#404: Dr Anthony Chaffee - Why Modern Diets Are Making Us Sick

In this episode, I sit down with Dr Anthony Chaffee, a medical doctor and former professional athlete, to examine a controversial but increasingly discussed idea: that humans may be eating in a way that fundamentally conflicts with their biology.

Dr Anthony Chaffee is an American medical doctor currently practicing in Australia who, over a span of 20+ years, has researched the optimal nutrition for human performance and health. It is his assertion that most of the so-called chronic diseases we treat are caused by the food we eat, or don't eat, and can be improved, and in some cases reversed, with dietary changes to a species-specific diet.

Timestamps:

00:00 Why humans may be eating the wrong diet

02:55 Humans as Ice Age apex predators

05:40 Why plant-based humans went extinct

08:40 Survival vs optimal health

11:30 Why plants evolved to be toxic

14:05 Nearly all plants are chemically defended

17:10 Why most plants are inedible

20:00 Why humans can survive on plants but shouldn’t

23:10 Nutrients humans cannot get from plants

26:15 Why ketosis may be the natural human state

29:40 Foods humans never evolved to eat

33:00 Ultra-processed food and modern disease

36:40 Why chronic disease is man-made

40:10 Diabetes as carbohydrate poisoning

44:00 Reversing heart disease with diet

47:30 Cognitive decline and dementia reversal

51:40 Ketogenic diets and cancer treatment

55:55 Why hunter-gatherers didn’t get chronic disease

01:00:05 What happens when traditional diets become Western

01:04:30 The life expectancy myth explained

01:08:45 Did ancient humans live longer than us?

01:12:25 Inuit diets and extreme fat intake

01:16:20 Why fat doesn’t cause heart disease

01:20:10 The human lifespan may be 120 years

01:24:00 Are we dying decades too early?

01:27:55 When Dr Chaffee stopped eating plants

01:31:45 What happened to his health afterward

01:35:35 Plant toxins, pesticides, and carcinogens

01:39:25 Why fibre may not be essential

01:43:15 Hormesis: when “small doses” fail

01:47:05 Why nutrition science is broken

01:50:00 Final argument for a species-appropriate diet

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