Cavemen Dictate What I Do.

 

I’m constantly using the sorta caveman archetype to make decisions about my health.

What this basically boils down to is the idea of “what would be the most ‘natural’ option?”

If we were back in the caveman days, what foods would they have had available to them, that nature would’ve been providing naturally?

I go on the assumption that those options get us back to nature as close as we can get.

 

Examples:

 

-Did cavemen do enemas and colonics to keep their colons clean for detoxing purposes?

I’m thinking “prolly not.” I can’t picture the Geico caveman seeking out a hose in nature and deciding it might be a good idea to use it to somehow get water up his bum that he could then squirt out.

 

-Did cavemen have cooking oil?

I’m thinking it never would’ve occurred to them to take a ton of olives, decide to squeeze all of them to get the oils out, and then put it on their (pans?) to cook their freshly caught wild animal. I’m thinking they didn’t have any time for that.

 

-Did cavemen juice their fruits and veges?

I’m thinking it probably didn’t occur to them that they could put their strawberries between to rocks…sit on them…and enjoy the juice that dripped down the rocks.

 

-Did cavemen drink clean water?

Yes.

 

-Did cavemen store their water in plastic and drink from it?

I’m thinking plastic may not have been invented yet.

 

-Did cavemen pull the endosperm out of the kernal of wheat or corn, crush it down into a flour, mold them into neat little pellets of various fun shapes (such as little lucky charms or cute little puff balls) and then decide adding a nearby nursing animal’s breast milk to it might be a good idea?

I’m thinking definitely not in either case.

 

-Did cavemen have their bare feet on the dirt more often to help ground them and possibly reduce inflammation?

Bet they did.

 

-Were cavemen out in the sun a lot?

Yes.

 

-Did cavemen have their genitals and scrotum exposed to the sun such that it may’ve helped him produce more testosterone naturally?

I’m thinking he probably did.

 

-Did cavemen decide squatting to take a dump would be a lot easier if they did it while sitting on a makeshift chair with a hole in the middle of it?

I’m thinking it never would’ve occurred to them before the invention of newspapers.

 

-Did cavemen pick fruits and vegetables and eat them raw, straight from the tree/ground/bush/etc?

I’m thinkin “Yup.”

 

 

Mental meanderings like this help me make my health decisions.

What did nature offer man way-back-when that may’ve been a best original option of all for optimal health the way nature would’ve provided it?

…Going on the assumption there may be a plan or intelligence in place that would foster good health based on what’s provided naturally.

 

So of course I’m having a little fun here, as I tend to. And of course there are modern day miracles that didn’t exist back then.

I absolutely cherish innovation, invention, creativity and forward progress. It’s the highest human experience.

But as we can all also see, innovation can be used against us and cause a lot of problems.

 

I just have the default mindset of “what would a caveman do” as a starting point for a lot of my approaches to health and it has served me really well.

When it doesn’t give quite the results I need, I look to what we humans have developed ourselves that may assist with whatever’s going on.

I may not even be here without that innovation, such as one of the supplements I took, that is completely lab-developed and produced, that saved my butt back when I was in a lot of chronic pain.

They took something from nature and refined it into something highly therapeutic and medicinal, that did exactly what I needed it to do.

 

But the start of my thought process is always back to the caveman, and working up…no offense intended to cavemen…from there.