How did our hunter gatherer ancestors survive without carbs and bread?

i don't know about you, but if i go one day without eating some form of carb I feel like asshole

Quite well, actually.

I had this same thought tonight. Well, more like...

How are all these millennials still alive, after living on microwave pizza and Mountain Dew for the last decade or more?

Wouldn’t their bodies just shut down from lack of... something!?

It just boggles the mind.

Lots of carbs in cattails, nuts, and jerusalem artichokes.

WTF. I could write paragraphs about this subject, but I wouldn't be doing the OP any favors. Open a book on wild edibles. This is pathetically obtuse.

They didn’t eat much. We’re lean and mean.

This, also, they lived to a ripe age of 39. So there is that.



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Inuit lived far far longer off an animal based diet.

OP here

just think about it

People didn't start making breads until much later after civilizations began

What a dolt.

Bread in some form dates back to neolithic times.

Which coincided with our brain becoming smaller in capacity.

Carbs are poison.

Glycogen and Ketones.

They did quite well.

The food pyramid is sanctioned mass poisoning.

i'v never once heard that, don't believe you

more likely, our brains just stopped growing at that point, big difference :)

Fruits and berries contain carbs

our brains are carb junkies :)

Delicious poison.........

The real question is how did they obtain meat when 97% of civilized society can't even stomach watching someone else kill the animals for them, much less do it themselves.

Hell, most people today don't even cook the meat for themselves. How did our ancestors get us this far without drive thru windows?

"Bread is one of the oldest prepared foods. Evidence from 30,000 years ago in Europe and Australia revealed starch residue on rocks used for pounding plants. It is possible that during this time, starch extract from the roots of plants, such as cattails and ferns, was spread on a flat rock, placed over a fire and cooked into a primitive form of flatbread. The world's oldest evidence of bread-making has been found in a 14,500-year-old Natufian site in Jordan's northeastern desert. Around 10,000 BC, with the dawn of the Neolithic age and the spread of agriculture, grains became the mainstay of making bread. Yeast spores are ubiquitous, including on the surface of cereal grains, so any dough left to rest leavens naturally."

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"Flatbreads were amongst the earliest processed foods, and evidence of their production has been found at ancient sites in Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, and the Indus civilization.

"In 2018, charred bread crumbs were found at a Natufian site called Shubayqa 1 in Jordan (in Harrat ash Shaam, the Black Desert) dating to 12,400 BC, some 4,000 years before the start of agriculture in the region. Analysis showed that they were probably from flatbread containing wild barley, einkorn wheat, oats, and Bolboschoenus glaucus tubers (a kind of rush).

"Primitive clay ovens (tandir) used to bake unleavened flatbread were common in Anatolia during the Seljuk and Ottoman eras, and have been found at archaeological sites distributed across the Middle East. The word tandir comes from the Akkadian tinuru, which becomes tannur in He6revv and Arabic, and tandir in Turkish. Of the hundreds of bread varieties known from cuneiform sources, unleavened tinuru bread was made by adhering bread to the side walls of a heated cylindrical oven. This type of bread is still central to rural food culture in this part of the world, reflected by the local folklore, where a young man and woman sharing fresh tandir bread is a symbol of young love, however, the culture of traditional bread baking is changing with younger generations, especially with those who reside in towns showing preference for modern conveniences."

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If you're hungry enough, you learn to "stomach" it. But, truthfully, big game meat was a luxury, not an everyday meal prior to the domestication of livestock. The reality of hunter-gatherers was less luxurious: bugs and berries most days.

Acorn Flatbreads

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there are plenty of plants with carbs that can be gathered.

They weren't as stupid as modern society makes them out to be. Fruits, vegetables, herbs were common depending on the environment. Now that I said that, I'd like to know how the Eskimos lived without fruits, etc.

They had a short life expectancy!

If I recall, Wilma would send Fred to the drive thu to get a brontosaurus burger but sometimes the cave car would tip over.

what does assholes feel like?

Kills weren't likely daily, but sparse.

The body operates on glucose and ketones. One is the primary fuel source, and the other secondary. It is regulated, by the body fat upon an individual. Stop thinking bread and rice, just call them glucose. Ketones are fat based

However, not eating for a few days will not kill you. Once glycogen reserves are exhausted, ketone reserves will kick in as a secondary measure. If you are fat and overweight, you may have weeks, months, or years of fuel on your body. If you are slim, so much less, as longevity is based upon fat deposits.

Going into ketosis is an entirely different breed of animal. One you can manage quite well, if you know what you are doing. Water fasting gives you an introduction to how this world works.