ZenMeme on Nostr: I like the "proper" human diets that are backed by thousands of years of study and ...

I like the "proper" human diets that are backed by thousands of years of study and the process of fermentation based on "cultures" of microbes that truly nourish the gut microbiome and do not destroy it by making it too ACIDIC, regardless of whether you eat this or that food, be it just meat or just veg or a combo of the two ---- like the sacred fungus known as #KOJI. These fermented cultures are not considered "proper" by any standards of Colonial British Hygiene of course, but at one point, were actual Schools of Thought & Practice based on brilliant concepts which arose in the East -- mostly in Japan. I also like the Greek philosophy that "All Disease begins in the Gut" which became the foundation for Macrobiotics, a concept that reappeared again in 1796, when Dr. Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland, a famous Prussian physician, published his book Macrobiotics: The Art of Prolonging Life. So called "western" science which has given us the SAD diet is just beginning to recognize the importance of the gut microbiome in all aspects of human health and well being...