12/30/2024
A lot of health influencers like to push a primal diet or a diet based on how “your” dna evolved.
Most of these influencers are not physicians albeit some are and most have never seen a patient or run labs on patients.
One of these influencers in particular says things like carbs like potatoes and grains are what they fed poor people, plants are poisonous nobody eats those in the wild, blah blah blah.
Well guess what our “ancestors” ate all kinds of diets and many of them ate loads of plants and carbs and even tons of honey 😱 while other did eat a mostly animal based diet.
But what dictated that was their geographic region and how that regions then affected their genetics.
So when people say eat a primal diet ok which one. Bc as you see in various tropical and sub Saharan tribes meat was not the mainstay versus those in places like the artic tundra they definitely ate an animal based diet.
Obviously everyone to this day knows we should elimate processed foods and chemically laden and altered foods but demonizing various natural food groups is ridiculous.
What we can see from all these ancestral evaluations is that they are a varied and diverse diet and it was seasonal.
That’s how we should eat today and then based on your ancestry and current environment and geographical location there needs to be adjustments.
Lastly your individual biochemistry based on lab data can tease out difficulties with various things like proper breakdown and digestion of proteins, carbs, or fats leading to imbalances, or things like food sensitivities.
And lastly to subscribe to the notion that said diet worked for one and as such should be followed by everyone is absurd. Or that diet will be correct all the time.
There’s plenty of times I will use a certain diet as a therapeutic intervention to correct imbalances in a patient but then when there bio markers on lab data correct continuing that diet would lead to another imbalance.
Varied, diverse, and seasonal is the way to go and the pinnacle is knowing your individual lab data and how to keep it in balance!
