Daniel Lieberman

So there is that, but you can go way further.

I was just sitting with Dan Lieberman at Harvard University.

He's really focused on evolutionary medicine.

He is a top tier Harvard professor who is a world expert on how you prevent people from getting really awful diseases.

What up, Dream Team? Coach D here coming at you from beautiful sunny San Diego, and welcome back to the Live in the Dream podcast.

And in today's episode, we will be continuing on with reviewing the fantastic book Fed Up by author Daniel Lieberman.

This will be part two called Is the Paleo Diet Actually Paleo? We're gonna be reviewing chapters four and five, Protein, Fat, and Carbs.

micronutrients versus anti-nutrients.

What if everything you know about paleo is wrong? What if I told you that our Stone Age ancestors actually ate bread, that they consumed beans and grains and honey, and sometimes enormous amounts of carbohydrates? And that the paleo diet, which is supposedly based on how our ancient ancestors ate, how that paleo diet might not actually resemble the diets of those ancestors very much at all.

Today we're continuing our journey through the book Fed Up by evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman.

And in our previous episode recap, we explored raw food diets.

We also explored how cooking transformed human nutrition.

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And actually recently, I've mentioned him before on the podcast, but Daniel Lieberman, who is an evolutionary anthropologist, he... has got a new book out, it's called Fed Up, and it's all about why we struggle to eat well in our modern lives.

And he talks a lot about ultra-processed foods.

And so he talks about the combination in these ultra-processed foods of the energy density, the additives, the sugar, the absence of fibre, the added saturated fat.

In today's episode, I am super excited to be reviewing another amazing book.

This one is called Fed Up, Fed Up by author Daniel Lieberman.

And in this first episode reviewing Fed Up, we're gonna talk about what should we eat? What should we eat? We'll also talk about the evolution of food, cooking, and digestion.

Some of the most confusing questions in nutrition.

If you followed the podcast in the past, you may remember that we explored books like Make Change That Last by Dr. Rangan Chatterjee and one of my favorite books ever, Good Energy by Dr. Casey Means.

Breaking Down Metabolic Health, Nutrition, and How Our Everyday Decisions Impact Our Long-Term Health.

So if you haven't grabbed any of these books, Make Changes That Last by Dr. Rangan Chatterjee, Good Energy by Dr. Casey Means, and now Fed Up by Dr. Daniel Lieberman, well, I highly recommend grabbing those.

We're going to continue on with this journey of recapping books and we're going to talk about what I love most about this book is that he approaches health from an evolutionary perspective.

The opposite of the dopamine circuitry is the here and now circuitry.

According to this book and the researchers that I really love, Daniel Lieberman and Michael Long and their book, The Molecule of More.

So there's the here and now circuitry, the circuitry that should turn on once we have achieved the outcome, once we have attained whatever it is that we were seeking after.

then we should feel complete.

Here's a plot twist.

Harvard evolutionary biologist Daniel Lieberman says our bodies never evolved to exercise for health.

Our ancestors moved to survive, not to close the rings.

So if you have ever Googled, why do I hate exercise? Or how do I stay motivated after weight loss surgery or GOP1? This conversation is for you.

So I want to be clear.

That is not actually my thinking.

That's the thinking of Dr. Daniel Lieberman.

So he's a Harvard professor of human evolutionary biology.

Corechair out of Canada, the Michoud company in Germany, Swapper in Germany.

There's several other companies that have different designs for making a seat slightly unstable, so people are required to stay not muscularly and i'll add metabolically involved there's a whole literature about how humans are designed to be hunter-gatherers and when what's what's his name daniel lieberman an evolutionary biologist at harvard went out to study the hadza in tanzania he finds that you know these hunter-gatherers don't sit in sheriffs because they're hunter-gatherers they don't have any furniture but but they they're not always hunting and gathering and so when they're just sitting around telling stories and roasting tubers, they squat.

Lieberman describes it as an active resting posture.

When you squat, your muscles are engaged, but it's a way to rest a little bit.

Then,

Daniel Lieberman.

I'm a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University.

He's also a bestselling author and recently published Fed Up, What Evolution Reveals About Food, Diet, Health, and Eating Well.

Well, why? We're not walking.

I once went to a lecture at Harvard, and I heard a Harvard biologist, Dan Lieberman, explain the male body evolved to walk 12 miles a day.

The female body evolved to walk nine miles a day.

If you don't do that, you can get obesity, depression, autoimmune disorders.

So the genetic, the epigenetic explanation does stand up.

And there's another theory, which I really, really find very juicy is, is there's a guy in America, Daniel Lieberman, and he's an evolutionary paleontologist.

And he gives really a deep dive into how human beings live in indigenous ways before the advent of the industrial revolution and even before the advent of the agricultural revolution.

And in those ways of living, the ADHD type and the autist have almost functions within the tribe

Within schools, I mean, the school system as we see it now is totally, if you take a child who, especially boys, but if you take a child who arguably would be active from morning to night if they were left to their own devices.

And we've created an education system where they sit down for eight hours a day.

In Daniel Lieberman's work, you can see where human beings would on average walk.

A bloke would walk 15 kilometers in a day.