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What is the Paleo Diet? with Mark Sisson
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What is a Paleo diet
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Debunking the paleo diet | Christina Warinner | TEDxOU
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The Real Paleo Diet
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The Paleo Diet® Premise Quite simply, The Paleo Diet® is the only diet to which the human species is genetically adapted. In other words, when you eat a Paleo Diet, you are eating the optimal foods for your body, literally programmed into your DNA. By The Paleo Diet Team.
You can also eat: Eggs Nuts and seeds Healthier oils, including olive oil and coconut oil.The paleo diet is modeled after the diets hunter-gatherers are likely to have followed. While there is no one way to follow the paleo diet, the basic idea is to avoid processed foods and focus.The paleo diet is an eating plan that mimics how prehistoric humans may have eaten. It involves eating whole foods that people could theoretically hunt or gather.
Advocates of the paleo diet reject.Whole30 Diet – Designed as a 30-day elimination diet, you’ll find a lot of overlap with paleo. This diet has no grains, dairy, or legumes as well.
However, Whole30 requires additional eliminations and is more restrictive. It may be helpful for those trying to identify a food sensitivity, but unlike the paleo diet, Whole30 is not designed to be followed long-term.Dr. Loren Cordain’s final graduate student, Trevor Connor, M.S., brings more than a decade of nutrition and physiology expertise to spearhead the new Paleo Diet team.
Dr. Mark Smith One of the original members of the Paleo movement, Mark J. Smith, Ph.D., has spent nearly 30 years advocating for the benefits of Paleo nutrition.The paleo diet, sometimes referred to as “the caveman diet,” is based on the principle that eating foods that were available to early humans will promote optimal health. One of the fundamental.Paleo Diet Foods Meats.
Almost all meats are paleo by definition. Of course, you’ll want to stay away from highly processed meats and Fruits**. Fruits are not only delicious, but they’re also great for you. That said, fruits (even paleo-approved ones) Other Paleo-friendly Foods. This is a.
The paleo diet runs on the same foods our hunter-gather ancestors supposedly ate: fruits, vegetables, meats, seafood, and nuts.The eating plan is big on lean, grass-fed meats, wild fish, vegetables, nuts, seeds, eggs and certain fruits. It also encourages monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats such as avocado and olive.
The Paleo Diet is based on what early humans may have eaten in the Paleolithic era. That’s more than 2 million years before modern farming began. In the Stone Age, people ate only what they could.The paleo diet philosophy involves returning to the way our cavemen and cavewomen ancestors ate more than 12,000 years ago, before agriculture practices were developed — namely, a.
The Paleo Diet — also known as the Stone Age, Caveman or Ancient Diet — is a modern attempt to replicate the diet of humans of the Paleolithic.Paleo diets are based on a simple premise – if the cavemen didn’t eat it, you shouldn’t either. So long to refined sugar, dairy, legumes and grains (this is pre-agricultural revolution), and hello.What is the paleo diet?
The paleo diet is a nutritional approach that focuses on eating only foods that are high in nutrients, unprocessed, and based on the foods that were available and eaten by humans in.
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135 comments
All in common is less processing, more real Whole Foods with vitamins, fiber, etc. that’s what really matters
just a side note: Paleolithic diets were also very high in calories when they could eat that much, but with them traveling as much as they had they burned the calories. In my opinion you really should just eat what you want when you want it to a certain degree.
1:00 when a modern hunter gatherer tribe has been compared with a 20 000 years old tribe, let me think what is the difference, maybe mammoth, bison woolly rhinoceros, giant deer, eurasian hippopotamus and no hunting seasons….
Just avoid sugar and processed low nutrient, high calorie foods
This is proof that you can have a PhD and do a TED talk yet completely ignore evidence and butcher science because of a dietary ideology. ��♂️
ONLY 30% OF PEOPLE CAN EAT ICE CREAM?
Well, that’s why so many people are angry.
Please do a video about Keto and why it’s stupid
All of my friends are gonna die at 40 with the way these fad diets are going
Brought to you by Monsanto Roundup big ag,big dairy
It’s safer to eat meat then
any vegetables or fruits or grains that are GMO and full of pesticides herbicides fungicides and from third world countries
And round up.
lol it sucks how caveman couldnt have had eat frenc fries lol
GRASS FED MEAT, FISH, ORGANS, SOME SEEDED VEGGIES AND FRUITS IF YOU LIKE. THATS IT FOR HUMAN HEALTH.
Wonderful video. We think Paleo is fantastic. Here’s our take on it- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inj1N_WRas8&t=68s
The real paleo diet: give all the fruits and vegetables in your fridge to children. Pay them to hide it around the neighbourhood. Spend hours walking around gathering it. Next, give a steak to a kid on a bicycle. Run the kid down on foot until you can hit him or her with a Nerf gun to ‘kill” your prey. Then walk home and cook everything you managed to find over a fire in the backyard. Repeat until skinny.
This video is old enough that’s it’s not even worth the time to argue ����
She’s right though that early understanding of ‘Paleo’ were almost as bunk as modern vegan diet ideas. But at least early Paleo ideas were on the right path.
I originally watched this video when it came out and it was a very positive influence (I was coming off of 20 years of being vegan ��).
This study has come a long way since this and much if this is nether here now there. Sadly we’ve destroyed the planet and the plethora of plants (and animals) we used to eat.
People are based on their land base.
“Humans have no known adaptations to meat consumption?” This can’t be right. I can see how this might be considered true in comparison to carnivores with their acidic stomachs and claws. However, the same argument could be made about plants, since we don’t have multiple stomachs for fermenting plants like ruminants do. How about outrunning prey animals over long distances?
Natural Herbivores, like Gorillas, require very large colons with microbes to convert plants into SCFAs for energy more than 60%. Natural Carnivores, like Humans, only very low (2-9%) energy from plants due to their relative colon size the rest is excreted. Human stomach acid levels are even higher than that of Cats, Dogs, and similar to other scavengers (meat eaters). Basically, we are “designed” to eat a mostly carnivorous diet, but can also eat plants…it’s just not optimal.
I think a better way to think about eating is don’t eat anything you could have raised or grown yourself. That’s a good start. Then cut out grains, rice and potatoes.
I’m curious as to what exactly plants did early man eat? Besides fruits?
I think the skeptical tone of this video is misleading. Many more people eat ice cream than are able to digest it well. I read that 99% of Asians are lactose intolerant. Only like 40% of Caucasians aren’t lactose intolerant. And yes, I’ve given up many “delicious foods” so that I can feel better and enjoy better health, confirmed by doctors.
The reason why she is so concerned was explicit in her first statement about “not abandoning our agricultural foods.” Farming and ranching is big business that is subsidized by the U.S. Government. So much so, the industrialized farming complex has essentially squeezed out the small farmer to almost extinction. Truth be told, corporate farming is more concerned with making a profit more than the land, animals, and the people who consume their products. Pesticides on depleted soils and abused animals make for a nutrient poor and down right toxic food choice. Right now, to combat obesity and multitude of diseases that come with it, we need to cut out the sugar that carbohydrates offer and focus on nutrient dense food that organics has to offer to replenish and restore out health and drop the poundage per person. The Government’s recommendations with the Food Pyramid Guidelines in the 80’s were horribly wrong to state that we should eat more whole grains. Grains are what we feed animals to fatten them up quick and it is a method used because it is efficient and cost effective. We did manage to prohibit ranchers from feeding downed and disease cows to otherwise healthy ones. I say, listen to your body not the so called “Experts.” Paleo is excellent for body maintenance. Then, if you want to step off once in a while, you can without destroying your health. It’s about listening and learning about your own unique body’s preferences and tolerances.
Great talk! Very informative. What she’s basically saying is that the idea of eating the local indigenous way is great. She’s wrong about animal consumption as we’ve been eating animals for 500,000 years, ever since we discovered fire. Our body hasn’t evolved physically to hunt because we used tools to hunt, opposed to lions which catch its prey by using its physical features like claws, teeth etc. There was no evolutional reason for us to develop such features as we don’t use our bodies like any other animal to hunt. In addition, we know that humans hunted an astonishing amount of animals, and made most species and animals extinct within a matter of tens of thousands of years. Cholesterol and omega 3 fats made our brains the way they are. We cannot get these things from different sources than animals. Not acknowledging eating nose to tail for hundred of thousands of years is just incorrect.
My suggestion to what to do is first of all fast. What’s for sure is that we fasted for long periods of time. Second of all is consuming high quality animal foods, preferably as nutritious as we can get like eggs, organs, salmon etc.
This presenation gave us some wrong conclusions. Ancient Mayans are much more releated to us, than are to first modern humans. Ancient mayans lived 2000BC. First modern human, that is next generation human lived 300.000 years ago. We need to know, what first ate first humans. Not civilisation 280.000 later. Even if we ate full graines, it wasnt mutated. Bananas looked different, even carrot was white. Even 20 years ago, we had different corn since I grow up on a small farm. This kind of corn cant be found anymore, because is prone to disease. I do not eat Paleo, but If you look what you eat on Paleo si more close to what ancient people eat even if you eat nowday corn-
When I start living on my own I really want to try to stick to what I call the “casual paleo” which is basically only eat it if it grows or comes from something that grows. So basically nothing processed
Maasai are NOT hunter-gatherers, they are herders, Papuans are NOT hunter-gatherers, they are one of the oldest agricultural peoples on Earth, although their staple is sago (an edible tree) and not grain, (and why do you show Australian Aborigines in the image who are or at least used to be until very recently?)
Also we now live a lot longer than just a century ago, why? Because of antibiotics (and other advances in medicine, and maybe some better nutrition, but mostly because antibiotics, which you don’t mention at all).
Junk science is not science!
Everyone of any diet “camp” needs to see this. Eat whole low-processed/no processed foods for a healthy life
Thank you!… if you see this…. I am looking at an add for that exact fad diet. lol
Since I first heard about ‘paleo’ (having already known about geographical dietary differences), I have wondered if, just maybe, some people might have better luck with weight management and whatnot if they tried to stick to a diet that more closely resembled what their nearest ancestors may have had access too. So for me, having a lot of south american and maya genetics in me, I have wondered if I would feel better and be a little healthier on a diet that consisted of foods more like the local native options in south america. Things the maya had subsisted on like squash perhaps, might be better for me if it was more prevalent in my diet. Just as a curiosity. I have a lot of health problems related to agent orange exposure my mother suffered so it complicates things for me, but I wonder(ed) all the same.
Actual composition of diet aside, I have a feeling what kept ancient man ‘healthy’ and powerful was the fact that they were just always moving and working. A lot of modern health problems come from eating too much, not necessarily eating wrong, per se. That, and just a generally sedentary lifestyle. Intake should be based on activity, and otherwise be minimal. That way your body doesn’t have excess anything to process, and it keeps your internal systems working hard and properly. You can see this is captive animals like tigers and bears at zoos. Even if fed a proper diet, lack of exercise and stimulation alone can be cause for obesity and depression in zoo beasts. It’s an easy correlation to make, if a bit simple.
All of the above taken into consideration, I think it is very important to remember a point brought up here as well: that we are no longer ancient man. They preceded us, and we are the remains of those who oulasted/oubred, meaning something was happening right for us to end up here now. Even dogs have made similar adjustments like we have, being able to digest more starch than wolves, for example. It only takes a few thousand years for certain gene adjustments to occur, and even between generations there can be changes in behavior and/or environment that affect the children to come and how their genetic blueprint is outlined.
We just need to practice a bit more caution and a lot more portion control in regards to food and treats. A responsible pet owner won’t give their dog a whole bag of treats in a day, knowing it is bad for pup. So we just need to have the same respect for ourselves and not eat entire bags of chips at once, purely as a comparison.
Maasai diet is the best
I guess
They look tall and streamlined
How did the Neanderthal get enough vitamin d in the high latitude of Europe? Especially if clothed because of the cold temperature?
People taking just 10% of human evolution and saying that this is the way we should eat for long term health.
Don’t know why we were called hunter-gatherer. I would call it scavenger. I’m pretty sure much of the meat we ate came from finding dead animals, or chasing away predators away from kills.
WAIT A MINUTE
only 30% of us can have dairy products
I am thankful to enjoy cheese but ironically going vegan from companies allowing blood and puss into the same milk because of the pasteurization process “destroys it all” then being replaced
hot damn
Christina Warinner is an excellent speaker. This is a very interesting and informative video. GOD-made not man-made!
For the attention of Americans. HERB is not a French word, and is not pronounced ERB. You’re welcome.
this dummy has not seen a real bannana lmfao awww you dont know
2019 and we now know that you were WRONG. Humans are Carnivore.
How boring. Did she ever read dr cordain? As she speaks it’s more likely she didn’t.
What makes you assume that our hunter gatherer ancestors from 50 000 years ago were less healthy then. Looking at surviving hunter gatherer societies they are both very happy and very healthy. While it is is true humans are very good at adapting and there is no true paleo diet there are some things we can see in common in indigenous cultures eating habits. Raw and often whole foods are easier to get so hence they ate it. Most Indigenous cultures also experienced regular fasting. Fasting is good for you wether it be extended or intermittent. And finally like you said tribes adapt to foods in their area. Often their ancestors ate the same foods and hence they are slightly different from external human population populations in that they’re adapted to a specific type of food. So eating foods that match your ancestry, that are mostly raw (50-90%) and not eating for a few days or only eating once a day is key for most people.
Waaaiiiiitttt. Only 30% of the world can eat icecream?!?! Just when I thought I was down in my luck. I find out that 4 billion people can’t enjoy the tastiest frozen treat
I lost a ton of weight, my skin has cleared up, my PCOS symptoms cleared up, and I’m not starving all the time on Paleo. I’ve been doing this for awhile and it’s works best for me. I’m still eating good carbs, and I have a cheat meal on Friday’s. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this lifestyle.
What do you think about https://tinyurl.com/ppaalleeoo?? For me is the best paleo diet!
A bunch of the animals we used to eat are now extinct. That is probably some kind of factor. Except the brains of dead children. We ate and totally still can eat those. Paleo diet was metal like that.
Probably the real objective differences from us to all of them is that they eat (far) less and exercise far more…
I’m doing a keto diet with a focus on getting all your vitamins and minerals from vegetables. I know this isn’t for everyone, but I feel so mich better now =)
Some interesting food for thought here. However, I was just looking at old yearbook photos from the 1920’s, and I actually broke down crying. Why? Well, as a middle aged educator for some time now, I can tell you without a doubt that just a few generations back, folks here on the east coast of the USA (with largely the same ethnicity profiles of where I live/teach now) had far more examples of facial features indicative of epigenetic vigor. Features like broad faces, larger and wider set eyes, fuller lips, and more striking overall appearances (even though it was not the custom then to smile for photos). I showed my still living mother, and she saw it straight away as well. Who cares? Well, look at the work of Dr. Weston Price (Nutrition and Physical Degeneration), Dr. Catharine Shanahan (Deep Nutrition), and most importantly a book out now by Arthur Haines (“A New Path”), and you will find that we are slowly loosing our most cherished traits of intelligence, beauty, and athletic prowess but more importantly how we can reverse these trends. Not to mention that mental illness and depression / anxiety are ramping up BIG TIME, but used to be almost non-existent in properly nurished peoples. Check out the TEDx talk by Julia Rucklige titled “the surprisingly dramatic role of nutrition in mental health” to get an idea about this. Do yourself and future generations a HUGE service and learn about these subjects before we get much farther, again when you know what to look for the effects of modern life are practically a form of barbaric brutality we have self-selected. Hopefully this rant helps at least some of the comment readers in productive ways. PS: I cured myself of some lifelong life-threatening allergies to certain foods based on what the mentioned sources helped me learn. I eat them now without issue, regularly. Almost forgot to mention a crucial additional source worth it’s weight in gold: “Nurishing Traditions” by Sally Fallon.
The true paleodiet: dropping someone in the forest with only a bow and arrows.
If I were to follow the paleo diet to a T, wouldnt a percentage of my caloric intake be human flesh? Sweet sweet cannibalism!
Bread was made out of desperation not because it was the best choice maybe the best choice When comparing two evils but still not because it’s the better
One thing we do know about today’s hunter gatherers as well as ancient paleo man. They don’t and didn’t eat salt. That is the one common thread among modern healthy diets no matter what they are. They all eliminate processed food where 75/80 percent of our sodium comes from.
Yes BUT there ability to metabolise starch did not increase their chance of reaching reproducing. Therefore it was not a mutation naturally selected, increasing it’s gene frequency in the gene pool, hence, not evolution. More likely the process is an adaptation or switching process of genes already in the pool. Maybe. Possibly.?
“Paleo diet” does indeed sound very gimmicky, but the premises sound a bit similar to ketogenic diets. How does that compare to paleo and frankly any diet out there?
As far as I understand, ketogenic diets are based on science and there’s a whole subreddit dedicated to compiling information and scientific studies on ketosis and ketogenic diets. Go to reddit.com/r/ketoscience to see what I’m tslking about. You can discuss keto there meaning it’s not a propaganda safe space.
when youre trying to survive in the wild, im sure you wouldnt care if your food is Non-GMO, gluten free, 5g of sugar…. you would eat whatever you could find.
I only got 5 minutes in, then decided not to waste my time. For someone so intelligent and educated, it’s a shame she has zero clue about the intent of the principles of the paleo diet.
While we don’t make our own Vitamin C, many people from all over the ate meat only, or mostly meat, with no adverse effects, and without taking Vitamin C supplements. Besides many of the primitive cultures that thrived mostly on meat, there are also many people today that are carnivores, some more than twenty years. Vilhjalmur Stefansson lived for more than 10 years with the Inuit, eating only their native diet, and thrived. He also subjected himself to a year long experiment, under supervision by Scientists, and all his bloodwork, etc… was perfect no adverse effects.
I guess if we had to chase our food for about 10 miles every day or every other day we would be a lot fitter.
Which kind of research those guys have done? Some of the tribes that they studied, like the Masaai and the cultures of New Guinea, are in fact composed by farmers and herders, not hunter gatherers…
Thank you ancestors for evolving to eat almost anything you could find. It now lies on our current generation to tweak our DNA. To subsist entirely on Pizza, Chocolate, and Soda!
I know this is an old video, but wasn’t the Paleo diet more focused on eating unproccessed food rather than era specific?
good, but I ask, what was the diet in Europe? We know that the Neanderthals are barley, and that the species Homo is omnivorous. Plenty of wild greens, roots, nuts, seed,berries, csrob pods, acorns, shellfish, insects, eggs, fungi,flesh,fish,and fowl. How was it prepared? Small game and the organs of large game were cooked, the meat of large game was dried. Honey would have been on the list. Drying food is one of the best ways to preserve it, and it usually doesn’t require cooking. So,this is my take on a Palæo Diet.
So what you’re telling me is that humans can eat a varied diet so long as they get all the required nutrients? That thing we’ve been doing for the last 800 000 years? that thing I’ve been doing for 22 years and been healthy as a goat? But a trendy magazine my roommate bought that I read on the toilet said that carbs and fat make me fat? I just don’t know what to believe…
Ya try only eating whole plant foods and see how you deteriorate
She does not mention B12 or the fact that our zygomatic arch begin to become smaller as we consumed more meat. We do not have large arches anymore like our ancestors who ate more plants. She also doesn’t mention our brain compacity that increased from 300cc in Australopithics to 1400 in Neanderthals because of the increase of animal consumption. Also our digestive systems are short like carnivors. If we were majority plant eater our stomachs would be large and swollen like the great apes due to a large digestive track. Seasonal eating and if possible eating food from where your genetics are from are best.
I did the paleo diet for about 4-5 months and it really helped going cold turkey on the sugar that was in my diet.
Just when I thought we were becoming more human here comes paleo diet to bring us back to a primitive era.
Paleolithic people also had a feature of their diet that nobody seems to mention: food availability was spotty, not around the clock.
Paleo diet is the least inflammatory and most sustainable diet out there. We evolved to eat mostly meat. 80% meat and 20% fruits and vegetables.
Yeah, but the paleo diet is just a name for a high protein diet with plenty of veggies,few breads and little sugar. Generaly that is a healty diet when compared to the high sugar diet of most people in rich country’s. Paleo is just a reference to the idealized mountain men of ye olden times for marketing purposes. So this is kinda low hanging fruit guys.
We evolved to eat whatever was there. Besides, all the mammoths are dead now.
We aren’t evolved to Specifically Eat Meat, However you still should eat it every Week or so. not really red meats though. More like White Meats & Lean Meats, but you should still eat Your Vegetables Every Day.
Hello, 9-11, yes I’ve just witnessed a murder. A young innocent looking lady just destroyed a diet fad. How soon can you get here?
I’m confused that she says we’re not adapted to meat consumption, because we do. Yes we’re definitely not a carnivore, but we’re not herbivores either. We need meat for certain vitamins and minerals and we’re physically adapted to it with our teeth and intestinal tract.
those who gave this a thumbs up continue to eat junk food and this supported their thoughts of not changing their diets like others said eat whole real foods and processed carbs/junk food.
Hmm, I think I better suit a paleo diet. Maybe white people have evolved to suit their diet, but I’ve been living in organic fruits, vegetables, and unprocessed fresh meat literally every generation before me. Also I made some bread and it didn’t bloat my mom like it normally does.
I have a gross misunderstanding of the word paleo. I mean pre-industrial more than anything.
I feel that the fact that humans have longer intestines than a strict carnivore does not necessarily mean that we should be the opposite, vegetarian. It simply means we’re equipped to eat vegetables. We’re obviously equipped in different ways to eat meat as well.
Cows have four stomachs, it’s clear a human doesn’t have the machinery to process a buncha grains.
animals who graze on grains have to throw it up and chew it again. it’s clear humans are not that.
Produce hasn’t been made more nutritious it’s been made sweeter and grows faster
Gorillas are vegetarian, but their small intestine is short and their large intestine long. Humans have long small intestines and short large intestine. That is the makeup of an omnivore. And wild bananas are quite sweet.
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The dislikes tell you how much of a cult paleo eaters are they would rather downvote than hear truths that challenge their belief systems.
Ok, but we do actually have adaptations to meat and milk and similar animal products, contrary to what was presented. Perhaps there are more for plants, as we were mostly gatherers, but we also quite possibly hunted, before agriculture. Not saying paleo is the way to go, either. But, this just sounds like she’s touting veganism. Whereas the real important factors, as others have stated in the comments and from other research, we need a balanced, unprocessed, whole food diet, complete with nutrients, as well as a way to properly metabolize and use the energy in the right amounts.
fail, it’s been proven already that meat eaters don’t need extra vitamin C unless they are also eating processed grains.
Summary: Let the meat eat the vegetables, grains, then eat the meat. That way you get a balanced diet because the vegetarian animals ate the veggies for you. More meat….mmmmm….mmmmmore mmmmeat. And beer, that’s also a good source of grains, balanced diet.
So why when youre on paleo and change to eat plants you simply cant digest them at first (getting sick), but if you are a vegan and start to eat raw meat you simply digest it…? Just wondering:)
So we can’t eat exactly how our Palaeolithic ancestors ate and the well known promoted modern version isn’t literally paleo but it is, for the general population or generally speaking still a ‘good’ diet because it consists of typically the least processed foods when can buy in our supermarkets today
I wonder… might there be a middle ground animal? One who eats both plants and animals…? Nah. Definitely not.
I really don’t understand the dislikes for this video! This was one of the most interesting tedx talks I’ve ever watched!
Disagree how many people still eat insects?
No way they ate that much sugar or carbs
Kind of off topic, but the “Clan of the cave bear” series was highly researched and said to be close to the natural nutrition at the time. Worth the read.
I’m just an uneducated fool here reading up on some of these health fads right now. Since I’m in the middle of reading up, I have no idea whether some of these things they claim are actually true or not. However, I have noticed that many arguments on both sides are simply a load of crap. Allow me to explain.
0:35 “Humans are vastly more healthy than 50,000 years ago”. I’m sure a science channel can understand that correlation does not imply causation. Just because in this era we have better health, does not mean some other thing we also have in this era is related to that. It might be, but this argument does not demonstrate that; it’s a simple fallacy.
After this, the argument is presented that we can’t really eat like the Paleolithians because their diets were vastly different among one another and because their foods are not available to us. However, this is not the point of the diet as far as I have read or heard anywhere. I’ve only heard about the idea being that you start to rely on fat as the main source of energy by entering a state known as “ketosis” simply by eating lots of fatty foods and no carbohydrates. Do I know if that’s actually a responsible and healthy thing to do? No, I have no idea. But I do know that their point isn’t to directly copy whatever people used to eat. The idea is to match their macro-nutrient ratios because that’s what our bodies have adapted to. Again, no idea if that is a good idea, but this is clearly not dealt with in the video at all and thus I’m still left in the woods.
After that, the idea is presented that we had enough time to adapt to our more starch-based diets, stating the example of lactose intolerance and a gene that regulates the excretion of an enzyme that breaks down starches. However, that’s a rather limited answer. That is saying “we have made some changes, therefore starch-based diets are better”. It’s not conclusively showing that fat-based diets are worse for your health; it’s just saying we have already made some adaptations to our newfound starch-based ones. Again, is one enzyme adaptation enough to justify a starch-based diet? What about if we did not have that enzyme? I’m not sure, and this video is not helping me.
And that’s it, end of video. Even the most rudimentary principle behind Paleo was not covered. Here’s a fallacy, here’s something irrelevant because we don’t understand the basics of the diet or are unable to refute them and here’s another fallacy.
I could do the same thing on most Paleo diet videos. My point is not that I’m a health nut and I am about to switch over to Paleo. My point is that the amount of improper arguing on both sides greatly obscures the whole matter and makes it very hard to determine the truth. The comment section is even worse. “Wait, aren’t we still evolving?” Lacks rudimentary understanding; totally irrelevant. “Because the food people with absolutely no medical or scientific knowledge ate was somehow healthier…” That is indeed a good possibility. The people that took up farming had very little to no scientific or medical knowledge as well. However, that too is irrelevant, of course. The point is that Paleolithians were around for so long that our bodies evolved to adapt to their diets and we’ve been around for so short that our body is still relatively bad at processing our current diet. Key word here is evolution, not knowledge. And the list goes on and on about people that know even less about Paleo than I do trying to refute it with one simple sentence. It’s bothersome.
But yeah, don’t get me wrong, I’ve heard fibers are kind of really good for your digestive tract and I have no idea if ketosis is a healthy state to be in, let alone the practical issues with this diet, so I’m not switching the off button on the bread intake any time soon.
bet she changes her tune when she hears about how the carnivore diet is healing people:-)
Basically, your argument is targeting fake paleo. Everything I have learned about the paleo diet is in line with what you recommend. Fresh, seasonal, local. Check. Avoiding diets that are largely corn and soy and wheat based. Check. I am not aware of anyone legitemate claiming that all paleolithic people ate tons of red meat. Maybe they used to, but our movement has progressed. As for vitamin C and phytonutrients, it would be evident with actual data that our need for vitamin C both dramatically reduced with a carnivore diet and ALSO that fresh meat does in fact contain vitamin C and also that we do in fact produce phytonutrients in our gut to an adequate amount because we ADAPT. Epigenetics and how our bodies can ADAPT to many diets might be worth mentioning.. Ample evidence for the epidemic autoimmune disease, heart disease, neurological diseases we have DESPITE a ton of industry research trying to prove the opposite might have been worth mentioning. Genetic metabolic profiles based on ancestry is ALSO worth mentioning. A great deal of information is out there regarding exactly why bananas, legumes, dairy, and grains are not ideal for many people, again DESPITE billion doollar industries funding research out to prove the opposite. The key takeaway and the reason this talk makes me angry is that the title alone will be misused and misunderstood by people trying to make a case for diets that truly have no historical relevance such as vegan and fad diets. She could have used this science to attack modern agriculture and consumerism and how it makes a paleo diet literally impossible. But she instead uses her position to attack a phrase that actually conveys more truth than any other fad diet going. We need protein in our diets. It’s the one nutrient we literally cannot produce or synthesize. She has a fragmented presentation that could have been used a platform to attack ALL industry telling us what to eat and decry bettter federal funding for impartial scientific research instead of leaving human beings to die at the hands of big agriculture. Disappointed. For a working modern example of a paleo diet for a homogenous society you can watch the Magic Pill on Netflix. We are trying to emulate a diet based largely on plants and whole foods. It simply is not possible for most of us to eat what our ancestors ate.
Nobody can stop me from my paleo diet of human meat and grass
Are you sure that the domesticated versions of fruits and veggies are more nutrient-dense?
Markets mostly care about looks, taste, and easy growth. So selective breeding may have greatly neglected healthiness in that,.
I think, I think, we believe, we believe… really do NOT know. Each is an individual and man processed food for profit has denatured our food supply to the point we are sick and sicker….
This isn’t debunking the Paleo Diet. This lecture reinforces the basis of the diet and further insures to avoid man made food. The reason legumes arent allowed on Paleo isnt because they didnt exist back then, they are restricted because of the “arguably” negative effects on the body.
What frivolous refutations just for a few laughs, especially in that “Farmer’s Food” section.
Obviously, Olive Oil wasn’t available to Paleolithic people, but Olive Oil is a direct, unadulterated derivative of Olives; a natural food and hence classifies as acceptable in the Paleo diet. And yes, bananas have changed drastically, but that doesn’t mean the modern man does away with it. It is still a fruit, which is a group that the paleolithic man most certainly consumed just like our closest primate relative; the chimpanzee. It’s the broad groupings that have to be replicated, not specific food items; that is impossible because almost everything from more than 10K years ago has likely undergone a fair bit of evolution and artificial selection.
Also, Paleolithic man did occasionally eat grain, but only when they stumbled upon naturally occurring crops, which was rare.
So to eat I’m going ta have ta break the news to my wife, that where going ta have ta move every season. She’s going to be �� mad
Can we all just agree that…
POTATOES ARE AWESOME. I WANT TO EAT A LOT OF THEM ALL THE TIME! GIVE ME POTATOES!
stopped at 4 min in…that feeling when you spend your life learning and talking about something that is completely wrong. She says we weren’t meant to be meat eaters…..Jesus…just stop. Primal diet, we want to live aajunous vonderplanitz, enough said.
Paleo Diet: Do not eat anything that didnt exist during stone age. Not Paleo Diet: Eat what they ate during stone age. Big difference. Read the books before trying to debunk. Asshats.
fuck you patreon. wtf would anybody donate money to a business.? if they couldn’t make enough cash from other means of revenue, they wouldn’t be on YouTube.
10:16 I ate a banana with seeds. In about 2006. I do not remember many seeds. Maybe less than five, if I remember right. Maybe it was not a wild banana. But it was sold in its natural area.
Cro-Magnons are us before self-domestication. We did domesticate ourselves.
This speech definitely has not aged well. A lot of red herrings regarding what a Paleo diet is. Our brains simply would not have evolved without animals to eat. I also disagree our bodies are not adapted to eat animals. Very small colon/large intestines compared to primates and much longer small intestines in humans. The vitamin C example was weak. I heard as many plant based myths in this speech as animal based such as linking low fiber diets to obesity.
I turned my metabolic health around, supported by blood work, by jettisoning all sources sugar (carbs). There is a reason there is no such thing as an ‘essential carb’…simply don’t need it. Essential amino acids and essential fatty acids on the other hand…
best exercise..climb trees,best food wild leaves n wild fruits in season no-one can tolerate cow milk,
I don’t think that you can fluff off what the Eskimos eat has being of no consequence. It makes anything
else she says look like cherry picking and of little concern for the health of
those who deserve better especially when you consider that I have no problem
eating meat whereas the same cannot be said for eating plants and their lack of
necessary vitamins and possibly minerals.
Our Paleolithic ancestors were a healthy lot. Ergo we should eat like them. Really? I think that they ate whatever plant or animal food was seasonally available, and so generally existed in a starvation state.
Literally everything she said about human physiology having adaptations for eating plants rather than meat is wrong.
pretty sure you only need vitamin c if you’re eating grains, if you just eat meat you don’t need it. It’s not part of your digestive process
To listen to audiobooks while I work and not loose track of anything I have to eat nothing but oranges for 3 days before.
Very detailed explanation to have a whole diet with anthropological evidences. Very thought provoking indeed
Sorry, but her science is out dated already. Food science is changing very rapidly at the moment and her assumptions are being proven wrong.
I take away that paleo people arent actually doing paleo diet and that carb gets a bad rep because it’s mostly consumed as flour product.
Making changes like going to deer meat could be beneficial by itself, Paleo diet theory or not.
So, other than mutations to existing genes, there is a mutation process that “randomly” clones whole genes onto, perhaps unused sections of dna? How does that work. I mean, seriously, why are so many mutations beneficial. Or, why aren’t there more mutations that might make life more unpleasant, but not enough to really effect apparent fitness to breed and pass those mutations on?
Ah, sugar water. The foundation of the American diet.
Treat it the same way we treat cigarettes (or more harshly, since cigarettes are far safer), and the “obesity epidemic” is over.
She is a vegan moron if she claims that humans have no adaptations for meat consumption. Vitamin C is in meat as well!!!
I am sure that there’s no diet that is “good/healthy” for everyone in this world. It depends on a mix of where they live, daily habits as in the amount and type of work, and climate…..
Is it really only 30% of humans that aren’t lactose intolerant? Crazy
This shows what these collegs grads people know. Nothing. Paleo works
“I recommend this guide:
hopy.best/paleo-guide/OqS
So grateful it exists.”
Why would we think our ancestors ate better than us? Or knew better than us?
People ate what was convenient and they still do.
Its not a measure for what we should or shouldnt be eating.
Not to mention, they were lucky to make it to their late 30s back then. But paleo enthusiasts neglect to mention that part
I’m sorry, but she is not completely honest about some parts. Firstly, the Paleo diet is NOT mainly a meet-diet. In volume, it is mostly plant-based and the animal products make up only a small part of the plate. But meat and organ meat is what provide with the largest amount of CALORIES in the diet. That’s because plants are much less calorie-dense than animal products.
Also, the human body has stomach acid that is closer to the acidity of carnivores than to herbivores. The human intestines are not to be compared with herbivores OR carnivores, but something in between. We do not have a digestive system or teeth/jaws that are adapted to a diet consisting of only fibrous vegetables (the cultivated vegetables and fruits of today are like sweet and soft butter compared to the rough, wild veggies and fruits of the past).
Furthermore, I don’t understand why she debunks a “myth” that doesn’t exist; That the paleolithic community claims that humans weren’t eating grains or legumes? Maybe some people claim that, but I have never heard anyone do that. It is said that humans probably collected everything they could get their hands on, including grains and legumes. But that it was NOT a staple food and did NOT take up a big part of the diet for most humans.
And considering “myth 3”, she is simply being silly. Noone with the hang of paleo claims that the paleo diet is what our Paleolithic ancestors ate. It is impossible to eat what our ancestors did because we can’t buy that kind of food in the store, and we can’t grow the fruit and vegetables that our ancestors ate. The Paleo diet is simply trying to get as close as possible to the ancestral diet by taking out the foods that is not healthy for us. And there are a huge variety amongst people who choose the Paleo diet some go all-in with a strict diet with only whole foods and wild game and so on, and a lot of people do not. She isn’t debunking a myth, she’s trying to create one.
you didn’t let me see the sprouted broccoli so i’m giving you a thumbs down
Ok i just want to know how and why humans developed acne? because of diet
change?
Ancients didn’t think of any of this scientific stuff.. They ate what their environment provided.. I think the human body is very adabtable..
Yes, they ate grains but can you imagine the amount of work to harvest and process the seeds without the technology we have to today. I can’t imagine how that is a really impactful way to get enough calories. Fruits and vegetables are a good source of nutrients when they are plentiful however eating the whole rabbit (including bone marrow and organs) seems to be a better fuel in general.
Whats the point of Paleo Diet when you “hunt” all your food in a single shopping at grocery store using cars?
0:53 Isn`t that Sergei Lavrov Russia`s minister of defence or whatever?
Paleo only means that you fancy yourself being associated with the image of some caveman running at speed while thrusting a spear. Paleo, Primal, Caveman! A manly man!
I love some of the comments: first, that this woman doesn’t know what she’s talking about, and two, the paleo diet is scientifically sound. And these opinions are based solely on hearing about the paleo diet from someone whose friend tried it and it worked for him. No, they haven’t read the book either. They’re not going to actually pay for it.
Hilarious!
How do modern humans evolve if we don’t look for just who survives best?
Was a pleasure hear this lady! She is fantastic and have great argument s.
Realmente creo que la clave está en una dieta variada y llena de productos frescos, especialmente vegetales.
En mi opinión, los seres humanos podemos comer de todo, pero nos beneficiamos mucho de dietas como la vegana. En mi caso particular creo que los huevos son una excelente adición. Las personas deberían incluir un poco más de tiempo educandose y preparando comidas frescas. Creo que el bienestar de la humanidad y el planeta depende en gran medida de ello.
Congratulations for your great and acertive speak.
The only way to really do the paleo diet right is to generally remain on the verge of starvation. Beyond that, the composition of your diet doesn’t matter much.
Love the microphones lol feel like you should be in a control tower at an airport lol