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so sometimes I get this question should

I go more vegan or should I be a

carnivore and I just want to talk about

that in this video

I personally believe you should be right

in the middle a combination of plants

and animal products so there are several

archaeologists who found some

interesting things at a site in northern

Israel that provided primary direct

evidence for what humans ate seven

hundred and eighty thousand years ago

and they found that they ate a

combination of plants and animals and of

course in other parts of the world you

know people ate differently they pretty

much ate what they can get whether it

was insects or milk from a cow or fat

from seals if they lived in other

environments so based on this article

they found that these humans consumed a

large range of plants thistle seed water

lilies acorns water chestnuts olives

even some fruit but the fruit back then

was very different than it is now it was

not nearly as sweet and it was seasonal

as well but on the other hand they found

that these humans also consumed elephant

brains and whole animals and insects as

well and the other point I want to bring

out is a lot of animals can make their

own vitamin C we cannot okay so we are

dependent on vitamin C from food so

vitamin C obviously comes from plants

just indicating yes we need plants in

our diet for sure the other point I want

to bring up is if we look at our

digestive tract we start with the

stomach okay if we compare our stomach

to a cow’s stomach it’s very different

the pH is very very different the pH in

a human stomach is between one and three

designed primarily for dense protein

okay whereas a cow’s stomach and they

have four I have a pH of five point

seven to seven point three so it’s close

to being either slightly acidic or

slightly basic socal stomach is just not

designed to digest dense protein it was

designed to ferment plant fiber okay now

we also happen to have a large colon

with

pH around five point five five to seven

which is designed to ferment plant fiber

as well so you can see the combination

of this stomach very acidic and the

large colon and you can see it was

designed to digest meat and ferment

fiber at the same time and the small

intestine was not designed to ferment

fiber it was to help you digest fats and

protein so it’s obvious if you look at

the structure and function of our

digestive system that we need both

animal and plant type foods and then we

have b12 b12 mainly comes from animal

products indicating yes we need to

consume animal products and we also need

oh may go three fatty acids primarily

DHA and also EPA which come from fish

primarily now there is an omega-3 fatty

acid ala that does convert to DHA but

not very well

so based on this data and the necessity

of having DHA especially in our brain

and a nervous system we were not

designed to exclusively use this type of

omega-3 fatty acid which usually comes

from flax oil and things like walnuts

things like that so in summary at the

other day we want the consume foods to

satisfy our nutritional requirements and

that’s why a balance of both animal

products and plant I think are a good

combination and if you want more

information check out the link down

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