Fri, Aug-16-19, 03:46
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Senior Member
Posts: 14,684
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Plan: EpiPaleo/Primal/LowOx
Stats: 220/130/150
BF:
Progress: 129%
Location: USA
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Originally Posted by Meme#1
For all we know those genetics are probably the good ones that kept humans alive through the centuries.
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The "stone age pancreas" theory asserts exactly that. People who went into their zone's food-scarcity-time storing fat like bears could coast through some inevitable food delays until spring.
Later, when we gathered enough to have infectious disease problems, having enough fat to burn off a serious infection with high fever and disrupted digestion was another survival factor.
And I don't need a genetic test to know how carbohydrates affect me. The lower I go, the better my body currently likes it
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