For most of human history, we weren't just hunters, we were foragers, scavengers, gatherers, and opportunists.

In this episode, we challenge the dramatic hunter narrative and look at what foraging actually looked like. You'll learn why gathering was the foundation of survival, how scavenging likely came before hunting, and what modern foraging populations like the Hadza reveal about human flexibility and adaptation.

This isn't about diet advice. It's about understanding the incomplete story we've been told and what the real story reveals about how humans became human.

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The drive to feed ourselves is innate. The desire to share a meal with others is deeply rooted in our past. The disappointment when we reach for that second slice of cake — that’s new.

In this episode, we look at how human evolution shaped our brains, our guts, and our appetite, and why the instincts that once kept us alive feel confusing in the modern world.

From cooking and plant foods to honey and energy needs, this is a story about why there was never one ancestral diet — and why your appetite isn’t a personal flaw, but an ancient survival strategy.

Carnivore. Vegan. Mediterranean. Paleo. Each one tells the same story: that there was once a natural, correct way of eating.

Everyone wants to believe there is a one size fits all diet.

In this episode of Modern Bodies, we start with food to ask a deeper question:

Do humans actually have a natural diet at all?

And if we do… is it the “paleo diet” we’ve all heard so much about?

This episode isn’t about telling you how to eat.

It’s about looking at food through the lens of human evolution — and seeing the modern diet conversation in a completely different way.