If you were to go out on the street and ask two dozen people what they believe is the biggest and most pressing issue in the world today, chances are many of the individuals you ask would say that it’s pollution, global warming, warfare, or food insecurity. The obesity epidemic, terrorism, and a widespread infiltration […]
Evolution and Medicine
The Evolution of Medicine. Part 2: The Rise of Evolutionary Medicine
Ever since the time when I first stumbled upon concepts and ideas related to ancestral health and Stone Age diets in my late teens, I’ve been interested in, bordering on obsessed with, Darwinian/evolutionary medicine. Back in the day when I first stumbled upon this fascinating world, it wasn’t really on the map, at least not […]
The Evolution of Medicine. Part 1: The Theory That Could Change the Game
In the world of medicine as a whole and as it exists today, chaos is the norm, whereas order and cohesion is the exception. There is no foundational, scientifically robust paradigm in place, which helps explain why a number of disparate theories, concepts, and practices abound, many of which haven’t got a solid premise behind […]
Darwinian Medicine in a Nutshell
When I was first introduced to Darwinian medicine, AKA evolutionary medicine, many years back, I was led to believe from reading about the discipline that: 1) It encompasses a number of different concepts and theories pertaining to the origins of disease. 2) It’s mostly of theoretical use. It has little practical/clinical value. Over time, however, […]
The Life-Saving Potential of Darwinian Medicine
Diseases and health problems such as breast cancer, heart disease, type-2 diabetes, and AIDS claim millions of lives every year. Darwinian theories can not only help us understand these types of conditions; they can also help us prevent and treat them. By incorporating Darwinian logic into health policy making and medical care, a number of […]
10 Scientific Papers That Can Transform Your Understanding of Health & Medicine
If you’ve followed this site for some time, you may have noticed that I occasionally put up posts in which I list scientific articles covering topics that have to do with Darwinian medicine. The papers I include in such posts are carefully selected, in the sense that I only include articles that I find particularly […]
Darwinian Nutrition: A (R)evolutionary Paradigm That Can Bring Order and Structure to the Field of Nutrition
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 […]
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 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 […]