Saturday 7

All animals compete in an evolutionary arms race. An organism adapts to its environment to optimize its survival and reproductive success. Selection shapes the body and molds the teeth to procure and process the food available. Through this process, an animal cultivates its species-specific diet.

Teeth tell the story of our evolutionary history and the diets that shaped us. By rewinding the clock, we can get to the root and re-discover The Human Diet.

This dietary niche is intuitive and instinctual. Cows don’t need to be told to graze grass, nor orangutans to pick fruit, nor lions to prey on gazelles. But we humans have lost this instinct . Left to our own devices, we eat food incongruent with our design and evolutionary past.