If Humans Aren't Carnivores, Explain This.
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Well, if humans aren't carnivores, then
explain this. Millions of years ago,
when our ancestors started eating more
meat, their brains and height started to
increase rapidly. Two and a half million
years ago, when the ice ages started,
homohabilis went up into the ice,
hunting megapona, and turned into apex
predators, top of the food chain, and
that's how they survived. With this
change into hyperc carnivory, becoming
an apex predator and being able to eat
largely, if not exclusively, meat,
especially in the Arctic Circle during
the ice ages, our evolution increased
exponentially in our height and brain
size. It was the fastest growth in brain
size that we've ever measured in the
fossil record. This continued until
about 10 to 15,000 years ago when there
was a sharp decline. Instead of
exponential growth, there was an
immediate drop by 11% brain volume in
men and 17% reduction in brain size in
women. This reduction in brain size
happened overnight from an evolutionary
perspective. It happened within
generations, not hundreds of years or
thousands of years. Brain size reduced,
height reduced by five to 6 in. There
were signs of chronic disease and
infectious disease, poor wound healing,
smaller jaws, crooked teeth, and rotting
teeth. Whereas before, we didn't see
that in the fossil record. This is when
evidence of chronic disease started to
arise. And as far back as the ERS
papyrus thousands of years ago in
ancient Egypt, which was a large grain
eating population, they have documented
records of diseases that sound like
diabetes, what we would call today
Alzheimer's, and also the symptoms that
people would get right before they
dropped dead of a heart attack. Diabetes
was first described by that name in 200
BC, 2,200 years ago, and has persisted
in plaguing humanity since then. This
decline in the height, health, and brain
size of people when shifting from a
pre-aggricultural carnivore-based diet
to a post-aggricultural plant-based diet
is seen everywhere around the world that
it happened. Every time in history that
it happened as well. We even saw this
more recently with the Native Americans
and Aboriginal Australians in the late
1800s when they were transitioned to a
more western plant-based diet and their
height, health, and brain size reduced
immediately as well. There's a study
called Tallest in the world published in
2001 that used original source data from
the late 1800s where they measured
people from all over the great plains in
the Native American population such as
the Cheyenne and found that they were
the tallest human beings alive on earth
at that time. The most interesting part
of that study is that they say
explicitly that the younger men were the
shortest in the tribe. The fathers were
much taller than them and the
grandfathers were much taller than that
because this study and these
measurements were done after the bison
were wiped out in America and their
major food source was destroyed. Then
they were put on the reservations and
put onto a more agriculturalbased diet.
And you see within three generations
massive reduction in their height and
health. Native Americans and Australian
Aboriginals are some of the sickest
individuals in both of those countries
and they have a far higher rate of
chronic disease than their European
counterparts. This was also studied in
depth in real time by Dr. Weston A.
Price 100 years ago when he went around
to indigenous populations around the
world that were in the middle of
transitioning to a more western diet
approach. and he saw in real time the
degradation in health development and
jaw size, tooth decay, crooked teeth,
and poor developed hard pallets and
fallen dental arches. Whereas previous
generations that had not transitioned
the western diet had none of these signs
of poor development. He found that he
could reverse these in real time if
people were still developing by giving
them meat and animal fat. and he
theorized that the development of the
jaw and facial structures were dependent
on fat soluble vitamins only found in
animal fat. And this is confirmed in
dentistry journals today. These findings
are also all throughout modern-day
anthropology where they show that the
pre-aggricultural population still
living their natural way with their
natural diet don't get any of the
chronic diseases that we get and yet
they live as long or longer than people
in western countries. Infant mortality
rate is high. So the average life
expectancy from birth is lower. However,
when living to adulthood, they live just
as long, if not longer. And what they
die from are things like infectious
disease and injury and famines, not the
chronic diseases that we face in western
plant-based civilizations. But then they
say once they transition to western
society and western diet, they start
getting diseases of civilizations. And
these diseases of civilization take over
as the main causes of illness and death.
This is what we commonly know as chronic
diseases. So, diabetes, heart disease,
cancer, autoimmunity, and so on. The
brain and body require very specific
nutrients that can only be found in meat
and animal fats such as B12, D3, K2,
retinol, DHA, EPA, choline, creatine,
carnitine, and yes, saturated fat and
cholesterol are all essential or
beneficial to the proper development of
our brain, nervous system, and bodies.
And when people transition to a more
plant-based diet, this marketkedly
affects our health and development
negatively.
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