Modern Carbs Betray 3 Million Years Of Human Metabolism

You're standing in the grocery store, clutching a government-issued food pyramid pamphlet.

It tells you to load your cart with whole grains, beans, and soy.

"Eat less meat," it warns. "Fat is the enemy."

You listened and swapped steak for quinoa, butter for margarine.

Years later, you’re staring at a diabetes diagnosis... your pancreas exhausted, your body broken.

Those "healthy" foods you trusted had been poisoning you all along.

This is America’s reality.

Since the USDA first told us to ditch animal fats, diabetes rates have exploded 312%. Today, one in three adults teeters on the edge of metabolic disaster.

The very guidelines claiming to protect us were developed with substantial food-industry input. While we choked down carb-heavy meals, Big Agra laughed all the way to the bank... And our cells forgot how to process sugar.

For 2 million years, humans thrived on fatty meat — fueling brain growth, stabilizing blood sugar, and avoiding modern plagues.

Yet the USDA keeps pushing insulin-spiking grains.

The result is a generation of patients injecting insulin to survive the very diets their doctors prescribed.

But there’s hope. Alternative clinics worldwide are reporting miraculous reversals of type 2 diabetes using our ancestral protocol:

All meat and zero plants — what I call my Primal Carnivore Reset Protocol.

After following this protocol, patients ditch their medications.... Their blood sugar stabilizes... and their bodies heal.

We dominated food chains as hyper-carnivorous apex predators, matching wolves and lions at the top of the food pyramid.

Modern nitrogen analysis of ancient skeletons has blown apart the myth of our plant-heavy ancestral diets.

The scientific technique (measuring what’s called nitrogen isotopes) exposes a biological reality that mainstream nutritionists don’t want you to know:

Humans evolved to thrive on nutrient-dense animal protein, with plants playing only a minimal supporting role in our evolutionary success.

Nitrogen isotopes show up in our bones based on what we eat. And meat eaters have higher nitrogen numbers than plant eaters.

It’s like a permanent food journal written in your skeleton.

When researchers examined nitrogen signatures in ancient human bones, they found values five to six points higher than plant-eating animals from the same period... the exact difference seen between wolves and their prey.

This is smoking-gun evidence of our predatory past.

Take the Scottish Neolithic humans from ancient burial sites at Quanterness and Knowe of Rowiegar. Their nitrogen values range from 9.8 to 11.2 on the scientific scale. What’s shocking?

These values directly overlap with those of Ice Age European lions (9.6-14.0).

This is proof that your ancestors weren’t timid gatherers — they were nutritional equals to the continent’s mightiest predators!

For decades, researchers used wrong calculations, massively underestimating ancestral meat consumption.

When corrected, data from over 12,000 ancient human remains revealed our ancestors ranged from 3.8-4.2 on the trophic scale. This is a scientific measurement of how high up the food chain you eat, where plants are 1 and top predators are 4+.

Our ancestors surpassed brown bears and matched wolves as true apex predators.

Controlled experiments confirm that when modern humans consume a 75% meat diet, their nitrogen ratios become indistinguishable from obligate carnivores — animals that must eat meat to survive.

Meanwhile, when researchers try to reconstruct "balanced" prehistoric diets with less animal protein, they can’t explain the robust health seen in archaeological records.

The populations consuming less than 50% animal protein show developmental problems and nutrient deficiencies that don’t appear in our ancestors’ bones.

From coastal hunter-gatherers to Europe’s earliest farmers, nitrogen values never drop below apex predator ranges, proving continued reliance on animal foods even after agriculture began.

This biochemical legacy runs through your veins today. Your gut structure, teeth, and nutrient requirements remain optimized for meat consumption, not carbohydrate digestion.

The "plant-based ancestral human" promoted by vegan activists is a scientific impossibility — human evolution was fueled by predation, not passive foraging.

For 2.5 million years, human metabolism fine-tuned itself to thrive on animal fat and protein, only to collide with grain fields 10,000 years ago. That’s 0.4% of our evolutionary history.

Picture human dietary history as a 24-hour clock. For 23 hours and 52 minutes, we were apex predators. Hunting huge animals... Roasting marrow bones... Perfecting ketosis....

Then, at 11:53 PM, agriculture arrives. Wheat fields replace hunting grounds and bread becomes survival.

But your genes didn’t get the memo. Archaeological evidence makes this mismatch impossible to ignore:

Your body still expects daily protein feasts. Research on modern hunter-gatherers proves it.

The Hadza tribe of Tanzania experience zero obesity and 80% lower diabetes rates than their agricultural neighbors — despite identical calorie intake.

Their secret? 70% of calories from animal sources.

And in Iceland, families maintaining traditional seal-and-fish diets show 47% faster metabolic rates than grain-eating urban counterparts. MRI scans reveal their livers process fats three times more efficiently.

Farming didn’t just change what we eat — it shattered our evolutionary rhythm.

Your body is being ambushed — not just by what you eat, but by when you eat it.

Every time you reach for a piece of whole grain bread or a bowl of cereal, you’re triggering an insulin response your body was never designed to handle.

Before long, your metabolism has no choice but to ignore the warnings.

This isn’t about sugar content — it’s about frequency. And it might be the missing piece in our understanding of America’s metabolic meltdown.

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors rarely encountered concentrated carbohydrates. They might find seasonal honey, occasional fruit, or starchy roots that required hours of processing.

Studies of 229 traditional societies show most consumed below 22% of calories from carbs annually.

When they did eat carbs, they came packaged with fiber, enzymes, and plant compounds that dramatically slowed down digestion.

Your pancreas was masterfully designed for this ancient pattern. It releases insulin in rhythmic pulses every five to 15 minutes — a pattern so fundamental it appeared in our 500-million-year-old evolutionary relatives.

This pulsing action prevents your cells from becoming numb to insulin’s message.

But constant grazing on modern carbs throws this rhythm into chaos.

When Stanford researchers put continuous glucose monitors on so-called "healthy" people eating a modern diet, the results were shocking.

A simple bowl of cornflakes spiked 80% of participants into pre-diabetic blood sugar ranges, with surges lasting two to three hours. To fight these spikes, their pancreases pumped out two to three times more insulin.

Imagine your car horn blares constantly for hours... Eventually, people stop noticing.

Your body’s response to this insulin flood follows the same pattern.

Your liver and muscle cells gradually become "deaf" to insulin’s signal, reducing their efficiency up to 60%.

Your pancreas struggles to maintain the endless insulin production until it simply can’t keep up. The solution?

Clinical trials show type 2 diabetics eating just two larger meals daily saw 30% greater improvements in insulin sensitivity compared to those eating six small meals — despite identical calories and nutrients. The less frequent insulin pulses allowed their bodies to regain metabolic sensitivity.

Your glucose regulation system isn’t broken. It’s been forced into an evolutionary contradiction.

Since 1960, the American diet has been reengineered to favor cheap, carb-heavy grains that dominate every meal. The result is that diabetes rates have exploded 11-fold and obesity has tripled.

This isn’t a coincidence. It’s cause and effect. Meanwhile, grain consumption soared to nearly 138 pounds per person by the year 2000. Here’s what happens inside your body:

Every high-glycemic, high-carb meal triggers blood sugar spikes that eventually lead to insulin resistance — when your cells stop responding to the hormone that regulates blood sugar. Your pancreas works overtime until it burns out.

The government knows this. Yet the CDC’s own data reveals that refined grains and added sugars still make up 42% of the average American’s daily calories.

The numbers don’t lie: Every 5% increase in these nutritional criminals raises your type 2 diabetes risk by a shocking 27%.

And this isn’t just an American tragedy. As developing nations adopt our grain-heavy Western diet, they’re experiencing the same metabolic collapse.

This manufactured shift has created the perfect storm of insulin resistance, dangerous belly fat, and pancreatic failure. Until you reject the grain-pushing policies that benefit Big Agriculture and food processors, your body remains under siege.

The Primal Carnivore Reset Protocol is a biological reboot that aligns with your ancestral blueprint.

For six weeks, you’ll eat only animal foods, giving your digestive system the rest it craves.

Step 1: Go Full Carnivore (Weeks 1-6)

Begin with a strict animal-only elimination phase. Focus on fatty cuts of beef, lamb, salmon, and organ meats. These deliver nutrients your body can use while avoiding plant toxins like lectins (plant proteins that irritate your gut) and oxalates (compounds that form painful crystals in your body).

Aim for 70% to 80% of calories from fat (think marbled beef, butter, bone marrow) and 20% to 30% from protein. This resembles what researchers observed in traditional Arctic populations.

Step 2: Reintroduce Strategically (Weeks 7-9)

After six weeks, test one non-carnivore food at a time. Begin with raw honey or low-toxicity fruits like berries.

Wait 72 hours between tests. Your body will communicate clearly — gas, brain fog, or joint pain are not subtle signals.

Throughout human evolution, our ancestors relied heavily on animal foods. Our digestive system evolved accordingly — our gut shortened, our brain grew, and we developed enzymes specifically designed to process animal proteins and fats.

Many modern digestive and autoimmune conditions appear when we stray too far from these biological defaults. Clinical experience shows that removing plant irritants often allows the gut to heal in ways that adding more "healthy" plant foods never achieves.

Step 3: The Maintenance Phase To Lock In Your Ancestral Baseline

Maintain approximately 80% fatty meats and organs long-term. Add back only the plants your body genuinely tolerates.

Continue to avoid trigger foods. In most people, this includes legumes, certain vegetables, and sometimes dairy.

As your gut health continues to improve, you can try to gradually reintroduce foods you couldn’t eat before. Again, check for symptoms of intolerance.

Your body’s ability to reboot insulin sensitivity follows a predictable rhythm. Here’s the timeline mainstream medicine won’t tell you about:

Phase 1: The Cellular Detox (Days 1-30). As insulin levels stabilize, your battered insulin receptors recover as your body learns to burn fat. That mid-afternoon crash will be gone by day 14-21. University of Michigan research shows insulin sensitivity improves 25% within three weeks — but only if you’re consistent.

Phase 2: Mitochondrial Rebirth (Days 31-60). This is where the magic happens that conventional medicine completely misses. Your mitochondria — those tiny cellular power plants — undergo a process called biogenesis. Simply put: Your cells create brand new energy factories.

A groundbreaking study in Cell Metabolism demonstrated that after 45 days of consistent metabolic support, mitochondrial efficiency improves by up to 40%. In other words, your cells can produce more energy from less fuel.

Phase 3: Metabolic Memory Encoding (Days 61-90). The final phase is what separates temporary improvement from lasting transformation.

After 75+ days, your genes literally rewrite metabolic programming to favor fat burning and reduced inflammation. These changes become "metabolic memory" — a physiological pattern that resists reversal.

The reward?

Blood sugar fluctuations that once sent you racing for snacks every two hours become rare events. Your hunger hormones recalibrate. Even exercise feels different — more energizing, less punishing.

Most importantly, your body develops a new set point. Just as it once fiercely defended its insulin-resistant state, it now works to maintain insulin sensitivity.

This is exactly why quick-fix diets fail while metabolic reprogramming succeeds.

Today’s supermarkets have stripped away the organs, bones, and connective tissues that deliver the full spectrum of vitamins, minerals, and healing compounds. The result? We’re overfed but undernourished.

1. Source Grass-Fed, Pasture-Raised, and Wild-Caught Animals. Start with animals raised as nature intended.

Grass-fed and pasture-raised beef, lamb, and poultry contain up to 10 times more omega-3 fatty acids than grain-fed counterparts, alongside higher levels of vitamins A and E.

For organs, prioritize liver, heart, and kidney from regenerative ranchers. Wild-caught fish add crucial vitamin D and selenium to your nutritional arsenal.

2. Select Cuts for Maximum Nutrient Payload. Balance lean cuts with fatty ones for complete nutrition. Top sirloin offers high protein with minimal fat, while ribeye caps provide energizing saturated fats and collagen. But the real nutritional gold mines are the organs and bones:

3. Master Ancestral Cooking Techniques. Cooking low and slow unlocks nutrients locked away in tough tissues. Simmer bone broth for 16-24 hours with apple cider vinegar to extract minerals like calcium and magnesium that rebuild your skeleton from within.

For organs, traditional methods maximize both flavor and nutrition:

To Your Good Health,

Al Sears, MD