
Originally Posted by
thisAngelBites
You would think that information about what people eat would sort out any questions about what to eat for longevity, but the Hadza eat very differently to the Okinawans, yet both seem to be long-lived and healthy. People have historically eaten what they can get where they live, which is naturally vastly different at the equator than close to poles.
Jeff Leach, who studies the Hadza and has probably written the studies that everyone has seen about their diets also took a trip to Tanzania with a bunch of crap processed food with him and when he got there he tested their gut bacteria, then fed that rubbish to those people he was studying there for a few days, and then tested their gut biome again and was shocked to see that their biome did not change. He was expecting radical differences due to the fact that when he had previously tested his biome before his trip, and then tested it again after a couple of days there eating local food, it was very very different. He presumed it was the food, but then why didn't the microbiomes change when eating the processed food? There are varying theories about the amount of light influencing health more than food, but I think it's not yet known for certain.
Having said that, I have never seen a study that shows that eating raw dairy or cheese gets a favourable health outcome. Milk is a very pro-growth food, with insulin like growth factors and in nature only young animals eat these quick growth-promoting foods, and they have been associated with breast and prostate cancer, as far as I can recall. But I would be interested if anyone knows of anything saying that raw milk or cheese (these are very easily accessible here in Europe, and some places (the netherlands comes to mind) have very high consumption, but also have v high breast cancer rates, for example.