Paul Saladino· MD
across hunter-gatherer tribes, animal organs and meat and uniquely prized above all other foods.
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across hunter-gatherer tribes, animal organs and meat and uniquely prized above all other foods.
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Hierarchy of food value for humans: Organs>meat>raw dairy>honey>fruit>tubers>>leaves, stems,seeds.
all of which kind of point to the same thing that they really favor meat and organs they eat some plant foods
if you can get these like higher foods these higher priority foods for hunter-gatherers and you can get these less toxic foods like fruit or honey why not eat those rather than the more toxic plant foods that you're probably over accumulating all of these toxins in your body in the first place
vegetables are kind of low on the totem pole if you can get animal meat animal organs animal fat that's the top of the totem pole highly caloric things like honey which is incredibly treasured by the hadza and all equatorial peoples where honey grows that's highly valuable for humans
when they get up in the morning the first thing on their brain is animal meat organs blood and fat they want to hunt and if they're out hunting and they see honey they're going to eat the heck out of that honey and if they're out hunting and they see fruit they're going to eat some fruit if they want some fruit
there is a hierarchy of animal and plant foods there's a hierarchy of foods that humans have always sought out and it goes like this organs above meat above animal fat those are probably the same organs meet fat altogether then honey then fruit maybe raw dairy if they can get it and then once they are eating all those foods if they don't have any of those foods they might think about eating roots and then they might think about eating leaves or stems or seeds which are seeds nuts grains and beans but only in those dire straits only in those circumstances where they don't have the other things
the simplest version is meat organs and fruit I think every hunter gatherer on the planet seeks those Foods preferentially if you look at these ancestral people it's so clear what their hierarchy of Desire is in terms of food meat organs and fruit and probably organs before the meat and sometimes fruit even before the meat or honey but they want all of these things and they just really don't care much about vegetables and they don't really do much seeds unless they're absolutely starving