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The MOST Appealing Diet In the World Is A RAW VEGAN Diet!!! - YouTube

He seems a bit crazy lol but how much of what he preaches do you think is true?

He is very in favor of long juice fasts, as most of us here are. But then the difference comes when he talks about what he believes is the "ideal, species specific diet" of raw food. He mentions no other animal cooks their food, which I guess is true.
Paleo is "caveman days", before chemicals (usually organic), machines (processing), grains etc. He thinks this diet is a lot better than most, but still not perfect. Raw food is the step even further back, before we cooked food or ate animals, "the island days", just raw fruit, veg, nuts and seeds. Although it's probably unsustainable in today's society, but try not to take that into account.
Anyway just wondering your opinion, especially CD's, as I know he tried pretty much every diet available and chose Paleo as the best, would like to know why he came to that conclusion.
Science and evolution is how I came to that conclusion.

Regardless of what others say in regards to the best diet for humans, people that live a hunter/gatherer lifestyle ALL eat animals. From all parts of the planet, regardless of environment, it would be impossible to live on a vegan diet naturally.

If you're a white man, you evolved in the northern latitudes where everything was covered in snow for half the year. You HAD to eat animals to survive. It's the only thing that's available when snow is on the ground, for the most part. This is how we evolved for hundreds of thousands of years. It's programmed into our DNA. The vegetation that you could eat in the summer were anything that you could pick from a plant. Fruits, veggies, tubers, etc. Grains were not part of the human diet until the advent of agriculture, about 10,000 years ago or so. This is because it's something that has to be cultivated, in large fields and tended to. This was only possible once people settled into civilizations and had the time to specialize their activities. Before this, you and your "tribe" were basically living a nomadic lifestyle, following the game. Grains were just not a natural part of the diet. And, because they've only been consumed for such a short window of time compared to our existence, our bodies are just not fully equipped to deal with them.

It's very simple, actually. When we mimic the diet of our ancestors which is what we evolved on, our bodies operate the way they were designed to.