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Rediscovering the species-appropriate diet of humans
By exploring the question “are we frugivores?” we go on the quest to find the species-appropriate diet and the dietary past of humans – dogma-free and science-based!
After coming across mind-blowing, but convincing, information about humans possibly being biological frugivores, we started to challenge the common perception of humans as typical omnivores.
Why does it matter?
Knowing our evolutionary past related to diet – our species-specific eating patterns – is the compass in the growing contradictory jungle of diets. The truth is simple, the opposite of confusion!
Thus, on frugivorebiology.com, we dive deeper in order to find biologically sound and plausible answers about the natural – and thus healthiest – human diet. We gather and investigate unconventional information for anyone seeking to take their health into their own hands. Can we ever prove to what diet we are best-adapted to? Probably not, but having a fresh and deep look into our dietary biology can give us solid information to broaden our view – and finally decide for ourselves!
Know your biology – know your diet
What is the human natural diet? Species-appropriate (or species-specific) nutrition and lifestyle require re-discovering the original human ecological niche, our place in nature. Further, besides studying biological aspects, this journey also includes learning to trust our instincts and knowledge. Gain a truly new perspective and confidence to become your own healer every day.
Becoming aware of our biology and embracing it, is essential on this path. Sticking to our biology and striving to imitate the habitat within we have evolved, will maximize our amazing self-regenerative life force that is present within all living beings and – by default – is programmed to strive towards “survive and thrive” every single instant. We just need to stop sabotaging ourselves with the constant toxic overload of “modern” life and with a diet that is far away from what our biology demands. Just watch the miracle unfold…
Biology and evolution are essential in nutritional sciences!
Why are biology and evolution widely neglected – and often ignored in nutritional questions and sciences?
For all other animal species, it is a no-brainer: we need to feed them what they have evolved to eat. Otherwise, they suffer from poor health! Weirdly, the same essential question hardly seems to emerge, when it comes to humans. Why is this so? Unfortunately, I have no answer to this question, other than ignorance or financial interests.
As a biologist, I often face a weird stigma of either being a “green botanist” or a “laboratory geek”. And while I wish I knew more about those two particular fields (I wish I knew everything!), I am neither of the two! I am interested in health and nutrition within the context of biology. But I hear the question over and over again: what does biology have to do with health? Or nutrition? The answer is everything!
Biology is the study of the basic of life. Nutrition of organisms is a sub-topic of biology, and human nutrition is only a small area of all areas in biology. However, nutrition is often perceived as a separate discipline – when in reality, it is interconnected with all fields of biology. Here, I share some thoughts and what I have experienced as someone connecting the two fields.
While fields like environmental medicine, nutrigenomics, or evolutionary nutrition actually exist, they are small and hardly known to the general public and are even widely ignored when it comes to answering important questions in human health!
One widely neglected discipline is comparative anatomy and physiology in dietary biology: comparing adaptations and diets of humans and their closest relatives. One of the few researchers that have taken on this field is Prof. Katharine Milton, whose scientific work I cite often – after all, this site is investigating these topics.
Human health and nutrition can only be understood entirely in the framework of our evolutionary past and understanding the environmental changes that we are facing today!
Even in nutrition, nothing makes sense except in the light of evolution!
Humans have evolved as frugivores.
