The Journal
Ancestral nutrition, nose-to-tail eating, and the science behind what we make.
What Happened to Hanging Out
We didn't have group chats. We had dinner tables. The full story behind our reel, and where real connection went.
Where the Easy Fun Went
Fun used to cost nothing and fill you up for a week. The full story behind our reel, and how dopamine got expensive.
Why Men's Testosterone Has Dropped 1% Every Year Since 1980
Organ Meats for Men: Testosterone, Energy, and the Ancestral Advantage
The Army That Never Stopped to Eat: The Mongolian Nomad Diet
The largest empire in history ran on meat, milk, and horse blood. And the nomads still living that way have almost no...
The Man in Tire Sandals: How the Tarahumara Run 100 Miles
In 1993 a 55-year-old Tarahumara man in sandals cut from a tire won one of the hardest 100-mile races on Earth, on co...
The Blue Circle: The Only Place Where Men Live as Long as Women
Two demographers drew a blue circle around a cluster of Sardinian mountain villages where men live as long as women. ...
The Hunza Valley: The Surgeon Who Waited Seven Years
In 1904 a British army surgeon spent seven years in the Hunza valley and could barely find the diseases that filled h...
Your Great-Grandmother's Kitchen: What Changed in One Lifetime
In 1900, seed oils barely existed and dinner came from a farm, a butcher, and a garden. In one lifetime the fat on th...
The Okinawa Longevity Collapse: More 100-Year-Olds Than Anywhere on Earth
For most of the 20th century Okinawa had more centenarians than anywhere on Earth. Then American fast food arrived, a...
Ancestral Diets for Hormonal Balance: What Traditional Women Ate
The Hadza Study: The Healthiest Gut Microbiome on Earth
Scientists flew to Tanzania to sequence the gut bacteria of the Hadza, one of the last hunter-gatherer peoples, and f...
The Maasai Heart Study: A Gallon of Raw Milk a Day
In the 1960s an American doctor drove into Maasai country expecting cardiovascular disaster. He found some of the hea...
What Breakfast Looked Like in 1900
Eggs in butter, porridge with cream, bread baked that week. Then the modern morning got invented. The full story behi...
Protein Didn't Used to Come in a Wrapper
For all of human history, protein was dinner, not a claim printed on plastic. The full story behind our reel, and how...
The Original Multivitamin: What People Took Before Pills Existed
A century ago, "taking your vitamins" meant a spoon of cod liver oil and liver night once a week. The full story behi...
The Inuit Paradox: 4,000 Years Without Vegetables — and No Scurvy
European explorers died of scurvy in the Arctic while the people living there, eating almost no plants, stayed health...
The Dentist Who Found Perfect Teeth: Weston Price's 1935 Expedition
In 1935, a dentist traveled to the most remote villages on Earth and found people with almost no cavities, and no too...
PMS and Nutrition: The Mineral and Vitamin Connection
Birth Control and Nutrient Depletion: What Oral Contraceptives Take From You
Postpartum Recovery: Why New Mothers Need Organ Meats More Than Anyone
Iron Deficiency in Canadian Women: Symptoms, Causes, and Real Fixes
Organ Meats for Fertility: The Preconception Nutrition Guide
