Is Your Diet the Best? Let’s Look at the Primitive Diet

Name: Is Your Diet the Best? Let’s Look at the Primitive Diet
Uploaded: 2023-11-20T13:00:17+00:00
Duration: 47 s
Channel: Claudia von Boeselager
Description: In a brief conversational exchange, Speaker B explains how to evaluate whether one's diet is appropriate by returning to evolutionary first principles…

20 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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In a brief conversational exchange, Speaker B explains how to evaluate whether one's diet is appropriate by returning to evolutionary first principles. The argument is that the diet of prehistoric women was characterized by high fiber, high fat, and moderate protein, with carbohydrates consumed only seasonally. This leads to a recommendation for a ketogenic, low‑sugar, low‑carbohydrate diet that is rich in fiber and fat, while avoiding modern food groups that appeared only a few thousand years ago—specifically dairy and gluten‑containing grains—because human gut and immune systems have not fully adapted to them. The overall stance is that a paleo‑style diet aligns better with our evolutionary biology than contemporary Western diets.

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People listening might be like, well, my diet's okay. How will some person know they're doing the right diet?
I always go back to first principles, and those first principles are about evolutionary biology. What did primitive woman eat? And the answer is she wasn't eating as much food as we are. It was largely based on high fiber, high fat, and protein. She would have carbohydrates, but only once a year, the end of the autumn. She stopped eating those foods because she had no choice, she ran out of them. So ketogenic, low in sugars and carbohydrates, rich in fiber, fat, not high protein— it's a normal protein diet. It It needs to be paleo because the two modern groups of foods that have come in recently are dairy products and gluten grains. From an evolutionary perspective, they are very recent. They're a few thousand years old, and many people haven't evolved a gut function or an immune function that can deal with those foods.