Survive the Jive Podcast

Eat Like Your Ancestors with Raw Egg Nationalist

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Sep 28, 2024
Raw Egg Nationalist, also known as Charles Cornish-Dale, is a health influencer and the author of *The Eggs Benedict Option*. He dives into the dietary repercussions of the Neolithic revolution, suggesting that agriculture may have diminished human health. The discussion touches on lactose tolerance linked to Yamnaya ancestry and explores how hunter-gatherer diets far outweighed medieval grain-heavy lifestyles in nutritional value. Charles reveals that animal-based diets played a crucial role in ancient diets and societal developments, advocating for a return to these practices.
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Neolithic Diet was Nutritional Downgrade

  • Transition from hunter-gatherer to Neolithic farming was a nutritional downgrade, not an improvement.
  • Early farmers suffered malnutrition due to narrow grain-heavy diets compared to diverse Paleolithic diets.
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Wetland Hunter-Gatherers Persisted

  • Some hunter-gatherer groups in wetlands persisted alongside farmers until the Bronze Age.
  • Wetlands offered richer, reliable, low-risk food sources like waterfowl and mollusks than farming grain slop.
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Dairying Enabled Steppe Expansion

  • Yamnaya steppe herders expanded massively using dairying, which provided rich protein and fats.
  • Their diet and lifestyle made them more robust and possibly more resistant to diseases than Neolithic farmers.
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