Scott Taylor
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Intermittent Fasting 101
The History of Eating Let’s backtrack a few years. More like 10,000 or so years, back to the dawn and ripening of our human civilization. For starters, we can agree that life back then was not near the glamour and advancement that life in the 21st century is today—not even close. Back then, the average life span was, on average, say twenty years. That's considering you weren't mauled by a Saber Tooth tiger or suddenly died from the common cold that, in today's world, is fixed in nearly two days with modern medicine. Clearly, life back then wasn't a walk in the park, nor was it pleasant in any shape or form. Nevertheless, we are still the same people on the insides, and in terms of our DNA structure and, more specifically, our metabolic functions. As a kid, I’m sure most of us were taught the famous "Darwin’s theory” and how, through natural selection and random variation, the genetic sequences cause us to, in a sense, "upgrade" our DNA and become more fit for survival. For the most part, this is true. Our evolution since the dawn of our civilization has made us a taller species, immune to many of the viruses and plagues that originally wiped out half of our population, a larger brain to body ratio (a sign of greater intelligence), and many others. Despite these changes in our genetic code, the one thing that has had little change since the start is our diet. Back in the early days of our species, we were hunter gatherers. Now you may be asking yourself why the f*** does that matter and why I’m talking a bunch of nonsense and when am I going to start talking about diet already. Well, this is where it comes from...
By Scott Taylor6 years ago in Longevity