Oh! The paleadieta! One of the many scuffle diets that are fashionable in the guru feeds on Instagram and sold as the lost secret of the primordial man, the one that hunted naked chest, did not have diabetes and was not controlled the glycemic index continuously as we do (following the various guru of the ketogenic, or carnivorous, the fruitarian, the alkaline, that of the blood group, the detox to the lemon group, the detox. The intermittent fasting, the hormonal diet, the Sirt of Adele, the Atkins, that of the minestrone, that of the biscuits, that of the five meals every three hours, the gluten -free one even if you are not celiac, that only Greek yogurt, that of Stovavolo with a snack …).
To save yourself from this massacre disguised as an evolutionary rebirth, I always recommend one thing: follow Gabriele Bernardini, aka “The sum and the total”, on Instagram. It is the only one who dismantles every day with sarcasm and biochemical competence all this ciarpame from a motivational supermarket, and also the only one who does not want to sell you anything, not even a book (for those who want to deepen I wrote here).
I go back to the point, that in reality a disclaimer because someone does not misunderstand the discovery that I am about to comment on it: eating like a caveness will not make you healthier or more human or more cool or wisdom, also because you don’t even know that the cabin of cave you want to be. For example, today I read a news just released, a news that the guru will never tell you, unless they use it to take on another paleocked: the Neanderthals, the real ones, 125,000 years ago had a fat factory. Surprising right? It is not a metaphor, just a factory. They broke bones of animals with stone raids and hammers and boiled them to extract all traces of fat.
Why? So as not to die of Rabbit Starvationa metabolic condition in which the excess of proteins, without fat or carbohydrates, kills (like the much widespread ketogenic, the neanderthals that hurts) had also understood it). Other than steaks to the blood and intermittent fasts. In fact, Science Advances has just published a study on a Paleolithic site in Germany, Neumark-North 2, where 172 shattered carcasses were found, between horses, deer and cattle, all systematically tried. There were precisely strokes and hammers and bone remains to leave no doubt: first they ate the marrow and then boiled the bones for fat. It was an evolutionary strategy, not a food fashion.
They did so not to die, because they had learned that the meat alone is not enough, although today books with titles like “live like a carnivorous and happy” are sold “written by people who have the phobia of vegetables and boiled potatoes. They knew it because probably someone before had died badly (not that he dies well, in general, but perhaps later): the experience of death is the great teaching of life to stay alive and applies to all animal species, and we are an animal species, even if we prefer to forget it every time we open the refrigerator. The beauty is that before this discovery it was thought that the ability to optimize resources (the so -called Resource Intensification, that is, the idea of extracting everything from what you have) was born only 28,000 years ago, when very few of the Neandertals remained very few.
An American archaeologist said it is “surprisingly creative and innovative behavior by Neanderthal”. Unlike Paleonutritionists, they knew that without fat we die. Small clarification for those who still believe that the Neanderthals were of our toned ancestors: the Neanderthals are not our ancestors, they were a different species, a collateral branch, another humanity, and Homo Sapiens lived with many other human species. And yes, we coupled with them (we all have about 3% of DNA Neanderthal) and then we eliminated them (and, many tens of thousands of years later, we decided that we are Sapiens for this).
If today it seems surprising to us that 125,000 years ago they knew how to survive protein intoxication, it is only because we no longer even know what and how to eat. Of course, the Neanderthal did not fattee, to get food they had to run and not for sport.
Today we eat too much, nobody runs behind us, we must not chase any prey, we run to lose weight or if we do not want to run we swallow everything and then resort to the diets of each Wanna Marchi that understood us on social media.