Re:Modern Hunter-Gatherers Have Thriving Gut Microbiome, Com...
by defrost on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @07:33AM
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Speak for yourself - I've yet to do any of the things you've listed in 60 years and none of them sound appealing.
AKA "What do you mean 'We' Kemosabe?"
Re:Modern Hunter-Gatherers Have Thriving Gut Microbiome, Com...
by paulcole on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @07:52AM
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Sorry, I wasn’t thinking of you specifically. I meant “We” as in Western Society as a whole.
Re:Modern Hunter-Gatherers Have Thriving Gut Microbiome, Com...
by defrost on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @08:23AM
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Oddly enough I consider myself part of western society despite having grown up surrounded by hunter gathers ( coastal, riverine, and desert ) and worked with many others (equatorial highlands, etc).
Even today, largely surrounded by industrial scale agricultural farming in the Western Australian wheatbelt (making frequent trips into the Murchison quiet zone for radio astronomy work) I don't see much of what you talk about despite people here using cutting edge tech in farming and many doing FiFo (fly in | fly out) work on largely automated mines that in toto shift almost a billion metric tonne per annum.
Western Society has some interesting slices to it that many miss due to being locked into their own bubble horizons.
Re:Modern Hunter-Gatherers Have Thriving Gut Microbiome, Com...
by safety1st on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @08:23AM
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I also don't like most of the things you mentioned here yet I don't feel we need to roll back Western society to be healthy. Sample size of one but I went from overweight/high blood pressure to the picture of health at 41 pretty much just by lifting weights twice a week and replacing the most egregious fat bombs in my diet with protein. I feel like people have a tendency to way overcomplicate this stuff.
This is one of the things a lot of people say they want but almost nobody really wants. But the truth is that we like the way the western world works too much to give it up.
We like getting Amazon packages the same day we order. We like TikTok. We like pushing a button and getting a car to come pick us up. We like making a ton of money for stressing over deadlines and sitting in meetings run by pointless MBAs.