I am Mission Laciani, founder of Mind Valley, the School for Human Transformation.

You're listening to the Mind Valley Podcast where we'll be bringing you the greatest teachers and

thought leaders on the planet to discuss the world's most powerful ideas and personal growth for mind, body, spirit,

and work.

Hi everyone, welcome back to the Mind Valley Podcast.

Today's topic is something that is so important to me. It's

about how there is this vast gap between how we evolved as human beings and how we function

in the world today and how companies, especially big food companies,

hijack this gap to manipulate us to crave and eat things that are ridiculously bad for our bodies but so profitable for their

P&L.

So let me give you a glimpse of what we're going to be covering.

We're going to talk about how human beings

involved in a certain way. Now Eric spends a good deal of his life with the

Hansa Bushman of Tanzania. He hunts with them, he lives with them. And when you are with the

Hansa Bushman, you are really seeing human beings operating the way we

functioned close to a hundred thousand years ago when all of us had one common ancestor in the plains of Africa.

Now our biologies evolved around the food, the seasons, what was available then.

And even as we, as a species, moved across the entire planet,

many of these genetic qualities remain with us.

For example, let's look at how we react to sugar. In the while,

sugar is not as abundant as it is today. Walk into the average grocery store today and

74% of goods in that grocery store contained sugar, according to Dr Mark Hyman.

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