Daniel Vitalis: Cognitive Changes as a Modern Hunter Gatherer

The Evan Brand Show

Evan Brand, BCHN, FNTP

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2017

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Daniel Vitalis is a leading health, nutrition, and personal development strategist. He is also the creator of Find a Spring where people can find fresh, clean, and local springs in their city to derive their fresh water from. He has also aired in the documentary Hungry for Change. He also writes an online magazine on his website at DanielVitalis.com and has health products available from his company called Surthrival. Today We Discuss Daniels's hunting and foraging adventures How does your cognitive health change when you are immersed in nature Has Daniel's personality changed, and has there been a new side that he has found in himself after hunting? What about death, does being exposed to death in the flesh reduce or change fears about it? And other big life questions

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome back to Not Just Paleo. I'm your host, Evan Brand. Yes, my voice is weird. So you can try to hack air travel as much as you possibly want. And flying in a metal tube at 500 miles per hour at 37 to 39,000 feet above the earth, it's not healthy. There's no way.
0:21.6	And so I think I picked up some type of virus on the plane.
0:24.1	Who knows, I lost my voice for about two days, which actually ended up being sort of an
0:28.5	interesting meditation experiment for me.
0:31.9	I was able to really, really be in my own head more and not having to speak was interesting. It was like a two-day silent
0:39.6	meditation retreat, except I didn't go anywhere to do it. So anyhow, gradually getting my voice
0:46.7	back now. And I'm excited to bring you this new episode with Daniel Vitalis, who is a friend
0:51.7	of mine and a fellow podcast host who host the show called
0:55.2	ReWild Yourself, which is a popular podcast and one of the few that I listen to these days.
1:00.7	Daniel's in love with the idea of human wildness, and he talks a lot in his talks and his
1:06.7	podcast and all the work he does, talking about undomestication or removing the constraints
1:13.5	that society has put on us, you know, putting on the ties and the suits and really removing
1:19.3	yourself from what it is to be a human being on a natural planet.
1:23.7	Daniels also founded the website, findaspring.com, where you can look up local springs and you can find good quality water.
1:31.3	That if you have the lifestyle that allows you to go source it, you can go do it.
1:36.3	He's been featured in the documentary film Hungry for Change, which you may have seen.
1:42.1	And you can go stalk him online, obviously, on social media and look
1:46.0	at the pictures of his foraging and hunting adventures, which is what we're going to talk about
1:50.4	today. He recently went on a bear hunting experience, which we talk a little bit about,
1:55.5	and then we generally just talk at a 30,000 foot view about historical roots of how society's gotten to the place that it has
2:02.9	today. Pretty interesting conversation, different from the functional medicine conversation you're
2:07.3	used to. One thing I do want to mention something that I believe has helped me get my voice back
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