99. Are we “civilized to death?” With Chris Ryan, PhD

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Christopher’s work has been translated into over twenty languages, and featured just about everywhere, including Netflix, HBO, MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR,</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The New York Times, The Times of London, Playboy, The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, National Geographic,</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Atlantic.</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Chris has been a featured speaker at TED, SXSW, The Festival of Dangerous Ideas at the Sydney Opera House, the Portland Comedy Festival, the Einstein Forum in Pottsdam, Germany, and is a frequent guest on The Joe Rogan Experience, the Duncan Trussell Family Hour and many other podcasts. He’s provided expert testimony in a Canadian constitutional hearing, won a coveted AVN award (best non-sex performance, Marriage 2.0) and appeared in dozens of documentary films and television shows.</span></p> <p><strong>Time Stamps: </strong></p> <p class="p1">0:10:09 - Podcast begins</p> <p class="p1">0:10:29 - The story of Bryan Stevenson</p> <p class="p1">0:14:34 - It is easy to become blind to how unhappy we have become in our modern world</p> <p class="p1">0:19:29 - Charles Darwin, oceanic explorers, and how it applies to our modern world</p> <p class="p1">0:21:09 - Most people prefer to live the indigenous, uncivilized life</p> <p class="p1">0:29:09 - The Hadza did not want to change the way they were living</p> <p class="p1">0:31:54 - The uncivilized life isn’t necessarily easy, but it seems “right”</p> <p class="p1">0:35:24 - When the information that supports your view is easy to accept, and information that challenges your view is difficult to accept</p> <p class="p1">0:39:39 - We are addicted to "modern day drugs”</p> <p class="p1">0:41:54 - Animals in a zoo are told how lucky they are to be in a zoo</p> <p class="p1">0:45:54 - We have demonized nature as a modern society</p> <p class="p1">0:48:34 - Body contact and sexual exploration and repression results in less violence</p> <p class="p1">0:51:29 - The story of how Chris Ryan met Jeff Leach and shifting our microbiomes</p> <p class="p1">0:57:04 - Recommending a corn flakes diet to decrease sexual desires in humans</p> <p class="p1">1:02:09 - Most chronic disease and violence began with our beginning of agriculture</p> <p class="p1">1:05:09 - Our ancestors were always armed with weapons in some form or another</p> <p class="p1">1:07:39 - Most researchers haven’t actually spent time with hunter gatherer tribes that they write and talk about</p> <p class="p1">1:14:39 - How humans are like grasshoppers; consuming and destroying everything in our environment</p> <p class="p1">1:22:29 - The Indian-mango trap: a metaphor for our civilization</p> <p class="p1">1:31:19 - Rats living in an unnatural environment made unnatural choices; rats that live in a natural environment made natural choices</p> <p class="p1">1:35:19 - Question for Chris Ryan: how do we create a natural environment for ourselves and move forward to find happiness and health?</p> <p class="p1">1:43:09 - What is the most radical thing Chris Ryan has done recently?</p> <p class="p1">1:45:19 - Wrapping up with Chris Ryan</p> <p><strong>Episode Sponsors:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Heart & Soil:</span> <a href="http://www.heartandsoil.co"><span style="font-weight: 400;">www.heartandsoil.co</span></a></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">White Oak Pastures: Whiteoakpastures.com, use CarnivoreMD for 10% off your first order</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sacred Hunting:</span> <a href="http://www.sacredhunting.com/Paul"><span style="font-weight: 400;">www.sacredhunting.com/Paul</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">for $250 off your hunt!</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lets Get Checked: 20% off your order at</span> <a href="http://www.trylgc.com/carnivoremd"><span style= "font-weigh