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Ep 4. Into the wild: Diet tips from grasshoppers, spider monkeys & the orangutans of Borneo

EAT LIKE THE ANIMALS

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The Evolution of Animals in the Food Environment

Monkeys show protein prioritization pattern that our species also shows. During periods when fruits are super abundant, so protein is diluted in their food environment, the fats and carbs of their over eating are being laid down as body fat. And then in the long periods in which fruits are not available, the levels of ketones in the urine while iron has told us in those periods they draw in all those fat reserves. So what it shows us is that there is an adaptive accumulation of fat,. It's critical with the life cycle of those animals in their actual evolution environment.

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