Our hunter-gatherer ancestors lived in sync with the rhythms of the earth. They hunted wild animals, gathered nutrient-dense foods, moved their bodies daily, soaked in the sun, and slept with the stars overhead. Chronic disease? Virtually nonexistent. Tooth decay, infertility, insulin resistance? Not in sight. When Dr. Weston A. Price studied traditional cultures in the early 20th century, he found they were consuming ten times more fat-soluble vitamins and four times more minerals than the modern diet provides.¹
Their omega-3 to omega-6 ratio was a balanced 1:1. Ours today? Closer to 1:20, thanks to industrial seed oils, factory-farmed grains, and ultra-processed plant-based imitations.² We’ve traded bone marrow for margarine, liver for lentils, and raw milk for almond sludge. Something has gone terribly wrong—and you won’t hear about it on the nightly news.
It’s time to reverse course. To go back to the basics. To go back to what worked. And that starts with meat, movement, sunlight, and sanity.
Let’s take a look at what the “experts” would have us believe…if they were around 10,000 years ago.
1. “Guys, don’t use the animal fat from this hunt, it will clog our arteries. We need to harvest these soybeans instead.”
Imagine a tribe of hunters celebrating a successful hunt, only to stop mid-feast and panic about saturated fat. That never happened. Because humans have prized animal fat for millennia—as the most calorie-dense, nourishing fuel source in nature. It fed their brains, supported fertility, and powered long hunts. Today, we’re told tallow and butter are dangerous while canola oil and soybean sludge are “heart healthy.” This isn’t progress. It’s backwards.
Animal fat isn’t the problem. The removal of it is.
2. Cave paintings reveal that primitive humans spent most of their time collecting wild-caught kale and lettuce…
Funny, we’ve seen a lot of animals, symbols, and hunting scenes on ancient cave walls—but not one depicts a man foraging for mesclun greens or massaging kale. That’s because leafy greens were never the foundation of ancestral diets. They were survival foods—not staples. Humans didn’t thrive on fiber and chlorophyll. They thrived on meat, organs, and fat.
Let’s be honest: you didn’t climb the evolutionary ladder for salad.
3. This tribe is getting ready to prepare a traditional meal of soy protein isolate, sorbitol, modified corn starch, red dye 40, and additive E151.
Our ancestors were cooking bone broth, roasting meat over fire, fermenting dairy, and drying organ meats. Not flavoring “plant-based patties” with dyes and gums in a factory lab. The modern food system is so artificial it comes with ingredient lists you need a chemistry degree to decode. If your food comes with a trademark or patent, it’s not food—it’s a product.
And no, soy isolate is not ancestral protein. It’s industrial byproduct.
4. Here we see the hunter-gatherers in their natural habitat, gathering green superfoods for their morning smoothies—a sacred blend of kale, spinach, and broccoli.
The only green smoothie your ancestors consumed was bile.
Let’s stop pretending that slamming raw goitrogens, oxalates, and anti-nutrients into a blender is a sacred ritual. Our ancestors weren’t choking down green sludge before sunrise. They were cooking real food—liver, tongue, marrow—and passing down recipes with deep biological resonance. That morning ritual you need? It starts with salt, meat, and maybe some sun—not a $12 cold-pressed smoothie.
5. “Mike couldn’t join us today for our hunt. His cholesterol levels are too high. We’ve decided to feed him some kale and spinach instead.”
Hunter-gatherers didn’t know what LDL was—and they didn’t need to. They judged health by vitality, not lab markers distorted by cereal companies and pharmaceutical marketing. High cholesterol was not feared; it was expected in a nutrient-rich diet. In fact, it was necessary—for testosterone, vitamin D production, and building strong cellular membranes.
Modern Mike doesn’t need a statin. He needs a steak.
6. “I’m thinking about giving this Veganuary thing a go. I’m seeing it all over the internet. Experts like Bill Gates are even saying it’s healthy.”
Because nothing says ancestral wisdom like the fourth-richest man on earth telling people to eat fake meat made in steel vats. Our ancestors weren’t waiting for tech moguls to engineer new food. They were out in the wild, using every part of the animal, honoring its life, and feeding their communities. They didn’t have nutritionists, TikTok, or MyFitnessPal. They had instinct, tradition, and saturation.
And guess what? It worked.
7. Our ancestors protecting their crops of soy, wheat, and corn (and definitely not hunting the most prized food they were designed to eat and thrive on)
Corn, wheat, and soy didn’t even exist in their current forms. These crops are modern mutations of wild grasses and legumes, selectively bred for yield—not nutrition. What our ancestors protected was meat—through sacred hunts, tribal laws, and intergenerational knowledge. The prized possession was the liver, not the lentil. The sacred offering was blood and fat, not bran and fiber.
We traded abundance for artificiality—and we’ve been paying with our health ever since.
8. “Sorry, guys. I’m going to have to skip this feast today. The doctor said I have to keep my LDL below 100.”
Imagine passing on the most sacred, nutrient-dense meal of the week because of a blood test invented in the 20th century. Hunter-gatherers didn’t worry about LDL. They worried about hunger, survival, and strength. The idea that a feast of meat and fat could be dangerous would have been laughed out of the campfire.
If your doctor tells you not to eat meat, it’s time to find a new doctor—or at least bring them a Carnivore Bar and ask them to explain the ingredients.
9. “Guys we can’t have this today! I forgot it’s meatless Monday!”
Hunter-gatherers didn’t do Meatless Mondays. They did Meat Whenever We Can Get It Because It’s Sacred And Keeps Us Alive Every Day.
Meatless Mondays were invented by government campaigns, not grandmothers. They’re based on the false belief that meat is harmful to the planet and to health. But when you zoom out of the headlines and into history, the truth is simple: meat built us, sustained us, and still holds the key to human vitality.
And no, your ancestors weren’t worried about methane from the mammoth.
Final Thoughts: We Don’t Need More Innovation. We Need More Instinct.
We’ve tried the lab-grown meat. We’ve tried the green juices, the fortified cereals, the low-fat yogurts, the food pyramid, the tofu bacon. And somehow—we’re still tired, inflamed, overweight, anxious, and starved for real nourishment.
It’s not because we’re missing the next superfood. It’s because we’ve strayed from the only diet that ever worked long-term: animal-based, nose-to-tail, instinctively nutrient-dense eating. We don’t need to biohack our breakfast. We need to remember how to live like humans again—outside, in motion, in rhythm, and around real food.
So grab a Carnivore Bar, pack it in your satchel, and eat like your ancestors—without the soy, the sorbitol, or the morning spinach ritual.
References
- Price, Weston A. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, 1939.
- Simopoulos, Artemis P. “The importance of the omega-6/omega-3 fatty acid ratio in cardiovascular disease and other chronic diseases.” Experimental Biology and Medicine, vol. 233, no. 6, 2008, pp. 674–688.
- Cordain, Loren, et al. “Origins and evolution of the Western diet: health implications for the 21st century.” The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 81, no. 2, 2005, pp. 341–354.
- Eaton, S. Boyd, et al. “Stone agers in the fast lane: chronic degenerative diseases in evolutionary perspective.” The American Journal of Medicine, vol. 84, no. 4, 1988, pp. 739–749.
- O’Keefe, James H., and Loren Cordain. “Cardiovascular disease resulting from a diet and lifestyle at odds with our Paleolithic genome.” The American Journal of Cardiology, vol. 100, no. 5, 2007, pp. 897–904.