Hunter-gatherer groups possessed extensive knowledge of the medicinal uses of plants and how different foods could address various ailments.

“if you look at if you look at these hunter-gatherers who have been disappearing and disappearing they death nog refers have found that they knew an awful lot about how different foods three different ailments you know like the Maasai are quite famous were a cattle herding group in Kenya and Tanzania they there they're quite famous for for how their warriors eat mostly animal foods but f Nam roofers have also found that they had something like 180 or 240 I don't remember the exact number but they knew of hundreds of different medicinal uses of the different plants that were in their environment”