Paul Saladino· MD
um you know humans made salt for probably longer than anyone appreciates in the sodium restriction circles but also salt licks have other minerals besides sodium chloride and so like oh and actually I want to go back to one really important point so I agree before you before let's just talk about the kind of just mentioned one thing real quickly sure so I think I love that you two brought up this anecdote about the Kong Sun isn't it cool that when they had the giraffe they nothing but the giraffe for two weeks that because and the reason I'm highlighting this is from the perspective of just sort of gently making the point that in many indigenous cultures when animal foods are available often foods are shun and there are quotes from Villa Mar Steffensen and fatted land and hunters of the great ride north that the Inuit would do the same thing and though it's a wide sweeping generalization and we can't extend it widely isn't that interesting that when they had a big kill of giraffe they just ate that and nothing else because I do think that yeah but they didn't shun plant foods because they ate like 63% plant foods well but when they had the giraffe when they had the when they had the recently killed giraffe in front of them they just when when animal foods were available when they had a kill they favored the animal foods which is consistent with a pattern that we see in at least the writings of Villa Mar Steffensen looking at the inuit the mackenzie river inuit other populations in the north it's it's i think there's an element there but it's like it takes a certain amount of work to get a giraffe and it takes less work to pick a mongongo nut and so it's like you should there's a back there's a balance there's a dynamic balance between putting in the work to get the giant animal and not feeling like getting any other foods that don't require that much work and then the animal goes away and you're not that motivated to do it again but you you know now right now you're full of giraffe and now you really want the easier among younger nuts maybe yes no but the net but i think the net balance is what is important nutritionally and i think the net balance is what is important yeah it's what nutritionally and so yeah I don't know I think that that everyone I don't know what all the motivations are but I think there's motivations to seek calories there's motivations to seek health there's motivation to seek case and there's always motivations to avoid work and so it's sort of like you know if you hunt the giraffe it's actually less work to eat the rest of the giraffe than it is to like go forage plants you know I mean like it there's there's a lot of motivations that come into play there I don't know the Inuit like I would have to it's been a while since I read anything from Steffensen I actually have a copy of my life with the Eskimo back there on the shelf that has some sign to let her by steffanson oh my god um but like when Weston Price described the Inuit his list of plant foods that they ate is actually longer than his list of animal foods not that he was saying that they were plants and animals but also in Norah Jones has written an entire book about the plant foods eaten by the Inuit which I have not read it's called the plants we eat yeah um so this this this I don't I don't I don't feel competent to try to