Paleo diet: What should govern our approach to food?

INTRODUCTION

First of all I would like to define myself through a philosophy of life, a dietary approach, a worldview. So I will tell you a very well-known story that happened around 2.5 million years ago. This is about the lifestyle that our ancestors followed, I will tell you about their habits, their physiological changes, their ancestral diet, the base of what today we know as a paleo diet.

I think it is important to understand how the human organism works today, especially on a metabolic level but also related to the appearance of diseases.

Alright, let’s get started:

A long time ago, specifically in the Stone Age, a group of hominids appeared that we now call Homo habilis, their ability to create stone tools allowed them to increase the intake of animal products which led to the development of the human brain. These hominids eventually evolved into our current species, Homo sapiens, which appeared about 200,000 years ago near Ethiopia. [1]

This story of our origin also tells us that our ancestors were gatherers and hunters. Their diet was based on vegetables, tubers, hunted animals and ocasional consumption of fruits.

These facts, as described by scientific literature, raise some questions for me: Should our lifestyle resemble that of our ancestors? Has our body managed to evolve genetically to adapt to the changes and alterations in the food we consume today?

Many specialists have started asking these questions in recent years. But isn’t what you think more important? What are your current beliefs? Are you prepared to question them?

In this article I’m going to give you some information, and if something really doesn’t sit well with you and you think it’s important, you can always go deeper.

The thing is:

• Our ancestors were flexible omnivores, adapted to take advantage of natural food from their environment (vegetables and animals).
  
  
• For our ancestors, physical activity was vital to get food.
  
  
• The vital rhythms were adapted to the natural rhythms of light and seasons (important for hormonal health).
  
  
• They were adapted to periods of fasting (perhaps that is why fasting is therapeutic for us).
  
  
• Anthropologists argue that our ancestors’ diet had a significant influence on brain expansion, increased brain size, and reduced intestinal tract lenght. [2]
  
  
• Over the past 200 years have seen the industrial revolution, providing us with processed and ultra-processed food. With the consequent increase in chronic diseases. [2]

CONCLUSION

In conclusion, I believe, we should trust our own common sense, although we still do not have high quality scientific reviews on this subject, many times we do not need this type of confirmation to apply changes in our daily life. So why wait if we can experiment, we are already test tubes of the current industrial system, why don’t we choose what our lifestyle should be? I have already decided… What is your choice?

I don’t intend to go much further, I will probably publish related content later.

If you want more information I have attached links about the creator of the paleo diet concept and where I have obtained the content.

Links of interest:

https://thepalodiet.com/palo-diet-faq/ [1]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK482457/ [2]

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/81/2/341/4607411

https://felixmora.com/en/bone-broth-recipe-very-easy/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1559480/