146: Christopher Ryan - Are We Really Better Off Than Previous Generations?

The Natural State with Dr. Anthony Gustin

Dr. Anthony Gustin

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🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, author of well-known books Sex at Dawn and Civilzed to Death, Christopher Ryan, and Dr. Anthony Gustin explore the misconceptions that everything in civilization is better.

To do that, they compare our modern Western life to that of an egalitarian hunter-gatherer society and they discuss what our current civilization has right, what’s dragging it down, what can be done about it, and more.

Chris and Dr. Gustin also answer questions like, are we really better off than previous generations? And, what does it mean to be human?

This is one of those episodes that may change what you previously thought and it’ll open your eyes to a completely new perspective.

You’ll also hear these other topics when you check this episode out:

Why the statistics aren’t all they’re cracked up to be
Did Chris have an “aha” moment that led him down this path?
What does it mean to be human?
Chris’ thoughts on our current state of agriculture
How tech is negatively creeping in like a parasitic infection
Are we really better off than previous generations?
What hunter-gatherer tribes have shown us
Actual objective measures that determine quality of life
Do things need to get bad before people look for better alternatives?
How our planet’s carrying capacity is at its max
How Chris balances being social and taking time away from people
Other ways you can help contribute to creating a better world
Chris also shares his experience buying land with friends to create a community that takes only the best parts of the modern world

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Natural State podcast. I am your host Dr. Anthony Guston. It is
0:10.2	my belief that the natural state of any living organism's health and that our artificial
0:14.5	habitat has forced us into having artificial health problems. This show is my attempt to
0:18.7	dive deep and learn about using nutrition, sleep, movement, relationships and more to help
0:23.8	you reclaim your natural state of health in a modern world and show you how to thrive
0:27.8	in an environment that's stacked against you. If you enjoyed today's show, you can find
0:31.3	out more details and information at Dr. AnthonyGuston.com.
0:36.3	Super excited to have Chris Bryan on the show today. He's well known for his previous book
0:41.3	Sucks At Dawn in his most recent book, Silas Zadev came out a few years ago and has been
0:46.3	one of my favorite books over that time explores a lot of the misconceptions that we have
0:50.5	that everything in civilization is better for humans and if you obviously know the name
0:55.4	of this show and what I talk about is just the fact that I think that humans remove from
0:59.0	the natural environment leads to pretty much all of our problems. Obviously we can't
1:03.3	go back but a lot of reading this book actually let me to want to go to Tanzania last year
1:06.5	and stay with the HODZA and really sort of suss out what is the comparison between our
1:11.2	life in a very civilized Western nature versus those who still live in a egalitarian hunter
1:16.3	gatherer of society and who's fascinating to dive into a lot of those things with him
1:20.4	about the show and a lot of his experience that he's had. He sort of has given up a lot
1:24.4	of his life as well and now lives out of a van most of the year, travels around sort of
1:29.6	stays in these roaming hunter gatherer ask tribes where he has people all around that
1:34.0	he stays with so he's adopted a lot of these philosophies in his own life so it's interesting
1:38.2	to see you know you can't really go back to living like the HODZA it's just sort of an
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