Ep92 Professor of Anthropology Reveals the REAL Optimal Human Diet!
The Fat Emperor Podcast
ivor cummins
4.8 • 766 Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Podcast Episode 92 is a lively chat with my friend Dr. Bill Schindler, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology. Wow does he know the history of what determined the perfect human diet - and he knows how to tell the story! You can find Bill here: https://www.drbillschindler.com/
Bill visited us in Ireland, and so we got to sit down nice and comfy in my studio - before having some seriously rare rib-eye steaks from the griddle inside...enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | the part that is usually discarded would provide, |
| 0:03.8 | depending on your caloric needs, right? |
| 0:06.1 | Depending, if you calculated to an athlete we took, |
| 0:08.5 | 13 to 31 days worth of calories. |
| 0:12.1 | That's the part we get rid of. |
| 0:15.1 | And it's the more nutrient dense part |
| 0:18.6 | because you're including all the organ meats there |
| 0:20.7 | and the marrow and brain. It's not only nutrient more nutrient dense, it's're including all the organ meats there and the |
| 0:20.8 | marrow's and it's not only nutrient more nutrient dense it's more nutrient |
| 0:23.9 | accessible as well you don't even have to cook those parts to get all the |
| 0:27.1 | nutrients out of it welcome to the fat emperor podcast I'm your host Iber |
| 0:34.4 | Cummins we have a visitor to Ireland today and that's Bill Schindler, who's director of the Eastern Shore Food Lab and Associate Professor of Archaeology. Absolutely. Pleasure to be here. Yeah, it's great to have you here, actually, and I'm glad now you let me know a couple of weeks ago you were swinging by Ireland. Quick, quick visit. Yeah, very good. Well, you know what? A lot of people might be familiar |
| 0:55.6 | with you, but it'd be good to start just going through the modern Stone Age diet, because that's |
| 1:01.1 | kind of your thing. Sure. And maybe describing what that is or what it's about or where it came |
| 1:06.4 | from. Yes. So I've always been interested in food. In my background, I was an overweight, pudgy, awkward kid. |
| 1:15.3 | Bad relationship with food as a kid. I remember my body image was linked to how I ate and I knew. |
| 1:21.2 | You know, every time I put food in my mouth, I had this, this, again, strange connection and it made me feel ugly, made me feel like somebody was picking |
| 1:29.4 | on me, made me get beat up. So I still remember even walking past every window, anything that |
| 1:34.7 | had a reflective surface, I would gaze in it and look and suck my stomach in and feel bad and |
| 1:39.1 | do it in the next one and the next one. And this went on for many years. But at the same time, |
| 1:44.1 | my father had me hunting and fishing |
| 1:45.4 | and trapping and outside quite a bit. So it was, again, a really weird relationship. And then I |
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