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The Link between what we eat and our health
We are what we eat – a great film on this link
Posted in Diet, Environments, Evolutionary Novelty
Tagged Food, Health, We are what we eat
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So when will you lose your health? – Part 3 – When you don’t know this
Every day we read of a new study that says “This is bad for you” and “This is good for you”. No wonder when it comes to taking control of our health, we are confused by science. I read a … Continue reading
So when will you lose your health – Part 2 – When you live in the wrong environment
You get ill when you look like this – this is how I looked aged 59 – I weighed 205 lbs. How I look here has all the signs that you have not lived your life according to the rules. … Continue reading
The Great Return – Part 2 – The “Industrial Clearances” and what they mean to us
Are all of us, who are today unemployed or under employed or never to be employed, failures and misfits? I think that most of us think that we are in some way bad people. I think that, even as we … Continue reading
Posted in A New Vision, Context, Environments, Evolutionary Novelty, Resources
Tagged The New Economy, The New Hunter Gatherer Economy
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The Great Return Part 1 – Getting back our right relationship with Nature – A series
Is the Paleo diet just another fad diet? Is Crossfit just another fad fitness craze? They are not – and you should not dismiss them. They are in fact the early signs of a new revolution in human society, economy … Continue reading
Posted in "Paleo", A New Vision, Context, Diet, Environments, Evolutionary Novelty, Experimental Evolution
Tagged Michael Rose, Thesis #2
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Why are we so fat in rural settings? – Part 3 – Our Ancestry!
Prince Edward Island, where I live, has a very high obesity rate. So do many rural parts of America and of cource the rest of Atlantic Canada. We have looked at why there is an physical environmental difference between cities and … Continue reading
Posted in "Paleo", A New Vision, Aging, Ancestry, Constraints, Context, Diet, Environments, Evolutionary Novelty, Physiology, Plateau, Population, The Plateau, The Science, Theses
Tagged Ancestry, Michael Rose, Thesis 52
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Trust – Part of our Biology – Dr Jonathan Shay
“The need for trust, Dr. Shay argues, comes from human prehistory. Without claws, wings or other natural weapons, human ancestors survived by watching one another’s backs. As a result, Dr. Shay argues, the need for trust is part of human … Continue reading
Posted in A New Vision, Ancestry, Environments, Evolutionary Novelty, Resources
Tagged Betrayal, Dr Jonathan Shay, Trust
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Your mind and your health – Part 3 – How do we change deep rooted thoughts/habits?
So how do we change? Is it as simple as knowing what is true? Not for deep change. I can hear you even from here. “But I can’t change my habits” or “Just telling me to think differently is not enough” … Continue reading
Posted in A New Vision, Complexity, Context, Diet, Environments, Evolutionary Novelty, Resources, The New Science, Tuning
Tagged Alan Deutschman, Change, Change or Die, Dr Jonathan Shay, PTSD
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Your Mind and your Health – Part 2 – The Power of Neuroplasticity
This is the conventional picture of the brain – a thing with discrete compartments – a thinking machine. This idea of the brain – which is also how most of us “see” the body and so organize medicine is wrong. … Continue reading
Posted in A New Vision, Complexity, Context, Environments, Evolutionary Novelty, Physiology, Resources, The New Science, The Science, Tuning
Tagged Alan Deutschman, Dr Norman Doidge, Neuroplasticity
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How do you get control and power – Riot or take it for yourself?
Lack of power and control and low social status is a major factor in making us ill. So if we cannot change the system, how can we get more power, control and social status? This week we will look at how we might do … Continue reading
Posted in "Paleo", A New Vision, Aging, Constraints, Diet, Environments, Evolutionary Novelty, Experimental Evolution, Population, Resources, The Science, Theses, Trade Offs
Tagged Dr David Rock, Psychology Today, Viktor Frankl
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Your Baby – Bathtime – What is safe? – Novel Environments
My grand daughter Sophia when she was very little not so long ago. Bath time is the best part of the day for babies and parents. Little did I know what might have been going on. What is in the … Continue reading
Posted in Constraints, Environments, Evolutionary Novelty, Theses
Tagged Babies, Natural Selection
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Diet – Where your ancestral heritage is important
Surely we must have adapted to agriculture by now? The answer is no and sort of yes to that question. It depends on what your ancestral heritage is or how long you have been exposed to agriculture. Let’s take dairy. … Continue reading
The PaleoGraphic – The Story in Pictures
Learn more about the Paleo Diet. From Paleolithicdiet.com
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Tagged Paleolithic Diet dot com
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Michael’s Recent Interview
Michael is interviewed by Jimmie Moore on how Evolution plays such a role and also on how diet is so important. Here MR summarizes the key factors of the 55 in a few minutes.
Posted in "Paleo", A New Vision, Aging, Ancestry, Context, Diet, Environments, Evolutionary Novelty, Forces of Natural Selection, Physiology, Plateau, Population, The New Science, The Science
Tagged Jimmie Moore, LLVLC Show
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Talking about Environments – carbs are novel
This is what most of us – especially our Dr’s think is the ideal start to the day. A cup of oatmeal is 60 grams of carbs. The National Academy of Sciences recommends no less than 120 grams of carbs … Continue reading
Posted in "Paleo", Diet, Environments, Evolutionary Novelty, Physiology
Tagged Carbs, Mark's Daily Apple, The Missing Human Manual
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Talking about environments – What’s in your shampoo, soap, deodorant and face cream?
I am just waking up to Michael’s warning about novel environments – here is the lowdown on what goes on in our bathrooms! If you want to know more go here. It scares me to think of how I could … Continue reading
Posted in Environments, Evolutionary Novelty, Physiology
Tagged Personal Care, Soap
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Talking about Environments – What about your mouth?
Ideally our mouths should be on the alkaline side. Before the modern diet, they were. Before the modern diet there was next to no caries. Today we brush our teeth to give us a chance of beating caries. But what … Continue reading
Posted in "Paleo", Constraints, Context, Diet, Environments, Evolutionary Novelty, Physiology
Tagged Oral hygiene
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As primates we need to live in the “right” social environment – much of our illness stems from a poor fit – the cure is a better fit.
A central tenet of Michael’s is that we do best in environments that fit our evolved state. Diet is a very important aspect of finding the best fit. But so is our social environment. Practical work at one of Canada’s … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Environments, Evolutionary Novelty, Physiology
Tagged CIBC, Disability, VAC
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Michael’s Rose’s “Twin Sister?” – Dr Mary Vernon – The practical aspect of the 55 Theses
No one I have found so far explains how our metabolism works better than Dr Vernon – a GP who could not help any of her diabetic patients get well by following the “rules”. Who then became an expert in … Continue reading
Posted in Complexity, Context, Diet, Environments, Evolutionary Novelty, Physiology, The Science
Tagged Mary Vernon
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We need the best fit to our ideal social status as well as to our ideal diet
America spends far more than any other nation in the world on healthcare and yet has the health outcomes of a nation like Cuba. What is going on? Why might this be? If you live in Louisiana you are much … Continue reading
Posted in Context, Environments, Evolutionary Novelty, Population
Tagged Michael Marmot, Robert Sapolsky, Social Environment
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Cancer is not a disease but a part of mammalian life – Paul Davies
In Thesis 15 Michael makes the point that cancer is not a disease but is part of how we as a mammal evolve. Here Paul Davies backs him up. The video is here We can prevent it
Posted in Environments, Evolutionary Novelty, Physiology
Tagged Cancer, Paul Davies
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Thesis 41
Thesis #41 – Experimental strategies for the study of aging that involve the use of environments that are evolutionarily novel will systematically impair the scientific study of aging, as natural selection will not have previously fostered adaptation to such novel … Continue reading
Posted in A New Vision, Aging, Complexity, Constraints, Context, Environments, Evolutionary Novelty, Forces of Natural Selection, Physiology, The New Science, The Science, Theses
Tagged Hamilton, Michael Rose, Michael Rose 55 Theses
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Thesis 46
Thesis #46 – In the last ten to twenty thousand years, some human populations adopted extensive agricultural cultivation of grass species and the use of milk from other mammals for nutrition, a novel environment which changed the action of natural … Continue reading
Posted in A New Vision, Aging, Context, Environments, Evolutionary Novelty, Forces of Natural Selection, Population, The New Science, The Plateau, The Science, Theses
Tagged Michael Rose, Michael Rose 55 Theses
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Thesis 53
Thesis #53 – Young people with significant agricultural ancestry can sustain their health with agricultural patterns of nutrition and activity, but not with an evolutionarily novel industrial lifestyle. It is tempting to suppose that young people with agricultural ancestry are … Continue reading
Thesis 54
Thesis #54 – Older adults with significant agricultural ancestry cannot sustain their health with either agricultural or industrial patterns of nutrition and activity, and should instead switch to hunter-gatherer patterns of nutrition and activity in order to slow their later … Continue reading
Thesis 55
Thesis #55 – Once this switch to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle among older adults has become widespread, further changes that would enhance human health at later ages can be discovered using evolutionary research tools, such as experimental evolution with model organisms … Continue reading
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