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If Humans Aren't Carnivores, Explain This.

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Well, if humans aren't carnivores, then

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explain this. Millions of years ago,

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when our ancestors started eating more

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meat, their brains and height started to

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increase rapidly. Two and a half million

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years ago, when the ice ages started,

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homohabilis went up into the ice,

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hunting megapona, and turned into apex

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predators, top of the food chain, and

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that's how they survived. With this

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change into hyperc carnivory, becoming

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an apex predator and being able to eat

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largely, if not exclusively, meat,

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especially in the Arctic Circle during

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the ice ages, our evolution increased

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exponentially in our height and brain

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size. It was the fastest growth in brain

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size that we've ever measured in the

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fossil record. This continued until

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about 10 to 15,000 years ago when there

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was a sharp decline. Instead of

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exponential growth, there was an

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immediate drop by 11% brain volume in

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men and 17% reduction in brain size in

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women. This reduction in brain size

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happened overnight from an evolutionary

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perspective. It happened within

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generations, not hundreds of years or

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thousands of years. Brain size reduced,

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height reduced by five to 6 in. There

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were signs of chronic disease and

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infectious disease, poor wound healing,

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smaller jaws, crooked teeth, and rotting

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teeth. Whereas before, we didn't see

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that in the fossil record. This is when

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evidence of chronic disease started to

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arise. And as far back as the ERS

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papyrus thousands of years ago in

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ancient Egypt, which was a large grain

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eating population, they have documented

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records of diseases that sound like

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diabetes, what we would call today

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Alzheimer's, and also the symptoms that

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people would get right before they

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dropped dead of a heart attack. Diabetes

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was first described by that name in 200

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BC, 2,200 years ago, and has persisted

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in plaguing humanity since then. This

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decline in the height, health, and brain

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size of people when shifting from a

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pre-aggricultural carnivore-based diet

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to a post-aggricultural plant-based diet

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is seen everywhere around the world that

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it happened. Every time in history that

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it happened as well. We even saw this

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more recently with the Native Americans

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and Aboriginal Australians in the late

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1800s when they were transitioned to a

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more western plant-based diet and their

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height, health, and brain size reduced

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immediately as well. There's a study

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called Tallest in the world published in

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2001 that used original source data from

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the late 1800s where they measured

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people from all over the great plains in

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the Native American population such as

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the Cheyenne and found that they were

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the tallest human beings alive on earth

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at that time. The most interesting part

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of that study is that they say

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explicitly that the younger men were the

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shortest in the tribe. The fathers were

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much taller than them and the

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grandfathers were much taller than that

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because this study and these

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measurements were done after the bison

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were wiped out in America and their

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major food source was destroyed. Then

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they were put on the reservations and

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put onto a more agriculturalbased diet.

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And you see within three generations

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massive reduction in their height and

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health. Native Americans and Australian

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Aboriginals are some of the sickest

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individuals in both of those countries

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and they have a far higher rate of

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chronic disease than their European

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counterparts. This was also studied in

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depth in real time by Dr. Weston A.

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Price 100 years ago when he went around

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to indigenous populations around the

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world that were in the middle of

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transitioning to a more western diet

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approach. and he saw in real time the

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degradation in health development and

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jaw size, tooth decay, crooked teeth,

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and poor developed hard pallets and

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fallen dental arches. Whereas previous

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generations that had not transitioned

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the western diet had none of these signs

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of poor development. He found that he

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could reverse these in real time if

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people were still developing by giving

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them meat and animal fat. and he

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theorized that the development of the

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jaw and facial structures were dependent

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on fat soluble vitamins only found in

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animal fat. And this is confirmed in

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dentistry journals today. These findings

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are also all throughout modern-day

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anthropology where they show that the

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pre-aggricultural population still

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living their natural way with their

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natural diet don't get any of the

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chronic diseases that we get and yet

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they live as long or longer than people

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in western countries. Infant mortality

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rate is high. So the average life

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expectancy from birth is lower. However,

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when living to adulthood, they live just

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as long, if not longer. And what they

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die from are things like infectious

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disease and injury and famines, not the

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chronic diseases that we face in western

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plant-based civilizations. But then they

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say once they transition to western

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society and western diet, they start

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getting diseases of civilizations. And

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these diseases of civilization take over

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as the main causes of illness and death.

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This is what we commonly know as chronic

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diseases. So, diabetes, heart disease,

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cancer, autoimmunity, and so on. The

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brain and body require very specific

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nutrients that can only be found in meat

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and animal fats such as B12, D3, K2,

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retinol, DHA, EPA, choline, creatine,

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carnitine, and yes, saturated fat and

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cholesterol are all essential or

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beneficial to the proper development of

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our brain, nervous system, and bodies.

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And when people transition to a more

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plant-based diet, this marketkedly

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affects our health and development

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negatively.

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