How Better Food Helped Build Cathedrals
November 26, 2025
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as posted by the channel@PBDPodcast A simple change in nutrition can reshape an entire civilization. Medieval Europe saw rising height, rising health, and rising population... the environmental foundation that made the Gothic cathedral era possible.
From 1130 to 1300, entire generations had enough stability and prosperity to create monuments of stone and light that still defy comprehension today.
But when the bubonic plague swept across Europe, that burst of growth collapsed almost overnight.
Progress, in every age, depends on the conditions that sustain it.
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