Which foods made our ancestors thrive – and which caused disease

What did our ancestors eat? Which foods made them thrive and which caused disease? And why did the ancient Egyptians suffer from the same diseases as modern man does – despite eating a perfectly “healthy” whole grain, low-fat diet?

Dr. Michael Eades gives answers to all these questions in this interesting historical talk.

Watch it

Watch the full 41-minute presentation on our member pages, including captions and transcript:

The Origins of the Low-Carb Diet – Dr. Michael Eades

Table of contents

  1:21  Modern medicine vs anthropology
  4:26  Expensive tissue hypothesis – determining what we ate
12:21  Stable isotope analysis – determining what we ate
18:21  Agriculturalists vs hunter-gatherers
28:34  What the ancient Egyptians ate

The Origins of the Low-Carb Diet – Dr. Michael Eades

The next conference

The presentation is from this year’s Low Carb USA. It’s the top low-carb conference in the US. Next year’s conference will take place on August 3 – 6, 2017 in San Diego. Sign up now for an early bird discount (50% off).