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Dr. Satchin Panda: Intermittent Fasting to Improve Health, Cognition & Longevity

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Controlling Fire - The Key Ability in Humans

We have been as a species, we have been living on this planet for 200,000 years. And only in the last, you can say, a couple of thousand or 5000 years when we came to control fire. That's the key ability in humans that differentiates them from all the other species. When we started controlling fire, fire did not essentially extend the day because fire created an evening. So there is a communal event and they sat around the cook food and then what happened. They did not talk about work that talked about culture that talk the sand,. The danced, they strategize. All of these things that are very unique to human civilization started around fireside chat.

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