Anthropology makes Sense
In the light of evolution, things begin to make sense and tie together - a beautiful simplicity arises when we see health through the lens of our upbringing as Homo Sapiens. The links provided will bring you to Amazon and the most powerful books I came across. Click the button to get to the collection of books within an Amazon list.
Health seems complicated. And in fact it is, if you are willing to see it that way. It can get immensely complex. If we view our health through the lens of our environment things start to make sense and intuitively become simper. Question like why meat is a cornerstone of our diets, why certain anatomical features are as they are, or why our sexuality plagues the modern concept of marriage start to make sense.
The book down below do an excellent job in compiling up the evidence found and putting it into the right context. Understanding health does not have to be complex, if we live in sync with the environments that shaped us it even becomes naturally simple. Our ancestors never needed to think about their surroundings as nature provided them with exactly the right stimuli, but with us nowadays playing the architects of those we run into the need to think actively about the engineering problems nature so gracefully solved.
We lose our Roots
The more we get away from our racial history as Homo Sapiens and nature the more issues will arise. This is the problem of contemporary humans. These selected books shed light on the miniscule processes going on and reveal the importance of remembering who we are:
Civilized to Death* & Sex at Dawn* by Dr. Christopher Ryan
The Story of the Human Body* by Dr. Daniel Lieberman
My Experience
The very first book I ever read was Daniel Lieberman's one, and I immediately fell in love with the topic of evolutionary anthropology. This was ~4 years ago and since then a few other great books revealed itself on this topic.
By understanding our past, we can model the present from it - at least regarding health. If we know we humans evolved for small tribes of hunter and gatherers for eons, deviating from it over the fraction of time that are the last 12.000 years will inevitably influence something. The question is what exactly?
Further Reading
Animal-Based Diet - An Animal-based Diet with meats and organs at the centre is as ancestrally-consistent as it gets despite what the modern plant-based narrative tries to push. We are hunters AND gatherers. This post helps you understand these concepts deeply.
Living Barefoot - Footwear nowadays is a destructive fashion. Foot pain and deformations are prevalent. But it hasn't got to be this way. This post breaks with this trend and grants practicable advice to better foot health with minimal shoes.
Miki Ben Dor's Studies - Miki Ben Dor is an Israeli scientist and anthropologist doing valuable frontier work regarding Homo Sapiens as Hypercarnivores. This study complies a lot of evidence for the former claim and is a must-read. His other work is very insightful, too.
