Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://mypepack.gophersport.com/video/?vid=1kF85yVA9S6 Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The Diet Of Ancient Humans — DNA Just Proved Paleo Wrong Zach Benson [UGaw6VU6RT1] Health Updated on August 07, 2026 EDT — Published on August 07, 2026 EDT Tag: #Zach Benson, #cashier, #rickie fowler pga championship 2026, #steve evansWelcome to DNA Diet!Everyone claims to know what our ancestors ate and most of them are wrong. DNA Diet clears the confusion by using the latest science in genetics and nutrition. The truth about your ancestral diet is written in your sciopero treni DNA. Let's read it.LIST OF SOURCESEvery claim in this video traces to published research. Grouped by the point it supports, in the order it comes up.1 THE PALEO PREMISELoren Cordain's discordance hypothesis: the human genome "froze" about 10,000 years ago, so grains, dairy, and legumes are recent intruders our bodies never adapted to.Paleolithic Diet StatPearls, NIH / NCBI Bookshelf2 THE AMYLASE GENE PREDATES FARMING The starch-digesting AMY1 gene goes back far longer than agriculture. A 3-copy version is roughly 800,000 years old, copy numbers already varied in 45,000-year-old hunter-gatherers, and they climbed again among farmers over the last 4,000 years.Yilmaz et al., Nature (2024) "Recurrent evolution and selection shape structural diversity at the amylase locus"Bose et al., Science (2024) "Reconstruction of the human amylase locus reveals ancient duplications seeding modern-day variation"3 NEANDERTHALS COOKED GRAINS AND LEGUMESStarch grains in Neanderthal dental tartar from burlington weather Shanidar in Iraq and Spy in Belgium include cooked grass seeds.Henry, Brooks & Piperno, PNAS (2011) "Microfossils in calculus demonstrate consumption of plants and cooked foods in Neanderthal diets"4 30,000-YEAR-OLD FLOURGrindstones at Bilancino, Kostenki, and Pavlov carry cattail and fern starch, pushing flour-making back 30,000 years.Revedin et al., PNAS (2010) "Thirty thousand-year-old evidence of plant food processing"5 STONE AGE CAVITIES FROM STARCHY PLANTSAt Taforalt in Morocco, about 51% of teeth show caries from acorns and pine nuts, and isotopes point to a plant-heavy diet.Humphrey et al., PNAS (2014) "Earliest evidence for caries and exploitation of starchy plant foods in Pleistocene hunter-gatherers from Morocco"Companion isotopic evidence of high plant reliance at Taforalt6 LIVING HUNTER-GATHERERS EAT MOSTLY CARBSThe Hadza get roughly 65% of their calories from carbs, and honey is their top-ranked food."Our ancestors ate a Paleo diet. It had carbs." Knowable Magazine (2022)Marlowe & Berbesque "Tubers as fallback foods and their alex rodriguez impact on Hadza hunter-gatherers"7 THE GENOME IS NOT FROZENLactase persistence evolved after dairying began, more than 400 variants were selected in the last 10,000 years, and human evolution sped up rather than stopped.Evershed, Thomas et al., Nature (2022) "Dairying, diseases and the evolution of lactase persistence in Europe"Hawks, Wang, Cochran, Harpending & Moyzis, PNAS (2007) "Recent acceleration of human adaptive evolution"
Tag: #Zach Benson, #cashier, #rickie fowler pga championship 2026, #steve evansWelcome to DNA Diet!Everyone claims to know what our ancestors ate and most of them are wrong. DNA Diet clears the confusion by using the latest science in genetics and nutrition. The truth about your ancestral diet is written in your sciopero treni DNA. Let's read it.LIST OF SOURCESEvery claim in this video traces to published research. Grouped by the point it supports, in the order it comes up.1 THE PALEO PREMISELoren Cordain's discordance hypothesis: the human genome "froze" about 10,000 years ago, so grains, dairy, and legumes are recent intruders our bodies never adapted to.Paleolithic Diet StatPearls, NIH / NCBI Bookshelf2 THE AMYLASE GENE PREDATES FARMING The starch-digesting AMY1 gene goes back far longer than agriculture. A 3-copy version is roughly 800,000 years old, copy numbers already varied in 45,000-year-old hunter-gatherers, and they climbed again among farmers over the last 4,000 years.Yilmaz et al., Nature (2024) "Recurrent evolution and selection shape structural diversity at the amylase locus"Bose et al., Science (2024) "Reconstruction of the human amylase locus reveals ancient duplications seeding modern-day variation"3 NEANDERTHALS COOKED GRAINS AND LEGUMESStarch grains in Neanderthal dental tartar from burlington weather Shanidar in Iraq and Spy in Belgium include cooked grass seeds.Henry, Brooks & Piperno, PNAS (2011) "Microfossils in calculus demonstrate consumption of plants and cooked foods in Neanderthal diets"4 30,000-YEAR-OLD FLOURGrindstones at Bilancino, Kostenki, and Pavlov carry cattail and fern starch, pushing flour-making back 30,000 years.Revedin et al., PNAS (2010) "Thirty thousand-year-old evidence of plant food processing"5 STONE AGE CAVITIES FROM STARCHY PLANTSAt Taforalt in Morocco, about 51% of teeth show caries from acorns and pine nuts, and isotopes point to a plant-heavy diet.Humphrey et al., PNAS (2014) "Earliest evidence for caries and exploitation of starchy plant foods in Pleistocene hunter-gatherers from Morocco"Companion isotopic evidence of high plant reliance at Taforalt6 LIVING HUNTER-GATHERERS EAT MOSTLY CARBSThe Hadza get roughly 65% of their calories from carbs, and honey is their top-ranked food."Our ancestors ate a Paleo diet. It had carbs." Knowable Magazine (2022)Marlowe & Berbesque "Tubers as fallback foods and their alex rodriguez impact on Hadza hunter-gatherers"7 THE GENOME IS NOT FROZENLactase persistence evolved after dairying began, more than 400 variants were selected in the last 10,000 years, and human evolution sped up rather than stopped.Evershed, Thomas et al., Nature (2022) "Dairying, diseases and the evolution of lactase persistence in Europe"Hawks, Wang, Cochran, Harpending & Moyzis, PNAS (2007) "Recent acceleration of human adaptive evolution"