biology

Thoughts from the 2011 Ancestral Health Symposium.

August 12, 2011

Over at Naturally Engineered, David Csonka gave a brief rundown of important take-aways from the 2011 Ancestral Health Symposium. We found several of these thoughts particularly interesting. Per Dr. S. Boyd Eaton, for example: During the paleolithic, male and female equality was greater than anytime since. This is the second time we’ve heard this. The [...]

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Baseline blood tests.

July 21, 2011

Over the past couple months, we talked to several people about blood tests, and what exactly to test for. Most people place the subject squarely in the hands of their doctors, and care little about delving into the subject themselves. But as we’ve come to learn, many doctors base their findings on conventional wisdom, which [...]

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Neanderthals, body hair, and sex.

May 24, 2011

In Them+Us, Danny Vendramini asserts that neanderthals were as furry as other primates, if not more so. Vendramini argues that given the cold temperatures of ice-age Europe, that neanderthal bodies were covered in thick hair, making them resemble Big Foot more so than brutish early humans. In contrast, Levant-dwelling early humans lost their body hair [...]

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Violence is human.

May 17, 2011

The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight introduced us to Thom Hartmann’s concept of Older and Younger Cultures, the differences between the two being rather stark. In Hartmann’s view, Older Cultures embody sustainability and peaceful existence, which Easy to be Green summarizes thusly: Political Independence Egalitarian Structure Getting their resources from renewable local sources Having a [...]

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A MovNat workshop retrospective.

April 27, 2011

We intended to write a comprehensive review of the one-day MovNat workshop we recently participated in, but realized that others have already done so, and that our overall impression isn’t much different1. In short, the experience was fantastic, despite the fact that we started the day with relatively cool weather and a rainy forecast. (This [...]

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Sustainability and beef.

April 15, 2011

Since switching to a “paleo” diet, we’ve increased our consumption of beef, and a common criticism we’ve heard as a result is that eating beef is not sustainable. Specific arguments include: Raising cows is a direct cause of desertification. The massive demand for beef promotes slash-and-burn of rain-forests. By some estimates, 2500 gallons of water [...]

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