671: Why the Modern Diet Is Making You Sick! | Daniel Vitalis
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Jesse Chappus
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🗓️ 23 September 2025
⏱️ 129 minutes
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Daniel Vitalis is a modern day hunter-gatherer and host of the WildFed TV show on the Outdoor Channel. He's the founder of Surthrival.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on today's show. |
| 0:02.1 | We've taken all our plants and we've bred them to be sugary and sweet, but then we've lost a whole bunch of things that we don't realize and we've gained things that aren't good for us. You have six, seven, eight different lettuces if you go to whole foods, but they all come from the same lactuca species and they've just been changed into different varieties so in the way |
| 0:21.5 | that you could be like oh a Belgian Malinua and a Great Dane and a Shih Tzu and a Chihuahua, it's four different species. It's like all actions all one, Canis Lupus, Familiaris. Well, all those lettuces are just one species. I'm playing the Gandalf game. I'm not doing the Joe Rogan game. Like my long-term goal for aging is to become wizened with time. |
| 0:40.8 | I want a big long, the Gandalf game. I'm not doing the Joe Rogan game. My long-term goal for aging is to become |
| 0:39.3 | wizened with time. I want a big long white beard and long white hair. I want to look like I |
| 0:44.5 | stepped out of the Old Testament. I'm just trying to go a different route. If somebody's interested |
| 0:48.1 | in that different route, it's looking at what supplements can keep your testosterone levels. I don't |
| 0:52.9 | want to say elevated or high, |
| 0:54.3 | but just in range. |
| 0:55.8 | And for women, that might look more like looking at estrogen |
| 0:58.4 | and progesterone, but there are plants |
| 0:59.9 | that have traditionally been used for this. |
| 1:02.2 | They'll never be as strong as pharmaceuticals, |
| 1:03.9 | and you don't really want them to be because, man, |
| 1:06.0 | stuff changes a person. |
| 1:07.2 | I think one of the number one things a person could do |
| 1:10.1 | to improve their health over the long term is |
| 1:13.3 | Daniel, as somebody that's been involved in this health and wellness space for a long time now, |
| 1:20.2 | you've had a lot of pivots in your health and wellness practices would have been some of the |
| 1:25.9 | foundational pieces over all these years that have stuck |
| 1:30.8 | through your tried and true. For me, I think the biggest through line has been a real commitment |
| 1:37.6 | to living a natural life as much as is possible in what's probably the most kind of, you know, |
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