Urban Hunter Gatherer

Ben Goodwin
2 min readMar 4, 2019

For 1.8 million years, before the advent of agriculture, humans consumed a “hunter-gatherer” diet. Modern research into tribes that still consume food in this way have found that these groups take-in 100–200g of Fiber/Prebiotics per day and often eat over 1000 different types of food in a given year, including barks, grasses, roots, fruit, vegetables, meat/bones and insects. Broadly speaking these populations have robust digestive health and microbiomes and nearly non-existent incidences of cancer, obesity, heart disease and stroke.

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