its viability. I feel amazing. Carnivore saved my life, cured a multitude of ailments, including cancer, & fixed my lifelong mood debilitating Hashimoto's, that as it turns out was caused by nutritional deficiencies from eating plants for over 40. We can only burn one fuel type at a time. There's no such thing as an essential carb, but we need to be burning fat in order to use our "fat soluble" vitamins. Switching between fuel types is an energy demanding process, & the less than 5% of nutrients we can get in bioavailable forms from plants, leaves us in a nutrient deficit. Fiber's just nutrient void, indigestible carbs, that ferment, causing gas, gerd or acid reflux, stomach bloat, intestinal distress, constipation, leaky gut, nutrient deficiency, Ulcerative colitis, & feed bad bacteria. Sugar & Carbs kick us out of fat burning! Our bodies turn sugar & carbs into glucose that feeds bad bacteria. We can starve out bad bacteria, such as candida & yeast, & viruses like the Coronavirus, by removing their fuel source, glucose from sugar, carbs, & plants, from our diet. Bad bacteria can't survive on fat or ketones, but we thrive! Fat burning allows us to produce ketones, increasing our overall system function by fueling our body & brains with the correct fuel. Cognitive & regenerative abilities increase tremendously while running on ketones! Fat burns gentler than glucose from food. Our bodies produce a less damaging form of glucose with gluconeogenesis, & ketones with ketogenesis. This reduces inflammation & In this low inflammatory state our bodies natural healing mechanisms of mitosis & autophagy function correctly, keeping us healthy, happy, & looking amazing! In ketosis, our brains use neurogenesis to repair! Our brains are primarily fat & need healthy fats, to repair that specific type of tissue... Just like we need animal protein to grow strong muscle, collagen for cartilage, calcium for bone, etc. We are not as capable of eating a "diverse diet," as we've been led to believe! Cavemen didn't have pre/probiotics to break this stuff down! Yeshua (Jesus) said, "Eat split hooved animals that chew the cud." (Leviticus 11) Eat ruminant animals, "Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free!" (John 8:32) "It's easier to fool people, than to convince them they have been fooled." (Samuel Clemens aka the writer Mark Twain) Some are fortunate to have higher levels of resistance to lectins, making it possible to tolerate them longer, but not thrive on them. Plant defense chemicals & anti-nutrients build up in our systems, & in our joints, causing inflammation, eventually overwhelming us, & creating nutritional deficiencies, autoimmune diseases, & cancer, as we age, wear out, & our metabolisms slow. Eating even small amounts of carbs in many of today's nutrient void vegetables with anti-nutrients such as tannins, & lectins that keep us from breaking down proteins, & nutrients, we unknowingly stumble into a foggy-minded state, & it's hard to find our way out. Many of us start our lives off ingesting ground up, highly absorbable, insulin spiking, altered GMO fruits, vegetables, & high fructose corn syrup that stunts our mental growth as babies... This is a barbaric practice in the eyes of those awake enough to see this tragedy. Our digestive systems are typically one of the first things to go, because of the shameful fake food pyramid, & false recommended dietary guidelines, & the fact we have corrupt, & ignorant mainstream government officials allowing, promoting, & profiting from the atrocities caused by these atrocious guidelines is upsetting, & would be unbelievable if there wasn't so much proof to the contrary. It can take us years, or even decades to break free from confusion caused by the mainstream misinformation, corrupt studies, false dietary guidelines, & food pyramids, corporations pushing fake food & drugs with fake studies, & even worse training our children & doctors with lies in brainwashing schools. We're lucky if we ever find our way out of the fog. "The most effective way to destroy people, is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." (George Orwell) Addictive foods & unwanted hunger signals from bad bacteria can be difficult to get away from. The dietary guidelines are set up to keep us addicted, profit from us, keep us foggy-minded, depopulate us, & under the greedy control of religious corporate shell companies, with support from a corrupt government under the same mind debilitating conditions, & brainwashing tactics that hide our true species appropriate diet, keeping us all from finding World sanity, Heaven on Earth, & God! I recommend the advice of everyone listed in this article. They explain in detail our "evolved diet," how "plants are trying to kill us," & expose corruption in the food, & medical industry. Please support the TH-cam channel "HomeSteadHow," & check out their documentary "Healing Humanity." There are amazing success stories of people curing blindness, finding their way out of a wheelchair, recovering from autoimmune diseases, & so many other seemingly miraculous recoveries from what are actually dietary nutritional deficiencies. Real nutrition heals us, from the inside out. Hippocrates said, "Good health starts in the gut." "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." There are before & after pictures that show clear proof. Steak & Butter Gal has a great support network, especially for women. There are possibly millions of success stories! These wonderful people have channels on TH-cam, or Rumble, covering everything we need to thrive! We all know how difficult it can be switching from addictive fad diets to a healthy one. We have inspiring personal stories about how we got our health back, & you can too! When we find our way out of the fog, we find health, & happiness! OMG, I feel amazing! Siddhartha Gautama said, "To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear." (Buddha) Good luck on your journeys. "We Are One With All That Is!" (John 17:21) Quotes from great minds in the medical field, where most of my information comes from: "Plants are trying to kill you." (Dr. Anthony Chaffee) "Ruminant animals are our ancestrally appropriate diet." (Dr. Ken Berry) "It's kind of nice to be aging backwards basically." (Dr. Shawn Baker) "The lymphatic system prefers ketones over glucose for fuel." (Dr. Leslyn Keith) “There is no essential carbohydrate,”“Everything your body needs can be made from proteins and fats that you eat." (Dr. Bessler) "Take away the excess of toxicity, get what you need, & that's the core of integrated function." (Dr. Sid Baker) "In our toxic world, I don't think there's enough Iodine in the microgram dose to detox from fluoride and bromide." "If we give the body its basic raw materials, it can do pretty cool things. (Dr. David Brownstein) "Red dye, yellow dye, blue dye, you die!" (Dr. Mark Hyman) "When you improve your health, you are improving the planet." (Dr. Peter Ballerstedt)
A hypothesis is a cause and effect prediction that must be validated via experimentation. Can you name your IV, DV and detail the experiment you preformed?
@retrospiel Human ancestors started eating lots of starch only very recently when agriculture was established. Before that, their diet were mostly cellulose from leaves or barks, sugars in fruits, in addition to animal products. There might be some starch from occasional wild roots but most roots are poisonous without fire.
@@ejRecording Bart Kay is a walking meme. He's (un)lampoonable. I'm surprised his own camp doesn't ostracize him for adversely impacting what little reputation carnivore has.
Speaking of genetic codes, they require Functional Sequence/Specified Complexity, which doesn't occur by happenstance. I'm not exactly what you would call religious, but I have heard that in the beginning we were given fruits and herbs to eat, not animals. Animals putrify in the gut, creating horrible stench, and require fire to kill parasites. Also they run away in fear, plants don't do that. If people were meant to kill animals they probably wouldn't develop empathy for them and have to rely on factory farming to ignore reality.
What a load of nonsense. What do you think is happening to plant matter? Its being decomposed by microorganisms right? The stench you get is when you switch between unaccustomed foods, or eating a lot of plant materia. "Also they run in fear" yes that is their defense machanism. Do you think plants dont have it because they cant move like animals? "Have to rely on animal farming to ignore reality" what? Factory farming is the result of wanting to produce cheaper food at the cost of animal welfare, environment and human health, not some ignoring of reality of what animals go through
I often thought about the empathy thing. Animals that depend on eating others can't evolve empathy, like you said. So humans have a big dilemma, and I think empathy will win in the long run. It's a form of awareness and intelligence that is too useful in important ways. Human carnivores really have to try hard to keep lying to themselves. Except the psychopathic ones, of course. A human world filled with psychopaths doesn't work, they need to be very few or nonexistant.
I would not be surprised if tribes had some fit, young runners who would go out and scout for the best foraging areas. He would have to be fast and fit to get back with news quickly, for the others to move in the right direction. Also, he would be finding out where there were other groups of animals, competitors or dangerous ones to stay clear of.
I like to think it is a part of why our memory is so strongly linked to locations: you run around for hours every day remembering where different plants are growing so you can return to a specific spot when a plant is good for harvest. And maybe we started running around caring for plants before we started farming them, like removing pests and fertilizing the wild growing plants?
This is the most compelling evidence I have heard that we were not carnivores. Salivary amylase enzymes from 800,000 years ago. And starch digestive enzymes in canines 40,000 years ago! I hope dogs don't become extinct .
"This is the most compelling evidence I have heard that we were not carnivores."... Nonsense, no such evidence exists, only your delusions to justify your carb addiction. The only evidence that exists that can tell us what human beings are is the 2019 and 2021 follow up study in the hard science of paleo and chemical anthropology. I'm referring to stable isotope analysis of the N15 and N13 carbon and nitrogen contained within the collagen of the long bones of human skeletal remains dating back 100,000 years which clearly shows what we ate during that time period making us absolutely obligate hyper carnivore. This is the only science we have that can inform us on this question.
I hope so too, and as a vegan I don't agree with some other vegans about breaking that bond. We just need more responsible procreation and care for dogs.
We definitely were meat-eaters - from cooking meat but even our hand grasping was to grab rocks to smash the bones to get at the fat marrow in the bones. So meat eating and animal fat eating goes back probably 3 million years in hominins.
@@carinaekstrom1 Wow so you're too afraid to google something in case you might learn something you don't "want" to exist? hahaha. Eating bone marrow played a key role in the evolution of the human hand by University of Kent The strength required to access the high calorie content of bone marrow may have played a key role in the evolution of the human hand and explain why primates hands are not like ours, research at the University of Kent has found. In an article in The Journal of Human Evolution, a team lead by Professor Tracy Kivell of Kent's School of Anthropology and Conservation concludes that although stone tool making has always been considered a key influence on the evolution of the human hand, accessing bone marrow generally has not. It is widely accepted that the unique dexterity of the human hand evolved, at least in part, in response to stone tool use during our evolutionary history. Archaeological evidence suggests that early hominins participated in a variety of tool-related activities, such as nut-cracking, cutting flesh, smashing bone to access marrow, as well as making stone tools. However, it is unlikely that all these behaviours equally influenced modern human hand anatomy. To understand the impact these different actions may have had on the evolution of human hands, researchers measured the force experienced by the hand of 39 individuals during different stone tool behaviours-nut-cracking, marrow acquisition with a hammerstone, flake production with a hammerstone, and handaxe and stone tool (i.e. a flake) - to see which digits were most important for manipulating the tool. They found that the pressures varied across the different behaviours, with nut-cracking generally requiring the lowest pressure while making the flake and accessing marrow required the greatest pressures. Across all of the different behaviours, the thumb, index finger and middle finger were always most important. Professor Kivell says this suggests that nut-cracking force may not be high enough to elicit changes in the formation of the human hand, which may be why other primates are adept nut-crackers without having a human-like hand. In contrast, making stone flakes and accessing marrow may have been key influences on our hand anatomy due to the high stress they cause on our hands. The researchers concluded that eating marrow, given its additional benefit of high calorific value, may have also played a key role in evolution of human dexterity. The manual pressures of stone tool behaviors and their implications for the evolution of the human hand by Erin Marie Williams-Hatala, Kevin G. Hatala, McKenzie Gordon and Margaret Kasper, all Chatham University, Pittsburgh, USA and Alastair Key and Tracy Kivell, University of Kent is published in the Journal of Human Evolution. Mystery of 2 million-year-old stone balls solved News By Laura Geggel published April 17, 2020 Here's how ancient cave dwellers used these stone balls. For nearly 2 million years, ancient humans crafted stones into hand-size balls, but archaeologists were unsure why. Now they know: Ancient people used them as tools to get at the tasty marrow within animal bones, a new study finds. In other words, if a bone were a can of soup, these ancient stone balls were like ancient can openers. The finding is a remarkable one; archaeologists have wondered for decades exactly how ancient humans used these stone balls. "Our study provided evidence, for the first time, regarding the function of these enigmatic-shaped stone balls that were produced by humans for almost 2 million years," study lead researcher Ella Assaf, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near East Cultures at Tel Aviv University in Israel, told Live Science in an email. Archaeologists have found "these enigmatic, mysterious artifacts" in some of the world's oldest archaeological sites in Africa, Europe and Asia, but no one in modern times had figured out how these ancient round stones were used, Assaf said. That changed when Assaf and her team came across a cache of 30 stone balls in Qesem Cave in Israel, where humans lived from about 400,000 to 200,000 years ago. To solve the mystery of the stone balls, study senior researcher Emanuela Cristiani, an archaeologist at Sapienza University in Rome, and her colleagues examined the stone balls microscopically. They discovered wear marks and organic residues indicating that the stones "were used by the cave inhabitants to break animal bones and extract the nutritional marrow," Assaf said. However, the international team wanted to be sure, so they did two experiments. In the first, they used cobblestones (naturally rounded stones larger than pebbles) to break apart bones. In the second, the team used tools to shape their own stone balls and then tested them on bones. After busting some bones, the team learned that the shaped stone balls were much more efficient than the natural ones at breaking bones and getting to the marrow, a finding that supported the conclusion from the microscopic analyses. "These tools provide comfortable grip, they don't tend to break easily, and you can rotate them and use them repetitively since they have multiple ridges," Assaf said. "These high ridges help to break the bone in a 'clean' way, and you can extract the marrow relatively easily." Moreover, breaking bones left tiny wear marks on the modern replicas that were "very similar to the archaeological traces" on the ancient stone balls, Assaf said. "This confirmed our preliminary assumption that these items were indeed used to extract bone marrow," she said. Ancient Human Ancestors May Have Grown Big Brains Scavenging Bone Marrow By Thomas Garlinghouse In a paper recently published in the journal Current Anthropology, Jessica Thompson, an anthropologist at Yale University, and her colleagues suggest that hominins were primarily after bone marrow - that gloppy, spongy, calorie-rich substance inside bones - rather than skeletal muscle tissue, or “meat.” “Meat-eating is kind of a misleading term,” said Thompson. “Meat-eating can loosely mean so many things, many of which are not actually meat.” In fact, the researchers believe that skeletal-clinging meat was frequently avoided, perhaps because it can rapidly acquire harmful bacteria from exposure or the mouths of animals. Marrow and brains, by contrast, because they are encased inside bones, retain low bacteria counts and persist much longer without spoiling. The researchers use the term “inside bone nutrients” to distinguish these resources from “outside bone nutrients,” namely the muscle tissue, or meat. Although direct evidence is currently lacking, the researchers contend that the hypothesis allows anthropologists to take a fresh look at the fossil record and the behavior of our early ancestors. In mammals, marrow is where blood cells are produced. It is also high in fat, cholesterol and numerous micronutrients. This rich resource, they believe, may have acted as a catalyst in the development of humans’ distinctively large and complex brain. “The brain is a very expensive organ,” Thompson said. Although it takes up only 2 percent of our body weight, it requires approximately 20 percent of the body’s energy even at rest. This percentage is much higher than what other primates allocate, including humans’ closest relatives, chimpanzees. Over the course of some 6 million years, the size of the human brain has increased by over 300 percent. This evolution required a rich reservoir of energy, one that a diet of lean, wild meat would not have been able to sustain, Thompson and her colleagues contend. “We’re used to thinking of meat as a fatty product,” Thompson said. “But wild game is not very fatty at all. If you eat a lot of lean meat it doesn’t actually provide you with the sustenance you need to function well.” Bone marrow, by contrast, is an excellent source of surplus energy, she said. “Bone marrow is actually a nicely accessible package of fat in an otherwise fat-poor landscape.”
Humans can live off of anything, that's our main evolutionary advantage together with our intelligence. Innuits live off a diet mostly comprised of animal products. Tribes in new guinea live off a diet mostly comprised of sweet potatoes. On the whole, it's likely that cooking and being able to consume starch gave us the biggest advantage not just against nature and other animals but other humans as well: those who had the ability to procure the most starch could build the largest empires. In a lot of tribes it was found that meat consumption is mostly an activity that men carry out on their own: small groups go out for days, hunt and consume most of the animals and only bring back scraps. The bulk of the calories consumed by the tribe comes from nuts, seeds, starches gathered by women and children. So meat is more of a supplemental food than the bulk. It is interesting that even today in modern societies, men consume more meat than women.
Calcified plaques in the arteries of mummified Inuit people from the 1500s have been found, despite a very active lifestyle and diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids. Men have a greater tendency to die earlier than women, all cause mortality.
It is a cultural phenomenon that men pretend to be strong, smart and courageous when they kill an animal. It also reqires that they put aside their capacity for compassion, while women who nurture children more closely tend to show more empathy. It's time for men to get over their resistance to empathy (many have), and move on to more mature behaviors. Men can be strong, smart and courageous in much more valid ways. Vegan men are probably some of the most courageous and strong people, standing up against the macho stupidity of this world.
Additionally, as Mic has discussed, the Inuit who lived mostly on animals were developing atherosclerosis young. Most modern Inuit have jobs and go to the grocery store like the rest of us, and as a result, their lifespans are increased to being like other Canadians.
@@roku3216 Complete nonsense. Look up the BBC interview with the Inuit back in the 1920's, or there abouts. They lived with them and the thing that astonished them the most was the fact that none of them had heart disease at all. That of course has changed now that they consume the same crap the rest of the Western world does. They were fine when they ate their biologically appropriate diet... just like all of us carnivores are.
Awesome topic. The persistence hunting hypothesis is so asinine I can't believe anyone buys it. Surely no one who really believes that hypothesis has actually tried it.
I also read Born to Run a while back when I first started running. I wasn't vegan at the time but I mainly liked the persistence hunter theory because I liked the idea that running was integral to our evolution. As a vegan runner now I like you starch runner hypothesis even more! That said, I thought in the book he described some tribes in South Africa that successfully persistence hunt to this day.
Chimps patrol their territory, i'm sure it's not just convergent evolution that we do too. The faster and longer we run, the larger of a territory we could hold. Patrolling not only protects against rival tribes, but the further one can patrol, the earlier the tribe can be warned of pedators and the less easy it is for those predators to get to the tribe.
Look up Professor R. Brian Ferguson's recent interview uploaded on his new 20 year tome book, "Chimpanzees, war, and history" - he debunks the claim that chimps practice warfare.
@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 does he debunk them being territorial and patrolling though? Chimps are much more peaceful than a lot of sources imply, but they do try and defend their territory from intruders be they predators or rivals.
Fermentation makes great late winter accessible calories of things like hard little crabapples, which birds and many mammals enjoy, so it seems very plausible that early hominids would seek out or deliberately allow to ferment fibrous fruits and roots.
Hey Mic, some interesting information about the topic- my girlfriend comes from a tribe in the pacific ocean (not png) most people don't know about the island (my gf looks African, different to indigenous australias though, much darker then people from png and not like people from soloman islands). She comes from central part of the island which a forrest environment (not close to the ocean). only a few generations ago they were living in the Stone Age and the things i learn about humans from her are interesting to say the least. this is the interesting and relivent part though.. Their entire population of about 300 thousand people that have just come out of living like primal humans.. guess what they eat? the foundation of their entire diet is starches and the other part is eating lots of greens in the form of soup. I've been questioning her for years and what i find is that basicly what is the norm there is eating a soup with lots of greens (similar to how people in the west eat pasta or rice) whith a big amount of starches. there diet is almost 50% tubers and 50% greens in volume but that would equate to startches still being the majorty of calories. with some nuts, fruit regularly and once in a while animal products (sometimes only every couple months). She says that its well known that the people on small islands off the main island that eat lots of fish age very different to the tuber and green eaters on the mainland. the tuber and green eaters stay much much much younger (possible because the sun exposure aswell). They are one of the people that are living almost exactly how they were living in the stone age and there are tribes there that are pretty much unchanged and of course they eat yams, cassava, sweet potato, taro, cooking banana and heaps of greens, that is almost all of what they eat. I hypothesise eating animal products and cannibalism which many primal huamans around the world did was more of a lowe rconciousness cultural habbit and rarely had anything to do with actual survival. I hope this helps, I absolutly adore your channel (From Australia). ps the only people that eat lots of animal products there are people they get rich and then they get fat as fuck and get heart disease. the village people at the age of 80, 90 etc are significantly more able and healthy then westerners. there is more interesting questions i have come up with pertaining to if there genetics actually are closer linked to original humans there the current day africans if original humans arived there and the island acted as a time capsal, just an idea. Their tribal political system is interesting aswell. My girlfriend can count back beyond 20 generations of her blood line. Super different comrehension to western humans. Anyways if you have any questions i'll be happy to provide information and chat. sorry if the paragrpah isn't organised perfectly, i must go for now, all the best for your phenomenal yt channel. what if you do more 'how your body transforms on a vegan diet' and more broad terms to capture and convert more people into higher order of veganism, click bait and convert to save the world type vibe :)
Also cooled starches become resistant starches, and ferment in the gut, and have much more positive health effects than freshly heated starches/potatoes etc
That persistence hunting always sounded off to me, good to hear that people have actually tried it. No way you could run down an animal that's much faster than you are. You will either loose it, or it can take naps while waiting for you.
As I understand it, you first injure it. When it flees, it overheats, so even with a rest until you catch up, it is still hot, this continues until it cannot go on due to heat exhaustion
Yes but starch comes from the forager half of the hunter forager system and that's boring and unsexy because women do that. Rather than manly hunting. I forgot the name of the tribe but Liver King and some other dude bros went to hang out with the men who mainly caught some rabbits and collected massive amounts of honey, while they ignored all the roots and tubers the women were collecting. Viva Longevity! channel has a video on it called "Burn" I think.
It shows how much its about fantasy, because every time people talk about hunting etc. they talk about hunting big game etc. While in reality, we hunted much mainly more smaller animals. But hunting rodents, birds or monkeys just does not sound that cool. Or eating insects.
@@Nobody-Nowhere Yes there's a hilarious bit in that video I mentioned where the men have gathered lots of honeycomb and offer a piece to the carnivore bro. It is full of the grubs so they were getting protein from the honey as well as glucose calories. Carnivore bro took a bite and looked like he was going to puke, haha.
Nice concept. It’s an easy workout. The „rangers with a home base“ model can be seen in historical Native American populations. It was the dominant form of habitation and existence for the longest time. These were basically „Stone Age“populations that remained that way until Europeans showed up. Even earlier; the Natufians and their successors in the Middle East have left enough archaeological evidence to say that for them, this too was the dominant form of civilization. As for chasing animals; they were chasing animals wounded by primitive hunting tools. The San bushmen of South Africa still know how to do that. No sane person thinking about their next meal is going to try and chase an antelope or deer. They will go for the easy calories. Humans aren’t runners per say, they are rangers. Farming started because people wanted to have a more predictable and controlled access to these starches. Animal husbandry probably started because those animals were just hanging around, attracted to the crops. (Everybody loves a good idea 👍)
the animals are not just "wounded" since the san Bushmen use a deadly poison on their arrowheads - the poison had no known antidote. So they are tracking down an animal that will die once it is hit with the arrow. Still 80% of the original human culture diet is from tubers and greens and nuts. The DNA science now shows the "pygmies" split from the San Bushmen 225,000 years ago and before that a "ghost archaic" human existed that was the basis of the short stature of the pygmies-san bushmen. That short stature was adapted due the equatorial rainforest hunting - not some running grasslands hunting lifestyle. But certainly after the Mt. Toba supervolcano explosion 70,000 years ago the San Bushmen lived in a part of AFrica least affected and thus best able to survive - using more advanced hunting technology (bows with poison).
@@jinxterx Sorry, I live in Germany and my system is bilingual. I obviously overlooked this one. I had to edit my comment 3 times, to correct that sneaky autocorrect. It changes things as they are being published. (Cheap excuse, but my only one)
We lack some traits found in carnivorous and omnivorous animals but the thing is there are no or ever have been vegan tribal communities or societies, vegan is a diet of ethics but does not stand up well as a natural fallacy.
I agree, and let's not forget that sometimes hominids or humans had good numbers, and sometimes they almost died out or did die out. At times when there were more individuals the social interactions could have been very positive for intelligence, and even when times were especially difficult a new course of action could have made a major difference for future intelligence. It would all have depended a lot on simple luck and timing.
Some super smart and educated people in the comments. Don’t usually see that in comments these days. Just found your channel … very interesting and I’m sure more research will follow. I am by no means educated in this area but I’d suppose the easy “catch” was fish. Maybe our ancestors simply ate berries, plants, fish and nuts, seeds, roots.. starch. And once they learned to use tools for hunting , then small land fowl and mammals? We might never know, but it just seems to make sense to me. When you’re hungry you’ll probably eat just about anything I’d suppose
Apparently fishing didn't really start until 70,000-80,000 years ago. Which is also about when our brains started to shrink back down again. ;) Well done for finding this channel. The back catalogue of videos on here is amazing.
Back when I was a mostly-sedentary full vegan was when I could out-run and out-hike people ten years younger than me and be the only one without muscle aches the next day -- with the only exception of the one person who took my advice to slowly drink a smoothie along the way.
There is an old you tube video that actually filmed young San bushmen hunting where one of them was actually successful runny down the animal to panting exhaustion where it was effortlessly killed. The other young San bushmen hunters gave him recognition,saying that only he was able to master this most difficult way of hunting.
Running from forest area to forest area to find a bunch of edible plants and fruits always made more sense to me than wasting energy chasing after animals to complete exhaustion
Mic, you missed something... I love ya man, but most people think uncooked starchy roots are just tougher to digest, but you also have to realize that many starchy roots and tubers (especially out of Africa) like yams and cassava are toxic when raw. Cooking deactivates these toxins rendering an entirely new food source accessible. Sure ground nut and bambara are better cooked, but still edible raw, but the fact that many foods are no longer toxic when cooked is a huge advantage for us starchivores 👍💪💪
He also kind of missed the topic of nixtamalization, and how that process was the unsung hero of helping natives of North America skip the pellagra 'epidemic' entirely, by 'unlocking' nutrients in maize, while others were getting sick and deficient by eating the improper, newly forming Standard American Diet.
Nixtamalization goes back some 2500 years ago at least, and so it existed loooong before people ever got the modern idea of 'enriching' common, lower quality foods. B12 might be a scam too, due to the theory of some crucial B vitamins being available in fermented foods, but that's a topic that's only recently been revealed to me.
Sure it is poisonous, plants do not want to get eaten either. Also wild roots and tubers barely contain any starch, so this whole theory is just silly.
It seems logical to me that once prehumans moved past bugs and other low effort protein sources, having already sustained some brain growth, "defensive hunting" seems to be the most pragmatic source for the meat we did eat, ie a predator chasing you that you take down through teamwork and/or wit seems a much more efficient meat resource compared to chasing down an antelope for 12 hours. In this way meat eating becomes much more opportunistic as well, consistent with data showing our low reliance on it throughout history
Nope. Many do run in ketosis. Body can store only very little sugars: it is poison after all. On other hand, body does store thousands and thousands of calories as fat. In ketosis, body can easily use this fat as fuel, so humans in this state can easily do marathon and more. After appropriate training of course ;)
@@robertbloch1063do you have examples of ultra marathon runners doing it in ketosis? Serious question. I think it's much easier to replenish energy using glucose than fat so I'd like to know how they do that (if it's real)
@@jinxterx It is you that's talking out of something other than your mouth. The fact is that when your fully loaded with carbs you have access to around 2,000 calories of energy. On carnivore when you become fully fat adapted, even the leanest person has access to around 100,000 calories of energy. Many top athletes know this and are now carnivore. The New Zealand All Blacks for example, the world's strongest man, Eddie Hall being another. And then of course there's Alex McDonald who completed five marathons in five days while completely fasted, consuming only water and salt. A feat only possible if you're fat adapted and don't consume contraindicated carbohydrates. This is our natural state throughout our 5 million year evolution. Alex has been adhering to a low carbohydrate high fat (LCHF) / ketogenic diet for more than 13 years and has thus been fat adapted for significant period of time. Advice from both a qualified dietician and a team of medical doctors has ensured an optimised ketogenic diet was followed. Stop following clowns like Mic The Vegan and go back to school and learn how the body really works.
@@RibeyeRob basic biochemistry dude: literally every cell in the body runs on glucose. Ketosis is an emergency state that occurs in starvation. Just because you can eat sh*t doesn't mean you should. Cut carbs, cut life. Carbs beats ketosis every single time and real science proves it over and over again. I think it's you that needs to get an education.
Fantastic! I loved Born to Run though not convinced with the hypothesis of evolution for persistence hunting. It does not seem essential to believe that Homo sapiens sapiens can travel incredibly long distances and run a whole lot perhaps intermittently in order to hunt. We can imagine migrating extraordinarily far in order to look for food. The idea of a home base would suggest farming, in some fashion, and that for me seems contrived, for early humans. There must have been a lot of movement and migration, in challenging conditions and frequent famine. The primitive carnivore, as you suggested, is impractical, unlikely, and ludicrous. And running without starch, well… why hunt if you have starchy vegetables? Just eat! 😂 This was a great video. You should discuss with Scott Jurek for a follow up to this video. I’m sure he would not be keen on preying on antelopes. ❤
Nicely done. If you think only in terms of availability and ease of discovery, digging for tubers is way more energy efficient than chasing down prey. I would have been vegetarian only because I am lazy, and wouldn't want to work so hard just to eat. 😊
I think you're onto something with your hypothesis. It might be a combination of starch and the nutrient dense forest fruit hypothesis put forth by Tony Wright in "Return to the Brain of Eden." That book also hypothesizes that recent brain shrinkage is a result of increased carnivory after we left the rainforests and dispersed to less hospitable climates... probably learning carnivory from our less intelligent cousins that had already left the forests such as neanderthals.
We don’t have to hypothesize on the proportions of meat and plants in our ancestors diet. We can measure it. Nitrogen isotopes in bones and collagen repeatedly show we got 70% of our calories from meat. These results are repeatable across many studies and from many different areas
Only a few studies on starch. Most are how man evolved near water where fish diet, over thousands yrs, allowed brain to grow and setup to provide structure and intelligence of today.
@@JohnDoe-s3v2vDHA & EPA Omega-3 fatty acids make fish one of the best things we can eat for our brains that are made primarily out of fat. The idea that it would hurt our brain is nonsensical & ludacris! Ruminant animals are the cleanest most nutrient dense thing we can eat, & that also helped develop our brains to what they are today. The majority of our evolution was eating these two things, & it's been proven with stable isotope testing. Our biology & real science also prove it. We can't draw the correct logical conclusions, if we get our information from biased corrupt false studies. Leviticus 11 of the Bible specifically says to eat these things. Jesus said, "Eat split hooved animals that chew the cud." These are Ruminant animals with four chambered stomachs capable of breaking down plant matter, filtering out plant defense chemicals, plant toxins, anti-nutrients, & even many environmental pollutants, while also providing more nutrients than any other food on the planet in more nutrient dense bioavailable or absorbable forms. Ruminant animals eat grass & weeds with long root systems capable of reaching deep within the soil & sucking up nutrients not available near the surface or in hydroponically grown or nutrient void unrated soils most crops are grown in. Fish contain iodine the blocks fluoride & and boride absorption. Every cell in our body needs iodine to function. Most of our soils are depleted of iodine, & so the best source is from the ocean. The most bioavailable forms are small scaled fish with fins, shellfish, & other small fish that have not accumulated high levels of mercury or other pollution. Iodine is important to regulate our thyroid hormones that stabilize mood. Running on animal fats for fuel allows us to convert those fats to ketones with ketogenesis, or a healthier form of glucose than exogenous carbohydrates provide, through a process known as gluconeogenesis. That allows us to regulate our blood sugar levels at a steady 4 grams without creating an insulin Spike that kicks us out of fat burning, and ketosis, preventing us from using our fat soluble vitamins, and ketones to power our brain with the correct fuel. Glucose burns fast, volatile, & erratic, like rocket fuel. Fat burns slow, gentle, & efficient, without creating damaging oxidative stress & glycation to our cells that can cause, speed up the growth of, & spread cancer to surrounding tissues.
So far best theory i've heard how we evolve from herbivore to hunter-gatherers is bone marrow... Someone figured out that there was delicious fat inside big bones and all you have to do is crush them with big rock. No other animal, except hyeenas, could use this super nutritious stuff. This is how our brains start to grow, and sometimes, much, much later we starting to hunt. So we were some kind of herbivore-scavengers for a looong time.
It seems likely to me that weapons were involved in the final metres of a persistence hunt. Chimps use tools and throwing a rock or a stick and eventually a spear is the obvious way to injure/kill while risking less injury ourselves. Perhaps we started as starch runners and when the forests receded even more we started to include more animals in our diet, as our running and tool use allowed weapon assisted persistence hunts.
Starch runner quote -I've seen things you people wouldn't believe ,Attacked chips on fire off the shoulder of O' Ryan. I watched sea beans glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like beers in the rain. Time to vegan diet.
Water bottles could actually have been a thing for quite some time in human history. When I was in Tanzania they showed me a “kibuyu”. Google it, it’s basically a bottle made from a baobab pod. So it’s possible early humans user this and carried water while traveling around.
You don't have to run to eat yams. Just wander to a new piece of land every few weeks. Running is for hunting. And the brain grew because of honey. We started eating a lot of honey after we learned to use smoke. Check out the Hadza tribe. Eating starch and grains in large quantities made possible the phenomenon of big cities, religions and ownership.
Funny thing, I can't eat starch lol🙃 No bread, rice, potatoes, legumes etc. Not even banana's that don't yet have spots on them. Gives me neurological problems for a week!
Good video. I’ve always considered survival a game of energy and wandering around picking up vegetables and fruit is certainly less energy intensive. One problem regarding hunting is that I don’t think anyone in the past would have chased after animals as humans, as you pointed out, aren’t that fast but looking at primitive societies that hunt today they seem to be more of ambush hunters either setting traps or waiting for animals at a location like a water hole. We have historical records of Plains tribes directing buffalo herds toward buffalo jumps. Even today hunters sit in a blind waiting for deer or ducks to come by. Fish traps were extensively used and I doubt it took more energy to wander over to your fish trap than it does to collect some tubers. Our ancient ancestors were primitive, not stupid. In an environment that could kill you in many ways they probably took advantage of any food source within reach. On another note why aren’t there any Olympic Marathon Champions from the Tarahumara tribe in Mexico. All the recent ones seem to come from Africa.
there is some evidence that humans figured out the lunar and some solar cycles tens of thousands of years ago and with that the animals' migratory cycles. Then they simply had to get in the path of the migrating animals and wait. For running humans have 60-120 minutes of glycogen. you can run on starch but then your glycogen is used up faster and you need to keep eating more all the time. this is why marathon runners always take snacks or sugar with them. Other strategy is to be fat adapted where you train your body to run on fat. if you want to run faster longer you still need to supplement with sugar but in theory you can train your body to go long distances mostly on fat. people have done marathons on the carnivore diet but protein is turned into glucose by the body so it's not all fat.
This video will attract the carnivore “we evolved to eat meat” arguments. They should be fine eating raw meat, without any refrigeration or preservative methods then. Fact is, technology allows humans to eat meat, not nature.
Mic I love the content but its astonishing how you can go this many years and still not realize we are frugivores and frugivorous more than anything. Fruit is our species specific diet by and large. Also the only tasty thing when raw.
This BS about Mic not looking healthy. Anyone who has studied diagnosis (physiognomy) can see strong signs of health in Mic's face. Clear eyes, clear skin, to start with. Facial and lip colour is good. No darkness under his eyes, spots or pimples, saggy flesh, puffiness. His facial and head hair shows strong growth. It's patently obvious he is eating a clean diet that doesn't create excess that needs to be discharged on his face (or anywhere else). And his well-proportioned face shows a strong constitution. So cut the crap - sorry Mic (if you read this) that I have felt it necessary to defend you in such a potentially embarrassing, or revealing, way. Wishing you all the best with continuing your important, common-sense, work!
when it comes down to it, isnt the argument in favor of the theory of persistence hunting just an appeal to nature fallacy anyways? if the evidence shows that consuming animals raises your risk of heart disease then why does it matter?
I think we lost some average intelligence when moving into cities. Many people alive today would not, I think, be smart enough to survive as hunter gatherers.
They'd think they would need to hunt animals. Not realiea if you kill a species too often, too frequent there isn't enough to hunt. You'd always have people who know how to farm vegetables because even city dwellers have their own garden patch. I also suspect people would just use backwards yard hens.
i think the science is skewed some of the best and longest runners I know and that my friends know are carnivore and I really don’t swing one way or another just merely friends with a lot of runners. I just eat everything so long as it’s not processed.
protein is turned into sugar in the body. I did a higher protein diet for around 6 months earlier this year and my A1C went up. I think fat adapted running is the way to go but carnivore isn't some magic sugar free diet and berry and others push electrolytes since apparently you don't get enough on their magic diet
Ive done both sides of the diets I feel we need to combine have a balance. I reckon people are not digesting there food properly drinking lots of soda / water during meals and lots of meals .
@@ostamaza22-yt4sq great, actually. I haven't had a cavity in years, and have been consuming drinks with 1/4 cup of sugar, several times per day for the better part of 6 months now.
@@ostamaza22-yt4sq not sure if my comments are coming through. But I've been consuming at least 1/4 cup of sugar for the better part of 6 months, and have not had cavities in years. This is in part due to using an herbal tooth powder in my personal hygiene routine, but also because sugar has been falsely pinned down as the culprit of cavity-causing foods.
@@ostamaza22-yt4sq look up Sweet Fruitness, and find her videos on sugar. I'll recommend a specific one if my comments actually make it through this time 🤔
Yes, I feel so much better now that I'm not deficient in yellow. I need to do some bloods though because I think my sky blue levels might low. Seriously, people who think that "eating a rainbow" is the key to good health are clearly lacking in something... and it's not colours.
How anyone can believe that we were apex carnivores is hard to understand. Carnivores have big mouths and big teeth . How else could you bring down an animal and kill it before weapons were invented. You would also need a powerful jaw and large sharp teeth to cut through skin and tendons. Then there's our senses. We have a lousy sense of smell compared to actual carnivores. Our night vision is poor and our eyes are actually really well attuned to seeing different shades of green more than any other colour. Surely this is to learn the difference between safe and toxic plants. Of course we did eat some meat, but these were probably small rodents and especially insects. Even entirely vegetarian species such as gorillas would eat insects which were feeding on their plants.
Nonsense. " How else could you bring down an animal and kill it before weapons were invented." - tools are used by apes, closest to us chimps already do hunt, kill and enjoy meat. Early humans could only do better. We also have best tool already embedded in out body: hands. "Then there's our senses." Eyes. We have awesome eyes that cannot be easily deceived by camouflage. Keep in mind, hunting does not mean always going for a mammoth. More often this was small game: birds, squirrels, mice, fish, clamps, snails, insects... All you need for those are hands.
@david7780 It is funny that you think apex predators need big mouth or teeth. Humans use intelligence which made us apex. Tribal people without sophisticated tools can successfully hunt deers and boars using spears, sticks, or traps. They can even trick animals to fall into cliffs. Your logic also is against you. If we are herbivores, why are you not grazing? Why do you need spoon, knives or plates to eat. Why do you need to cook rice? The answer is the same. Humans are smart enough to use tools.
Yes, many fruits (esp tropical) are loaded with complex and simple sugars, they are easy to "hunt". I guess humans ate those first and slowly accepted tasteless starches (tubers) later
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My response to the challenge that wild root didn't have much starch so my theory is bunk: I do agree that many of the wild versions of plants that we eat today were meager starch sources but that doesn't mean that larger, wild varieties didn't exist. For example the wild ancestor of the Guinea Yam can be seen here with roots just as big as what we see in the grocery store today: www.researchgate.net/figure/Semences-de-D-praehensilis-comestibles-a-et-b-semenceaux-fragments-de-tubercules-c_fig4_318793655
We also have things like starchy tiger nuts which were the main dietary component of some of our ancestors: "An Oxford University study has concluded that our ancient ancestors who lived in East Africa between 2.4 million and 1.4 million years ago survived mainly on a diet of tiger nuts."
"The Oxford study calculates a hominin could extract sufficient nutrients from a tiger nut-based diet - i.e. around 10,000 kilojoules or 2,000 calories a day, or 80% of their required daily calorie intake - in two and half to three hours. "
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2014-01-09-ancient-human-ancestor-nutcracker-man-lived-tiger-nuts
Finally, these large tubers are allegedly the wild Lesser Yam and are massive so it would need to be verified but it at least shows that wild, unfarmed plants can achieve massive starchy root systems: th-cam.com/video/J0vp5PvQpvs/w-d-xo.htmlsi=kwIZtEPKSpQ2FJbg&t=1008
A worse fiber to starch ratio also doesn't mean that there weren't enough calories around, just that more fiber would be consumed which is on track with the 100g fiber coprolites we find.
Very cool indeed. Please sign me up for half a pound of tiger nuts! 👍
Even then the hadza average 15000 steps a day from the numbers I’ve heard. No one is running 400 miles in the western world
One thing eating starch for that amount of energy expenditure and another for modern people who drive and sit most of the day
When are you scheduled for your liver transplant yellow Man?
@@MrSir-n1c Your device seems to have a defective screen.
Why do we get CAVITIES from starch but not from meat? Vegans don’t think to the end, they just stay with the part they like, that may be why some think they are stupid.
Another point about fire- I read a while back that cooking meat increases the calorie availability for humans by about 2-3x. Whereas cooking starch increases the calorie availability by 10x. In other words, as the only animal who cooks food, starch would give us a bigger “unique win” that no other animal would be able to get (except the dogs we were feeding)
Starch runner was my nickname back when I used to smuggle potatoes across the the rio grande. Good times 🥔
It’s not just about how we evolved. It’s about what we are evolving towards.
Time does not stand still. We either evolve towards veganism or we regress to our destruction.
Imagine what the carnivore crowd has to say about this: "So, it took all that starch to get us to the point where our brains would become smart enough to know that we shouldn't be eating it."
If mental gymnastics were in the olympics, the carnivore crowd would be top tier.
@@jonatanolsen37 lol love that. beautifully stated
They just think we always ate meat all the time.
@carinaekstrom1 yes 3 milions years
@@presterjohn1697 Thanks! I had to eat a lot of starch to come up with it.
Excellent presentation, clear facts. Love it!
CAVITIES is a big problem for vegans.
I completely agree with this. I’m convinced hunting was primarily a social behavior rather than a food gathering event. A way to establish pecking order and bond, etc.
It seems to be dude violence-bonding time with chimpanzees, since meat is like 1-2% of their diet.
Now that is retarded.
Eating meat is still very “statusy” to the ketovores. They claim a plant based diet is for slaves.
I love learning things with Mic! A school teacher like him would be so great😊
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I'm A Carnivore & Love It... Saved My Life!
After healing, our tissues are more sensitive for a while, so it seems like we are too, but it's actually a good thing our bodies can recognize damage from foreign material, have an inflammatory response, & begin healing quicker, & much more effectively. A cut that used to take me 3 months to heal, now only takes a few days! If we become numb to the things that hurt us, we can't tell when we're being hurt, & this is no way to live. This is part of "knowing thyself" in ancient Greek Philosophy! We've lost touch with many parts of ourselves, but proper diet, sun, fresh air, & grounding, are pieces of this puzzle. In a low inflammatory state we are able to use mitosis & autophagy to heal. We don't recognize these senses & abilities, because they were stolen from us at birth, with spoonfuls of high glycemic foods that kicked us out of fat burning, & into a constant mind fogging inflammatory glucose burning state or a lifelong chronic state of pain that we become accustomed to, & we don't know is happening. We just become cranky, nutrient deficient, irritable people, usually with brain damage, before we realize anything is wrong, reducing cognitive abilities needed to save ourselves... chronic stress turns into narcissism soon after that. We are indoctrinated into a culture, with "multiple choice," giving us the illusion of freedom, but almost every turn is a trap. We can't stop doing things that harm us, even after realizing how bad they are, because of addictive substances pushed on to us by greedy corporations. Food Bliss points & addictions are real, & even small addictions turn into big ones. I researched many different condiments, hidden complex carbs, lab synthesized addictive substances they add to foods, or even just basic spices with small amounts of plant defense chemicals, plant toxins, anti-nutrients, & carbs to feed a bad bacteria that signals us to crave bad foods. When we get down to the science of everything, we realize how everything is connected. Dr. Anthony Chaffey says that removing the last 5% of this stuff makes us feel 90% better. It's easy to overlook anti-nutrients & defense chemicals in seasonings, & artificial sweetener, or electrolyte powders with "natural flavors," which could be addictive insulin, & dopamine spiking artificial sweeteners, or over 200 other things... Small amounts of dead bugs are under this category, & L-cysteine is an amino acid used to lengthen the shelf-life of products like bread, & can come from human hair, chicken or duck feathers, & cow horns! Potentially harmful artificial & synthetic chemicals are often used in the processing of natural flavors, & these don't have to be listed on nutrition labels. These are food manufacturing byproducts that our bodies don't recognize, & cause repeated inflammatory responses or chronic inflammation that eventually results in autoimmune disease, cancer, & death! Our bodies are highly sensitive once we're cleaned out. Even low glycemic sweeteners, like Allulose, Stevia, & Monk fruit will affect us negatively in minimal ways. So when we're putting in just a little bit we still feel it. Most condiments are full of harmful lab synthesized chemicals. These chemicals cause more damage to our bodies than we realize, when we're numb. Remaining in an inflamed state prevents us from healing. Our healed rebuilt tissues are more sensitive, but it's a good thing to know when there's incoming damage, so that our bodies can react to heal quicker. Chronic pains most accept as normal parts of aging, improve, or disappear entirely... I feel Amazing, pain free, satiated, & beyond happy... Euphoric! I had autoimmune diseases, insulin resistance, & cancer, about to die! Now with the proper fuel, & a healed mind, I understand why! Now, I expect to live to be 120... To think I spent most of my life wishing it would all just end! We've been lied to! We need to erase the lies from our mind, especially in the areas of faulty medical science, & the censoring of real history that controls these false narratives, such as the Inquisitions, Crusades, & many other homicidal events... Deceitful corrupt religious rule, & governmental control, oppression, legalized slavery, brainwashing schools, & tactics, etc... Gaslighting, subliminal messages, & catchphrases on repeat until we believe them. They literally drug us with thousands of chemicals to reduce our cognitive abilities, make us more docile, manipulatable, & susceptible to their deceit! There's a way to break free from this trap! The first step is to STOP drinking, cooking, & bathing with Fluoride that calcifies the pineal gland, short circuits our brain, & causes Dental & Skeletal Fluorosis, reducing teeth & bone mineral density, making them weak & brittle. Fluoride is in nearly everything that municipal water touches, & is added to many products. Toxic fluoride & bromide compete with essential iodine & chloride absorption & effects thyroid function, resulting in debilitating mood disorders like hypo/hyperthyroidism & Hashimoto's.
There is no essential carb. We're forced to create excessive amounts of insulin that causes diabetes when we eat too much sugar & carbs. We become lost in a fog that we don't realize we're in, then we don't realize we're not supposed to be eating them. Glucose feeds bad bacteria that send us hunger signals. Too much fat won't hurt us, it will just come out in our stool. We've been fear mongered into believing that fat is bad, but it is essential! Fat is good for us, & we need to be burning fat in order to absorb our "fat soluble" vitamins. Fat doesn't make us fat... High insulin producing food such as sugar, carbs, processed foods, & other things our bodies don't recognize, & have to get out of the way, is what makes us fat. Insulin is a hormone that sends a signal to our body to store fat. The higher the insulin spike, the more fat we store. This is why high glycemic foods cause us to gain more weight. Even seeing, smelling, chewing food, or sipping on sugary drinks will create a small insulin response. Our bodies only burn glucose first as a defense mechanism. Glucose creates the same inflammatory response to our cells, & similar levels of addictive dopamine signaling in the addiction centers of our brain, as meth & cocaine! Glucose burns similarly to rocket fuel, fast, volatile, & erratic in a way that's damaging to cells. The deaths of many carb loading bodybuilders show clear evidence, & the results dictate the outcome of burning glucose for fuel! We produce insulin to signal our bodies to turn sugar, carbs, fructose, & honey into glucose to be stored as unhealthy, but usable starvation fuel or glycogen stores. This is the subcutaneous fat under our skin, visceral fat smothering our organs, & glycating into a sticky syrup like substance, as it lingers in our blood, & arteries, eventually hardening, clogging them, causing heart attacks & strokes. Insulin is produced to protect us & signals our bodies to promptly store away high levels of dangerous sticky glucose. The insulin that we can produce is limited, especially without proper nutrients, & the thyroid mechanisms responsible for this process can wear out, causing diabetes. Carbs mixed with protein, or worse fructose combined with protein, when consumed, & metabolized together, create sticky proteins or glycation, that clogs arteries faster. We have to figure out the amount of fat we need, which varies based on our size, activity levels, & energy needed to heal. It wasn't until I was running on ketones for fuel that I realized how much power we use for our brain. Cognitive & regenerative abilities increase tremendously while running on ketones! Jesus said, "Eat split out animals that two cud." (Leviticus 11) “Then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:32) Eating 90% meat based is good, 95% is great, 100% is amazing! Regeneratively raised grass-fed ruminants with access to a diversity of grass, & nutrient dense weeds will contain the highest, "cleanest" levels of nutrients. Ruminants both "clean" the meat & make the nutrients absorbable for us. This is very important! For the best results we need to be eating lamb, goat, deer, elk, bison, cattle, etc... primarily. Small scale fish with fins such as sardines & salmon, & minimal amounts of other meats such as chicken, turkey & pork can also be included. Fish should be wild caught, & these animals don't filter contaminants, & must be fed their ancestrally evolved appropriate diets. Microplastics & forever chemicals are contaminating practically everything. Much more than this becomes gluttonous, & we pay for it with our health. Wean into the carnivore diet, the oxalate dumping period (diarrhea) of flushing stored contaminants over decades of eating inappropriately, can be brutal! This only lasts a short time, then we heal & feel amazing. Autoimmune diseases & even most cancers can be cured with appropriate nutrients in adequate amounts... This is because most diseases are actually nutritional deficiencies & damaged cells from environmental pollutants. Most Cancers are metabolic diseases, caused by fake food!
Dr. Anthony Chaffee, Dr. Ken Berry, & Dr. Shawn Baker are great references for additional advice on a proper human diet. Please support the TH-cam channel HomesteadHow & check out their documentary "Healing Humanity." Steak & Butter Gal has a great support network, especially for women. Between them there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions of success stories. All these wonderful people are doing a great job of spreading the word of a proper human diet. We all know how difficult it can be to switch from an addictive SAD diet, to a healthy one. They have channels on TH-cam, covering what we need to know to thrive. Regenerative farming can lead us all back to good health! Good luck on your journey. We Are One!
Nice thesis....when one finds time to read
I was hoping you'd come back to this topic! great vid!
Starch is life, starch is love. 💚🍠🥔
Starch is sugar and sugar is a metabolic poison.
I understand that the vegan brain doesn't work that well but seriously, you carb addicts are really deluded.
Starch is poison... Body does everything to get rid of it. When human eat starch, hormonal response triggers panic switch from normal fat burning to emergency glucose burning.
Thanks for your video, keep that kind of research review coming !
Ahah, been waiting for this one. Thx Mic. Cheers.
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I'm A Carnivore & Love It... Saved My Life!
The carnivore diet saved my life! Primarily I enjoy ruminant animals with four chambered stomachs capable of breaking down plant matter, filtering out plant defense chemicals, plant toxins, anti-nutrients, & even many environmental pollutants, while also providing all essential nutrients in more bioavailable or absorbable forms than any other food. Most soils are depleted of iodine, but we can get this from small fish such as sardines or salmon, as well as iodine supplementation in the form of drops or capsules.
Regeneratively raised Ruminant animals eat grass & weeds with long root systems that reach deep within the soil, sucking up nutrients not available near the surface, or hydroponically grown fruits, & vegetables, or crops grown in soils void of nutrients, & also doused in estrogenic pesticides, & carcinogenic herbicides, that runoff into our water supply, poisoning our bee population needed for our cycle of life. Bee's pollinate vegetation, so that we have nutrient dense ruminant animals to eat. This is our primary species appropriate source of nutrition, & what our ancestors evolved adapting to eat... As well as small scaled fish with fins, eggs, some small birds or chickens, & minimal amounts of other specific meats, all of which is viable but less optimal than ruminants. (Leviticus 11)
Plants have goitrogens, thousands of defense chemicals, plant toxins, lectins, oxalates, tannins, phytates, phytoestrogens, & more, all anti-nutrients that keep us from breaking down proteins, nutrients, & essential amino acids. They're responsible for hormonal imbalances, gastrointestinal distress, kidney stones... there's a vast list of symptoms, & autoimmune diseases. Ruminant animals are the only thing that filter this stuff out for us. Plant defense chemicals, toxins, & anti-nutrients are in practically everything, except ruminant animal meat.
An inflammatory response occurs as a result of cell damage. This lets us, & our bodies know when to repair. Continuing to consume even small amounts of anti-nutrients such as phytates, tannins, oxalates, gluten & other anti-nutrients or lectins, will cause diarrhea or "oxalate dumping." Chronic inflammation, & stress prevents healing. Our mitochondria make up our cells. We use mitosis to dispel or metabolize old damaged mitochondria & autophagy uses old mitochondrial tissue to repair & replace other damaged ones, creating new vibrant healthy cells. This repair process keeps us healthy, looking great, & feeling amazing! Fat has been demonized, but we need fat to absorb our "fat soluble" vitamins. Fat is good for us! Same with electrolytes, salt, or trace minerals. Some need potassium & magnesium supplements or additional salts. There are different types of magnesium. Magnesium oxide & magnesium citrate are laxatives. I recommend more absorbable magnesium glycinate & malate. Redmond Re Lyte Electrolytes has these forms of magnesium… ELMT is another good one.
Fluoride is added to the municipal water supply to "strengthen teeth," but it has the opposite effect, causing Dental & Skeletal Fluorosis. This reduces the mineral density of our teeth & bones, making them weak & brittle. It also dumbs us down, & makes us more docile & manipulatable. In other words they're using fluoride to brainwash & program us. There is no helpful reason to add it to our water supply, & it's been proven to cause cancer, but they still steadily increase the amount that they put in the water supply. A decalcified pineal gland increases our intuition, allowing us to recognize deceit, like a sixth sense, with validity like that which our eyes & ears provide! We have to filter drinking, cooking, & bathing water with filters that will remove fluoride & other chemicals abundant in our area. Iodine helps detox from toxic fluoride & bromine, which compete for essential Iodine & chloride absorption. Dr. David Brownstein said, "In our toxic world, I don't think there's enough Iodine in the microgram dose to detox from fluoride & bromine."
Over a lifetime of new profound Awakenings or epiphanies, we become Enlightened. We gain clarity, peace of mind, & "Christ consciousness." Jesus said, "And you will know the truth and The truth will set you free." (John 8:32) Jesus was a humble, non egotistical man that found his way, made it his mission to heal others, & we can too! With a healthy body, a strong Awakened mind, & an Enlightened soul full of love, our hearts will guide us. "Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eye is unclouded your whole body is full of light." (Luke 11:34) "So Jacob called the name of the place pineal saying, I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved." (Genesis 32:30) A calcified pineal gland impairs mental function, making us docile & more easily manipulated. A decalcified pineal gland allows us to recognize deceit. This is known as the opening of the Third Eye, a sixth sense that dramatically increases intuition, with "Christ consciousness." "Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know." (Jeremiah 33:3) These were the true teachings of Christ... Every Christ that has ever walked the Earth or ever will, has conveyed this message.
Christ, derived from the Greek word "Christos," means "anointed one" in Greek, or Savior & Messiah, meaning Awakened & Enlightened. The Holy Spirit is the same as Christ's Spirit & God's Spirit. They are one & the same! (Romans 8:9-10; Ephesians 3:16-17; Colossians 1:27) "We Are All One in Christ." (Galatians 3:23-29) There is no "I," only "we," for We are part of One Spirit, just as our limbs are part of one body! We become "One With All That Is." (John 17:21) "One who is awakened by the Holy Spirit is recreated into a completely new person."(2 Corinthians 5:17)
A Message from The Greats!
Newton's third law states, "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction."
Hermes Trismegistos said, "As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul…"
Imam Ali Bin Abi taleb said, "Knowledge is power, and it can command obedience."
"The most effective way to destroy people, is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."- George Orwell
“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled.”- Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain, author, writer
Christianity tells us to ignore other teachings. Yeshua (Jesus) tells us something different.
"He who seeks, let him not cease seeking until he finds; and when he finds he will be troubled, and when he is troubled he will be amazed, and he will reign over All."- Yeshua (Jesus) (Gospel of Thomas commentary)
"If a blind man leads a blind man, they will both fall into a pit."- Jesus (Luke 6:39)(Matt 15:10-20)(Book of Thomas, 34)
"Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it." (Proverbs 4:23)
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." (Luke 6:31)(Matthew 7:12)(The Golden Rule)
Samuel Clemens said, "Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see."- aka Mark Twain
"To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our minds strong and clear. (Siddhartha Gautama) (Buddha) Buddha means, "A person who is Awake."
"Good health starts in the gut." "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food."- Hippocrates
"Except the one whose faith is weak without Coral over disputable matters. One person believes he may eat anything while THE WEAK PERSON EATS ONLY VEGETABLES." (Romans 14:1)
"And God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you IT SHALL BE FOR MEAT.” (Genesis 1:29)
Vegetation is primarily for our animals, not us! We're not ruminants with stomachs biologically designed to break down plant matter, & filter out damaging plant defense chemicals, plant toxins, & anti-nutrients. Ruminant animals can even filter out toxic environmental pollutants with their long four chambered digestive tracts. We need the biological material of animals to replace our damaged animal parts. Ruminants eat grass & weeds with long root systems that reach deep within the Earth sucking up nutrients not available near the surface or in hydroponically grown, or unrotated nutrient void soils most crops are grown in.
"Eat split hooved animals that chew the cud."-Yeshua Hamashiach, (Jesus)(Leviticus 11) Ruminants that graze eating grass, & nutrient dense weeds... Lamb, goat, deer, elk, bison, & cattle, etc... primarily.
"And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate." (Luke 15:23)
"We didn't evolve to eat meat, we evolved because we ate meat." (Richard Wrangham, Primatologist)
"Ruminants are our evolved ancestrally appropriate diet." (Dr. Ken Berry)
"It's kind of nice to be aging backwards basically." (Dr. Shawn Baker)
“There is no essential carbohydrate,” “Everything your body needs can be made from proteins and fats that you eat." (Dr. Bessler)
"The lymphatic system prefers ketones over glucose for fuel." (Dr. Leslyn Keith)
"Plants are trying to kill you." (Dr. Anthony Chaffee)
"Red dye, yellow dye, blue dye, you die!" (Dr. Mark Hyman)
"Take away the excess of toxicity, get what you need, & that's the core of integrated function." (Dr. Sid Baker)
"When you improve your health, you are improving the planet." (Dr. Peter Ballerstedt)
Alexander Hamilton said, “If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.”
Albert Einstein said, "All it takes for evil to prosper, is for good men to do nothing."
Shahir Zag said, "A tiger doesn't lose sleep over the opinion of sheep."
Benjamin Franklin said, “Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”
Fantastic work here Mic. I love it that you site the science where you get your info. Regarding running down animals. Here in New Zealand, we have no 4-legged animals natural to NZ. They are all introduced so have to be controlled by man. In the 70s the department of conservation employed many deer cullers. (they still do today) These men were incredibly fit and one game they use to play was running down red deer. Not all of them were able to do this feat but some of the elites were. Eventually the deer would stand splay legged with its tongue hanging out and the hunter could grapple it and cut its throat with his knife. (they were not running with their rifles)
Great Info. Thank you Mike
There was a really interesting self-published book that I read called Graincollection, yes, all one word, that posits that a close analog for early human behavior might be the Therapithecus gelada, or "gelada baboon." It was a hypothesis originally conceived by anthropologist Clifford Jolly to explain some contradictions in the prevailing models of early human development. This baboon is social with many anatomical developments that mirror unique aspects of human anatomy, and they subsist in large part by stripping ripe seeds from grassland plants and digging up tubers. Unlike chacma baboons, they don't do much hunting, but do carnivory in the more typical way of incidentally eating insects and bird eggs as they find them, forming a very small portion of their diet.
The book's argument is that this lifestyle does a pretty elegant job of explaining early tool development. It was a very interesting argument to read, though as far as I'm aware no attention was devoted to it. But it is pretty interesting that the most important agricultural plants are tubers and grain. You've got to imagine they weren't domesticating oats and barley on a whim, they must have been eating it before they started planting it.
Great point.
I used to wonder where herbivores got their protein, but of course they also eat seeds
@@markthomasson5077 Juicy young leaves also contain a lot of protein. Fenugreek leaf is 6% protein of fresh weight.
We Thrive On Meat!
If we want to thrive in optimal health, it's not up to us what we eat. Our evolution, biology, microbiome, & genetics determine this. We must accept what we have to do to survive. There is a food chain & a cycle of life. Everything has evolved to eat a select few foods, & humans are no exception. "We didn't evolve to eat meat, we evolved because we ate meat." (Richard Wrangham - Primatologist) There were no cave paintings of us hunting salads... We evolved to eat primarily ruminant animals, such as woolly mammoth & buffalo. These were Regeneratively raised Ruminant animals that ate grass & weeds with long root systems, capable of reaching deep within the Earth, & sucking up nutrients not available near the surface, or in the hydroponically grown, & nutrient void soils, most crops are grown in. Ruminant animals have four chambered stomachs biologically designed to break down plant matter, filter out plant defense chemicals, plant toxins, anti-nutrients, & even most environmental pollutants, while providing more nutrients in more bioavailable or absorbable forms, than any other food on the planet! "Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon, and wise too late." (Benjamin Franklin)
The dawn of agriculture brought with it malnutrition, pestilence, & disease, regressing our evolution, making us smaller, weaker, dumber, more docile, & more manipulatable, just as the Elites in control planned it. We found 300,000-year-old skulls, that have perfect teeth, jaw lines, & no cavities, yet we can't make it into our teens without our teeth rotting! Sugar & Carbs rot our teeth, & turn into glucose that feeds Candida or bad bacteria, preventing us from having healthy mouths. On carnivore we no longer have to brush our teeth as much... With toxic fluoride toothpaste that calcifies our pineal gland, reduces cognition, makes us docile, malleable, & causes Dental & Skeletal Fluorosis, which demineralizes teeth & bone, making them weak & brittle! Fluoride is added to the municipal water supply in America, as well as bottled, & shipped all over the world, & must be filtered out using third party filters capable of filtering the most harmful contaminants in our area, from drinking, cooking, & bathing water. Toxic Fluoride & bromine compete for the absorption of essential iodine & chloride. Because of this, & our iodine depleted soils, the majority of the population is deficient in iodine. Fish & seafood contain iodine & supplementation in drops or capsules is also available. Iodine can eliminate bad bacteria, & can be used to treat water, & wounds. Eating "clean" ruminants means not sweating out plant toxins & other chemicals, so we don't have to shower as much, which means dousing ourselves in fewer chemicals that soak into our skin.
We should all eat an appropriate human diet for a few months, before discounting its viability. I feel amazing. Carnivore saved my life, cured a multitude of ailments, including cancer, & fixed my lifelong mood debilitating Hashimoto's, that as it turns out was caused by nutritional deficiencies from eating plants for over 40. We can only burn one fuel type at a time. There's no such thing as an essential carb, but we need to be burning fat in order to use our "fat soluble" vitamins. Switching between fuel types is an energy demanding process, & the less than 5% of nutrients we can get in bioavailable forms from plants, leaves us in a nutrient deficit. Fiber's just nutrient void, indigestible carbs, that ferment, causing gas, gerd or acid reflux, stomach bloat, intestinal distress, constipation, leaky gut, nutrient deficiency, Ulcerative colitis, & feed bad bacteria. Sugar & Carbs kick us out of fat burning! Our bodies turn sugar & carbs into glucose that feeds bad bacteria. We can starve out bad bacteria, such as candida & yeast, & viruses like the Coronavirus, by removing their fuel source, glucose from sugar, carbs, & plants, from our diet. Bad bacteria can't survive on fat or ketones, but we thrive! Fat burning allows us to produce ketones, increasing our overall system function by fueling our body & brains with the correct fuel. Cognitive & regenerative abilities increase tremendously while running on ketones! Fat burns gentler than glucose from food. Our bodies produce a less damaging form of glucose with gluconeogenesis, & ketones with ketogenesis. This reduces inflammation & In this low inflammatory state our bodies natural healing mechanisms of mitosis & autophagy function correctly, keeping us healthy, happy, & looking amazing! In ketosis, our brains use neurogenesis to repair! Our brains are primarily fat & need healthy fats, to repair that specific type of tissue... Just like we need animal protein to grow strong muscle, collagen for cartilage, calcium for bone, etc. We are not as capable of eating a "diverse diet," as we've been led to believe! Cavemen didn't have pre/probiotics to break this stuff down! Yeshua (Jesus) said, "Eat split hooved animals that chew the cud." (Leviticus 11) Eat ruminant animals, "Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free!" (John 8:32) "It's easier to fool people, than to convince them they have been fooled." (Samuel Clemens aka the writer Mark Twain)
Some are fortunate to have higher levels of resistance to lectins, making it possible to tolerate them longer, but not thrive on them. Plant defense chemicals & anti-nutrients build up in our systems, & in our joints, causing inflammation, eventually overwhelming us, & creating nutritional deficiencies, autoimmune diseases, & cancer, as we age, wear out, & our metabolisms slow. Eating even small amounts of carbs in many of today's nutrient void vegetables with anti-nutrients such as tannins, & lectins that keep us from breaking down proteins, & nutrients, we unknowingly stumble into a foggy-minded state, & it's hard to find our way out. Many of us start our lives off ingesting ground up, highly absorbable, insulin spiking, altered GMO fruits, vegetables, & high fructose corn syrup that stunts our mental growth as babies... This is a barbaric practice in the eyes of those awake enough to see this tragedy. Our digestive systems are typically one of the first things to go, because of the shameful fake food pyramid, & false recommended dietary guidelines, & the fact we have corrupt, & ignorant mainstream government officials allowing, promoting, & profiting from the atrocities caused by these atrocious guidelines is upsetting, & would be unbelievable if there wasn't so much proof to the contrary. It can take us years, or even decades to break free from confusion caused by the mainstream misinformation, corrupt studies, false dietary guidelines, & food pyramids, corporations pushing fake food & drugs with fake studies, & even worse training our children & doctors with lies in brainwashing schools. We're lucky if we ever find our way out of the fog. "The most effective way to destroy people, is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." (George Orwell)
Addictive foods & unwanted hunger signals from bad bacteria can be difficult to get away from. The dietary guidelines are set up to keep us addicted, profit from us, keep us foggy-minded, depopulate us, & under the greedy control of religious corporate shell companies, with support from a corrupt government under the same mind debilitating conditions, & brainwashing tactics that hide our true species appropriate diet, keeping us all from finding World sanity, Heaven on Earth, & God!
I recommend the advice of everyone listed in this article. They explain in detail our "evolved diet," how "plants are trying to kill us," & expose corruption in the food, & medical industry. Please support the TH-cam channel "HomeSteadHow," & check out their documentary "Healing Humanity." There are amazing success stories of people curing blindness, finding their way out of a wheelchair, recovering from autoimmune diseases, & so many other seemingly miraculous recoveries from what are actually dietary nutritional deficiencies. Real nutrition heals us, from the inside out. Hippocrates said, "Good health starts in the gut." "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food." There are before & after pictures that show clear proof. Steak & Butter Gal has a great support network, especially for women. There are possibly millions of success stories! These wonderful people have channels on TH-cam, or Rumble, covering everything we need to thrive! We all know how difficult it can be switching from addictive fad diets to a healthy one. We have inspiring personal stories about how we got our health back, & you can too! When we find our way out of the fog, we find health, & happiness! OMG, I feel amazing! Siddhartha Gautama said, "To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear." (Buddha) Good luck on your journeys. "We Are One With All That Is!" (John 17:21)
Quotes from great minds in the medical field, where most of my information comes from: "Plants are trying to kill you." (Dr. Anthony Chaffee) "Ruminant animals are our ancestrally appropriate diet." (Dr. Ken Berry) "It's kind of nice to be aging backwards basically." (Dr. Shawn Baker) "The lymphatic system prefers ketones over glucose for fuel." (Dr. Leslyn Keith) “There is no essential carbohydrate,”“Everything your body needs can be made from proteins and fats that you eat." (Dr. Bessler) "Take away the excess of toxicity, get what you need, & that's the core of integrated function." (Dr. Sid Baker) "In our toxic world, I don't think there's enough Iodine in the microgram dose to detox from fluoride and bromide." "If we give the body its basic raw materials, it can do pretty cool things. (Dr. David Brownstein) "Red dye, yellow dye, blue dye, you die!" (Dr. Mark Hyman) "When you improve your health, you are improving the planet." (Dr. Peter Ballerstedt)
Starch runner sounds like a great title for a mobile game
one of my all time favourite TH-cam channels
Much needed - thank you!!
now I wanna hop around a beautiful jungle, pull up roots and bring them to my home base
When I chase down fruits and sink my fangs into them sometimes they struggle, but it feels natural and they taste delicious
"and they taste delicious"...
Of course they do because they are full of sugar, which is a metabolic poison. You vegans crack me up.
@@RibeyeRob "metabolic poison" LMAO what do you even mean by that? You're just throwing buzzwords around
I took a kick to the knee from a jicama last week and have been surviving on flightless apples.
One of the only things we can eat raw without any seasoning and it's still delicious
@@edgbarraHumans have been eating raw meat without seasoning for millions of years until now. It was the start of your brain development.
When studying McDougall's work I came to a similar hypothesis myself. We are starchivores.
spot on
A hypothesis is a cause and effect prediction that must be validated via experimentation. Can you name your IV, DV and detail the experiment you preformed?
@@DivergentDroidLooks like we got a Bart kay troll
@retrospiel Human ancestors started eating lots of starch only very recently when agriculture was established. Before that, their diet were mostly cellulose from leaves or barks, sugars in fruits, in addition to animal products. There might be some starch from occasional wild roots but most roots are poisonous without fire.
@@ejRecording Bart Kay is a walking meme. He's (un)lampoonable. I'm surprised his own camp doesn't ostracize him for adversely impacting what little reputation carnivore has.
Speaking of genetic codes, they require Functional Sequence/Specified Complexity, which doesn't occur by happenstance. I'm not exactly what you would call religious, but I have heard that in the beginning we were given fruits and herbs to eat, not animals. Animals putrify in the gut, creating horrible stench, and require fire to kill parasites. Also they run away in fear, plants don't do that. If people were meant to kill animals they probably wouldn't develop empathy for them and have to rely on factory farming to ignore reality.
What a load of nonsense. What do you think is happening to plant matter? Its being decomposed by microorganisms right? The stench you get is when you switch between unaccustomed foods, or eating a lot of plant materia.
"Also they run in fear" yes that is their defense machanism. Do you think plants dont have it because they cant move like animals?
"Have to rely on animal farming to ignore reality" what? Factory farming is the result of wanting to produce cheaper food at the cost of animal welfare, environment and human health, not some ignoring of reality of what animals go through
I often thought about the empathy thing. Animals that depend on eating others can't evolve empathy, like you said. So humans have a big dilemma, and I think empathy will win in the long run. It's a form of awareness and intelligence that is too useful in important ways. Human carnivores really have to try hard to keep lying to themselves. Except the psychopathic ones, of course. A human world filled with psychopaths doesn't work, they need to be very few or nonexistant.
@@carinaekstrom1Consuming a meat heavy diet fuels psycopathy in those prone to it.
I would not be surprised if tribes had some fit, young runners who would go out and scout for the best foraging areas. He would have to be fast and fit to get back with news quickly, for the others to move in the right direction. Also, he would be finding out where there were other groups of animals, competitors or dangerous ones to stay clear of.
Great video! Thanks for all your work 💚🐾🌱
I like to think it is a part of why our memory is so strongly linked to locations: you run around for hours every day remembering where different plants are growing so you can return to a specific spot when a plant is good for harvest. And maybe we started running around caring for plants before we started farming them, like removing pests and fertilizing the wild growing plants?
This is the most compelling evidence I have heard that we were not carnivores. Salivary amylase enzymes from 800,000 years ago. And starch digestive enzymes in canines 40,000 years ago! I hope dogs don't become extinct .
"This is the most compelling evidence I have heard that we were not carnivores."...
Nonsense, no such evidence exists, only your delusions to justify your carb addiction.
The only evidence that exists that can tell us what human beings are is the 2019 and 2021 follow up study in the hard science of paleo and chemical anthropology. I'm referring to stable isotope analysis of the N15 and N13 carbon and nitrogen contained within the collagen of the long bones of human skeletal remains dating back 100,000 years which clearly shows what we ate during that time period making us absolutely obligate hyper carnivore. This is the only science we have that can inform us on this question.
I hope so too, and as a vegan I don't agree with some other vegans about breaking that bond. We just need more responsible procreation and care for dogs.
We definitely were meat-eaters - from cooking meat but even our hand grasping was to grab rocks to smash the bones to get at the fat marrow in the bones. So meat eating and animal fat eating goes back probably 3 million years in hominins.
@@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 Did you just make that up? Just because we can smash each other with rocks doesn't mean we're cannibals.
@@carinaekstrom1 Wow so you're too afraid to google something in case you might learn something you don't "want" to exist? hahaha. Eating bone marrow played a key role in the evolution of the human hand
by University of Kent
The strength required to access the high calorie content of bone marrow may have played a key role in the evolution of the human hand and explain why primates hands are not like ours, research at the University of Kent has found.
In an article in The Journal of Human Evolution, a team lead by Professor Tracy Kivell of Kent's School of Anthropology and Conservation concludes that although stone tool making has always been considered a key influence on the evolution of the human hand, accessing bone marrow generally has not.
It is widely accepted that the unique dexterity of the human hand evolved, at least in part, in response to stone tool use during our evolutionary history.
Archaeological evidence suggests that early hominins participated in a variety of tool-related activities, such as nut-cracking, cutting flesh, smashing bone to access marrow, as well as making stone tools. However, it is unlikely that all these behaviours equally influenced modern human hand anatomy.
To understand the impact these different actions may have had on the evolution of human hands, researchers measured the force experienced by the hand of 39 individuals during different stone tool behaviours-nut-cracking, marrow acquisition with a hammerstone, flake production with a hammerstone, and handaxe and stone tool (i.e. a flake) - to see which digits were most important for manipulating the tool.
They found that the pressures varied across the different behaviours, with nut-cracking generally requiring the lowest pressure while making the flake and accessing marrow required the greatest pressures. Across all of the different behaviours, the thumb, index finger and middle finger were always most important.
Professor Kivell says this suggests that nut-cracking force may not be high enough to elicit changes in the formation of the human hand, which may be why other primates are adept nut-crackers without having a human-like hand.
In contrast, making stone flakes and accessing marrow may have been key influences on our hand anatomy due to the high stress they cause on our hands. The researchers concluded that eating marrow, given its additional benefit of high calorific value, may have also played a key role in evolution of human dexterity.
The manual pressures of stone tool behaviors and their implications for the evolution of the human hand by Erin Marie Williams-Hatala, Kevin G. Hatala, McKenzie Gordon and Margaret Kasper, all Chatham University, Pittsburgh, USA and Alastair Key and Tracy Kivell, University of Kent is published in the Journal of Human Evolution.
Mystery of 2 million-year-old stone balls solved
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By Laura Geggel
published April 17, 2020
Here's how ancient cave dwellers used these stone balls.
For nearly 2 million years, ancient humans crafted stones into hand-size balls, but archaeologists were unsure why.
Now they know: Ancient people used them as tools to get at the tasty marrow within animal bones, a new study finds.
In other words, if a bone were a can of soup, these ancient stone balls were like ancient can openers.
The finding is a remarkable one; archaeologists have wondered for decades exactly how ancient humans used these stone balls. "Our study provided evidence, for the first time, regarding the function of these enigmatic-shaped stone balls that were produced by humans for almost 2 million years," study lead researcher Ella Assaf, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near East Cultures at Tel Aviv University in Israel, told Live Science in an email.
Archaeologists have found "these enigmatic, mysterious artifacts" in some of the world's oldest archaeological sites in Africa, Europe and Asia, but no one in modern times had figured out how these ancient round stones were used, Assaf said.
That changed when Assaf and her team came across a cache of 30 stone balls in Qesem Cave in Israel, where humans lived from about 400,000 to 200,000 years ago.
To solve the mystery of the stone balls, study senior researcher Emanuela Cristiani, an archaeologist at Sapienza University in Rome, and her colleagues examined the stone balls microscopically. They discovered wear marks and organic residues indicating that the stones "were used by the cave inhabitants to break animal bones and extract the nutritional marrow," Assaf said.
However, the international team wanted to be sure, so they did two experiments. In the first, they used cobblestones (naturally rounded stones larger than pebbles) to break apart bones. In the second, the team used tools to shape their own stone balls and then tested them on bones.
After busting some bones, the team learned that the shaped stone balls were much more efficient than the natural ones at breaking bones and getting to the marrow, a finding that supported the conclusion from the microscopic analyses.
"These tools provide comfortable grip, they don't tend to break easily, and you can rotate them and use them repetitively since they have multiple ridges," Assaf said. "These high ridges help to break the bone in a 'clean' way, and you can extract the marrow relatively easily."
Moreover, breaking bones left tiny wear marks on the modern replicas that were "very similar to the archaeological traces" on the ancient stone balls, Assaf said. "This confirmed our preliminary assumption that these items were indeed used to extract bone marrow," she said.
Ancient Human Ancestors May Have Grown Big Brains Scavenging Bone Marrow By Thomas Garlinghouse
In a paper recently published in the journal Current Anthropology, Jessica Thompson, an anthropologist at Yale University, and her colleagues suggest that hominins were primarily after bone marrow - that gloppy, spongy, calorie-rich substance inside bones - rather than skeletal muscle tissue, or “meat.” “Meat-eating is kind of a misleading term,” said Thompson. “Meat-eating can loosely mean so many things, many of which are not actually meat.”
In fact, the researchers believe that skeletal-clinging meat was frequently avoided, perhaps because it can rapidly acquire harmful bacteria from exposure or the mouths of animals. Marrow and brains, by contrast, because they are encased inside bones, retain low bacteria counts and persist much longer without spoiling. The researchers use the term “inside bone nutrients” to distinguish these resources from “outside bone nutrients,” namely the muscle tissue, or meat. Although direct evidence is currently lacking, the researchers contend that the hypothesis allows anthropologists to take a fresh look at the fossil record and the behavior of our early ancestors.
In mammals, marrow is where blood cells are produced. It is also high in fat, cholesterol and numerous micronutrients. This rich resource, they believe, may have acted as a catalyst in the development of humans’ distinctively large and complex brain.
“The brain is a very expensive organ,” Thompson said. Although it takes up only 2 percent of our body weight, it requires approximately 20 percent of the body’s energy even at rest. This percentage is much higher than what other primates allocate, including humans’ closest relatives, chimpanzees.
Over the course of some 6 million years, the size of the human brain has increased by over 300 percent. This evolution required a rich reservoir of energy, one that a diet of lean, wild meat would not have been able to sustain, Thompson and her colleagues contend.
“We’re used to thinking of meat as a fatty product,” Thompson said. “But wild game is not very fatty at all. If you eat a lot of lean meat it doesn’t actually provide you with the sustenance you need to function well.”
Bone marrow, by contrast, is an excellent source of surplus energy, she said. “Bone marrow is actually a nicely accessible package of fat in an otherwise fat-poor landscape.”
Great video! 👏👏👏
Thank you Mic!
Big up those starchybois! Long live les vegans
Humans can live off of anything, that's our main evolutionary advantage together with our intelligence. Innuits live off a diet mostly comprised of animal products. Tribes in new guinea live off a diet mostly comprised of sweet potatoes. On the whole, it's likely that cooking and being able to consume starch gave us the biggest advantage not just against nature and other animals but other humans as well: those who had the ability to procure the most starch could build the largest empires. In a lot of tribes it was found that meat consumption is mostly an activity that men carry out on their own: small groups go out for days, hunt and consume most of the animals and only bring back scraps. The bulk of the calories consumed by the tribe comes from nuts, seeds, starches gathered by women and children. So meat is more of a supplemental food than the bulk. It is interesting that even today in modern societies, men consume more meat than women.
Calcified plaques in the arteries of mummified Inuit people from the 1500s have been found, despite a very active lifestyle and diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids.
Men have a greater tendency to die earlier than women, all cause mortality.
It is a cultural phenomenon that men pretend to be strong, smart and courageous when they kill an animal. It also reqires that they put aside their capacity for compassion, while women who nurture children more closely tend to show more empathy. It's time for men to get over their resistance to empathy (many have), and move on to more mature behaviors. Men can be strong, smart and courageous in much more valid ways. Vegan men are probably some of the most courageous and strong people, standing up against the macho stupidity of this world.
Additionally, as Mic has discussed, the Inuit who lived mostly on animals were developing atherosclerosis young. Most modern Inuit have jobs and go to the grocery store like the rest of us, and as a result, their lifespans are increased to being like other Canadians.
@@roku3216 Complete nonsense. Look up the BBC interview with the Inuit back in the 1920's, or there abouts. They lived with them and the thing that astonished them the most was the fact that none of them had heart disease at all.
That of course has changed now that they consume the same crap the rest of the Western world does. They were fine when they ate their biologically appropriate diet... just like all of us carnivores are.
Awesome topic. The persistence hunting hypothesis is so asinine I can't believe anyone buys it. Surely no one who really believes that hypothesis has actually tried it.
They just wanna eat meat, addiction to it is a form of gluttony.
That was wonderful video. Thank you.
I also read Born to Run a while back when I first started running. I wasn't vegan at the time but I mainly liked the persistence hunter theory because I liked the idea that running was integral to our evolution. As a vegan runner now I like you starch runner hypothesis even more! That said, I thought in the book he described some tribes in South Africa that successfully persistence hunt to this day.
Chimps patrol their territory, i'm sure it's not just convergent evolution that we do too. The faster and longer we run, the larger of a territory we could hold.
Patrolling not only protects against rival tribes, but the further one can patrol, the earlier the tribe can be warned of pedators and the less easy it is for those predators to get to the tribe.
Look up Professor R. Brian Ferguson's recent interview uploaded on his new 20 year tome book, "Chimpanzees, war, and history" - he debunks the claim that chimps practice warfare.
@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 does he debunk them being territorial and patrolling though? Chimps are much more peaceful than a lot of sources imply, but they do try and defend their territory from intruders be they predators or rivals.
Loving your new look. Your hair short like this is nice and your beard is full & well trimmed 👌🏼
Fermentation makes great late winter accessible calories of things like hard little crabapples, which birds and many mammals enjoy, so it seems very plausible that early hominids would seek out or deliberately allow to ferment fibrous fruits and roots.
Thanks for the very interesting video!
Hey Mic, some interesting information about the topic- my girlfriend comes from a tribe in the pacific ocean (not png) most people don't know about the island (my gf looks African, different to indigenous australias though, much darker then people from png and not like people from soloman islands). She comes from central part of the island which a forrest environment (not close to the ocean). only a few generations ago they were living in the Stone Age and the things i learn about humans from her are interesting to say the least. this is the interesting and relivent part though.. Their entire population of about 300 thousand people that have just come out of living like primal humans.. guess what they eat? the foundation of their entire diet is starches and the other part is eating lots of greens in the form of soup. I've been questioning her for years and what i find is that basicly what is the norm there is eating a soup with lots of greens (similar to how people in the west eat pasta or rice) whith a big amount of starches. there diet is almost 50% tubers and 50% greens in volume but that would equate to startches still being the majorty of calories. with some nuts, fruit regularly and once in a while animal products (sometimes only every couple months). She says that its well known that the people on small islands off the main island that eat lots of fish age very different to the tuber and green eaters on the mainland. the tuber and green eaters stay much much much younger (possible because the sun exposure aswell). They are one of the people that are living almost exactly how they were living in the stone age and there are tribes there that are pretty much unchanged and of course they eat yams, cassava, sweet potato, taro, cooking banana and heaps of greens, that is almost all of what they eat. I hypothesise eating animal products and cannibalism which many primal huamans around the world did was more of a lowe rconciousness cultural habbit and rarely had anything to do with actual survival. I hope this helps, I absolutly adore your channel (From Australia). ps the only people that eat lots of animal products there are people they get rich and then they get fat as fuck and get heart disease. the village people at the age of 80, 90 etc are significantly more able and healthy then westerners. there is more interesting questions i have come up with pertaining to if there genetics actually are closer linked to original humans there the current day africans if original humans arived there and the island acted as a time capsal, just an idea. Their tribal political system is interesting aswell. My girlfriend can count back beyond 20 generations of her blood line. Super different comrehension to western humans. Anyways if you have any questions i'll be happy to provide information and chat. sorry if the paragrpah isn't organised perfectly, i must go for now, all the best for your phenomenal yt channel. what if you do more 'how your body transforms on a vegan diet' and more broad terms to capture and convert more people into higher order of veganism, click bait and convert to save the world type vibe :)
Yellow Man thinks we should be eating grass 🤣
Excellent, thanks.
What island is it?
Also cooled starches become resistant starches, and ferment in the gut, and have much more positive health effects than freshly heated starches/potatoes etc
fascinating - I had this debate with a biochemistry major at University - she insisted that probiotics would get destroyed by the stomach enzymes.
That persistence hunting always sounded off to me, good to hear that people have actually tried it. No way you could run down an animal that's much faster than you are. You will either loose it, or it can take naps while waiting for you.
As I understand it, you first injure it.
When it flees, it overheats, so even with a rest until you catch up, it is still hot, this continues until it cannot go on due to heat exhaustion
Yes but starch comes from the forager half of the hunter forager system and that's boring and unsexy because women do that. Rather than manly hunting. I forgot the name of the tribe but Liver King and some other dude bros went to hang out with the men who mainly caught some rabbits and collected massive amounts of honey, while they ignored all the roots and tubers the women were collecting. Viva Longevity! channel has a video on it called "Burn" I think.
It shows how much its about fantasy, because every time people talk about hunting etc. they talk about hunting big game etc. While in reality, we hunted much mainly more smaller animals. But hunting rodents, birds or monkeys just does not sound that cool. Or eating insects.
@@Nobody-Nowhere Yes there's a hilarious bit in that video I mentioned where the men have gathered lots of honeycomb and offer a piece to the carnivore bro. It is full of the grubs so they were getting protein from the honey as well as glucose calories. Carnivore bro took a bite and looked like he was going to puke, haha.
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Very likely: there is a book called Burn that also maintains the main point this video is trying to make.
@@k.h.6991 Yes, that was the book featured on Plant Chompers/Viv Longevity.
+1000 likes for this theory. Fantastic!
Nice concept. It’s an easy workout. The „rangers with a home base“ model can be seen in historical Native American populations. It was the dominant form of habitation and existence for the longest time. These were basically „Stone Age“populations that remained that way until Europeans showed up. Even earlier; the Natufians and their successors in the Middle East have left enough archaeological evidence to say that for them, this too was the dominant form of civilization. As for chasing animals; they were chasing animals wounded by primitive hunting tools. The San bushmen of South Africa still know how to do that. No sane person thinking about their next meal is going to try and chase an antelope or deer. They will go for the easy calories. Humans aren’t runners per say, they are rangers. Farming started because people wanted to have a more predictable and controlled access to these starches. Animal husbandry probably started because those animals were just hanging around, attracted to the crops. (Everybody loves a good idea 👍)
the animals are not just "wounded" since the san Bushmen use a deadly poison on their arrowheads - the poison had no known antidote. So they are tracking down an animal that will die once it is hit with the arrow. Still 80% of the original human culture diet is from tubers and greens and nuts. The DNA science now shows the "pygmies" split from the San Bushmen 225,000 years ago and before that a "ghost archaic" human existed that was the basis of the short stature of the pygmies-san bushmen. That short stature was adapted due the equatorial rainforest hunting - not some running grasslands hunting lifestyle. But certainly after the Mt. Toba supervolcano explosion 70,000 years ago the San Bushmen lived in a part of AFrica least affected and thus best able to survive - using more advanced hunting technology (bows with poison).
It's per se not "per say".
@@jinxterx Sorry, I live in Germany and my system is bilingual. I obviously overlooked this one. I had to edit my comment 3 times, to correct that sneaky autocorrect. It changes things as they are being published. (Cheap excuse, but my only one)
@@WalksAlone hehe, yeah I know what you mean about the auto suggest/correct, it frequently gets things completely wrong!
I would love to hear more in a video contrasting our physiology with carnivorous and omnivorous physiology.
We lack some traits found in carnivorous and omnivorous animals but the thing is there are no or ever have been vegan tribal communities or societies, vegan is a diet of ethics but does not stand up well as a natural fallacy.
I agree, and let's not forget that sometimes hominids or humans had good numbers, and sometimes they almost died out or did die out. At times when there were more individuals the social interactions could have been very positive for intelligence, and even when times were especially difficult a new course of action could have made a major difference for future intelligence. It would all have depended a lot on simple luck and timing.
straightforward math problem, brain needs more calories and glucose than meat can provide in a convenient way versus starch foods
Some super smart and educated people in the comments. Don’t usually see that in comments these days. Just found your channel … very interesting and I’m sure more research will follow. I am by no means educated in this area but I’d suppose the easy “catch” was fish. Maybe our ancestors simply ate berries, plants, fish and nuts, seeds, roots.. starch. And once they learned to use tools for hunting , then small land fowl and mammals? We might never know, but it just seems to make sense to me. When you’re hungry you’ll probably eat just about anything I’d suppose
Apparently fishing didn't really start until 70,000-80,000 years ago. Which is also about when our brains started to shrink back down again. ;)
Well done for finding this channel. The back catalogue of videos on here is amazing.
Back when I was a mostly-sedentary full vegan was when I could out-run and out-hike people ten years younger than me and be the only one without muscle aches the next day -- with the only exception of the one person who took my advice to slowly drink a smoothie along the way.
There is an old you tube video that actually filmed young San bushmen hunting where one of them was actually successful runny down the animal to panting exhaustion where it was effortlessly killed. The other young San bushmen hunters gave him recognition,saying that only he was able to master this most difficult way of hunting.
Running from forest area to forest area to find a bunch of edible plants and fruits always made more sense to me than wasting energy chasing after animals to complete exhaustion
Excellent news
Excellent, thanks
This checks out. Would not run for/on BBQ 🤢 Did run a marathon for/on bananas 🤣 (and the Tiffany necklace medal at the end ☺️🤣)
Mic, you missed something...
I love ya man, but most people think uncooked starchy roots are just tougher to digest, but you also have to realize that many starchy roots and tubers (especially out of Africa) like yams and cassava are toxic when raw. Cooking deactivates these toxins rendering an entirely new food source accessible. Sure ground nut and bambara are better cooked, but still edible raw, but the fact that many foods are no longer toxic when cooked is a huge advantage for us starchivores 👍💪💪
It is possible those people had tolerance to the toxins in the roots and as we adapted to cooking, we slowly lost that ability?
Ya Less competition for these starchy roots as other animals are unable to deactivate the toxins by cooking.
He also kind of missed the topic of nixtamalization, and how that process was the unsung hero of helping natives of North America skip the pellagra 'epidemic' entirely, by 'unlocking' nutrients in maize, while others were getting sick and deficient by eating the improper, newly forming Standard American Diet.
Nixtamalization goes back some 2500 years ago at least, and so it existed loooong before people ever got the modern idea of 'enriching' common, lower quality foods. B12 might be a scam too, due to the theory of some crucial B vitamins being available in fermented foods, but that's a topic that's only recently been revealed to me.
Sure it is poisonous, plants do not want to get eaten either. Also wild roots and tubers barely contain any starch, so this whole theory is just silly.
It seems logical to me that once prehumans moved past bugs and other low effort protein sources, having already sustained some brain growth, "defensive hunting" seems to be the most pragmatic source for the meat we did eat, ie a predator chasing you that you take down through teamwork and/or wit seems a much more efficient meat resource compared to chasing down an antelope for 12 hours.
In this way meat eating becomes much more opportunistic as well, consistent with data showing our low reliance on it throughout history
Cool video. ❤
Marathon runners load up on carbs the evening before. Huge portions of pasta , Not meat or fat or eggs or oil.
Nope. Many do run in ketosis. Body can store only very little sugars: it is poison after all. On other hand, body does store thousands and thousands of calories as fat. In ketosis, body can easily use this fat as fuel, so humans in this state can easily do marathon and more. After appropriate training of course ;)
@@robertbloch1063 Complete and utter nonsense.
@@robertbloch1063do you have examples of ultra marathon runners doing it in ketosis? Serious question. I think it's much easier to replenish energy using glucose than fat so I'd like to know how they do that (if it's real)
@@jinxterx It is you that's talking out of something other than your mouth. The fact is that when your fully loaded with carbs you have access to around 2,000 calories of energy. On carnivore when you become fully fat adapted, even the leanest person has access to around 100,000 calories of energy.
Many top athletes know this and are now carnivore. The New Zealand All Blacks for example, the world's strongest man, Eddie Hall being another. And then of course there's Alex McDonald who completed five marathons in five days while completely fasted, consuming only water and salt. A feat only possible if you're fat adapted and don't consume contraindicated carbohydrates. This is our natural state throughout our 5 million year evolution.
Alex has been adhering to a low carbohydrate high fat (LCHF) / ketogenic diet for more than 13 years and has thus been fat adapted for significant period of time. Advice from both a qualified dietician and a team of medical doctors has ensured an optimised ketogenic diet was followed.
Stop following clowns like Mic The Vegan and go back to school and learn how the body really works.
@@RibeyeRob basic biochemistry dude: literally every cell in the body runs on glucose. Ketosis is an emergency state that occurs in starvation. Just because you can eat sh*t doesn't mean you should. Cut carbs, cut life. Carbs beats ketosis every single time and real science proves it over and over again. I think it's you that needs to get an education.
Fantastic! I loved Born to Run though not convinced with the hypothesis of evolution for persistence hunting. It does not seem essential to believe that Homo sapiens sapiens can travel incredibly long distances and run a whole lot perhaps intermittently in order to hunt. We can imagine migrating extraordinarily far in order to look for food. The idea of a home base would suggest farming, in some fashion, and that for me seems contrived, for early humans. There must have been a lot of movement and migration, in challenging conditions and frequent famine. The primitive carnivore, as you suggested, is impractical, unlikely, and ludicrous. And running without starch, well… why hunt if you have starchy vegetables? Just eat! 😂 This was a great video. You should discuss with Scott Jurek for a follow up to this video. I’m sure he would not be keen on preying on antelopes. ❤
Nicely done.
If you think only in terms of availability and ease of discovery, digging for tubers is way more energy efficient than chasing down prey.
I would have been vegetarian only because I am lazy, and wouldn't want to work so hard just to eat. 😊
I think you're onto something with your hypothesis. It might be a combination of starch and the nutrient dense forest fruit hypothesis put forth by Tony Wright in "Return to the Brain of Eden." That book also hypothesizes that recent brain shrinkage is a result of increased carnivory after we left the rainforests and dispersed to less hospitable climates... probably learning carnivory from our less intelligent cousins that had already left the forests such as neanderthals.
We don’t have to hypothesize on the proportions of meat and plants in our ancestors diet. We can measure it. Nitrogen isotopes in bones and collagen repeatedly show we got 70% of our calories from meat. These results are repeatable across many studies and from many different areas
Only a few studies on starch. Most are how man evolved near water where fish diet, over thousands yrs, allowed brain to grow and setup to provide structure and intelligence of today.
Wrong. The advent of fishing correlates with the shrinkage of the human brain (both of which started in about 80,000-100,000BC).
@@JohnDoe-s3v2vDHA & EPA Omega-3 fatty acids make fish one of the best things we can eat for our brains that are made primarily out of fat. The idea that it would hurt our brain is nonsensical & ludacris! Ruminant animals are the cleanest most nutrient dense thing we can eat, & that also helped develop our brains to what they are today. The majority of our evolution was eating these two things, & it's been proven with stable isotope testing. Our biology & real science also prove it. We can't draw the correct logical conclusions, if we get our information from biased corrupt false studies. Leviticus 11 of the Bible specifically says to eat these things. Jesus said, "Eat split hooved animals that chew the cud." These are Ruminant animals with four chambered stomachs capable of breaking down plant matter, filtering out plant defense chemicals, plant toxins, anti-nutrients, & even many environmental pollutants, while also providing more nutrients than any other food on the planet in more nutrient dense bioavailable or absorbable forms. Ruminant animals eat grass & weeds with long root systems capable of reaching deep within the soil & sucking up nutrients not available near the surface or in hydroponically grown or nutrient void unrated soils most crops are grown in. Fish contain iodine the blocks fluoride & and boride absorption. Every cell in our body needs iodine to function. Most of our soils are depleted of iodine, & so the best source is from the ocean. The most bioavailable forms are small scaled fish with fins, shellfish, & other small fish that have not accumulated high levels of mercury or other pollution. Iodine is important to regulate our thyroid hormones that stabilize mood. Running on animal fats for fuel allows us to convert those fats to ketones with ketogenesis, or a healthier form of glucose than exogenous carbohydrates provide, through a process known as gluconeogenesis. That allows us to regulate our blood sugar levels at a steady 4 grams without creating an insulin Spike that kicks us out of fat burning, and ketosis, preventing us from using our fat soluble vitamins, and ketones to power our brain with the correct fuel. Glucose burns fast, volatile, & erratic, like rocket fuel. Fat burns slow, gentle, & efficient, without creating damaging oxidative stress & glycation to our cells that can cause, speed up the growth of, & spread cancer to surrounding tissues.
So far best theory i've heard how we evolve from herbivore to hunter-gatherers is bone marrow...
Someone figured out that there was delicious fat inside big bones and all you have to do is crush them with big rock. No other animal, except hyeenas, could use this super nutritious stuff. This is how our brains start to grow, and sometimes, much, much later we starting to hunt. So we were some kind of herbivore-scavengers for a looong time.
Dang son the beard is lookin extra sexy today
Facts 🎉
What beard?
@@jonfassold The one inside your moms snatch
It seems likely to me that weapons were involved in the final metres of a persistence hunt. Chimps use tools and throwing a rock or a stick and eventually a spear is the obvious way to injure/kill while risking less injury ourselves. Perhaps we started as starch runners and when the forests receded even more we started to include more animals in our diet, as our running and tool use allowed weapon assisted persistence hunts.
3:50 Yo, that air time would make Tony Hawk jealous*.
jealous.
Interesting
Starch runner quote -I've seen things you people wouldn't believe ,Attacked chips on fire off the shoulder of O' Ryan. I watched sea beans glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like beers in the rain. Time to vegan diet.
Water bottles could actually have been a thing for quite some time in human history. When I was in Tanzania they showed me a “kibuyu”. Google it, it’s basically a bottle made from a baobab pod. So it’s possible early humans user this and carried water while traveling around.
Sounds interesting, I'll check it out. I imagine they can carry a lot of water tho. Persistence hunting would take days 😅
You don't have to run to eat yams. Just wander to a new piece of land every few weeks. Running is for hunting. And the brain grew because of honey. We started eating a lot of honey after we learned to use smoke. Check out the Hadza tribe. Eating starch and grains in large quantities made possible the phenomenon of big cities, religions and ownership.
Chimpanzees are surprisingly smart. Read some of Frans de Waal's writings on this.
"Our brains run on glucose". Well, that's why we have sweet tooths and not blood tooths.
mmm fermented foods... I especially love the fermented grapes... ;-)
Waiit is that wine Or ?
Funny thing, I can't eat starch lol🙃 No bread, rice, potatoes, legumes etc. Not even banana's that don't yet have spots on them. Gives me neurological problems for a week!
Good video. I’ve always considered survival a game of energy and wandering around picking up vegetables and fruit is certainly less energy intensive. One problem regarding hunting is that I don’t think anyone in the past would have chased after animals as humans, as you pointed out, aren’t that fast but looking at primitive societies that hunt today they seem to be more of ambush hunters either setting traps or waiting for animals at a location like a water hole. We have historical records of Plains tribes directing buffalo herds toward buffalo jumps. Even today hunters sit in a blind waiting for deer or ducks to come by. Fish traps were extensively used and I doubt it took more energy to wander over to your fish trap than it does to collect some tubers. Our ancient ancestors were primitive, not stupid. In an environment that could kill you in many ways they probably took advantage of any food source within reach.
On another note why aren’t there any Olympic Marathon Champions from the Tarahumara tribe in Mexico. All the recent ones seem to come from Africa.
there is some evidence that humans figured out the lunar and some solar cycles tens of thousands of years ago and with that the animals' migratory cycles. Then they simply had to get in the path of the migrating animals and wait. For running humans have 60-120 minutes of glycogen. you can run on starch but then your glycogen is used up faster and you need to keep eating more all the time. this is why marathon runners always take snacks or sugar with them. Other strategy is to be fat adapted where you train your body to run on fat. if you want to run faster longer you still need to supplement with sugar but in theory you can train your body to go long distances mostly on fat. people have done marathons on the carnivore diet but protein is turned into glucose by the body so it's not all fat.
This video will attract the carnivore “we evolved to eat meat” arguments. They should be fine eating raw meat, without any refrigeration or preservative methods then. Fact is, technology allows humans to eat meat, not nature.
Ok pea brain
This is the best of your vegan videos, but it is still nonsensical regarding real human evolution.
You are forgetting about the out of europe theory. Which appears to have more basis in fact than the out of africa theory.
Raramuri is the people Tarahumara is the mountains. You're welcome
Humans are terrible runners. We are literally one of the slowest runners on earth.
Did those runner wear shoes to hunt?
For how long do we have shoes?
I thought for a second you said "Homo Herbalis", but maybe that wouldn't be a bad name? 😄
starch gives me depression.
Mic I love the content but its astonishing how you can go this many years and still not realize we are frugivores and frugivorous more than anything. Fruit is our species specific diet by and large. Also the only tasty thing when raw.
I think you have eaten to much fruit and all that sugar has fried your brain
Optimal beard length perhaps?
This BS about Mic not looking healthy. Anyone who has studied diagnosis (physiognomy) can see strong signs of health in Mic's face. Clear eyes, clear skin, to start with. Facial and lip colour is good. No darkness under his eyes, spots or pimples, saggy flesh, puffiness. His facial and head hair shows strong growth. It's patently obvious he is eating a clean diet that doesn't create excess that needs to be discharged on his face (or anywhere else). And his well-proportioned face shows a strong constitution. So cut the crap - sorry Mic (if you read this) that I have felt it necessary to defend you in such a potentially embarrassing, or revealing, way. Wishing you all the best with continuing your important, common-sense, work!
when it comes down to it, isnt the argument in favor of the theory of persistence hunting just an appeal to nature fallacy anyways? if the evidence shows that consuming animals raises your risk of heart disease then why does it matter?
I think we lost some average intelligence when moving into cities. Many people alive today would not, I think, be smart enough to survive as hunter gatherers.
They'd think they would need to hunt animals. Not realiea if you kill a species too often, too frequent there isn't enough to hunt. You'd always have people who know how to farm vegetables because even city dwellers have their own garden patch.
I also suspect people would just use backwards yard hens.
i think the science is skewed some of the best and longest runners I know and that my friends know are carnivore and I really don’t swing one way or another just merely friends with a lot of runners. I just eat everything so long as it’s not processed.
protein is turned into sugar in the body. I did a higher protein diet for around 6 months earlier this year and my A1C went up. I think fat adapted running is the way to go but carnivore isn't some magic sugar free diet and berry and others push electrolytes since apparently you don't get enough on their magic diet
Ive done both sides of the diets I feel we need to combine have a balance. I reckon people are not digesting there food properly drinking lots of soda / water during meals and lots of meals .
Oooohhh let's see if Mic speaks positively about sugar in this one. If not, I've got some videos and studies you need to check out.
How are teeth holding out on that sugar?
@@ostamaza22-yt4sq great, actually. I haven't had a cavity in years, and have been consuming drinks with 1/4 cup of sugar, several times per day for the better part of 6 months now.
@@ostamaza22-yt4sq if you're curious, I can recommend a video with some studies that debunks the current flawed ideas surrounding sugar.
@@ostamaza22-yt4sq not sure if my comments are coming through. But I've been consuming at least 1/4 cup of sugar for the better part of 6 months, and have not had cavities in years. This is in part due to using an herbal tooth powder in my personal hygiene routine, but also because sugar has been falsely pinned down as the culprit of cavity-causing foods.
@@ostamaza22-yt4sq look up Sweet Fruitness, and find her videos on sugar. I'll recommend a specific one if my comments actually make it through this time 🤔
Yes, I feel so much better now that I'm not deficient in yellow. I need to do some bloods though because I think my sky blue levels might low.
Seriously, people who think that "eating a rainbow" is the key to good health are clearly lacking in something... and it's not colours.
1st
To map the elevations of that topography people run over, gonna need to start somewhere 🤭
John McDougall M.D. was Right.
Right to the bitter end 😅
Me I'm a starch boy
Sissy boy you mean
How anyone can believe that we were apex carnivores is hard to understand. Carnivores have big mouths and big teeth . How else could you bring down an animal and kill it before weapons were invented. You would also need a powerful jaw and large sharp teeth to cut through skin and tendons.
Then there's our senses. We have a lousy sense of smell compared to actual carnivores. Our night vision is poor and our eyes are actually really well attuned to seeing different shades of green more than any other colour. Surely this is to learn the difference between safe and toxic plants.
Of course we did eat some meat, but these were probably small rodents and especially insects. Even entirely vegetarian species such as gorillas would eat insects which were feeding on their plants.
Nonsense.
" How else could you bring down an animal and kill it before weapons were invented." - tools are used by apes, closest to us chimps already do hunt, kill and enjoy meat. Early humans could only do better. We also have best tool already embedded in out body: hands.
"Then there's our senses." Eyes. We have awesome eyes that cannot be easily deceived by camouflage.
Keep in mind, hunting does not mean always going for a mammoth. More often this was small game: birds, squirrels, mice, fish, clamps, snails, insects... All you need for those are hands.
@david7780 It is funny that you think apex predators need big mouth or teeth. Humans use intelligence which made us apex. Tribal people without sophisticated tools can successfully hunt deers and boars using spears, sticks, or traps. They can even trick animals to fall into cliffs. Your logic also is against you. If we are herbivores, why are you not grazing? Why do you need spoon, knives or plates to eat. Why do you need to cook rice? The answer is the same. Humans are smart enough to use tools.
Could we eat any starches before fire and cooking? Or cultivating Cavendish bananas?
Yes, many fruits (esp tropical) are loaded with complex and simple sugars, they are easy to "hunt". I guess humans ate those first and slowly accepted tasteless starches (tubers) later
@@anandvaidya67 for example???
Why are you asking a simp a difficult question
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