For many years I largely followed Loren Cordain’s Paleo Diet, definitely not the worst eating for the day. The idea was to only eat things that would be recognizable as food by a ‘cave man’.

It gets you used to questioning your diet and it improves your health, if followed, by eliminating grains and sugars, and stressing quality.

But Dr Cordain was a sports nutritionist and had no access to modern research on what Paleolithic people actually ate. And the facts of plant anti nutrients and protective toxins were not widely known twenty years ago either.

Nor did Cordain understand the importance of adequate protein but the primacy of essential fats in the human diet. Especially since we largely no longer eat the valuable organs, brains, bone marrow etc.

The advantage of being a hunter gatherer during our specie’s 300,000 year, mostly ice age, history is that you ate 80-90% red meat from ruminant mega fauna instead of modern carbohydrates that contain anti nutrients and slow toxins.

Multigastric ruminant red meat (and every other organ) from large mammals is among the most densely nutrient rich food sources available.

But it was a dangerous job to need to always hunt. And when the hunt failed, plant based starvation food would need to be substituted, if any could be found.

Farming came along because a comet or meteorites killed off the mega fauna early hominids needed to eat during the Younger Dryas event.

Thus the advent of farming, and civilization’s nearly complete dependance on plant based, or starvation food. And human health declined because we are neither herbivores nor omnivores.

In Egypt and every other early seed and grain and vegetable eating civilization the people became shorter, weaker, less robust, more susceptible to disease, and lived shorter lives than the hunter/gathering people they replaced.

We are hyper carnivores and random plant food is slowly toxic to us (eat the rainbow). All plants are toxic. It’s their only defence against being eaten by animals since they cannot fight back or run away.

The natural carbs that paleo people had to eat (10-20%?) when the hunt failed (emergency starvation foods) were very low in sugars and carbohydrates. This is the exact opposite of human created fruits, vegetables and tubers of today.

Wheat, grains, sugars and seed oils are even more toxic for an array of reasons.

And those chewy low carbs were seasonal only a month or so out of the year. Like eggs. It’s meat all the way down until civilization came along, just an eye-blink in our specie’s 300,000 year span.

Evolution does not work within only a few thousand years to enable a hyper carnivore to turn into predominantly a plant eater.

Traditional human cultures have through time managed to partially detoxify some plant based foods through leaching, pounding, drying, fermenting, cooking etc, and other procedures to shed the omnipresent plant poisons in a few selected plants through the eons.

If you want to eat the rainbow, just go into the forest and start eating all the plants you see. It will be your last time eating those colorful leaves, nuts and berries because 99.9% are inedible or toxic to humans.

Even animals eat only specific plants they have evolved to be able to digest, never a rainbow of random probably more or less toxic or indisgestible plants.

We are a meat, fish, seafood and egg based species and the modern day health epidemics of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, mental ills, etc, are mostly driven by humans, convinced by pervasive corporate and industrial propaganda, that plant eating is beneficial.

That’s why we are eating plants instead of the mostly fatty red meat, eggs, seafood and oily fish our kind grew up on and thrive best by eating.

The health crisis will only abate when we go back to our natural diet that grew human health and numbers for hundreds of thousands of years.

Of course I would not be staying on such a restricted, lonely diet like my keto, low carb, carnivore diet-whatever you call it- if it didn’t work for me.

You can believe any study you want on the Wild West internet, but dietary studies are overwhelmingly corrupted or co-opted or produced by big ag, or big pharma. Then there is the practical difficulty of doing dietary experiments on human subjects.

So I’m more a believer in the overwhelming anecdotal praise of this type of eating, over sketchy diet studies pushing the SAD (Standard American Diet).

This evidence, combined with my personal improved health, weight maintenance, fitness, improved mood and strength, better disease resistance, it all keeps me on this diet, with its constant cooking and cleaning. Simple but not easy. The true Paleo Diet.

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