Behind the Bastards

The Primal Diet Con

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Apr 6, 2023
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INSIGHT

Primal Claims Oversimplify Evolution

  • The modern “primal” or paleo movement cherry-picks ancestral facts to sell products and identity.
  • Claiming ancient diets are universally optimal ignores huge variability and evolutionary change.
ADVICE

Account For Access Before Blaming Diet

  • Consider socioeconomic status when judging diet outcomes; access and money drive many health differences.
  • Don't assume fad-diet benefits are intrinsic when people switching diets can also afford better food and time.
INSIGHT

Human Biology Has Rapidly Evolved

  • Humans and our gut microbes have evolved since the Stone Age, so modern diets can't simply revert us to a 'natural' optimum.
  • Traits like lactase persistence and eye color changed in the last 10,000 years, undermining static-genome arguments.
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