The field of nutrition is riddled with disagreement and conflict. Some people claim that we would all be best off we adhered to vegan diet principles; others hold the belief that the grain-heavy diet that’s pushed by governmental health agencies is a truly wholesome diet; and yet others again say that it doesn’t really matter […]
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Why Women Get Sick: The Origin of Breast Cancer and Other Reproductive-Related Disorders
Diseases and health problems associated with components of the female body that are critical with respects to the production and successful development of offspring pose a serious threat to modern women, in particular women who lead a western-type lifestyle. The fact that breast cancer, cervical cancer, and other similar conditions are a significant cause of […]
Mismatch Theory: The Bedrock of Real Medicine
Every living thing on this planet is a product of evolution via natural selection. This is important to recognize, as it is the principle piece of information that one needs in order to make sense of how the world works: why organisms look and behave the way they do, how and why populations change over […]
The Darwinian Causes of Mental Illness
Why do so many contemporary humans suffer from a mental illness? The global, collective prevalence of chronic depression, Attention-Deficit Disorder (ADD), Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), autism, and other disorders of the mind is today fairly high, which is very concerning, seeing as these types of conditions in many cases have a devastating impact on measures of […]
The Beautiful Faces of Traditional People
Over the years I’ve looked at a number of photographs depicting traditional, non-westernized people who live under natural, non-industrialized conditions. One of the things I’ve repeatedly noticed and found enthralling is that such people generally have well-developed, beautiful faces. They don’t use skin lotions, cosmetics, shampoo, or conditioner, brush their teeth, or have access to […]
(R)evolutionary Medicine: 8 Interviews That’ll Enrich Your Mind
Over the past two years, interviews with some of the world’s leading experts on various evolution-centered medical issues have been published here on Darwinian-Medicine.com. If you haven’t already checked out all of the interviews, then now’s your chance… The interviews of Darwinian medicine Every interview that has appeared here on the site has a story […]
Are Nutritionists Ready to Embrace Evolutionary Science? 10 Questions with Researcher Anthony J. Basile, MS, NDTR
I’m a nutritionist with a BSc in Public Nutrition and a MSc in Clinical Nutrition. Throughout my formal nutrition education, I learned nothing about evolution. I learned a lot about the nutrients that make up the food we eat, chemistry, appetite regulation, statistics, and human physiology, among other things, but nothing about evolutionary biology. I […]
The Remarkable Physical Condition of Australian Aboriginal Hunter-Gatherers
A few days back, as I was doing a couple of searches on PubMed in an attempt to find something interesting & worthwhile to read, I stumbled upon an article with the title Traditional diet and food preferences of Australian Aboriginal hunter-gatherers. It immediately caught my attention; not just because of its interesting title, but […]
A Selection of Books That’ll Bring You into the Wonderful World of Darwinian Medicine
Darwinian medicine has the potential to transform our medical system and health. This is something more and more health professionals and scientists have started to recognize, as evidenced by the fact that an exponentially increasing number of papers and studies related to this emerging medical discipline have been coming down the scientific pipeline over the […]
Ask Eirik: Did Our Hunter-Gatherer Forebears Eat Fermented Foods?
In several of my articles on fermented foods, I’ve stated that our preagricultural ancestors consumed primarily fresh foods, as opposed to fermented ones, and that I think we would be wise to follow in their footsteps. I strongly believe that people who harbor a dysbiotic gut microbiota can benefit from consuming small-moderate quantities of certain […]