It's one idea: Ancestry
Searching throughout our ancestral heritages respectfully for pearls of wisdom to apply gracefully in our modern ecologies.
In the meantime, as these pieces fall into place, we have partnered with CJ Hunt and his team to help support their In Search of The Perfect Human Diet film project. Many of the Ancestral Health Symposium presenters are featured experts in this film, and Loren Cordain posted about this fundraiser effort the other day as well:
The Ancestral Health Society & Foundation has launched a fundraiser for post-production work on the international documentary series In Search of the Perfect Human Diet™. The four-part series features the world’s leading scientists and advocates in human evolutionary nutrition.
Donations of $100 or more will get a Special Edition DVD set and Film Credit for their support.
Distribution of this series will create important ongoing financial support for the Ancestral Health Society's non-profit foundation and educational mission via direct financial contributions from all DVD sales.
The four-part series features the world’s leading scientists and advocates in human evolutionary nutrition, including:And many more … (including David Getoff of PPNF)
- Dr. Loren Cordain (author of The Paleo Diet, Colorado State University)
- Dr. Michael Richards (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany -Department of Human Evolution)
- Dr. Jay Wortman (Inuit Diet research, Canada)
- Dr. Steve Phinney (Professor Emeritus of Medicine, UC Davis)
- Gary Taubes (New York Times science writer and author of Good Calories, Bad Calories)
- Dr. Michael R. Eades (author of Protein Power)
- Barry Sears Ph.D. (author of The Zone)
- Dr. Leslie C. Aiello (President, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, New York)
- Robb Wolf (Research bio-chemist, author of The Paleolithic Solution)
- Professor Richard D. Feinman, PhD (Downstate Medical Center (SUNY) in New York)
- Professor Craig Stanford (Chair, Department of Anthropology, USC)
- Dr. Lane Sebring (Sebring Clinic, Wimberley, TX)
- Eric Schlosser (author of Fast Food Nation)
This fundraiser will enable Hunt Thompson Media, LLC to finish the international documentary series post-production work by Thanksgiving 2010, and release it for the 2010 Christmas and the 2011 New Year's resolution season. For more information on the documentary series visit: www.perfecthumandiet.com.
To make a donation, click the 'ChipIn!' button below:
Support Ancestry Foundation in the future by 'chipping in' to In Search of The Perfect Human Diet today: I did!
To good health,
Brent
Just made my $100 donation!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Aaron! (and Brent, Richard, Brian too, of course).
ReplyDeleteI'm very excited that the Ancestral Health Society & Foundation has teamed up with us and launched a fundraiser for post-production completion on our documentary series "In Search of the Perfect Human Diet™".
We have spent the last 3-1/2 years going where no other Media has been willing to go in order to discover - and more importantly be able to show viewers - the astounding research, science and subject matter experts that reveal the solution to the obesity epidemic (and it's host of associated chronic diseases)... now, the #1 killer in the U.S. and spreading like wildfire around the globe.
As you say, "Searching throughout our ancestral heritages respectfully for pearls of wisdom to apply gracefully in our modern ecologies..."
I'm just as excited that because of your reaching out to the AF Network to help raise the needed completion funding of the series by June 30, Hunt Thompson Media will be able to directly contribute to provide ongoing support of the 501(c)3 educational mission of the Ancestry Foundation.
As Professor Cordain said on his site and blog, "Distribution of this series will create important ongoing financial support for the Ancestral Health Society's non-profit foundation and educational mission via direct financial contributions from all DVD sales."
Thanks, CJ.
ReplyDeleteWe're all searching along the same wavelengths for solutions to our health challenges. It's fascinating how we also all arrived at these similar searching threads independently: I call it homoplasy via Meta-Rule formation. Independently reached but kindred perspectives on health that evolved from thinking about our heritages as human beings (organisms, more generally) on large times scales and then testing the conjectures from these inquiries on our own bodies.
Cheers to continued thinkering with all-things-Ancestry!
Brent
As a Scot of mostly Scottish genetic heritage should I eat mostly turnips, haggis and whiskey? :-)
ReplyDeleteThanks, G.
ReplyDeleteYou'd certainly be much better off by going that ancestral route than by going with many other neolithic protocols that mono-cultures seem to be following blindly!
Respect thy Ancestry.
Cheers,
Brent
You know, I was saying it tongue-in-cheek, but I agree; haggis and turnips feels to me like a good meal; I'm always recommending it to reluctant diners who usually find it too gory. Organ-meat + oats = way better than sausage-meat or burger patties.
ReplyDelete@TheDailyG: Tongue-in-cheek, indeed!
ReplyDeleteI'd leave out the oats based on conjectures about blood sugar and inflammation, but cheers to organ meats (though I don't eat them regularly, unfortunately ... yet).
Best,
Brent
Actually, oats give me (less serious) acid indigestion about half as frequently as wheat.
ReplyDeleteUsed to have no problem with any of it; I haven't a clue what's changed... Sometimes I think I should not avoid these things altogether in case whatever went wrong puts itself right again, like an overworked joint that recovers with just the right amount of rest and exercise.
Note: CJ has raised over 2k thus far from the Ancestral Health Team funding drive, which is awesome.
ReplyDelete@G: When it comes to nutrition experiments, I tend not to keep banging my head against the wall waiting for things to come around and be made right again. We can learn by grace or by hard knocks. I tend to take negative diet results as 'grace nudges' in toxin avoidance, and I respond by removing those items from my diet completely (save for some hormesis tests, if I deem those potentially fruitful). But that's just me.
Cheers,
Brent