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Hello and welcome to the Optimal Human Diet blog. This is a personal passion project of mine to completely reexamine everything that has been learned about human nutrition and metabolism; it's a chance to take a step back from the currently held beliefs in the human nutrition space and to answer the following question from a completely fresh perspective:

What is the optimal species-appropriate diet for humans and how is our health impacted when we deviate from this diet?

I aim to answer this question using the abundance of information we have available in this "information age" across a spectrum of fields (anatomy, physiology, nutrition, anthropology, archaeology, biochemistry, and more), but from a fresh perspective where I must challenge all currently held beliefs before accepting them as truth. 

My inspiration for this project is two-fold:

1) Myself and millions of others have found relief, remission, and resolve from health ailments and chronic conditions just by changing their diet when traditional forms of treatment (pharmaceutical drugs and surgery) had little to no positive impact. If diet can have such a profound effect for so many people, we owe it to the hundreds of millions of others still suffering to explore why in hopes that they too can find relief.

2) Our current approach to healthcare (as a whole) across the world is not working. Every year the prevalence of many chronic conditions are growing despite our exponentially improving technology and our growing abundance of knowledge. Although there are many flaws with our healthcare systems and all are likely contributing to this result, I suspect that the widespread consumption of human-inappropriate foods is the root cause and the largest factor at play. 

This project has the following goals:

-To determine what diet is both optimal and species-appropriate for humans.

- To empower readers with information about human digestion, nutrition, and metabolism so that they can make well informed diet decisions for themselves and have better conversations with their doctors and health care professionals. 

- To dispel common misinformation and to reaffirm correct information in the nutrition space.

- To explore the potential impact that a species-inappropriate diet has on our health in both the short and long term.

I will do my best to keep my personal biases out of this project, but that is an impossible task. I hope that this can evolve into a community project where we can have open discussions about this topic to help fact-check my work and to point out any biases that are tainting my work.

I challenge you as the reader to be willing to take a fresh look at everything food and diet related no matter how well you think you already know a topic. I ask you to leave comments sharing personal anecdotes, further research, and praise/qualms with my work.