What is Ancestral Health
‘The wellness industry is segmented and often contradictory’
Ancestral health is the key to understanding and linking all aspects of health and wellness.
It is a lens through which we can examine the health and wellness industry and filter out misinformation.
For example: vegan vs carnivore diets: Both are toted by passionate followers as being healthy.
Each camp has extensive evidence supporting the health benefits of either veganism or carnivory - but both also have evidence contradicting the other. So how do we know if one, the other, neither or both are going to have the best health outcome for the rest of us humans?
Ancestral health helps us to re-frame the question: “What is the ideal diet for humans (homo sapiens)?”
In this example anthropological evidence would suggest that both would have formed PART of the homo-sapiens diet - SEASONALLY (rather than exclusively for long periods of time).
Ancestral Health is rooted in the sciences of epigenetics and hormesis.
Epigenetics is the study of environmental factors which interact with our DNA to effect gene expression.
Hormesis is the right level of exposure to those factors to achieve peak health.
Hormesis and epigenetic factors were determined over hundreds of thousands of years while humans evolved to thrive in their natural environment.
Our hunter gatherer Ancestors living on a natural landscape were much healthier than we as a population are today - If you survived childhood you could expect to live a long active life without reliance on modern pharma/ hospital support.
Modern humans no longer live in a natural landscape. In fact we tend to shield ourselves from it.
Lifestyle diseases
often called diseases of affluence or diseases of captivity.
They include Chronic pain, diseases such as heart disease and depression.
They are the result of deconditioning.
Deconditioning is ' The adaptation of an organism to a less demanding environment’
By living a lifestyle which shields us from the natural environment we are - at a species level becoming deconditioned.
Ancestral Health is about re-discovering the factors we need from the natural environment not just to survive, but to truly thrive!
Ancestral health is the big take home concept that links all aspects of wellness together.
Then answer to deconditioning is rehabilitation.
Rehabilitation is to return something to its previous state.
We are dedicated to rehabilitating humans to their original state of anti-fragility.
