Dr. Ekberg Believes That Man-Made Food Is Ideal for Humans @Dr. Sten Ekberg
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0:00 Hey guys, as requested by a subscriber, I'm going to review a video by Dr. Sten Ekberg, Ideal Food for Humans.
[video] 0:09 Ideal Food for Humans. What does that mean? And who gets to decide the ideal food for humans? Coming right up.
0:20 Hey, I'm Dr. Ekberg with... Nobody decides it, it just is what it is, as it is for every animal.
[video] 0:25 The ideal food for humans, what is that? Who gets to decide? Well, lately it seems like people put more faith in opinions in the DASH diet and the Mediterranean diet and the Paleo diet and so forth, but who is right?
0:42 All diets are man-made.
[video] 0:43 And how can we decide? Well, in this case, there is only one judge, and the one who decides is your DNA. Why does that matter? What is DNA? Well, DNA codes for proteins. You have DNA in every cell, and what it does, it is a code, it's a blueprint for how to make certain proteins. And some of those proteins that your body makes are called enzymes. DNA makes proteins. Some of the proteins are enzymes. And enzymes, they break down your food. So everything that you put into your body, it will go straight through with absolutely no change unless you had enzymes. Just because you put it in your mouth doesn't mean that it becomes tissue in your body.
1:27 Very correct.
[video] 1:28 The process that makes that transition is initiated. It's made happen by enzymes. and it already starts in your mouth that your enzymes don't recognize if there's not an exact fit If that food is foreign to your enzymes, this is now 10,000 years. That's how long we have had agriculture. That's how long we have had any kind of exposure to grain. And it doesn't mean we had the same kind of grains that we have today. Back then, there were two grains. They were called emmer and einkorn, the first ancient wheats. And we didn't have corn, and we didn't have rice, and we didn't have rye or any of those things. Now we have this little blip, which is 150 years. And that is how long we've had any sort of food processing. And that means that we have taken the grain apart, we've taken the food apart. We have taken certain pieces out.
[video] 2:24 So now when we give the food to your enzymes, it's different because it's not presented in the same combinations, in the same proportions anymore. And 150 years, Coca-Cola wasn't even around. There was no fast food. There was no Wonder Bread. There was none of the modern processed foods that we recognize that makes up the majority of what people eat today. And then we break it down further. And this tiny little sliver is 50 years. That's how long we've had an abundance of processed foods. That's the time where white sugar, white flour has become the majority of what we're eating. So looking at this perspective, if this is how long, if 250,000 years is how long our DNA has remained unchanged, that's tens of thousands of generations. And here we have two generations. And there is absolutely no chance that our DNA has had the chance to adapt to those modern foods. That means all those...
3:22 It sounds like he believes in evolution, which is a religious belief, and that's cool. Everybody can have their religion if they want to, but it's... Not reality. It's not nature. If something is man-made, unnatural, then it will always be bad for you and everything that is natural will always be good and healthy for you and this will never change. You cannot evolve from it. You cannot adapt to something. That's not something that only applies to food. In general, there is no way to get away from nature. Absolutely no way at all. Therefore, we will never adapt to eating grains or even white flour and all of the process stuff it will always make us sick and most likely there won't even be humans around because everybody is going to become infertile if they will continue this way this is why i can't say that in a thousand years it will still make us sick because in a thousand years there would be no humans left if you would continue like this
[video] 4:17 Modern foods, the majority of what we eat is an experiment. It's a foreign invader. Our bodies do not know what to do with that food. So one example I like to give to bring this in perspective is you go to your average grocery store and there's about 50,000 shelf items up there. And if you go through the store, you ask yourself, how many of these items existed prior to 10,000 years? So if it existed prior to 10,000 years, that means it existed somewhere around here. That means it probably was available for our ancestors to get adapted to. And if it didn't exist, then it's foreign. And if you go through the average grocery store, you'll probably find maybe 100 items.
5:00 The adaption religious belief theory doesn't make sense for many reasons, but of course, if, for example, let's say, like he said, the early kind of wheat, if it doesn't have over 15 micronutrients, then how can a human body adapt to it and all of the anti-nutrients also? Nowadays, there's also artificial pesticides, of course. It's always going to cause malnutrition. It's always going to poison you. What is there even to adapt to? That's the question.
[video] 5:27 The meat section, there's some chicken, there's some fish, there's some vegetables, a few berries and some fruit, maybe a few nuts. But everything else, everything made from sugar and high fructose cornstarch.
5:43 All of the fruits and berries are also manmade. They were also not around.
[video] 5:48 If we didn't have it, then it doesn't absolutely mean that it's a bad idea, but it means it's probably a bad idea. So what did we have available back then? What did our ancestors have? Well, pretty much prior to agriculture, it was anything that you could catch, dig up or pick. So something you could catch would be meat or fish. And the meat was not jerky with MSG and preservatives and high fructose corn syrup and all those sugars. If you could dig it up.
6:21 You would hunt an animal. Firstly, you would drink the blood. Then you would eat the liver and the other organs raw. And if you were hunting the dogs, you would give some of the muscle meat to the dogs because of course you also want them to stay alive. But the king and the leader would always get the blood and the organs first.
[video] 6:39 Might have been some potatoes or some version of a potato or a sweet potato or a rutabaga or a parsnip. It wasn't potato chips, it wasn't french fries, it wasn't these reconstituted puffy things that we buy in these cellophane bags.
6:59 Imagine a human being in nature digging up food. You would have to be incredibly desperate to get to the point to dig up, dig through the earth to find some kind of plants that shouldn't even be on the list because it would have to be completely starving to get to that point. I've seen some documentaries where some people, African tribes, dig up tubers and then juice them a little bit just to get some hydration from it. That could make sense, but you would certainly not be eating them raw anyway, because they would be toxic and you would die. Cooking hasn't been around for that long, so realistically, if you look at what humans should actually eat, then it would only be food in its natural raw state.
[video] 7:37 Even though they say they're made out of vegetables, it's not a root or a tuber or a vegetable anymore. Something you could pick, those would be fruits and vegetables. And does not mean a fruit roll-up. It does not mean strawberry jam. It does not mean a low-fat Pop-Tart.
7:55 Yes, it doesn't mean those things, but it also doesn't mean those big man-made strawberries with no micronutrients and full of pesticides that we find in the stores nowadays. It means very small wild strawberries, which would be around maybe for a month in the year, around August and September. That's when you would find some berries. And if you live in a tropical climate, you would have more fruit, but a lot of fruit was also toxic, so you would have to really be careful as to what you're eating and so on. So fruit was never a huge part of our diet anyway. Even people in tropical places mostly still consume meat, of course.
[video] 8:31 Those are not foods. They were not available. If we change them to that degree, they become foreign to our bodies again.
8:39 Vegetables have never been around. Not the kind of vegetables we have today. Those are all completely man-made. Humans don't eat vegetables in nature whatsoever.
[video] 8:47 And another thing to keep in mind was that most of these things were probably seasonal. I'm not going to get into the argument whether we're supposed to be carnivores or vegetarian. I think we need to eat some of everything. But we need to keep in mind that most things were seasonal. So even if we had access
9:04 This video is not bad overall, but he tries to appeal to the masses. Maybe that's to get views, whatever. He doesn't want to scare off the vegetarians and whatnot. Yes, we used to catch meat, fish, obviously. No, we did not dig up tubers and whatnot. We didn't eat any vegetables. And we only sometimes ate natural fruit, which is almost not around anymore.
[video] 9:33 Whole foods that everything that we eat needs to be eaten as close as possible to its natural state If a potato was available, it should still look like potato It shouldn't look like potato chips or vodka because even though they're made from potato the huge potatoes that we have today are not really Comparable to the very small ones which is how natural potatoes look like they don't look very appealing It doesn't look like food They're not the same thing. Same thing with meat. Same thing with vegetables. Same thing with anything that you eat. The closer it is to its original form, the more enzymes, the more nutrition.
10:11 It doesn't make sense what he's saying because if you would eat a vegetable that is closer to its natural form, let's say a wild carrot, then you would spit it out right away. If you would be stupid enough to swallow it, you could die from it. My point is all vegetables in their natural wild form are very, very toxic, deadly.
[video] 10:30 The more vitamin complexes it retains, the more naturally everything is combined. So next time that someone presents you the ideal diet, when some agency has an official vote and proclaims this or that diet as the official and optimal diet for humans, ask yourself these questions. Was it around? Do we have the enzymes to break it down? Does it fit this model? Because this model is what your DNA recognizes. And last year the DASH diet was proclaimed as the best diet and it has 50%, recommends 50% of its calories from grains. That is very very questionable if that is a suitable human food. If we start understanding the bigger picture of health, if we start understanding physiology, then we can all help each other get healthier and ask for the right foods and have producers produce the right foods for us. If you're new to this channel,
11:24 Producers care about money mostly. Unfortunately, they of course do not care about human health.
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11:39 All right, this guy has good intentions. He wants people to understand what we are supposed to eat. Because of our DNA, really what he's talking about is nature, essentially every animal that includes humans, is naturally programmed, so to speak, to find something appetizing and then to eat it. If a human being looks at meat, we find it very appetizing, we crave it and we want to eat it, which is why we want to hunt animals and eat them. And it's the same for cows when they see grass. Just mmm yummy. I want to go and graze on grass and so on. I haven't watched his videos So I don't know what exactly he recommends It seems like a lot of these doctors who are on YouTube and who do get a lot of views Even if they promote meat like dr. Eric Berg, for example, then they still promote vegetables, which it seems like he does I don't know why else he would mention them. Maybe he also recommends eating starch, but meat
12:34 for the most part, and then some fruit, absolutely I can understand, because I'm all about nature and that's just essentially the natural food for humans, that's about it. Of course he doesn't mention blood and so on, maybe he doesn't know about it, I'm going to assume that he probably doesn't. Most people are kind of afraid to even mention it. But that would be the first thing that I would recommend if I would make a video like this about food. It would be blood at the very top, then it would be meat and then some fruit, seasonally or whenever you want to gain weight or whatever. It's a long topic. And of course, no vegetables, no tubers and so on. All of the stuff is unnatural. Most people usually cook it. Tubers, you gotta cook vegetables. Usually people cook because They are very hard on the gut, they're so full of toxins and so on, there's just so many problems with everything that's man-made. The bottom line is always choose nature, which I think really was the point of this video also. Thanks for watching, guys.