Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Ancestral vs. Modern Health

16 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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Humans spent 1.5 million years moving constantly and eating whole foods. Cancer was rare in traditional tribes, according to Albert Schweitzer. Today's food environment is evolutionarily novel and our bodies haven't adapted to it.

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About 1 1/2 million years.

Albert Schweitzer.

Infections and injuries.

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Our aboriginal ancestors did not have Dunkin Donuts on every corner. They did not have the kinds of foods that were eating. They didn't. They had a lot more exercise. Now, Albert Schweitzer, the great humanitarian physician, studied these tribes of people on our planet and looked at cancer was extremely rare in people who lived according to their traditional ways. We call it the Paleolithic. Don't forget, as a human, we've been a species for about 1 1/2 million years. Most of that time was at a Paleolithic state of fasting and tremendous exercise. Okay? What killed those folks was infections and injuries.