10,000 Years Ago We Stopped Eating This And It Was a Huge Mistake
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We should be feeding the starving lions in Africa our politicians.
Based AF. Time to start fresh with normal everyday citizens running the show. People who have had real jobs and lived in the real world.
@@MattyEngland It's not gonna change anything. Everyday citizens will turn as bad if given the opportunity.
Cruelty to lions is not the answer to our problems!
Would you eat a politician?
I wouldn't even let my cats eat that shit.
@@kevokane1190 L😂L
I did a sort of keto for 7 months. I avoided processed food and drink and tried to keep carbs less than 25g per day. My only Achilles heel was alcohol. I switched to vodka soda from my go to rum and Coke. I did minimal exercise but did walk for at least 3000 steps per day. Sometimes 3000, sometimes 10k or 20k per day (made and effort to move around a lot more). I didn’t specifically exercise or do a lot of cardio. I ate almost exclusively what grew in the ground or what came from an animal (tried to stick to organic meats, not ones pumped full of steroids). I completely cut out anything with high fructose corn syrup in it. I lost around 75 lbs in those 7 months, and after I was done with that “experiment,” whenever I ate anything processed like fast food it made me feel extremely ill and was a guaranteed trip to the toilet. That was 4 years ago and I’ve kept all but 8 lbs of it off. I still enjoy food a lot and did during that entire time, just not processed garbage. It changed my life, honestly, and I feel much better today.
I refer to the vodka soda (slice of lime optional) as the 'Skinny bitch' lol.
well done, mate! glad you sorted your health out! stay healthy!
I think you might be confusing keto and paleo but otherwise congratulations!
Good for you! I would suggest the lack of foods high in sugars (fructose + corn syrup) had a larger part to play and were hard to avoid in the beginning until you learned what to look for?
I'm interested to know how you were able to identify, and therefore avoid, meats with lots of steroids?
Also, regarding the steps, I've been trying to keep then up myself. I find 3k is my bare minimum (I now feel lethargic if I haven't done 5k), 10k is about average, but how do you get 20k in??
There's a big jump to 20k steps (about 8.5miles) if you're only used to a quarter of that?? I can only do it on exceptional occasions like if I go for a nice long walk in the hills, which I really should do more
Very nice!
My mom grew up in an agrarian village in rural Greece, so i know what my ancestors had been eating for hundreds (or thousands) of years. My mom's family ate one chicken from the flock per week. They foraged herbs and leafy greens. They had potatoes, olive oil, and goat cheese year around. They only slaughtered goats as the herd size allowed. So not often. They had fruiting trees too. Almonds, figs, citrus, and of course olives. They did not have cane sugar. "Dessert" was a fig with an almond in it.
That sounds so delicious & in harmony with the land & animals. Cane sugar really destroys the taste buds I find, I can't enjoy the flavours of other foods after it, but if I stay off processed food, sugar & grains, other foods start to taste better. But nothing beats the flavours & nutrients of slow growing your own fruit & veg. Oh wow, your comment has got me dreaming again of an orchard one day!
How old?
@@backtothebarky How old is what???
@@cherrieaulait... Is she or was she.
@@backtothebarky Oh you're asking how old the lady's mother is or was, as in how long ago was this lifestyle? It sounds so idyllic I hope it is still lived by as many people as possible!
I watch multiple health and diet podcasts daily. I really appreciate the graphics, and pleasant tone and pace of voice. It is a well rounded, non-dogmatic, easy to digest presentation. And of the hundreds of health and diet podcasts I've watched, this is the only one I've commented on.
Eat different fibers, every meal.
His voice and pace has aways been their advantage, but it's very well complemented by the non-preachy approach.
While I also appreciate his tone and the way he presents things, he did overlook one thing:
B12 is originally produced by a soil bacterium. Current water treatment methods remove B12 from municipal drinking water, but it is otherwise in ground water, and it was the main source of B12 for our ancestors.
We do not need to eat meat to get B12. Supplementation with at least 125 ug daily (of which only 3 ug is actually absorbed) is sufficient for the body.
I wonder if that detail might change his "final decision".
@@silvergreylion It will not change the final decision because of the fact that B12 is currently being removed from municipal drinking water, so the need for it remains a fact. Great point thought!
Cheers,
@@microtcpip Thanks, but supplements don't enter into considerations?
There's also Neu5Gc in red meat. If you live off of supermarket food, only chicken, turkey, and other fowl don't have any.
Archeologist here! The Paleo "Diet" really focuses on muscle meat and while Proteins are essential for physiological needs, what is often overlooked is how much organ meat was eaten at any given time. Only in the last 40 something years we stopped eating organ meats and bone marrow in favor of muscle meats. Also the nutrient density and fibre content in modern vegetables and fruit are VASTLY different than in the paleolithic era. So the Paleo Diet is just another trend that is followed. But i love your take on the Mediterranean Diet !
Actually, most advocates of the paleo diet are also advocates of eating offal - bone broth, liver etc.
Its a shame that it is so tricky to source organs these days. Beef liver and chicken hearts is what you find in the stores here. Beef heart and marrow actually tastes really good but have to order online in bulk :(
@@fredrik1337 I'm from europe and can only say that you can get quality organ meat from butchers around here but the millenial and boomer generations are still "traumatised" from having to eat organ meats in the post war time (up to the 70ties or early 90ties depending on location) . So we're still waiting for a comeback. And I tought, that the raw meat "Carnivore" diet is seen differently to the "paleo" diet
@@fredrik1337 You could also try to get to know a local farmer or hunter. Often they are really happy when people actually want to honour the lives of their animals this way and they might even give organ meat away for free.
@@spookyghoul5078 My boomer parents fed me organ meats and I still love it! It's cheaper, too.
I am leaving this comment here so that after some hours, days, weeks, months or years when someone likes or comment on it, I will be reminded to watch this video again
Watch this video again
No one cares flakey flakerston
Smart 🤓
Go on... you know you want to... click that play button again 😊
@@Jake-vz1fk just got the notification now 😊
There is a big issue with lack of minerals in foods that are supposed to have said minerals. Many of the soils upon which our foods are grown are depleted. Farms replenish some of them through different methods, but minerals such as magnesium and zinc are not being replenished. You can grow whichever vegies are supposed to be rich in these, but if the soil lacks them the vegies do not produce them out of thin air. I believe magnesium is currently one of the minerals soils are most deficient off, and thus lacking as a nutrient in our diets.
Smart
Also iodine. 300 years ago farmers used to gather seaweeds/dead sea grass in wagonloads to add to their fields & let breakdown over winter. Replenished iodine & magnesium in the soil.
The ocean has all its minerals always.
Pee in your garden.
Magnesium and zinc absolutely are being replenished, mate, most modern industrial fertilizers have a main component, but also several micro-components which include these minerals. You can also buy natural ones, but they are much more expensive. The real reason isn't in the soil, but in the varieties we grow today - all of our food sources currently have roughly only 1/3 of the nutrients they used to have in the 50's, yet we still use spreadsheet from that period (so when a doc tells you to eat an apple, nowadays you would have to eat three in order to get the same amount of nutrients, but then you'll be ingesting a LOT more sugar as well, because that's the only component we can influence when making new varieties with bigger yields).
You missed the fact that the engineering of clean water and safe sewers has done more than medicine to extend the human lifespan.
i can imagine there are still some things we can change in our eating habits to extend lifespan like 1.5 times, lets say stop drinking soda (wild example ofc but first that came to mind)
he did say general understanding of health, hygiene would fit in that category.
@@SaxonSpoonerexactly! It's not just "drugs" and "surgery", so to speak, but the whole approach towards health and hygiene, especially the understanding of how "disease" is spread and how exactly it interferes with our bodily functions - so that we are able to develop an "antidote" (a drug). This covers essentially everything from sewers to washing your hands with soap to minise the risks of contagion from the 'flu or COVID...
medicine has done nothing to increase our lifespan. back in our days people lived hundred years. It says in the Bible, the book we should believe. Not what comes from all kind of influencers as this video is.
@@elvirai817 bruh
Our ancestor's diet depended more on the season than our current diets. We have access to food that is grown thousands of miles away at its peak of freshness or packaged to last months.
Also the produce today probably looked, tasted, and differed in nutrition than what we have today. We have made Brussel sprouts more palatable within the last 20 years alone.
Our ancestors probably didn't eat three square meals a day. More likely they feasted whenever there was food and went longer periods without food than the average citizens of the world today.
Exactly. And people seem to forget that life expectancy back in the day was way WAY shorter, medicine (or medical knowledge) was not as advanced, science, technology, engineering, and so on was either limited or non-existent which made certain living conditions a lot harsher for people.
@@clit_niblr0375based on what? Native American people who ate from nature, mostly meat, during 1700s, 1800s, 1900s lived to over 100 yo while at the same time Americans living in agricultural society, died in their 60s, mostly from sickness.
And GMO, even here in Africa.
@@clit_niblr0375 life expectancy was in fact not that much shorter. If you take a look, what we managed to do is to minimalize infant death. That's the reason our life expectancy is much higher.
@@snaxximan5737 - Excuse YOU, but YOU do know that people back in ancient times died way younger than they do now, correct? Or are YOU one of these revisionist history contrarians whose only rebuttal is 'nuh-uh!'
I read an article in a science magazine probably 30 years ago written about an area studied by archeologists where people had lived continuously as hunter gatherers and then transitioned into agriculture. What they found studying their bones was that the hunter gatherers were healthier than the people who lived after agriculture. The agriculture bodies had more cavities and more signs of arthritis, and their bones were weaker.
That's what the video says. Did you watch it?
Does it matter? Healthier didn't mean longer living. Have you realized, the weaker our bones get, the longer we live? what if our bones thickening is actually bad? and we need more porous bones, more gelatinous to live way longer than necessary?
Totolakay 🐒
Oh deer 🦌
@@TotoLakay We can't play tennis with porous, gelatinous bones. Tennis players develop harder bones on their dominant arm from all the impact of hitting the ball!
Q: What did our ancestors eat?
A: Whatever they could get their fooking hands on.
Funny but fekin true lol
Weaker ancestors.
that's why they didn't eat fooking fries.
@@Magnetroman You don't think they would eat them, if they had access to fries? I very highly doubt they would decline them.
@@yearginclarke I am sure they would eat them and the ywould also use smartphones if they could. But they didn't have fooking smartphones either did they?
Minor tweak: a gluten-free Mediterranean diet makes far more sense for many of us. Many are severely affected by gluten, and at age 50+ our sensitivity to grains gets far worse. As soon as I ditched gluten, I immediately solved many gut health issues, lost weight, gained more energy, improved my blood sugar levels, sleep better, etc. Yes, just that one change. My only issue has been the temptation to replace wheat-based snacks with non-wheat crackers and/or potatoes. Too many carbs are always a problem, regardless of the source. ;-)
The best I've ever felt was after months of a gluten, soy and dairy free diet. I went to a meat, nuts and brown rice only diet for a short time afterwards and felt even better.
The use of fire thing has me imagining a scenario of how it developed. After a field or forest cought fire from lightening food became scarce in the area and while looking for something to eat a group came upon the burned carcass of some animal and dug in looking to see if any good parts were left and ate cooked meat finding that it tasted good. They also found over the next week that burned meat lasted longer, so they were able to forage in the buned out area longer and survived by eating the burned meat. As an aside they later saw some other animals come back and start digging in the ground to find food and found out that some roots were eatable too, especially when cooked from the heat of the fire. After that they started looking for fires and even captured some to use regularly.
They could probably smell the cooking flesh from a mile away and instinctively followed their noses thinking they might stumble upon the first Steakhouse or BBQ joint known to man! 😁
@@PudgyCurmudgeon Yes, I’m imagining a primitive ancestor thinking, “what’s that amazing smell? Why am I slobbering? We must find it and gorge!”
Watch the classic movie . "Quest for fire"
That actually sounds plausible. I've never really thought about it, but seems like the most natural way for those possibilities to have been discovered. 👍
That sounds like a possibility, but impossible to know for sure.
I recently made a change to my daily diet. And lost 25 pounds!
Previously, my typical breakfast included a raisin bran muffin or something similar, coffee, a small orange juice, yogurt, and some fruit such as pineapple, a banana, and peaches. While I was still working (I am retired now), I usually had a sandwich with cold meat and cheese on whole wheat bread for lunch. My dinner varied among beef, chicken and fish, with either pasta, rice, or potatoes and some kind of vegetables. And I usually drank milk with lunch and dinner.
I had slowly gained weight over the past 20 + years, and even though I stopped having lunch after retiring, I continued to gain weight with most of the fat gain around my middle torso.
So I decided to make a change to skipping the muffins, being high in carbohydrates, and changing to a breakfast of stir-fried onion, peppers and mushrooms, with some ham, and then cracked a couple of eggs on top, going with more protein. I also changed to Greek yogurt with no added sugar.
Dinner stayed mostly the same.
After two weeks, I lost three pounds. I then extended the list and cut out desserts, and milk, after I realized I was drinking it out of habit with dessert. I continued to lose weight and over five or six months lost 25 pounds. I didn't increase my level of exercise during this time, but continued the fairly active life I always have been.
At the same time I started to log my calories. It's hard to say that it played a part because I don't know what my old calorie count was, but it did give me a sense of control over what I was eating.
I am inclined to say cutting out the extra carbs made all the difference. And the effects were seen almost right away.
Thank you for sharing that with us. Here's what I learned about breakfast. If you eat a bigger one (almost anything, not muffin -- but like protein), then you stay full longer in the day. So, if I do that, then I am not as likely to want to really soak up calories during lunch. And, possibly, I burn it off more too. So, that might be what you are experiencing, exactly as what I have found through some experimentation. But, whatever is working for you, that's awesome. Just keep it and up, and do stay healthy in your retired years. I want you & everyone else healthy.
I am glad that you got healthy again. Yes, cutting out the fruit and milk were the biggest contributors. I have started gaining a lot of weight when I became accustom to adding whole milk to my coffee (and I would drink 4 small cups a day). And of course the fructose in fruits sticks to the body much, much longer than other sugar types do. I learned that the hard way. I lost a huge amount of weight when I stopped drinking drinks with high fructose corn syrup (I mean a LOT of weight melted off me. Drinking drinks with cane sugar does nothing to add weight to me).
I know that I should cut down on the whole milk. But I just cannot help it now. I believe that I have become addicted to the creamy coffee in the morning. Drinking plain black coffee does nothing for me except give me acid reflux
Fat doesn't make you fat, sugar makes you fat. Fat feeds your brain and prevents early dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Sugar makes your metabolism and brain activity sluggish and has a negative impact on future development and abilities in young children via epigenetics.
@@johnathanmagliari8461 Actually, I'm still eating a lot of fruit. Breakfast includes a banana, some pineapple and canned peaches. Most snacks are either an apple or an orange. What I did eliminate was yogurt with added fruit. That's where the processed sugars came from.
Fruit is a natural source of sugars and take longer to metabolize. I also added more protein so that helped keep away the hunger feeling that leads to excess eating.
@@1953bassman Well then your body can process fructose much better than mine can. I always gain a lot of weight after eating lots of fruits
Just a small info to add here: Mediterranean diet is also the main diet of Morocco, Lebanon, Cyprus, Malta, Portugal, Turkey, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, and France.
The Mediterranean region has 2 blue zones not only one. Apart from Sardinia, you also has the island of Ikaria in Greece.
Aren't most of those countries on the Mediterranean? They would be influenced by the same dietary norms of the area.
Check out the village in Italy where 30% of people are over 100 years old. And 30% of them are over 110. It's called Acciaroli
This guy is an ignorant and thinks mediterraean diet is only spain italy and greece.
@@randallan8158 I think the issue being highlighted is that as often as the Mediterranean diet is discussed, there is still a predisposition for a majority audience to interpret that as Italian, Greek, or Spanish (Eurocentric) while the Mediterranean region absolutely includes all the other countries the OP mentioned, it is not really accurate to suggest there are any broad 'dietary norms of the area,' in addition to the fact that island cultures, even in the Mediterranean, tend to be more insulated from outside influence and pressure.
Omnivore diet. Eat everything 😅 omg who could have guessed 😮😮😮😮
Blood sugar levels also affect mental health. In some people it's just "mood"/"hangry", but for more sensitive people, it's hyperactivity vs exhaustion, functional or brain-dead, cheerful or depressed. I didn't notice until I was around a severely type one diabetic. Her ups & downs were so familiar but just more extreme and frequent.
Now that's interesting. I was wondering about sugar levels effecting things and how it could be compared. 💯👍
Definitely noticed mood swings stopped when I quit eating white and processed sugar. It was strange bc I thought it was a hereditary trait from my father.
I feel like when we started agriculture, we kinda found an unintended glitch/exploit and steered off the path ever since that.
Infinite population growth glitch *2024 NOT PATCHED NOT CLICKBAIT*
@@onebritishboi9892 until there are droughts, wars, plagues 💀
Ya imagine if 8 billion of us now were to go out hunting everyday? everything edible would last about 2 days.
This matrix is a combining game, nice point 😉 #agalchemy
@TheCriticom I mean imagine everytime you wanted meat you just go to a place where you can buy it. Crazy.
We lost B-12 from fermented vegies with the advent of refrigerators. I used to interview people who were almost 100 years old at old folks' homes when I was a teen about forty-five years ago. I asked them all sorts of questions when I went to visit, and they gave fascinating stories in return. A most interesting trend was the way refrigerators changed the way food was eaten in their lifetime!!! They described how food was prepared and stored before the refrigerator. I listened intently to the details provided in case an apocalypse would later come. They also had really cute stories of love lost and love won 🙂100 years ago, we switched to refrigeration and stopped preserving vegies with fermentation. We used to have wide varieties of legumes (beans) that keep indefinitely dry, and we moved toward livestock and refrigeration of the meat. Now we have weak micorbiomes for processing foods that were preserved the old-fashioned way--- drying beans and fermenting vegies. I can't speak for 10,000 years ago but can for 100 plus years ago. If I think of who benefits most from this change, it is a certain industry. If we had a wide variety of legumes stored, we wouldn't be as dependent on protein from x source.
Yet life expectancy has gone up about 8 years in that timeframe in the US…
@@marktechsci That's from plummeting smoking rates
@@marktechsci That is because the average is skewed by a huge decrease in childhood death, and accidents/war/trauma. Once one has reached adulthood, their life expectancy from that point forward is not so different than it would have been a century ago if one excludes those that die prematurely from accidents, trauma and war.
KIMCHI would like to know your location.
Did any tell you about 'fry-down'?
The "huge mistake" we made was the development of agriculture and domesticating animals. Having our lives tied to specific areas of land is what has left us more prone to environmental catastrophes.
well, as opposed to,,, what exactly ?
@@TheeRocker As opposed to remaining hunter/gatherers who could just pick up and move when circumstances dictated. It's not a lifestyle I, or most of today's humanity would ever consider going back to if avoidable, but there are still indigenous tribes in remote areas that make it work.
@@RoswellJazzFestival Concrete cities nearly equal roman demise...
@@BellotaVerde Exactly the point. Population growth and technological advances are the main reasons humanity is in danger. When we lived in small, nomadic groups, nothing we did had lasting detrimental effects on our environment; there was no danger of world wide pandemics; there was no need to develop weapons of mass destruction; instantaneous natural disasters such as tornadoes, floods, volcanic eruptions would effect small pockets of people, but wouldn't destroy supplies that other pockets of people relied upon. Slower natural catastrophes such as droughts would lead to migration to areas that were more fertile areas rather than leading to starvation.
And our medical advances, as impressive as they are, will never totally relieve humanity of suffering and death, and often just prolong or even cause suffering as is the case of addictive opiates that have ruined the lives of so many.
Perhaps the hunter gatherers got more exercise hunting and gathering?
And sunlight.. and no exhaust fumes, no highway noise, no stress from bills & clogged drains
Organic exercise. No trucks to haul around animals, primitive tools for meat cutting and processing animals, no machines to harvest fruits and vegetables, etc. Brb going off to live in the forest to become a hunter gatherer
yep!...
Being chased by a sabre toothed tiger is a good source of zone 4 cardio.
Stress was there too.. stress of survival and being preyed any time by the other predators
I was having a conversation with a woman I didn't know when I mentioned Kinder Eggs.
The moment I said, "eggs" she became righteously indignant and told me that she was vegan and that eating eggs was wrong.
I tried to explain to her that Kinder Eggs were just egg shaped chocolate.
The moment I said, "chocolate" she yelled, "That's worse than alcohol."
Um . . . I have a question . . . Does lack of b12 cause insanity?
Edit: I really don't care whether anyone chooses to be vegan or not. This is not about veganism. This is about the fact that this woman went off on an insane tangent just like many of you are doing.
Mate!! 😂😂 It must do coz kinder eggs are banging 😂
Eating eggs is why we chickens came to be and is by far the healthiest type of animal product way better than meat in virtually every way.
Strange that she as vegan says chocolate is worse than alcohol lol, it’s a fruit seed 😂I love my dark chocolate and those of higher chocolate like 90% these are bitter and only eaten in tiny bits lol. Less sugars. She need a chocolate almond milk with a good dash of rum or vodka 😂
@@lawrencetrujillo7365it's slightly behind pork in efficiency but i don't really like the taste of pork anyway so eggs all the way.
@@nancywillaert5129 she probably meant processed sugar.
Diet is about 2/3rds of the solution. The other third is lifestyle choices. Get outside, walk instead of drive, get some sunlight and reduce screen and sitting time.
This and a good diet will change your life
Good sleep too which all of what you mentioned should help facilitate
Not only that, also a good mindset and mental health. This can be done by spending some time to meditate/reflect, and do mindfulness practices daily (or watch mindfulness and daily affirmation videos). There is a loneliness and insecurity crisis right now (note that "lonely" and "being alone" are not the same thing)
So true!!! 😊
As a non-native English speaker, I like your 'archaic' way of pronunciation of "U", what is actually correct "U" pronuntiation in most European languages. Could you say, which region of England is typical for such "U" pronunciation?
Broadly, The North
I think the reason our ancestors switched from hunter-gatherers to farmers wasn't because they wanted bread, but because they wanted beer.
"Was alcohol the reason for civilization?" searched under one's preferred search engine turns up some interesting results.
Alcohol is probably the single most reason for the proliferation of the human species. And yes it is a really interesting little nugget of our history. Makes sense to me too ,how it all came about and why, ya know. Kinda hilarious at the same time ! There's this old joke about even not so good looking girls....😵💫🤪🫣
Beer was also the reason for the invention of ice hockey.
Beer was actually invented by human, surprise fact. And yes, people did farm wheat to make beer and grow grapes for wine. Alcohol was also important as it was safer than drinking water due to the poor water quality back then (bacteria, etc.)
Edit: I actually meant beer was invented by women, surprising fact
@@GregoryP-jw8qj
Beer goggles 🥽
@@americanfreedomworldpeace now its only chemicals in the water
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"Scavenged Meat" sounds like a great Heavy Metal Band name.
"Lucy & The Scavenged Meat!"
I would go see that!❤
or a corn movie
🐵🎤🐒🎸🤘🤘🤘🤘
With diamonds!
"Ladies and gentlemen, the Meatles!"
Seems like the advent of farming and consuming more bread & grain-based gruel was about the same time we invented wealth, power, land ownership, people ownership and the wealthy elite who needed large numbers of peasant laborers and soldiers. Did we start eating more bread & gruel because we liked it, or because that was the cheapest easiest way to feed our peasants?
Always the last one
The cargills, rockefellers, and rothschilds are laffing their heads off....
They’ve shown that the start of farming caused a downturn in human health. What happened was people stopped eating the wide range of foods they ate as hunter gatherers and ate cereals. They had full stomachs and had more babies which meant they needed to farm more to support the higher population which meant more babies….and the start of famines when crops failed.
A wealthy elite is a byproduct of inventing peasant labour, not the other way around.
Carbs-------->Capitalism?
This is one of the best and most useful food videos I've seen. Thank you so much!
it was really brave of you to tackle this topic. Talking about nutrition tends to end up as palatable (pun intended) as a discussion of politics or religion at any social get together with absolute strangers. Well done!!
Since he is presenting the facts that are backed by data and science and what he has presented isn't actually controversial, extreme or trying to challenge actual established ideas and is not refutable, what he has presented is relatively safe and not as brave as those people who are trying to change what people think about diet. I'm really glad he made this video and I think it needs to be shared as widely as possible. This should be shown in schools. Everyone needs to see this video IMO.
Only in the West I think, rest of the world don't argue about food groups that much. We might argue about the taste of food here in the Far East, but definitely not food nutrition 😂
nice pun
@noztk Only if ya a bloody yank. They can manage to turn every comment section anywhere into a dispute about bloody politics. No matter how unrelated the topic of the vid/post is to politics.
Only if ya bloody American. They can manage to turn every comment section anywhere into a dispute about bloody politics. No matter how unrelated the topic of the vid/post is to politics.
This has got to be one of the most important and influential videos you’ve ever made. I was thinking of my sister who is a nutritionist, and what I was brought up eating as an Italian. I am so glad that those two things have influenced what I eat today to live a healthy lifestyle. Fantastic video!
as a frenchman, I apologise for transfats, that is : margerine.
it was invented to ensure that napoléons troops had their butter..
Yes, but Nappoléon's so-called margarine wasn't made from hydrogenised seed oils, but from beef tallow and milk. Je sais lequel je préférerais manger. :)
Lol. This was an incredible story about one of the first attempts at making artificial butter. I saw it on a video about 6 months ago.
that margarine is fine.. its the hydrogenated seed oils that started being dumped into the food supply 100 years ago is the problem.
Why apologise? Not all margarines are made by hydrogenation. I'm seriously considering switching some of my butter to margarine made from better vegetable oil to reduce my cholesterol. I would still cook meat with butter for high temperature but spreads and baking may benefit from margarines.
@@erictayet As @adminintellidm6806
mentioned above, it's not only the hydrogenation process that is the problem, it's also the so-called "vegetable" oils (really seed oils). The body simply can't deal with them, so the long term effects can have far more devastating consequences than any amount raised LDL from saturated fat. Maybe margarine made by a natural process using olive oil could be OK...
I LOVED this video. I learned more with it than in 40 years studying alternative medicine.❤
As soon as you mentioned the plague of processed food I got an advert for Pepsi popping up lol
😆😆
Pepsi still makes and sells a version made out of cane sugar.
If I'm going to buy a soda this is the one.
HA!
Lol. I got a McDonald's ad. Even though I haven't had fast food for over 3 years now
I normally ignore all ads anyway so if I got one like that I would never know.
I am a carnivore as of March 2024 . Im 47 and down 90lbs. I can tell you this I never run out of energy and feel like im 20yrs younger. I work circles around anyone at my job.
Did you only change your diet? Did you also change your physical activities, location, employment, relationship status…?
@robertberger8642 No, I just changed the way I eat.
What a video!.... never seen somebody cover this highly sensible topic (nowadays) in a more professional way than you just did. Thanks!
Don't have to look back 10,000 years, I am 71 and can remember that in my childhood everyone prepared food for themselves, home style cooking, lot's of veggies, little meat, fish on Fridays, mostly apples were the fruits then, in summer berries, Oranges for Christmas.. Bananas, Pineapples and other exotic fruits like Kiwi were unknown, mostly we drank water from the tap, coke was a no, no, in Summer home made Ice Tea... and nobody did miss anything, neither did I and still don't and XXL clothing was unknown too - what a boon time !!!
Back when you were a kid the foods may have also been better. (More tasty and nutritious) Modern agriculture with it's many chemicals have greatly decreased microbes and worms in topsoil. These creatures enriched the soil and allowed the uptake of good minerals. Soils used to team with organic matter and life. Soils are not always so healthy today. The grown food does not contain the needed minerals like it used to. Animals as well may have been fed a different diet. Cows would graze the fields consuming a variety of foods. Today animals are kept penned up and fed more limited types of feed. Chickens are different than in days gone by. Chickens have been bred to grow super fast. As with other animals, they are penned up and fed limited types of feed. Just some thoughts.
At 66 I concur. We were Catholic too. Being poor -ish I learned to love mullet, a very cheap mostly bait fish in 1960s Queensland. We raised and sold oven ready chickens and eggs by the dozen. Bacon, real old school bacon, we could afford twice a year. I have a very good memory of our diets. Same as everyone I knew and no one was fat.
Also a big difference between then and now is that people didn't snack between meals like they do now. They ate, then had a gap of time where they didn't eat. Insulin the fat depositing hormone spikes every time you eat (especially with sugar, it spikes less for fat with the same calories). Anorexic people in hospital are actually encouraged to eat every two hours to put on weight.
@@stephena1196 Exactly!
Hello, Im curious. Why was coke a no no?
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You summarized everything I, as a biologist, think about what we should eat. One more things - habits are important. If we eat something different sporadically, even if it's not healthy, it's OK., as long as by habit, we eat well most of the time.
Have you ever seen what Americans eat? The tell tale sign is what is in their fridge. If you see baloney, processed cheese slices and white bread, you're in for the shock of your life. Boxed, bagged, blister packed factory foods in the freezer. Leftover containers of take out meals. Fast food wrappers in the trash. And stacks upon stacks of soda cases. Sugar water labeled as "sports drinks", gallon jugs of "juice", giant sized energy drinks, and cases of bottled water with a dose of PFAS. Eat junk foods "sporadically"? It's every meal.
it's NOT ok. Moderation is only good for good things. -Nuitritionists
almost 30 years ago, I had vocational training as a butcher and the essence of that video, was exactly what we learned back then in school!
Exactly, moderation is the key when it comes to less than healthy foods
@@goku445 I worked for a nutritionist who admonished me to eat very healthy 80% of the time and I could eat whatever I wished 20% of the time. I modified that to 90/10 . It has worked quite well. That would equal about two pizza meals a week.
IT'S ABOUT TIME they started to study this. I've been begging for this for years. I know I react differently to foods AND medications but I can't get anyone to really believe me. I'm so excited people will finally be heard.
I believe you! I believe that most people are less tolerant to the foods they eat than they think they are. As a kid, I suffered from severe stomach craps and was diagnosed with IBS. This disappeared as I grew up, but when I abstained from grains for a month I became sensitive to them again. So if I eat them now I get stomach cramps for up to 10 days. My skins also reacts severely if I eat any form of processed food. The biggest impact is on my mood, I actually 'cured' 15 years of major depression through diet. Food is so so important.
@@thecarnivorept So is psychosomatism...
Yeah, if you cured depression through fucking diet, you probably didn't have depression to behind with
@@thomgizziz sounds more like she has celiac disease to me. But I'm used to people thinking it's all in my head because they can't think outside the box. I've had several of my medical theories proven true over the years. This is just the latest one. For instance it's not in my head that I can't produce enough iron without a healthy heavily meat diet. I've been like that my whole life. My doctors couldn't decide why I was always so anemic until one had the knowledge that animal products are easier for the human body to absorb. So they finally figure it was absorption problems that can't be fixed with supplements. A LOT of what doctors call psychosomatic is just medical problems they have figured out Yet. Sadly the medical community is getting dumber through so we are going backwards in our understandings instead of looking outside their echo chambers for new answers.
@@thecarnivorept sounds like you might have celiac disease. I fight it and that sounds similar. Or it could be you have problems with oxalates.
I am a almost 70 year old male. In the last couple of years, I have lost 65 pounds, and gotten (almost) all my blood numbers in the green. My blood pressure is still too high, but that seems to be genetic, and I'm working on it with my doctor. For me the biggest problem was sugar. Massive sweet tooth! I cut 90% of the sugar from my diet, and other carbs, like pasta. But the real change came when I started intermittent fasting. Which is really just skipping meals and reducing my daily intake. I eased io it, gradually getting to one meal a day, 5 days a week. I wasn't religious about it, but it made me much more conscious of what I was eating every day. Now I'm in maintenance mode, and feel and look great!
Intermittent Fasting is KEY... Getting Insulin Secretions low enough to GET HEALTHY.
Humans...NEVER ATE...Refined Carbs...EVER. Normal Insulin levels are 10% of the current Average.....Current Average OF HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS. BUT only 2% of T2D Patient Insulin Levels..
Cut out all refined sugar.. u will be glad u did believe me
Are there sweet alternatives to processed sugar that aren't chemically produced that satisfy the cravings? I have a sweet tooth, too. Artificial sweetners, like sorbitol, send me running for the bathroom if I eat too much of them. For that reason, I don't eat unsweetened candy. I know different sugars have different "glycemic index numbers" but a number on a chart doesn't tell me much.
Honestly, there needs to be an entire course devoted to nutrition given in high school. It would be helpful to understand at a young age about the foods we eat before we develop health problems.
@@lorisewsstuff1607 I have a big sweet tooth too. I find that eating fruits and drinking smoothies have helped me stay away from processed junk while usually completely satisfying my cravings. Honey crisp apples are my favorite, they are the perfect balance between texture, taste, and sweetness and are my go-to snack. The only drawback is that they are usually a lot more expensive than the other apples, but worth it 🤤
@@lorisewsstuff1607 After you break the addiction to the processed sugars you don't crave the super sweet and then natural sugars will satisfy. I know this to be true, but I'm eating peanut m&ms while I type this...
Man I'm glad he's still at it I've been watching his stuff since like 2014 and it still doesn't disappoint
My eating habits changed during the pandemic...I did a loose version of keto/ paleo... drank water at every turn... sometimes every 20 minutes to every hour.
I just craved more water all the time. Less than five months, I lost weight but I didn't know, I just thought my clothes were worn out... until people started asking about it. I finally got on the scale...60 pounds lighter!
I had a new rule: for every soda I had, I had to drink two waters..and so on. Before the end of the year, I lost a 100 pounds. Still going.
You could stop drinking soda? It's basically liquid sugar.
Signs of Diabetes Type 1... drinking all the time, (rapid) loss of weight. Consider a checkup.
That makes a lot sense. If you drink 1 soda and 2 equal amounts of water you will end up drinking less soda as you end up less thirsty and less likely to reach for a soda. Just doing that can cause weight loss over period of time.
@@TheArtmin Maybe it's just the excessive water intake. You shouldn't drink a whole glass all at once in every 20 minute/hour, it just makes your kidneys work overtime, you'll pee every half hour which in turn makes you thirsty all the time. (I know because I tried this in summer to "stay hydrated".)
@@sendmorerum8241 agreed. Can't really quote that, but once i read that for better hydration water should be drank fewer times in the day but in larger quantities, instead of a cup every hour or sipped constantly. This helped me a lot. Also, knowing about electrolyte balance should too be made a common knowledge.
In 2021 the onset of an autoimmune condition diabled me. Over the next 6 months I gained 60 lbs. I went carnivore and dropped 40lbs immediately. Then I plateaud and couldn't lose anymore weight for a year. I increased my healthy carbs and decreased the saturated fats in meats by switching more to fish. Also, increased my cardio. The weight has started dropping again. Thanks for posting. The animation was great and you have a way of speaking that makes everything understandable.
Good job. 🤝
If you do get in trouble again,
look into saltwater fasting.🙏
The issue of plateauing is caused by your protein to fats ratio. If you are obese or overweight with body fat, then you must adjust that ratio. Carnivore Diet is a ratio of 2:1 fats to proteins. You must reduce fats to 1:1 or even less. The body must still get fats to signal there is plenty available and to have the body not store any and to tap into your fat stores to burn as fuel. What carbs you consume should be from some vegetables and a few key fruits for Vit. C. Not from grain products. Not from fruits. Not from starches! These all lead to fat storage and fatty liver disease. Your weight dropped again due to cardio. Without it, carbs should not be consumed in higher amounts and regularly. That is a fact.
Carnivore for the win.
fat in meat is good. ask an eskimo.. jorden peterson & his daughter, only eat meat, . she had some bad problems, but now, fiddle fit.. sugar, coke, carbonation, bad.
@@harrywalker968 you only have to look in the comments of any Carnivore video to see the wealth of positive reports from people who have had success with it. No one is paying them, they have no agenda, they are just elated with the results. I love a bit of Thoughty2 but I genuinely feel that this video is already out of date. Meat is the species specific diet for Humans.
The industrial bred animals people eat also don't get B12 naturally, which is from the soil, but is supplementet through their foodsource.
Thank you 🙏
B12 is made in the rumen of ruminants , so long as they have sufficient cobalt. Most soil B12 is from animal poop. Even humans poop out b12.
That’s true. My Mrs eats a fair bit of meat, and she ended up with the worst case of b12 deficiency her doctor had ever seen. She was hallucinating like crazy, a few shots in the arm and back to normal. Did a lot of research and had to cringe a little when he spoke of b12 in the video. He concluded that it was only available from animal foods throughout history, but it’s said that the b12 source for our ancestors would have been untreated water, and unwashed fruit and vegetables, as well as some meat. Don’t forget that huge amounts of meat wouldn’t have been available to them, as it is to us today. Modern day sanitation is mainly what’s causing the deficiencies.
@@razzledazdazzle our ancestors were nearly carnivorous. The animals that don't get B12 in diet don't rely on water and diet, they eat their own poop. There's absolutely no evidence early humans got anything but trivial amounts of B12 from water and soil. Does your wife have pernicious anemia? If so, that means no matter how much B12 she eats she'll never get enough. She can't absorb it.
That's why free range and cage free eggs and chicken is better. But due to greed and captalism, corporations want to push out more profit an so they do whatever makes them the most money fast
Agriculture is not just about grains. Pulses, herd animals, greens, tallow, milk, butter, fruits and tubers provide the nutrients that grains don't. Look at the hunzas and the people Weston A. Price studied.
Excellent point. The idea that “agriculture” means grains only is wrong thinking.
Proteins not only do the things mentioned here, but they are also needed in order for our body to construct DNA and RNA. A cell dies. Another cell divides. It needs to duplicate the DNA that is in its nucleus. First it has to construct nucleic acids. To do that it needs amino acids, which come from the breakdown of proteins.
You also need folate and many other things for proper DNA replication....plants a a good source of folate in general...
And amino acids do not need to consumed at the same time.
But if you want a balanced amino acid, peanut butter on whole wheat bread.
@@TeddyRumbleYep. Back in the mid '70s when I first tried vegetarianism, a lot less was known about how we process the food we consume. And for the most part it was highly recommended to combine legumes and grains together and not four or five or more hours apart. Now it's known protein complementing can be hours apart daily.
BTW. What got me into vegetarianism was the book "Diet for a Small Planet"-Frances Moore Lappé. It was a bestseller.
@@8sun52 Same here. My first love was very much into "back to the land" things.
The other impact of agriculture: About ten times per century, the crops in any given location fail, leading in pre-modern times to famine and mass starvation. It was such a common occurrence that only the worse famines were recorded by historians.
Nice info there, makes total sense, thanks for imparting it 👍
We could say the same about the function of modern media in regards to social and political upheaval- people only get riled up about what they're told to get riled up about, by whomever is benefiting from us being angry if you ask me. Maybe I'm being paranoid 🤔
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they're not out to get you.😃
Disgrunt: England did a diet study that led to the hypotheselis that half the population in the world has one micro-organism that produces calories for them in the intestines during famine and during dieting, so that they do NOT lose weight from calorie restriction like other people.
Most of those crop failures were due to *droughts.* Some of them were utterly catastrophic. The near-global drought and famine of 1876-78 is estimated to have killed off 3.7% of the world's human population. (For comparison, WWII killed about 2.7%, and Covid-19 killed about 0.1%.)
Droughts still happen, of course, but, thankfully, crops are are not as vulnerable to droughts as they used to be. That's partly due to irrigation, but it's also because of rising CO2 levels, thanks to fossil fuel use. Those higher levels reduce plants' stomatal conductance, which improves drought resilience and water use efficiency. ChatGPT did a surprisingly good job of explaining how that works:
_“In agronomy, the effects of elevated CO2 on plant water use efficiency and drought resilience are extensively studied. One of the key mechanisms through which elevated CO2 levels improve water use efficiency is by reducing stomatal conductance and, consequently, water loss through transpiration._
_“Stomata are small pores on the surface of plant leaves that regulate gas exchange, including the uptake of CO2 for photosynthesis and the release of water vapor through transpiration. When CO2 levels are elevated, plants can maintain the same or higher rate of photosynthesis while reducing stomatal conductance. This reduction in stomatal conductance leads to a decrease in water loss through transpiration without significantly affecting CO2 uptake, resulting in improved water use efficiency.”_
Hunter-gathers experienced starvation on a regular basis too. Migrations change, weather affects numbers, animals have diseases, there are predator-prey ups & downs, etc.
Really well put together video. Massive amounts of complex information presented in clear and enjoyable format. Much love from someone with passion for nutrition 🎉
Absolutely....just over a year in,
Have lost almost 80 pounds,
Everything has improved from breathing ,vision , darkening grey hair,less anxiety and more mental clarity.
Thank you Dr Ken Berry.
You've saved my life and have improved my quality of life
Tremendously
As long as you're losing fat and not too much muscle and bone mass.
@@heronimousbrapson863 You'll never lose muscle on a Crnivore diet! Only if you eat carbs will this happen! Carbs and fibre are poison for humans! The human digestive system is designed to digest and derive energy from animal protein and especially animal fat.
Me too
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Quite the opposite...
Never did I imagine getting into better shape than I was in at 30....I'm 61.
Now you have diabetes and heart disease and colorectal cancer and fatty liver.
Whew those blue zones man, mostly everyone wakes up at the crack of dawn and start work, stop working after 12pm, have lunch and then take their naps, Wake up at like 2-4 pm then hang out with family/friends until dinner time. Man that sounds wholesome 😊.
Sounds like a bunch of lazy bums who value life over money.
yeah thats like.. why arent we all just doing that? lol
The blue zone diet is 90% plant based with the remaining 10% being mostly eggs. A lot of meat eaters seem to deny this fact.
Wrong @@lawrencetrujillo7365
less stress. stress is proven to increase the risk of heart attacks, and our modern work culture, as well as what it takes to live nowadays has become more stressful. i started noticing it when younger people were hired in the workplace. instead of socializing or having a good time on 3pm some of them would just work a 2nd job
I absolutely love your videos, Arran. Brilliant combination of entertainment and educational content. Thank-You!❤
You (and your team) are SO good….seriously! Love, love your videos! Your HANDSOME good looks, GREAT visual & music production make your videos so ENJOYABLE to watch. It’s obvious you put HARD work in your research with FACTS that help us make BETTER choices in our lives. And for that I THANK YOU!!
Thank you so much for taking the time to make this VERY informative video!!! Clarity at last 👍
I grew up in a family that had a rather old fashioned farm-style diet. Lots of vegetables, some fruits, cereal grains, dairy, and meat (but not a lot of meat). Hardly anything was highly processed. Still pretty much on the same diet, it's worked well for us. Weight isn't a problem, no health troubles, etc. And skipping the highly processed junk also results in a lower food bill. Highly processed foods and junk ingredients like HFCS are horrible.
Same. Both parents grew up on the farm and this is how our meals were prepared: always 3 veg and some type of beans (pinto, lima, great northern, etc). Meat was always on the menu but not in big portions. Fruits included anything in season. Oatmeal was our main cereal. Eggs, prepared every which way, plus milk and cheese. The first time I ate a store bought (frozen) pot pie I immediately threw up. Restaurant food turned my stomach upside down. I later realized it was possibly due to preservatives I had never been exposed to. Also, no weight problems and no health issues.
AI still can't draw hands properly. 😂
EDIT: this was related to the first thumbnail, he changed it in the meantime.
And it's so ugly too I can't understand it fr
Look at the arms - the skin is connected across them.
Ummm... I see two hands holding a blurred image. Tf y'all talking about?
@@InAmOrAtA1983They keep changing the title and image for first few hours, trying to find one that most people click on.
The image they are talking about was second one, blurred hands is third one.
Yess lol was gonna say thiss!!!!
Hey ! Thank you a million times for your videos !
They are better than a lot of movies, incredibly interesting and so well written! Thank you for all the effort you put into each video and it's always a pleasure to be guided through your video by yourself!
No wonder why you have so many subscribers !
Take care
I've never felt or looked healthier than now, aged 32, having had three kids. I've cut out gluten, oats, dairy, refined sugar, caffeine, and alcohol. I avoid seed oils but they are in everything. My weight is great, I've got a 27inch waist, my menstrual cycle massively improved after cutting dairy, and my mental state has also hugely improved. I eat meat, fish, veg, fruit, some legumes, some rice, rice noodles, potatoes, some gluten free pasta, nuts, seeds, olive oil, coconut products, avocado oil, and maple syrup. I fast most days for between 14 and 20 hours, always skipping breakfast, and I try to get enough sleep. Thanks for making this video! The world of ancestral eating is fascinating.
What's your take on the recommendation for 14/10 instead of 16/8 fasting for women? Sounds like you thrive on longer fasting. Do you think it's highly individual?
Dairy wasn't the cause of you being fat
There is a reason in the hospitals they get you to eat vegetables to get better, instead of meat.
@@dealarrNon sequitur. They aren't feeding you vegetables because they are full of the required nutrition, but because they are cheap.
If you look up nutrition profiles of food and the required nutrients of humans, you can get everything you need from a ruminant like a cow or sheep. Vegetables and plants in general provide incomplete or less available nutrients. Requiring you to eat a lot more to get the same nutrient level.
Add to that, the fact that a majority of vitamins are fat soluable and it becomes necessary to eat fat in you diet in order to absorb the nutrients properly. You aren't getting that from broccoli.
Nothing wrong with eating veggies, but they are not a good main source in nutritional health if you do any amount of research beyond confirmation bias.
@@WhistlingWoodsman While the cow thing is technically true most of the really nutritional stuff is found among the offal, which a lot of people can't stomach these days, if they can even get their hands on it, in the first place.
Only one issue i Have with this Video. The Vitamin K. Theres actually a vitamin K2 that we require much more than the K1 found in leafy greens that arent actually bioavailable and full of pesticides( these leafy greens are on the dirty dosen list). Vitamin K2 is found in RED MEAT and fermented vegetables as well as in some dairy. The K2 deficiency is now believed to be one of the major causes of arterial plaque build up. The K2 is required to control Calcium placement in the bones and teeth but since we lack it. Calcium ends up building up in micro lessions in the arteries walls caused by inflamation.
Well said. This is one of the main issues that's not recognised enough, for the reason behind heart attacks. Calcium build up in arteries is a major issue and K2 can regulate that perfectly. K2 naturally found in red meat.
There is more to it. Bacteria produce only MK7 form, that is not bioactive. We need MK4 that is synthesized only by animal tissue. So you can NOT get K2 from plants like fermented soy, natto. You can only get bioactive vitamin K2 MK4 from animal food - meat, eggs and dairy.
Then why is there a positive correlation between red meat consumption and heart attack and heart failure? I'm not trying to be snarky, I'm curious.
As you pointed out, K2 can be obtained from eating certain fermented vegetables, so eating meat is not needed to get all the K2 needed for optimal health. Red meat is a probable carcinogen, and has high levels of saturated fat leading to increased Cardiovascular disease (CVD.) Our ancestors did not live as long as we do today, and populations who eat basically nothing but animal products today live about 10 to 20 fewer years than others in the same country. For example, the Inuit of Canada who live 10 fewer years and the Maasai of Tanzania who live 20 fewer years.
@@Dave.O This is a myth put out by the food industry / big pharma scam and Vegans. Don't take my word for it Google it.
Switched to full carnivore after 40yrs of eating like a normal person. Took a while but I feel way better. Gained muscle and lost internal and external fat.
I don't need deodorant anymore either, no gas or bloated feelings like on regular foods. My hair got darker as well... Anyway.
Also should add that I have some American Indian heritage so maybe that has something to do with me being more sensitive to grains and dairy.
They did a study using two men, for a year, in 1929-1930, in which these ate only meat. Their health actually improved. I was reminded of it because it was mentioned on a recent episode of The Doctors, whose medical panel poo-pooed the study, based solely on its being nearly 100 years old.
These 2 guys were Norwegians. Basically all humans are meat eaters. We function well on just meat and poorly on just catbs.
My story is identical to yours. And today is a day 59 for me being on carnivore. The Mediterranean diet is an absolute bullshit scam. It is not the best diet to be on. One should not be eating greens. So the student needs to take his Mediterranean diet and shove it up a stupid ass.😅
I started carnivore 6 months ago when I stumbled upon it by chance. Within 3 days, my right hip stopped hurting. I wasn’t trying to lose weight but I dropped 50 pounds. I think I look scrawny but my doctor says my weight is ‘perfect’.
I started carnivore a month ago after spending most of my adult life being vegetarian, vegan and flexitarian . Feeling better already but I have a long way to go to be healthy
Not sure if anyone else has made this comment, but there is an error in the presentation. Humans *do not* need to consume carbohydrates. Some of our cells/organs do require glucose (brain, red blood cells, inner medulla of kidney, testicles, ovaries), but we can synthesize any glucose we require from protein (via gluconeogenesis). And lipolysis/fat oxidation produces plenty of energy. There are essential amino acids and essential fatty acids, but there are *no* essential sugars or starches. None. Zero. Human beings can survive and have survived very nicely indeed without consuming any carbohydrates.
Would be glad if u back it up with proof , also if this method existed then why was there need to develop cereals and why now carbs is part of our dietary needs ?
Because carbs are quick and easy calories.
Think about how long you have to devote to food everyday as a hunter gatherer. Hunting, fishing, gathering all takes a lot of time if you are trying to feed a family or communally a village.
Hunter gatherer takes less time than a full time job, but still cuts into the time a person can spend on specialization.
Specialization was the boon humanity got for agriculture.
If you need protein for muscles, carbs should work for sedentary occupations.
Humans also convert fructose into glucose rather easily.
@@singpart13cereal grains are cheap and easy to grow, and don't generally require the government subsidies of meat and dairy. The American FDA food pyramid counts six to 11 servings of grains per day because they are cheap to produce. I have gone full carnivore, and I have never felt better in my life. The oxalates from plants are now out of my system and my joints don't hurt. And my gut health is back to normal after getting all of the gluten out of my diet. Go out and read on the carnivore diet and it will change your life.
This confirms what M Peterson has been doing for 7 years apparently.
Thanks for adding this nuance - very important point. Great presentation though.
This is the single best video on human diet that I have seen and I can only wish it gets shown in all schools to all students and shared enough for every person to watch it. If everyone understood the information presented here the entire world could be healthier and all would profit.
Humans can live without eating any carbs. In fact, they can thrive on it. A carnivore diet provides enough vitamin C to ward off scurvy and I haven't heard of a single example of someone getting scurvy on a carnivore diet.
Humans are meant to be survivalists and survivalists are supposed to eat everything. Drop the Jordan Peterson meat-only bullshi*.
Absolutely correct! Plus our brains run much more efficiently on ketones, not glucose.
This is a common fantasy. And didn't James Blunt get scurvy from eating just meat, eggs and milk.
If you're using James Blunt as your reference regarding diet then you have a lot more than scurvy to worry about.
True, but i personaly prefer ketogenic lifesty with keto diet. I just need some varieties for food and it would be extremly boring to eat just animal products. My diet is almost carnivore and some days totaly are. But i don´t think that i´ve could´ve been on this diet over 14 months without any veggies.
I´ve lost 79.37 lbs (36kg) of weight on this journey this far and dropped from 36,1 BMI under 25. So now i am normal weight for the first time in 23 years. In three months i reversed insuline resistance and got my high blood sugars down.
And for bonus i´ve had so much of health benefits that it is insane.
This is a great condensation of this information. I've spent countless hours over the past few years gaining some of this info gradually, and I appreciate you, someone with a popular platform, making this available for many to absorb.
Fermented foods are another really good source of B12. Early humans may have eaten partially fermenting fruits after we became upright and no longer arboreal, as we would have picked up fallen fruit. That's likely when we began developing alcohol tolerance, too.
Alcohol receptors are one of the most common such receptors throughout the animal kingdom. Every type of at least "higher" animals from birds to elephants purposely eat fermented fruits, and get high. AGAIK reptiles don't, and pure carnivores have trouble metabolizing it.
What tolerance? I am knocked out after a beer or Ramanujan prime.
@@nihorothereal I'm a cheap drunk too. But I have friends who need a 12 pack of beer to even get a buzz, and an old electrical e ginger friend who had an 8 oz glass of vodka for breakfast on his way to work for a government power agency, building high tension (800 KV) DC long distance power lines. He finished off the rest of the vodka when he got home from work ... every day.
@@GaryBickford
Alcohol tolerance can be built up over time.
IF you hardly ever drink the tolerance will stay largely the same or decrease.
Back when I was drinking (T total now) I went from a couple beers getting me tipsy to tanking several shots of spirits in a row before it started to get to me.
... and that rare kimchi tree...
The Nº1 Rule of Nutrition: There is no such thing as an "essencial carbohidrate"
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Based
Carbohydrate is how it's spelled
You showed our ignorance when you misspelled multiple words. Carbohydrates are essential as its the brain's and muscles of the body's primary fuel source. If you want your body to break down muscle and convert it into carbs for energy, be my guest.
@@michaelmorrill4780 No, the body needs GLUCOSE, not carbs. The body can still make glucose when needed in the absence of carbs.
Red wine contains so little resveratrol you’d need to drink gallons for an effective dose. Regular wine drinkers use this as an excuse to have a glass every night and tell themselves it’s metabolically beneficial when recent and past studies show their is no single benefit to alcohol consumption
Resveratrol in wine may be overegged, but socially drinking a little wine is great for lowering cortisol and building bonds. Both of which are great for increasing life spans.
Darn, you destroyed my excuse to drink wine. Now I have to drink more to increase my resveratrol.
I remember reading an article years ago that Hunter gatherers would raid mice nests to gather seeds so it seems carbs were part of the diet of our Neolithic ancestors. I wouldn’t be surprised if this practice is what led to wheat and rice agriculture. But an overdose on any given food type, especially processed carbohydrates, isn’t a good thing.
Plus grapes are one of the most heavily sprayed fruits in the world. But no one likes to mention this.
Krill oil gas a good amount, your right booze is a killer
Vitamin K at 20:57. Only mentions K1 in plants, not K2. As research expands, we are now understanding that K2 is extremely beneficial in the prevention of heart disease and calcium assimilation. It is a shame that more emphasis is not placed on the fatty version of K along with video champion B12. Love the personal nutritional advice that is promoted as the future.
Great content! It’s superbly educational and entertaining at the same time, everything is well explained. Thank you for putting this up!
Best video ever! All videos to be this length in the future!!!
Surpassed your expectations well done this is the most professional job thus far ❤well done 👏
You make great content, and I am a regular viewer of your channel!
The only bad thing about this video is it isn't still translated to lots of languages, because if so it would reach more people.
Thanks, dude.
AI could do it already, give a few more months for it to go mainstream...
@@viktorianas The AI that made the subtitles for this on it's own and consistently talks about the consumption of musical instruments, rather than a group of vegetables?
@@vrenak listen... the AI used in UA-cam is light-years behind current cutting edge neural network based AI aka chatGPT 4 and similar.
Eating seasonally is also important, back when we gardening and hunter/gatherer then there were some things in season at different times. They ate more meat in the winter and in the spring at a lot more fresh greens, this puts the body through a natural cleanse and cleans the gut of build up over the winter.
An other thing people used to do it ferment things for storage, that helps the gut a lot too
This is AMAZING!! Thank you so much for this video!! FINALLY someone who actually does their thorough research and looks at all the information. This is extremely helpful and interesting.
Very nice video! Nutrition is so complex but you made this overview quite easy to digest (pun intended).
I suppose you've already heard about the debunking of blue zones at this point. Maybe it would be useful to add a disclaimer.
Sugar is a bigger scourge than processed food, which is a close second.
Sugar makes processed foods possible
Thank you. Once again you have taken a complex and challenging topic and made a video long enough and with enough depth to put a huge amount of information and comment into an entertaining format. A worthwhile undertaking.
34 minutes. Does he ever fulfill the promise of the title? What did we stop eating?
💯🤔❓❓❓❓❓❓‼What food did we stop eating - I hate click bait- he never gets to point
Fruits and nuts mostly, after we began agriculture we spread out to places where these were not available, and replaced it with corn instead, making us a lot less healthy
Whole foods, meat, fish, nuts, veggies, fruits and healthy fats. We stopped eating food in its natural state. Processed foods are bad for health and make us fat. He recommends the paleo diet or Mediterranean diet.
the Paleo diet stated between 26:00 and 27:00
Red meat and animal fat. I eat red meat and animal fat at least four servings each week.
Great, clarifying video, Thoughty, as always!
The Keto Diet worked wonders for me (once I got over the sugar hump which was indeed daunting but mercifully brief). I lost about 80 pounds in eight months, barely felt it and enjoyed it thoroughly. I was also able to maintain with very little trouble. As you say, processed foods really are the Root of All Evil where are diets are concerned.
Obesity was EXTREMELY rare globally… prior to world war 2. You can track an increase in obesity, heart attacks, strokes and diabetes with the progressive increase in sugar production and consumption.
I eliminated sugar and alcohol and went on the Keto diet which I occasionally switch with the carnivore diet and went from 350 pounds down to 190 pounds in a 2 year period.
You got it
That's awesome! Do you eat organ meats and marrow?
I’d argue that it wasn’t necessarily sugar, but processed food in general. Think SPAM. Think Crisco. Think preservatives, fats, and sodium laden in processed convenience foods that began in WWII not only for rationing preservation but as gender roles shifted and mixed and demanded more convenience.
These ingredients paired with sugar make sugar out to be the bad guy. Over processing is.
@@amorinooo I'd argue otherwise. As soon as I stopped consuming sugar and carbs, I see improvement on all fronts while still maintaining heavy on animal fats and sodium. Never indulged myself on preservative heavy foods to begin with
No doubt the same period was also a tremendous boom for processed foods. Abundant sugar helps processed foods, but so do "eternal oils", chemical antinutrients for food color/texture/taste/safety, and so on and so on.
Chimps hunt. It's absurd to believe humans didn't begin hunting before 2M years ago.
There were no humans nor chimps (as the are today) 2M years ago.
Maybe we were a loser variant
@@SupremelyAverage Lucy (Australopithecus) would have had far more common traits with the common ape (hominid) than other hominin; yet, much smarter than them. It would be logical to think they were opportunistic hunters back then.
Chimps are modern apes, like us. Cousins, not ancestors.
Any animal is an opportunisc carnivore. But chimps aren't adapted to hunt something which isn't a small monkey. This guy is doing propaganda.
Slight error at 16:56 . You claim that the foods with the highest DIAAS score are "ALL" meats, but this isn't true. Spirulina, for example, has a higher DIAAS score. According to PMC6179135 Spirulina protein is 85.2% digestable while PMC8779242 claims that Spirulina is 71.34% protein (by dry mass) and other sources indicate that the quality of the protein is superior to any meat meaning that it can be fully utilized. While commonly thought of as an algae it is, in fact, a photosynthetic bacteria. Rather than a cellulose based cell wall it has a sugar based cell wall (mucopolysaccharides) so it's easier to digest.
Spirulina is also the oldest agricultural product. In the Americas, which lacks a tradition of animal husbandry (hence why there was no America pox), it was traditionally grown for thousands of years until the 16th century Spirulina was a primary food crop grown by the Aztecs and other Mesoamericans in Lake Texoco. The Aztecs served it as a pie calling it "The Food of the Gods". The practics only ended after the 16th century because Europeans drained the lakes for other agricultural uses. Interestingly, Spirulina was also grown in north central Africa for thousands of years so it's likely that humans intentionally brought Spirulina with them from Africa.
That said, when you compare to the average food in the American or European diet, you'd be right to say that meat is a superior source. Unfortunately, the planet really can't support a meat based diet for everyone given the land and water use required to ethically produce animals for food and given the health consequences for humans when using factory farms to save space that isn't a viable option. As a result Spirulina is considered a strong contender for solving food scarcity issues while providing enough nutrients.
You also glossed over something else that's important. While it is true that 50 grams of pea protein won't be fully utilized by itself if you combine peas with foods that have complementary proteins you can fully utilize it. However, when combining proteins in this way, you don't add them together. 50 grams of bean protein plus 50 grams of rice protein is only around 50 grams of complete protein as an example.
Additionally there are other foods with suitable protein scores that have been used by humans for thousands of years. Foods such as Mushrooms. In this regards the DIAAS score depends on the fungus in question. In general even the best mushrooms have a lower DIAAS score than meat, but not by much. For example, per PubMed article 11855618 Agaricus macrosporus has a DIAAS score of 80.5 which is lower than chicken, but unlike peas is utilized as well as meat by the body. Although, evolutionarily speaking, mushrooms are more closely related to animals than plants so it makes sense.
Uh..I concur
So.... Post agriculture : Life expectancy increased. Populations prospered. Diseases reduced. But we weren't healthier. Hmmmmm.
Been enjoying your videos for several years now.Such a pleasant and interesting way of experiencing a broad range of information. Thanks, and keep up the good work!
Got into your videos around 7 months ago now whilst on holiday. I have watched almost all of your content now, every night is a thoughty2 night. Amazing content and keep up the good work 👏
Love this. Been research this for years for a hobby. Also it is believed first grain farming was not only to consume grain but fermented grains. So beer came before bread. Great work very well explain and totally agree with everything explained in this video. Keep up the great work on this amazing channel.
Ive been studying life spans, nutrition, disease and outcomes for 40 years. Literally. its been a life long obsession and we are not designed to eat seed oils, except in nuts and seeds - in tiny amounts. Only carbs we should be eating is long life root veg, brassicas such as cabbages etc and meat and meat fats, including organs meats. Skeletal meats are quite low in nutrition compared to organ meats. Its no accident organ meats were frequently prescribed as medicine before modern medicine.!
Also, pancakes preceded bread. Building an oven is not only a lot more work, it also can't be carried around like a pan or thin, small slab of rock can if one is migrating.
I used to watch Thoughty2 a lot back in the day and I think I will start up again. This was wonderfully done and well edited, I like the style and it was enjoyable and entertaining
Nice one, one of your best videos! I totally agree with you. A lot of these things have been lurking shapelessly in my brain somewhere. Thank you for the research and entertaining (as always) work.
This was your best video to date. Excellent research, and presentation of a very complex subject.
Two months ago, I made a significant shift in my dietary habits, opting for nutrient-rich foods like eggs, chicken, fish, beef, nuts, whey, and casein instead of highly processed or fast foods, I also switched to strictly drinking water only (yes i should be eating more fruits) but nonetheless, the results have been remarkable: not only do I feel less depressed, but I'm also more motivated to engage in regular workouts. Surprisingly, I've noticed a considerable improvement in my body's ability to metabolize stored fats, allowing me to achieve faster weight loss. At the gym, my energy levels have soared, enabling me to burn approximately 1500 calories per session compared to struggling to reach 600 previously. As a bonus, I've experienced muscle gain alongside weight loss. It's truly astonishing what happens when you nourish your body properly.
@coomerkiller your music taste is highly processed lol. Whey and casein comes from milk, it's enzymes being added to separate the curd from the liquid to make Whey and Casein. its not difficult to read between the lines here in their comment, its obvious to understand they've taken out foods like chocolates, bakery products like muffins and cakes when talking about "highly processed". also you're assuming their gender...
you dont need the fruit anyway😉
Brilliant presentation, well done❤❤❤
Plants provide incomplete proteins but, if you're eating a variety of plants, that's not an issue. Amino acids (the partial proteins) float around in your body for up to 6 hours after eating. As long as you're eating the necessary bits to make a complete protein, your body can assemble those into complete proteins for you. This is why vegetarian diets often centre around combinations that make complete proteins: Lentils and rice, corn tortillas and beans, peanut butter on toast, baked beans on toast, bread and hummus, etc. etc. But even if it's spread over two adjacent meals your body can still combine it.
What a great thought provoking video. Really enjoyed it.
Roughly speaking, prior to 10,000 BC, large scale agriculture was not possible because it was an ice age. But it wasn’t the cold that prevented agriculture, totally, it was the lack of precipitation, due to so much of the Earth’s water being locked up in ice. Man developed agriculture at roughly the same time that the average global temperature rose to 56 degrees. This also allowed the diversity of crops to flourish, as well, with longer growing seasons (corn vs wheat). Everyone would still be eating Paleo without this change. It gave us food choices.
And life expectancy also rose most significantly, almost 50% higher from the late 1800’s, with the development of modern plumbing and the elimination of water-borne diseases, like cholers, not just medicines. We should all thank a plumber. It was because of this extended lifespan that pushed medicine into dealing with cancers, heart disease, and other old age maladies. Prior to a person’s mid-40’s, they will likely die of an accident. It’s after this, in your 50’s and beyond that you’ll likely die of disease, thus the massive expansion of the medical fields in the last 70-80 years. That, and the technology that allows better diagnosis of diseases and methods to deal with them.
Chronic illness and heart disease are caused by diet. Glycation and randle cycle activation
Average age was pushed down by the rate of childhood deaths. Once people got past childhood, they lived long lives if they were able to avoid accidental death.
You know there were still tropical rainforests during the glacial maximum, right? There were definitly places capable of large scale agriculture, the area might be 1/3rd of present day or so but there were absolutely suitable areas back then.
@@roevhaal578 yet there is 0 evidence for agriculture beyond 8,000 years or so
Best video on diet I have ever seen and I've seen plenty. Thank you t2 🎉
...then I would recommend you watch a few more.
The human teeth are neither for carnivorous nor for vegetable diet. They are for eating fruits.
8 months, only meat. Pure carnivore. Diabetes cured, high blood pressure normalized, all aches and pains gone, sleep like a rock, anxiety gone, and on and on... Oh, and 40 lbs gone in first 3 months then stable for 5 more months.
Thank you! Been looking for this comment from someone.
Now you now why some people want to take away our natural diet.
Veganism is pushed like crazy these days 😢
Well done. 👍
It's called an eliminate diet.
How does a normal day of eating only meat look like?
The answer is: whatever fits in our mouths, is tasty, and won't kill us the following week.
Once I started making real money. I moved to an upper-middle to upper-class area in the city. Not only did I have money to buy good food, I also had walking access to several stores like Whole Foods and a few others. I stopped looking at food prices and just bought what I felt like eating. Without any knowledge of trendy diets, I ended up basically on a strict paleo diet, but with dairy products. I can eat filet mignon and arugula drenched in olive oil, various fruits for desert with wine, for days at a time without getting board. In fact I ate that same diet for two months without a break.
There is no overdose for arugula!
My wife and I have been living on social security since we turned 62 (15 years ago) and about 8 years ago mad the transition to keto and for the last 5 years or so we have been carnivore. We have no doubt that carnivore is the most economical way of eating. No0 we do not have rib eye every day, in fact it is a rare treat. 70 cents per lb chicken hind quarters, $159 pork shoulder, $4.99 chuck roll and clod sub primals, $2.99 85% hamburger, $3.78 butter and $2 per dozen eggs allow each of us to easily eat for $5 per day. Two meals per day and sometimes one
The solution should be to raise minimum wage to $100/hr so everyone can eat like the rich.
You can eat a good diet on as little as about 70 cad a week. That's about 200 USD a month. You eat mostly things like meat, cheese, eggs and veggies.. And you just buy them on sale. You can sometimes find stuff discounted to sell before expiration too, nothing wrong with it.
I switched to a meat and low carb veggie diet years ago and that's what I average each month for myself.
People seem to think you need lots of money to eat good, but its more how they eat. They have several large meals a day with several side dishes, or overpriced, low nutrient and low caloric foods. Like pasta or rice.
You can get all the calories you need for a week with two 1.5 kilo packs of beef, 1 kilo of some sort of roast, chicken, beef, pork, lamb. 1 brick of cheese ~700g and 1 pack of butter ~ about 500g. Add a few veggies to that to make some meals with. And maybe a bit of rice Like half a cup each day and you're completely set as a guy eating 3000 calories a day for 10 days. And its probably just as cheap as some of these other meals you'd eat.
Eating once a day also saves people on average about 8-10 hours a week. Time spent not cooking, not cleaning, not prepping food and not eating.
@truckywuckyuwu for sure, I'm just making a point if you have access to money and good stores you just eat healthier. I think healthy food is going to be more delicious to most people. Not all though. I have people from poor backgrounds in my company and they think vegetables smell gross 😝
I take everyone for sushi after a big deal...never seen anyone not like sushi, lol
Splendid video, so informative. Rare for quality and clarity. Thank you very much
Thank you, this is by far my favorite video from your channel. So informative, once again thank you.
As someone who coaches people on nutrition, I was incredibly impressed by how quickly and succinctly he covered so many complex topics.
20 minutes in and I still don't know what we stopped eating 10000 years ago
The video title is clickbait. In any case, the answer is: lots of fatty red meat. It's been downhill ever since we substituted carbohydrates (primarily from grains) for the animal fat we once obtained by eating a species-appropriate diet.
GRAINS were used for destroying the health of humans... They are absolutely useless empty toxic substances.
Its not what we stopped eating its what we eat now. Mainly cheeseburg pepsi Its what we started eating since WW2 fast food and candy bars
@@surfernorm6360 -- But the title clearly says, "We STOPPED eating this." And that question was not clearly answered.
Oh. So I didn't miss it
I was about to rewatch it again lol
Absolutely amazing upload as always, thank you so much, always enjoy your videos😊