Paul Saladino: Why Are Our Brains Shrinking? + Problems with Our Current Way of Living

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

What impact did the dietary changes in humanity have on our bodies? Going back as far as our pre-historical ancestors hypothesize very interesting correlations. What does the wide research say about eating animal products and how that influences our brain size and capacity? Research shows we have shrunk our brains in the last 10-12 thousand years, very possibly due to relevant shifts in our diet and habits. These big shifts were forced by major planetary changes such as the Younger Dryas, which took place 12,900 years ago.

Dr. Paul Saladino, who is back on the Align Podcast, not only discusses why our brain is shrinking but also shares with us very interesting suggestions on nutrition and lifestyle through an anthropological lens. He discusses findings and hypotheses by significant figures throughout history that observed indigenous peoples and compared their aligned diet to the general western diet.

We also dig into our surroundings as a factor for stimulation, focus, and relaxation, and we pose the question of if we need to get away from common human behavior.

The outdoors provides us a natural way of life and we might be taking a step in the wrong direction, placing a burden upon us that is opposite to the way we have been designed to live. Being in nature barefoot and experience a shift in the microbiome, interacting with other humans, eating foods that are in line with our genetics: all is perpetually being relegated in place of living mostly in squared-line architecture.

Dr. Paul Saladino is the leading authority on the science and application of the carnivore diet, author of the “The Carnivore Code: Unlocking the Secrets to Optimal Health by Returning to our Ancestral Diet”.

What we discuss:

[0:02:48] Paul Saladino's upbringing

[0:05:35] Why we should always challenge our beliefs

[0:09:04] Earth's temperature correlation with periods of intellectual and cultural flourish and stagnation

[0:11:21] What happened on Earth 12,900 years ago that might have changed how we eat

[0:15:36] Three pre-historical species that relate to us and their diet

[0:17:26] Human's change from primates to Australopithecus: eating animals vs. eating plants

[0:20:31] Expensive Tissue Hypothesis: gut vs. brain

[0:22:58] Correlation between B12 levels and brain size

[0:28:15] Effects of chewing properly

[0:30:56] Could Vitamin A deficiency by under-diagnosed in most people?

[0:46:00] How architectural shapes and forms influences our state

Find more from Dr. Paul Saladino:

Website: https://carnivoremd.com/

Instagram: @carnivoremd

podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fundamental-health-with-paul-saladino-md/id1461771083

Products: https://heartandsoil.co/?ref=CarnivoreMD

Book: https://carnivoremd.com/book/

Grab your Align Pants: www.alignpodcast.com/alignpant

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the line podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander. This is a place that we bring
0:06.3	together the world's leading experts in all things health and wellness to help you optimize
0:10.4	your mind and your body and your movement and all the major components of your
0:15.6	humanity. It doesn't roll off the tongue but we're working on it. This
0:20.6	conversation was with my good buddy Paul Saladino.
0:23.7	Dr. Paul Saladino.
0:25.0	This is his second, maybe third time, third time on the podcast.
0:28.3	The last one was cut kind of short, so I wanted to have him back for essentially like around two because we're getting into some really
0:35.3	Rad anthropological tidbits that I found to be quite fascinating and I wanted to continue that conversation around where the heck our ancestors come from.
0:48.0	Why is it that our brains in a period of, I believe it was about 2 million years jumped from something like 400
0:56.3	odd c. C. C.'s to like 1500 odd c. So three times the size in a fairly short period of time all things considered and why our brains are
1:06.6	starting to shrink in the last 10 to 12,000 or so years.
1:12.8	Pretty interesting.
1:13.8	A lot of really good stuff, a lot of great information.
1:15.8	I had a fantastic time with the good doctor once again.
1:19.7	He is the author of the Carnivore Code.
1:21.7	He is a medical doctor and he's overall badass.
1:28.1	We kind of veer away for the most part from most nutritional related conversations in the sense of dogmatically saying that
1:35.2	anyone needs to eat any one way because I feel like we've already had that conversation so now I'm
1:42.0	more excited about the anthropological bits.
1:45.0	Hello, thank you so much. There's a package being delivered to my front doorstep right now.
1:49.0	We'll just leave that in there at my place in Santa Monica and excited to share this conversation
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