The talk starts by emphasizing the necessity of supplements due to insufficient nutrient intake from food. It explores the diet of ancient homosapiens, particularly their reliance on seafood for nutrients. A comparison is drawn between the caloric expenditure and nutrient needs of ancient and modern humans. The crucial role of nutrition for optimal brain function is discussed, along with the need for supplementation to achieve ideal nutrient levels. The importance of good food, supplements, and exercise for overall health is underscored.
Food or Supplement?
Transcript
Why do you need to take supplements? Can’t you get everything you need from a well-balanced diet? Now, some people will say the soil is depleted. Our food is lacking in nutrients. But I’m gonna say the single reason we need to supplement is because we don’t eat enough. Let me explain. I come from Wales and uh, on the coast of Wales, they found recently the oldest complete homosapiens remains 40,000 years old. Pavi land woman, they called it, they assumed it was a woman because the skeleton was surrounded by these incredible jewelry and necklace made of shells. When they did the DNA analysis, actually it was a man, and from the analysis of the bones, they concluded that one quarter of their diet was seafood. Now, just think about this for a minute, 40,000 years ago, there’s no home delivery, there’s no cars, there’s no fridges. Everything that’s eaten has to be fresh. You have to walk to get the wood, collect the food. They must have been expending two or three times the calories that we do, and therefore would’ve been eating two or three times the quantity of food that we do. So now, because we don’t expend calories, we don’t exercise, we don’t need to. We’ve gotta get all our nutrients into a much, much smaller amount of food. And of course, all that food was whole. It was organic. So I would have to have half of my entire diet as seafood to get the same level of Omega-3, B12, iodine, selenium, zinc, phospholipids, all these incredibly rich nutrients, vitamin D in seafood, to just be at the level of our ancestors. Around that time when homosapiens brain evolved and became the biggest it possibly can be. So when I study Optimum Nutrition at our institute for Optimum Nutrition, I’m looking at what is the evidence for the optimal function of the brain from omegas, from vitamins, from minerals, and so on. And then how do I achieve it? I wanna get the most that I can from food. I even grow a lot of my own food. So I’m a real foodie, but I know that I cannot achieve the same level of nutrients that our ancestors achieved during the time that led to the largest and biggest brains of homo sapiens just from eating food. So I supplement to get To that optimum level. That’s why it’s essential to eat good food and supplement and exercise.