Today, we focus on the mechanical qualities of food when it comes to making our food choices.

Measuring ketones, counting carbs and calculating every piece of food that enters our mouths - this has become the new age way of eating. 

Of course, our ancient ancestors had a very different mindset around food than we do today.

Unlike modern humans, they never questioned the saturated fat, carbohydrate or cholesterol content of their foods. They didn’t worry if the foods they ate caused cancer or heart disease and they sure didn’t stress about whether they were eating too many calories. In fact, to them, especially with regard to growing children and women of childbearing age, the more calories consumed from nourishing animal fats and animal protein, the better. Because these nutrients ensured health, immunity and fertility, decreased the chance of birth defects and supported the continuation of life.

Over the past decade, the paleo, ketogenic (keto) and ancestral diet movements have encouraged millions to rekindle their ancestral food flames as a main path to health and healing. As a result, we now frequent more than ever before our farmers markets, food coops and organic grocery stores seeking the foods that have nourished us for centuries - - pastured meat, wild seafood, butter, bone broth, raw milk and animal fats have all made a   23-45-23 comeback.

However, despite all our vigilant dietary nose-to-tail efforts, many people still struggle with their health. While more and more modern people are all in when it comes to eating a more ancestral, wild and primal diet - going great efforts to buy organic, to focus on grass-fed and wild-caught animal fats and protein - they still struggle with poor health. 

This is because, we are missing the core essence of what makes an ancestral diet truly ancestral.