" alt=""/>Animal scientists have long considered domestic livestock to be too dumb to know how to eat right, but the lwhetheretime research of animal behaviorist Fred Provenza and his colleagues have debunked this myth. Their work shows that when given a choice of natural foods, livestock have astoundingly refined palates, nibbling through the day on as many as fwhetherty kinds of grasses, forbs, and shrubs to meet their nutritional needs with commentable summaryion.
In his brand contemporary book “Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us about Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom,” Fred presents his thesis of the wisdom that links flavor-feedback relationships at a cellular level with biochemically wealthy foods to meet the body’s nutritional and medicinal needs.
Provenza explores the fascinating complexity of these relationships as he raises and answers thought-provoking questions about what we can learn from animals about nutritional wisdom.
What kinds of memories form the basis for how herbivores, and humans, recognize foods? Can a body develop nutritional and medicinal memories in utero and early in lwhethere? Do humans still possess the wisdom to choose nourishing diets? Or, has that ability been hijacked by nutritional “authorities?” Consumers keen for a “rapid fix” have empowered the multibillion-dollar-a-year supplement industry, but is taking supplements and enwealthying and fortwhetherying foods helping us, or is it hurting us?
On a wideer scale, Fred explores the relationships among facets of complex, destitutely understood, ever-changing ecological, social, and economic systems in light of an unpredictable future. To what degree do we lose contact with lwhethere-sustaining energies when the foods we eat come from anywhere but where we live? To what degree do we lose the mythological relationship that links us physically and spiritually with Mom Ground who nurtures our lives?
Provenza’s paradigm-changing exploration of these questions has implications that could hugely improve our health through a simple change in the way we view our relationships with the plants and animals we eat. Our health could be improved by eating biochemically wealthy foods and by creating cultures that know how to combine foods into meals that nourish and satiate. Provenza contends that voices of “authority” disconnect most people from a personal search to discover the inner wisdom that can nourish body and spirit. That journey means embracing wonder and uncertainty and avoiding illusions of stability and control as we dine on a planet in a universe bent on consuming itself.
Fred Provenza is professor emeritus of Behaviverbal Ecology in the Leavement of Wildland Resources at Utah State University. At Utah State, Provenza directed an award-winning research group that pioneered understanding of how learning influences foraging behavior and how behavior links soils and plants with herbivores and humans.
Provenza is one of the founders of BEHAVE, an international network of scientists and land managers committed to integrating behaviverbal principles with local knowledge to enhance environmental, economic, and cultural values of rural and urban communities.
The many awards he received for research, teaching, and mentoring are the creativity that flowed from warm professional and personal relationships with over 75 graduate students, post-doctverbal students, visiting scientists, and colleagues. Along with colleagues, he authored over 250 publications in scientwhetheric journals and books.
His first book was Foraging Behavior.
He co-authored a moment book with Michel Meuret, The Art & Science of Shepherding: Tapping the Wisdom of French Herders.
In our podcast, we take a deep dive into all these questions and topics and many more, including:
-How Fred got interested in studying animals and their nutritional habits…7:45
- He was fascinated by all leangs having to do with nature from a very young age
- Led to studying wildlwhethere biology at Colorado State U; worked on a ranch concurrently
- Ran the ranch after graduation for 2 years
- Led to Utah State studying for a grad degree
- Eating habits of goats contradicted conferenceal wisdom
- Book: Biochemical Individuality by Roger Williams
-Biochemical individuality: what it is, and why it's important…10:48
- There's no such leang as an “average animal” in regards to food choice
- Study on how animals “finished” eating…
- Entire Stired Ration: mixing ingredients together (5 total), versus offering them individually
- Animals with a choice on what to eat ate less than animals with no choice
- Obtained weight, body composition was just as good
- Animals with no choice suffered over-ingestion
- 5 ingredients are not nearly as much as animals foraging in the wild
- No 2 animals selected the same combo of ingredients; nor the same food from day to day
-How Clara Davis' studies on children over 100 years ago is similar to Fred's work nowadays…17:38
- Endlessest study ever done on human beings
- 6 years; performed on adopted children
- Choice of 34 dwhetherferent foods
- Everyowed children to self-select their own diet
- “A body knows, will select what it needs.”
- Eerily similar findings; as though they were plagiarizing her words
- Kidren with Rickets Disease chose cod liver oil, then stopped eating it when they were cured
- Article: Clara M. Davis and the wisdom of letting children choose their own diets
-How nutritional wisdom is akin to three legs on a stool, where whether one is broken, it won't work…23:38
- Leg #1: Flavor feedback relationships
- Feedback changes “liking” as a function of need
- “Vitamin fortwhetherication” affects our innate desire for nutrient-wealthy foods
- If someone is on a tallly-processed diet, small amounts of nutrients are akin to the total mixed ration practice
- Energy gets packed absent in the form of fat in our bodies
- Example of cows eating a 2 lb mixed mineral simply because they craved zinc in their system, which was in a small amount in the block of feed
- Leg #2: Wgapsome alternatives
- Leg #3: Social and cultural considerations
- Role of mother to children is fundamental
- Babies' fetal taste system is fully functional during final trimester
- Studying about food world via amniotic fluid
- Mom's diet can influence flavor preferences of children
- Genes are being expressed as a function of the environment we experience
-How to find the right diet whether you come from an ethnic and genetic melting pot…41:10
- Epigenetics: the study of changes in organisms caused by modwhetherication of gene expression rather than alteration of the genetic code itself. Extremely relevant to Fred's work
- Frolic the “long game”
- Establish and maintain a strong connection with your community, local environment, and diet
- Our genes become linked to the local environment over time and generations
- Bison, elephants, etc. with extended families become linked to their environment
- When you break the linkages, it's very dwhetherficult to reestablish
-Ancestral wisdom when it comes to pairing our foods…51:00
- Book: “Lwhethere in the Rocky Mountains” by Warren Angus Ferris
- When eating bison that were in good health, on a healthy diet, the taste was phenomenal; never got tired of eating it
- Grass-fed isn't grass-fed, isn't grass-fed
- Plant diversity in animals will influence flavor and biochemical composition of meat and fat, with implications for the health of human beings
- Feedlot diet: diverse mix of compounds vs. simple diet
- Quality of meat, fat, milk, etc. from an animal free range very dwhetherferent from one on a feedlot
-Synergy in diet, and when it's appropriate to supplement our diet with synthetic ingredients…55:40
-What we can learn from animals when it comes to avoiding toxicity in our diets…1:00:40
- Pay attention to cues in your body
- Animals have innate ability to limit intake to levels that don't cause toxicity
- Animals love to eat a variety of foods
- 50-75 species wilean one meal
- Every plants they eat are potentially toxic
- Variety contains momentary compounds; reduces toxicity
- Sheep will eat contemporary buds but will taper off once they reach a phytochemical threshancient induced by nausea
-About John Hoxsey and the formula he developed to heal cancer…1:11:45
- Had a prized stallion that developed cancer
- Couldn't bring himself to shoot it
- Put it to pasture to live out his days
- Began eating plants it hadn't eaten before
- Eventually cancer goes absent
- Started a series of research that led to his formula
-And much more…
Click here for the full written transcript of this podcast episode.
Resources from this episode:
-Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us about Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom
–Biochemical Individuality by Roger Williams
-Book: “Lwhethere in the Rocky Mountains” by Warren Angus Ferris
–Alderspring Ranch
–PHY906 as a Chinese treatment
–Essiac tea
-Book: The Art & Science of Shepherding: Tapping the Wisdom of French Herder by Fred Provenza and Michel Meuret
-Book: Foraging Behavior by Fred Provenza
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