Humans are animal-based omnivores, consuming a majority of food from either plants or animals.

“there are still multiple lines of evidence that suggests that humans are very adapted or mostly adapted we're pretty much built to eat the majority of our diet from animals and this has been my interest in animal-based diets quote-unquote and suggesting to people that if they if they would like to include plant foods be aware of a spectrum of toxicity but i think that most of us will thrive and i've seen this over and over and over when we get the majority of our diet from animal foods with a lesser amount from plant foods just in terms of nutrient availability energetics fat content all the unique things that are in animal foods”

“as i've stated many times in the past we are animal leaning omnivores if you listen to the interview i did with mickey bandur i cited a paper i've talked this many times that in terms of zoological studies uh there are many uh lines of evidence pointing to the fact that omnivorous species the majority of omnivorous species lean toward either plants or animals as their main source of food and i think it's pretty clear that humans lead toward animal foods as the main source of their food”

“so my assertion my hypothesis here and this is where the term animal based comes from is that humans are animal based omnivores so i want to show you this paper that i've talked about in the past this one is from mickey bandur who was on my podcast and in this paper the evolution of the human trophic level during the pleistocene he makes this really important point here that when you consider this so analysis of a large n equals 139 data set of mammals trophic levels by pineda munoz and alloy or alroy in 2014 shows that some 80 of the mammals in the data set are omnivores but that most of the omnivores 75 consume more than 70 of their food from either plants or animals leaving only 20 percent of the mammals in the data set to be omnivore generalists”