Part 168 - Dr. Anthony Chaffee - Do Humans Thrive Most on an All-Meat Diet?
Peak Human - Unbiased Nutrition Info for Optimum Health, Fitness & Living
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We Can Break Down Fiber and Get Most of Our Nutrition From That Fiber
We have a proportionately longer small intestine where we're absorbing all this nutrition. And proportionately smaller large intestine because we don't need that anymore. Other primates are called hind gut digesters. They have a very long seacum, which is very, very long, several feet long. We haven't been doing that for millions of years. That part of the intestine is shrunk down. Our intestines are very, very high energy dependent and so you're not going to keep running that around if that's not actually providing an advantage.
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