Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Dr Seyfried Ep 2 | Modern Lifestyle vs Ancestral Health_ A Stark Contrast

9 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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Single-speaker excerpt from a YouTube episode (Dr Seyfried Ep 2) discussing contrasts between modern and ancestral human lifestyles. The speaker argues that traditional/Paleolithic populations lacked processed foods (e.g., no chain fast-food), engaged in far more physical activity, and experienced extremely low cancer rates (citing Albert Schweitzer's observations). The speaker also states humans have been a species for about 1.5 million years and that infections and injuries—rather than chronic diseases like cancer—were primary causes of death in those societies.

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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.