Bill Schindler, PhD presentation: Ancestral Diets, Food Processing and the Domesticated Ape

Great presentation!

There are political implications. The agricultural revolution was the beginning of storable food. That also meant the ability to lock up and control the distribution of food. In a hunter gatherer clan, if the season is bad, the chief starves alongside everyone else. After the agricultural revolution, powerful people (who control food) thrive while others starve.

My chickens will eat most things. But if I throw bread in their yard they peck at it and then ignore it. They know it does not feed them.

Excellent content and delivery. This lecture deserves many more views; I will keep my fingers crossed! 🙏

Loooove Dr Bill Schindler!! Took his sourdough master class and he personally emailed me when I had questions. He's so awesome.

28:00 Ironically, this speaker points out the pitfalls of getting nutrition information from social media at a conference that gives a platform to the likes of Layne Norton and Thomas DeLauer. Both are notorious for disseminating misinformation for the purpose of marketing their products.

Enlightening, entertaining talk. Makes perfect sense, and actually fills in many of the gaps which folks who speak on 'how we ate in the past vs now' fail to highlight. Dots have been connected!

After binge watching Jack Kruse, I have a new perspective on the intersection of diet, nutrition, and health. I'm still 90% carnivore, but I now understand the importance of light and mitochondrial function, and have incorporated habits (morning walks, blue-block glasses after sunset, eating seasonally and locally) for optimal health.

Wow! Powerful speaker!

Amazing and informative talk. Makes so much sense. Loved it in its entirety!

I've always had trouble with the premise that humans run prey animals to death. Maybe, but it seems to ignore one simple fact. Herd animals won't run away from their herd for miles and miles; they will always circle back to the herd even if a group of humans managed to separate one or two and chase them. I live in the western US, within 100 miles of two buffalo jump sites. Those sites are evidence that hunters exploited this herd behavior, running away from predators while staying with their herd, even as the smarter humans haze them over a cliff to their deaths. (P.S. Chyme is a Greek word, pronounced "kyme" not "chime").

Great talk! Thank you so much!

Great lecture! Thanks!

Amazing talk! Thank you!

Interesting, and makes more sense than what most of the extreme diet gurus say about ancestral food, but, while understanding that he is not a physiologist, still doesn't answer the questions that most of us need: 1-ideal diet, does it exist; 2-what definitely to avoid; 3-considering that it is unrealistic for us to resume a hunter-gatherer life, how to fix the damage we have already done to ourselves, and whether, which, and how quickly, medical problems may be reversed. For instance, for all their vastly differing recommendation about what to eat (ONLY plants because meat is poison, or ONLY fatty meat, because plants are poison), both the vegan and carnivore gurus agree on these things; avoid sugar, especially fructose (though they extend the taboo to all carbohydrates), and avoid processed food (rife with all the chemical additives). Is that the answer? Just that? Otherwise eat anything you want?

Thx for doing this. filming it and sharing it with us. 👍👍👍👍👍

Interesting stuff.

17:30 Nice story, but angel wing (a metabolic disorder) in waterfowl is due to excess growth in juveniles, due to overfeeding a high energy /protein diet, not specific to macronutrient. The most common cause of angel wing in domesticated ducks & geese is due to too high protein diet at that high growth stage of their life. Young hatchlings are given high protein diets, but this should be cut back at 2 weeks (-2%), & dropped again at 6 weeks (-2%) (kcal - energy totals remains the same/ weight throughout growth period). Interestingly, a study in farmed muscovy ducks found that although the use of probiotics reduced the impact of parasitic infection, it increased the risk of metabolic syndromes (Ref below). Ref "Evaluation of Metabolic Syndromes and Parasitic Infection in Muscovy Ducks under Different Management Conditions"

Excellent. Serious food for thought.

Tbh I borrowed his book from my local library about a year ago but it seemed monumental and against what I've heard from the carnivore community. After listening to this presentation I just placed the book on hold again to reread and reconsider. Obv I can't raise and slaughter my own animals in the city (the say I can't even have chickens) but I want to do what I can that is best for my health.