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Owen Davis | 29 Mar
Our last article on Pottenger's Cats explored how health changes for the worse when humans move away from their ancestral eating plans and how poor health is compounded over generations. With this in mind, our next article discusses what this means for new processed foods like fake meats, cereals, grains and other foods marketed as more environmentally friendly.
To frame this discussion, it is first important to understand that the topic of diet and nutrition
has become heavily politicised in recent years. Diet was once what people ate to sustain and nourish themselves.
Now, diet is a vehicle through which people express their socio-political beliefs.
In other words, the sole objective of nutrition used to be to achieve optimal human health. Whereas now, there are
many other objectives (of which human health is rarely one):
Objectives of ancestral diet:
Objectives of modern diet:
However noble these objectives may be, they do not render nutritional science untrue.
The benefits of an ancestral diet lie in avoiding processed foods that are commonplace in the modern diet...
The food pyramid promotes a diet that is high in sugar and carbohydrates and low in healthy fats. It's a recipe for disease...
The politically correct modern diet is typically the one that achieves the above four metrics best. In other
words, it is what many people believe to be the 'least environmentally impactful' diet (although this itself is
up for debate). If you were to follow the diet that was the least environmentally impactful (according to Clark et al. 2022) and selected
one thing out of every listed food category, your diet would consist of the following:
This diet is defined by the following characteristics:
These are the characteristics of the most unhealthy diet for humans. They are the very dietary characterises that
are known to drive diseases like:
When the objective of nutrition is anything but achieving optimal human health, there are catastrophic
consequences.
Following a diet that places more importance on other factors comes at a high cost to human health.
It begs the question; why on earth would anyone follow this diet? The answer is likely that the politicisation of nutrition
has meant that discussions around it are often governed by subjective views that aren't rooted in objective nutritional science.
Thus, the truth - that human health changes for the worse when we move away from an ancestral diet - has been
obfuscated in recent years.
As the great Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius once said, "Look back over the past, with its
changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too". The same is true of nutrition and
health - as was demonstrated by Dr Francis Pottenger and the famous Pottenger's
Cats study.
The Pottenger's Cats study showed that when humans abandon their ancestral diet in favour of processed, synthetic and artificial foods, it results in poor health. It does so because a processed diet lacks key nutrients and minerals that are essential for health.
What's more, it also demonstrated that this poor health is compounded over generations, with each generation
that followed a processed diet becoming increasingly unhealthy. So, the kittens of cats who were following a processed diet were less
healthy than their parents.
The cats in Pottenger's study ultimately became extinct within four generations of consuming a professed diet. While the exact time frames
will likely not be the same for humans, it paints a bleak picture nonetheless.
We regularly see evidence of generational poor health in our clinic when dealing with clients. Many believe that
"disease runs in the family" - blaming faulty genes inherited from their parents for chronic health issues like cancer.
This is true to some extent - many have certainly inherited poor health from their parents, but often not in the
way they think.
It is not so much genetics as it is epigenetics. As discussed in our previous article,
epigenetics refers to "how your behaviours and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work. Unlike genetic changes,
epigenetic changes are reversible and do not change your DNA sequence, but they can
change how your body reads a DNA sequence."
This means that it's not necessarily a 'faulty gene' that runs in the family that has predisposed our clients to chronic disease, but rather a poor diet that runs in the family, and the consequences of this poor diet have catalysed epigenetic changes that have been inherited and caused disease. This is precisely what occurred in the Pottenger's Cats study.
Pottenger's Cats shows that when an animal moves away from its ancestral eating plan, its biology changes for the worse. It suggests the same is true for humans...
The earliest signs of poor health and disease are evident in your blood chemistry. We use blood chemistry to tailor health programs to meet the exact needs of our clients...
So, before you get guilted into substituting real meat (the kind that has successfully nourished
mankind
since our inception) with synthetic meat, or consuming a diet high in grains and other carbohydrates, know that
there are consequences to doing so.
Generally speaking, the best diet is closest to our ancestral
diet.
We recently espoused the virtues of returning to an ancestral diet in this
article.
However, it is important to note that there is no one-size-fits-all diet. Each person is biologically unique and requires different inputs
to achieve optimal health.
Our tailored health programs
are designed explicitly to cater to your unique and exact biological needs. We determine what these needs are based on blood
chemistry analysis.
You can learn more about our tailored health programs here.
Owen Davis is the eldest son of Dr Eric Davis and Sue Davis, and is the co-manager at Nutrition Diagnostics. Owen studied food science and nutrition in 2003 at the University of Queensland, and later graduated with a bachelor of Health Science and Nutrition from Endeavour College. Owen has travelled to the USA on numerous occasions to attend courses and seminars run by Dr Hal Huggins and conferences run by Sam Queen.
Owen has been health coaching and consulting for over a decade now, and throughout this time, has worked with hundreds of patients to balance their body chemistry and restore their health.
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