169: Million-year-old food
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2019
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
We have lost the ability to think for ourselves when food is concerned. We're the only animal on the planet that hires nutritionists and dieticians to tell us how to eat. But we're the sickest species on the planet. Something's wrong. And Dr. Bill Schindler wants to right that wrong. On today's episode, Bill, professor of anthropology and archaeology at Washington College, and the director of the Eastern Shore Food Lab, walks us through 3+ million years of diet history to help us get a handle on what our ancestors ate. As we learn about the tools they used and which foods provided the most nutrients, we gain insights into how we can eat and live better today.
Bill describes what main foods were part of the primitive diet, how the diet shifted over time, how the dietary needs of the past compare to ours today, how our ancestors extracted the most nutrients from the raw food they hunted or gathered, and the importance of getting back in touch with our food.
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| 0:15.8 | The story of our past is a story of developing behavior patterns and technologies that allow us to get the most amount of nutrients from our environment and then most importantly transform those raw materials into the most nutrient dense bioavailable foods possible before we even take the first bite and |
| 0:22.1 | the cool thing is that story begins three and a half |
| 0:25.4 | million years ago. |
| 0:28.2 | Welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast, sponsored by the Weston A Price Foundation for |
| 0:38.6 | Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts. |
| 0:42.4 | We're your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health. |
| 0:47.0 | Hey everybody, I'm Hula Labrada Gore and this is episode 169. |
| 0:58.0 | Our guest today is Dr. Bill Schindler. |
| 1:01.0 | Bill is the director of the Eastern Shore Food Lab and he is an associate professor |
| 1:06.4 | of anthropology and archaeology at Washington College and Chestertown, Maryland. Bill has a comprehensive understanding of how our ancestors lived |
| 1:16.3 | and what they ate millions of years ago. In our conversation, he walks us through our own history shedding light on lessons that we can |
| 1:25.6 | apply to our lives today and he lives what he's talking about too he calls his |
| 1:30.9 | family the modern Stone Age family, |
| 1:33.4 | since they use ancient techniques like hunting, |
| 1:36.4 | gathering, fermenting, and the like |
| 1:38.5 | to feed themselves. |
| 1:39.9 | He offers to all of us some simple first steps that we can all attain so we can start eating and living like we were meant to, |
| 1:47.0 | following the wisdom of our ancestors. |
| 1:50.0 | Before we get into it, a quick shout out to two of our sponsors. |
| 1:53.4 | The Wise Traditions Podcast is supported in part by |
| 1:56.4 | Vintage Tradition Talo Balm, the original Whole Food of Skincare. |
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