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How did this happen? Can you give me the GMT time when this interview will happen? Or at least afterwards provide a link to the resulting recording on that website?
Why is there only a focus on "high-meat", not fresh, raw meat? Whatever the case, stress the number of years you've eaten the stuff without issues and the fact that the Inuit etc. have eaten "high-meat" for millenia without issues.
@CK - exciting news, I am looking forward to hearing your interview this Saturday. Simon Morton is an excellent interviewer and his show This Way Up is very sensible so I am sure they will treat you well.
30 Jun 2012
Dear Simon,
Regarding your interview with Jeff Leech about the human microbe populations relation to health, all of our animal ancestors have for millions of years fed themselves on raw animal and vegetable foods and our symbiotic microbes have evolved to thrive on these foods.
For over 99.9% of our evolutionary history we have consumed raw wild foods.
To maximise their populations these microbes have co-evolved symbiotically with animals and humans - the more healthy hosts that are available then the more microbes there will be (win/win).
Heating food creates massive physical changes to the food, including novel chemical breakdown/recombination/oxidation etc products that have been rarely encountered by our ancestors before the widespread adoption of cooking became culturally important.
For this reason Jeff needs to extend his research to include raw paleo eaters - see www.rawpaleodietforum.com (http://www.rawpaleodietforum.com) for more information.
Also regarding the fermented yogurt culture, raw paleo extends this animal product fermentation to include fermented meat and offal. I have tried fermented meat and it was very interesting, with a stong smell like old camembert.Many people have reported that fermented meats have helped them recover from depression, which is likely related to the beneficial microbes in the high meat. As reported in new scientist recently microbes (in their case ones from soil) produce serotonin and improve mental health.
Raw regards
Mike
ThisWayUp ThisWayUp@radionz.co.nz
3 Jul
Hi Mike and thanks for the email which I forwarded to Jeff.
Thanks for getting in touch and for listening.
Cheerio
Simon
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Jeff Leach jeff@paleobioticslab.com 30 Jun
Hey Mike - Thanks for the email. Interesting stuff. No doubt big chunk of our diet has been eaten raw throughout history, but cooking sprinkled in there as well. As for as the gut bugs go, the less cooking to more nutrients end up in the colon where the bacteria ferment them - however, reduced cooking also makes them less available for fermentation as well (ie, they are passed in feces b4 they are broken down (at least completely). But you bring up a great point. I will look into this further and the link you sent.
Jeff