Ideal Food For Humans

Ideal food for humans. What does that mean and who gets to decide the ideal

food for humans? Coming right up

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The ideal food for humans what is that who gets to decide? Well lately it seems

like people put more faith in opinions in the dash diet and the Mediterranean diet

and the Paleo diet and so forth but who is right and how can we decide? Well in

this case there is only one judge and the one who decides is your DNA why does

that matter what is DNA well DNA codes for proteins you have DNA in every cell

and what it does it is a code it's a blueprint for how to make certain

proteins and some of those proteins that your body makes are called

enzymes so DNA makes proteins some of the proteins are enzymes and enzymes

they break down your food so everything that you put into your body it will go

straight through with absolutely no change unless you had enzymes just

because you put it in your mouth doesn't mean that it becomes tissue in your body

the process that makes that transition is initiated it's it's made happen by

enzymes and if you put something in your body that your enzymes don't recognize

if there's not an exact fit if that food is foreign to your enzymes if you don't

have the right enzymes to break down that food if the food isn't presented in

the right combination for your enzymes then that food is foreign your body

doesn't know what to do with it our DNA is unchanged

for the last 250 years so all the people who have lived during the last 250 years

are sharing the same DNA it hasn't changed so let's look at what

happened this little orange square right here represents 10,000 years so we take

this little piece and we blow it up and this is now 10,000 years that's how long

we have had agriculture that's how long we have had any kind of exposure to

grain and it doesn't mean we had the same kind of grains that we have today

back then there were two grains that were called emmer and einkorn the first

ancient wheats and we didn't have corn and we didn't have rice and we didn't

have a rye or any of those things so for 10,000 years we started that's how long

we've had any kind of grain we started doing agriculture and then once we break

this down so relative to this 10,000 now we have this little blip which is a

hundred and fifty years and that is how long we've had any sort of food

processing and that means that we have taken the grain apart we taken the food

apart we have taken certain pieces out so now that we gave the food to your

enzymes it's different because it's not presented in the same combinations in

the same proportions anymore and 150 years coca-cola wasn't even around there

was no fast food there was no Wonder Bread there was none

of the modern processed foods that we recognize that makes up the majority of

what people eat today and then we break it down further and this tiny little

sliver is 50 years that's how long we've had an abundance of processed foods

that's the time where white sugar white flour has become the majority of what

we're eating so looking at this perspective if this is how long if

250,000 years is how long our DNA has remained unchanged

changed that's tens of thousands of generations and here we have two

generations and there is absolutely no chance that our DNA has had the chance

to adapt to those modern foods that means all those modern foods the

majority of what we eat is an experiment it's a foreign invader our bodies do not

know what to do with that food so one example I like to give to bring this in

perspective is you go to your average grocery store and there's about 50,000

shelf items up there and if you go through the store you ask yourself how

many of these items existed prior to 10,000 years so if it existed prior to

10,000 years that means it existed somewhere around here that means it

probably was available for our ancestors to get adapted to and if it didn't exist

then it's foreign and if you go through the average grocery store you'll

probably find maybe a hundred items there's the meat section there's some

chicken there's some fish there's some vegetables a few berries and some fruit

maybe a few nuts but everything else everything made from sugar and high

fructose corn starch and flour and artificial sweeteners and preservatives

and color enhancers and flavor enhancers your body has never seen those things if

we didn't have it then it doesn't absolutely mean that it's a bad idea but

it means it's probably a bad idea so what did we have available back then

what did our ancestors have well pretty much prior to agriculture it was

anything that you could catch dig up or pick so something you could catch would

be meat or fish and the meat was not jerky with msg and preservatives and

high fructose corn syrup and all those sugar

if you could dig it up might have been some potatoes or some version of a

potato or a sweet potato or a rutabaga or a parsnip

it wasn't potato chips it wasn't french fries it wasn't these reconstituted

puffy things that we buy in the cellophane bags even though they say

they're made out of vegetables it's not a root or a tuber or a vegetable anymore

something you could pick those would be fruits and vegetables and does not mean

a fruit roll-up it does not mean strawberry jam it does not mean a

low-fat pop-tart those are not foods they were not available if we change

them to that degree they become foreign to our bodies again and another thing to

keep in mind was that most of these things were probably seasonal that I'm

not going to get into the argument whether we're supposed to be carnivores

or vegetarian I think we need to eat some of everything but we need to keep

in mind that most things were seasonal so even if we had access to fruits and

vegetables it probably wasn't year-round it was probably more likely to have

year-round access to meat and fish and the other thing to understand is whole

foods that everything that we eat needs to be eaten as close as possible to its

natural state if a potato was available it should

still look like potato it shouldn't look like potato chips or vodka because even

though they're made from potato they're not the same thing same thing with meat

same thing with vegetables same thing with anything that you eat the closer it

is to its original form the more enzymes the more nutrition the more vitamin

complexes it retains the more naturally everything is combined so next time that

someone presents you the ideal diet when some agency has an official boat and

proclaims their so that diet as the official and optimum diet for humans ask

yourself these questions was it around do we have

the enzymes to break it down does it fit this model because this

model is what your DNA recognizes and last year the DASH diet was proclaimed

as the best diet and it has 50% recommends 50% of its calories from

grains that it is very very questionable if that is a suitable human food so keep

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physiology then we can all help each other get healthier and ask for the

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